• @[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?

    • @[email protected]
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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?

      • @Crashumbc
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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 …

        • @[email protected]
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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.

          • @[email protected]
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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.

            • @Sanctus
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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.

                  • @Entropywins
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                    17 months ago

                    We had cheap laptops and USB microphones back then. I had a set up with digital audio converter, a couple mics going to laptop set up was about $200-$250 w/out laptop and I had a separate boss br-532 8 track recorder I picked up used for like $300. I’m sure if I was more frugal I could’ve gone a lot cheaper.

        • @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.

        • @[email protected]
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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.

    • @[email protected]
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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.

    • @[email protected]
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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