Taylor Swift: Hypocrisy and The Tortured Poets Department

I haven't even watched the video yet but I just wanna say that you're braver than the US marines for posting this. Be safe and stay strong.

06:30 This is exactly how I feel about her! She still suffers from the " high school unpopular kid" syndrome and would "fall in love" with any popular man who looks at her.

Taylor: profits off of making songs she knows people know are about specific people, some resulting in death threats, doxxing and harassment. Some contain details about THEIR personal lives and character, some bordering on defamation. Deliberately cultivates a culture of speculation about IRL events for marketing and fanbase purposes. Makes most of her relationships, like Travis Kelce, very public. Weaponizes lyrics against people she thinks wronged her. Taylor when asked to answer for dating the problematic Matty Healy and turning a blind eye to his blatant disturbing behaviour: "You aren't allowed to speculate about my personal life, that's creepy and judgemental!" But I agree, it feels less like vulnerability and more like oversharing. By now she KNOWS her fanbase sends threats to the people in her songs, but continues to pump out said songs without even telling her fans to cool the bad behaviour. Feels like weaponization. She's fanning the flames. I try to believe victimized women about their struggles, but she's the victim in EVERY circumstance. "I can't date a racist, it's not fair!" is almost as rich as she is.

I've tried to like Taylor Swift. There are some old songs I like, but there is something about her that won't let me be a real fan. I can't put my finger on it as to why, but I know at some point, whatever it is, will come to light. Maybe it's the way she handles criticism. She won't allow it as if to do so would break open a dam that would take her down.

An ex Swiftie here, loved the video babe. I have been a swiftie since 2011 and that slowly came to a screeching halt recently. Our Taylor, I believe is a manipulator as in SHE IS ALWAYS AND ALWAYS THE VICTIM IN EVERY SITUATION. She can't just move on. She has to send her swiftie mob via her songs to dox and harass people who've wronged her. Suing a kid for tracking her flight pattern was so low and dragging Kim's kid now to get a reaction out of her is downright evil and so very feminist of her and brand of women supporting other women. How would she have felt if her child was dragged in for a f*cking drama that happened a decade ago, like move on, get a life. When something affects her directly then she will chew them down send her mob dogs their way then why oh why in Miss Americana she said she'll be more vocal and what not and be on the right side of history, where is that spirit when its the case of g*nocide in gaza? Our queen Taylor is a selective activist and a f*cking hypocrite. She's vindictive and calculative as in the song Mastermind. She's a businesswoman first and artist second like was ripping Olivia Rodrigo that necessary where Cruel Summer(one of my favs) doesn't even sound like Deja Vu(another of my favs) like you want to copyright yelling in songs? Then touring with Sabrina Carpenter(whom Olivia had beef with but I love Sabrina nonetheless) and Paramore (who didn't even wanted to take revenue of Good for You from Olivia) I always wondered why Taylor was friends with Selena Gomez who is also ALWAYS A VICTIM and can't move on from Justin and sends her seleanators Hailey's way to harass her five years after Hailey and Justin got married like beech act your age, you are so problematic always bringing up Justin and Selena drama to sell your songs where Justin can sell Yummy🤷🏻‍♀️ and no drama is required. I have been fed the Taylor drama and Selena drama all my life and I want to move on. I will keep listening to my favs from both of these artists for the sense of nostalgia but that's it I've enough of their punching other people down.

I generally love Taylor Swift's music. Spotify says I'm in the top 1% of listeners if that says anything. I don't care about her relationships until the men involved in them become characters in her songs. This album makes me feel like I've failed because I can't relate to or understand these songs from her perspective at all. I suppose I didn't do the homework but when did it become expected to study before a T.S. album releases? Most of the songs on the album are vicious and hateful. Breakup songs aren't necessarily fun to listen to, but this album absolutely drops my mood. I haven't even been able to get through it yet. And you're right, I've kept tuning out halfway into each song because they're so boring. I don't know how she managed to write lyrics that are so "personal" yet make it sound so uninteresting. It's impressive. You put my half-formed thoughts into words and it's helped me understand why this album rubbed me the wrong way. Thanks for that. I wish Swifties didn't worship her so much and were willing to listen to criticism people have about her because a lot of it is valid. It's important not to worship people, even if we like their art sometimes, because everyone has flaws.

34 is the new 14?? 🤷‍♀️

It is giving Drake vibes. Anything she releases will sell no matter the quality.

I haven’t watched the video, but as a swiftie I agree. I bought the damn limited edition CD just for the bonus track (sometimes she releases the bonus track once and never again), and then she released the anthology with those bonus track??? Seriously Taylor?

I really love this video and I appreciate your willingness to call these things out! I love Taylor, but as fans we should be allowed to criticize her. I just posted a video talking about similar topics to yours and I faced sooo much backlash from Swifties. I didn't even hate the album! I actually think the Anthology side is much better than the main album. The marketing around this sub-par album is just kind of icky to me though with selling four different versions of the vinyl and the lack luster merch. Great job on this video though, you deserve more subs!

Fearless until Reputation + folklore and evermore will probably always be her best. I don’t think she can make better and more authentic albums at this stage of her life and success. Her time is coming to an end sooner than we anticipated.

I like Taylor Swift in the same way many men like the NFL, it's fluff entertainment I try to not look too closely at. So therefore, while I'm a fan, I welcome critique, because the more people at the party, the more fun! I think any group that takes a stance of 'just because I like it, it can't be critiqued' are the true villains.

Thank you for making this video! ❤

1:51 THANKS that’s exactly how this album makes me feel. That’s why i don’t like it so much. Is like literally about her, the fun thing about music to me is to get my own interpretation or find it relatable. But this album is not relatable unless you are Taylor Swift. I find it very disappointing. The tracks that seem to be more ambiguous are the ones i actually liked.

I agree with some of the critiques, others I think it's just a superficial read of some of the songs... All the album critiques online compiled in a video

Where’s the section that people stealing music brought us to this point?

I agree, it’s all about the 🤑

So, swiftie here, went to reputation stadium tour , been a fan since RED. I agree with most things said in this video. Even tho i consider TTPD a personal favorite, just bc she projects in her songs how raw and rough is the depression she is facing. And since im experiencing same feelings rn cause of mental illness , i have someone to relate to. Ofc, I also acknowledge that she is a millionaire . She does the “pointing a finger” shit that look so immature in my opinion. I think TTPD was meant to be a reuse of old sounds . She is touring right now and the theme of the tour is all her eras. It is clever of her to make an album that sounds like reputation, midnights and folklore , while touring and performing her whole catalogue of music. I do believe that the whole Kim Kardashian feud has been brought up too many times . She revives it every two years but I think she really was traumatized multiple times by her and her ex husband that she means it . She says “your words still ringing in my head” , i feel like she is being honest. I personally like TTPD. I wont go out of my way ofc to defend her to anyone . I dont need to defend any billionaire. Im just enjoying music. Maybe i have weird taste . But yeah pretty good video here

4:16 please don't put this out into universe. dan is one of my favourite producers ever and i have been listening to the albums he has produced since 2020. he is literally reinventing pop music

this is a good video! even though i like the album as a long time fan, your criticisms are very valid. although i dont think "imgonnagetyouback" is a rip off of olivias song, since this album was in the works long before olivia released her album and its more of a reference to a 1975 song