{"id":6812,"date":"2019-12-10T12:08:41","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T11:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wenvoe.org.uk\/?p=6812"},"modified":"2019-12-10T12:08:41","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T11:08:41","slug":"a-fan-of-taylor-swift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wenvoe.org.uk\/?p=6812","title":{"rendered":"A Fan of Taylor Swift"},"content":{"rendered":"

Did you think I wouldn\u2019t hear all the things you said about me? <\/strong><\/p>\n

If you know me well, you\u2019ll know I\u2019m a fan of Taylor Swift\u2019s music. Since her Fearless <\/em>album (the first album I ever bought) to her most recent Lover <\/em>album, I\u2019ve followed her transition from country music sweetheart to global popstar. If you look back over some of the titles of my blog posts, you\u2019ll find many are either lyrics or titles from some of Swift\u2019s songs. But the one thing above all I\u2019ve been hyper-aware of over the past ten years is Taylor Swift\u2019s battle with the media\u2019s perception of her.<\/p>\n

Despite many male celebrities \u2013 including Leonardo DiCaprio and George Clooney (and even Swift\u2019s ex-boyfriend Calvin Harris) \u2013 having an endless list of girlfriends, Swift is continuously vilified for her relationships and branded a serial-dater. Why do the double standards exist for male and female celebrities?<\/p>\n

Women in the music industry are watched constantly. Their male counterparts can get away with so much, and yet if the media tells us to hate a female celebrity \u2013 we do. Swift continues to earn backlash online, but often people aren\u2019t sure why they hate her, other than because they\u2019ve been told they ought to. Think about it \u2013 the world loves to hate Kim Kardashian because all we\u2019ve ever heard is that she\u2019s an awful person. Perhaps she is, but it\u2019s rare that we question why <\/em>we hate these female celebrities, and it\u2019s often because of the media\u2019s perception of them.<\/p>\n

When the MeToo movement in 2017 reached prominence, and the world began to understand the true problem surrounding sexual assault, Swift came forward about a battle she\u2019d been having for years regarding a DJ who touched her inappropriately a few years prior. Swift went to court against this man and asked $1 if she won the lawsuit. But even when Swift had been touched without her consent, she barely garnered support. She was still <\/em>vilified and told she was \u2018playing the victim\u2019.<\/p>\n

The world seems to love to hate Taylor Swift. Even when she announced in the summer and has since reiterated the fact that the former head of Big Machine Records (the label Swift signed to from the beginning of her career and until recently) had sold her masters and banned her from buying them back, many stayed silent. Even now, as she battles the rights to music, she herself curated and wrote, many men are refusing to stand in her corner. All because we\u2019ve been told she\u2019s awful.<\/p>\n

How is it that we\u2019ve let the media control our way of thinking and why is it that sources continue to attack certain celebrities? I\u2019m very much aware that it causes a media storm, and creates views but as I\u2019ve said before, these are real people with real lives. Although they have offered themselves up to media interpretation, the disrespect many receive, and the utter vilification goes beyond wanting likes on a<\/p>\n

story. It\u2019s damaging, not only to the vilified but also to those who read the stories. It\u2019s causing a mob mentality against certain celebrities that is harmful.<\/p>\n

Targeting one celebrity because it has become tradition isn\u2019t a good enough reason. Not supporting them when the unimaginable is happening to them is disgraceful. I realise they are celebrities. But they\u2019re also real people. Taylor Swift is battling to even be able to sing the songs she wrote when she was under Big Machine Records. Songs about life experiences she poured her heart out to make. Supporting the people who are stopping her from gaining back the rights to her songs just because you don\u2019t like her doesn\u2019t make sense. Because it\u2019s not just her music she\u2019s fighting for, it\u2019s for the many who\u2019ve had the same happen to them.<\/p>\n

Why there are celebrities in the world we choose to hate, I will never know. You don\u2019t have to say you like their music or the things that they do but admitting that the things that are happening to them are unfair is good. If you wouldn\u2019t want it happening to you then why would you encourage it happening to someone else?<\/p>\n

Swift seems to be handling the hate well \u2013 she\u2019s had years of it after all. Between the lyrics of her songs and her attitude, it seems she\u2019s taken the hate and manifested it into a don\u2019t-care attitude. But she shouldn\u2019t have to. No one should have to be so comfortable with hate that it becomes part of their every day.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t hate these people just because the telly and social media tells you to. Encouraging their downfall reflects worse on you.<\/p>\n

By Tirion Davies<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Did you think I wouldn\u2019t hear all the things you said about me? If you know me well, you\u2019ll know I\u2019m a fan of Taylor Swift\u2019s music. Since her Fearless album (the first album I ever bought) to her most recent Lover album, I\u2019ve followed her transition from country music sweetheart to global popstar. 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