• @[email protected]
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    Photo of the Swift Asylum, it’s actually horrible! Just 3,600 sqft on 11 acres?? who could live like that!

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        Having been to Kowloon 20 years ago, It sure seemed like every 5.5 acres housed way more than 30k people.

          • @somethingsnappy
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            Uh, Kowloon is still there, just not the walled city. Kowloon city is 400,000 people per square km.

              • @somethingsnappy
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                No worries. The walled city without a government must have been hell on earth. The Sim City-like giant blocks that were each basically a city when I was there were were crazy enough.

      • @[email protected]
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        37 months ago

        Just to be clear, the photo above is of her childhood home in Wyomissing, PA, and the property is definitely much smaller than Kowloon Walled City. I’m guessing you’re talking about a different property?

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      yeah but if you live there your parents leave you alone at Christmas and two guys attempt to break in and kill you so you have to improvise booby traps

    • @Caesium
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      not only that, but a SUMMER HOME too?? the audacity, how can one live in only TWO houses?!

    • @[email protected]
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      47 months ago

      No argument that she’s from the wealth & privilege class

      But you don’t become the biggest pop star ever with a completely healthy upbringing, either, right?

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        317 months ago

        …why not? Pop isn’t exactly a reaction like metal, punk or hyperpop, it’s just… The default genre of music she could have made?

        What unhealthy part of any upbringing would compel someone to make pop?

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          17 months ago

          Anyone that driven was probably abused mentally to some degree at the very least… I know you think you’re being “funny” because it’s just “pop music”. Like being pop means it isn’t a horrible cut throat industry that regularly chews up and destroys child stars …

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            347 months ago

            You know what else regularly grinds up and destroys children?

            Poverty.

            Which occurs to far more millions of people than whatever tf this princess went through

          • @Sanctus
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            147 months ago

            No, she had the fucken cash to sit around and get the fucken recording equipment and instruments for country songs. That shit ain’t cheap, and she started before the home recording revolution. So you know Papa Swift paid for some studio time. Its not abuse at all, its wealth and privilege to pursue what you want.

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              17 months ago

              You’re not wrong on all your points but also jesus christ if you think DIY started after T Swift.

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                37 months ago

                No, but in the 2010s it became much cheaper to record at home than it ever was and we saw countless artists come from that.

                • @Entropywins
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                  27 months ago

                  I had prosumer home recording equipment back around the turn of the century, and it wasn’t anything new.

                  • @Sanctus
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                    17 months ago

                    How expensive was it though? Probably more than the cost of a cheap laptop and a USB mic.

          • @gmtom
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            137 months ago

            From everything ive heard, it seems her parents were super supportive and understanding, from driving her hours away so she could get lessons/coaching, to moving across the country so she could start her career.

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            57 months ago

            Abused mentally could mean not voted home coming queen. Tempest in a teapot can still be a tempest to someone fixated on the teapot.

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        247 months ago

        But you don’t become the biggest pop star ever with a completely healthy upbringing, either, right?

        Sure you could. Why not?

      • @[email protected]
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        147 months ago

        But you don’t become the biggest pop star ever with a completely healthy upbringing, either, right?

        Paul McCartney had, by all accounts, an idyllic childhood

        • @Entropywins
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          47 months ago

          So that’s where the Beatles dark sound comes from…

      • @III
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        47 months ago

        Keep it down, you might interrupt the circle jerk. Don’t worry, they will tire soon.

              • NoIWontPickAName
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                17 months ago

                So 1 guy.

                I’m sorry, I’m gonna need more than that.

                Maybe she’s horrible, maybe she wouldn’t sleep with him.

                I don’t know, but I’m sure she’s not perfect, and we’ve all been an asshole to someone who didn’t deserve it on a bad day.

                Now repeated behavior is a completely different thing

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            When Swift gets critisized for reasonable things (shallow empty music, carbon footprint, being a money whoring marketing machine, you name it), some people will always spring out and imply that it’s sexism or a circle jetk or jealousy of her GREAT success. Lol.

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        27 months ago

        I just don’t think anyone has that kind of drive their whole life without deepseated need of some kind to propel them