A couple months ago, my conservative neighbor mentioned he thought Taylor Swift was dating Travis Kelce as some plot to force people to get vaccinated. At the time, I thought this was just a dumb ass theory that he came up with himself after seeing Travis Kelce on a COVID vaccine commercial, so I just laughed it off. Now I see this is an actual message being pushed by the right wing. Jesus these people are fucking nut jobs.

Republicans are attacking Swift/Swifties? I need to buy more popcorn!

A woman, who has only been able to vote for about a century, actively encouraging others to vote??! Blasphemy!

I wonder if they’ll burn as many of the expensive NFL jerseys they paid for as they did when a black man had the gall to send a silent message about police brutality and inequality.

It’s like they’re swift-boating her.

The term swiftboating (also swift-boating or swift boating) is a pejorative American neologism used to describe an unfair or untrue political attack. The term is derived from the name of the organization “Swift Boat Veterans for Truth” (SBVT, later the Swift Vets and POWs for Truth) because of their widely publicized—and later discredited—political smear campaign[1][2][3][4][5] against 2004 U.S. presidential candidate John Kerry.[6][1][7][8] Since the 2004 election, the term has come to commonly refer to a political attack that is dishonest, personal, and unfair.[9][10]

Thank fuck I’m not in the US. After being outside for so long, I think the advertisement-atmosphere would send me to suicide.

She’s been a top-selling artist with a huge fan base for years now.

She re-did and re-released a couple albums this year, had a massive worldwide tour, which she had filmed. The movie made $100,000,000 on opening weekend and is the highest-grossing concert film ever. She’s doing an awful lot of stuff this year, so of course she’s getting a lot of coverage.

She also managed to completely sidestep the entire multiple Hollywood strikes issue by the simple expedient of meeting with the unions, asking them what they wanted, and saying, “Okay, you got it.”

Definitely. She’s a capitalist’s dream. See creates scarcity with her albums and merch, forcing frenzied buying and price scalping. She’s a prolific polluter and her dad bought her success.

Now any criticism of her actions and business practices are met with her fans calling you a conservative or a misogynist because capitalism has melted their brains.

In particular, her tour was a massive three hour retrospective covering her entire career rather than being focused on one new album. Combine that with a few re-recordings of old albums and her successfully getting a new generation of Gen Z fans and you’ve got one very popular star.

Yo harddaysknoght, I’m really happy for you, Imma let you finish but Taylor Swift has been in the industry a long time… A long time!

Yeah. She’s measured with it too. One of the reasons her sway is so strong imo, is she just saved it up for a long time. So when she finally asks a fan “hey could you do this one little thing for me?” it almost feels like “uh, yeah, I’ve known you my whole life Taylor, of course.”

Which the fan doesn’t “know her” per se, but between a musician and a huge fan, it definitely feels like you do. It’s a personal relationship, a little different from most other fandoms. Music is just odd that way.

Exactly.

C’mon now, we all know the primary thrust of their attacks/defenses is always “I know you are, but what am I?”. By far the most common. It’s used like half the time.