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I don't follow sports and I don't care for most country or pop music, but other people are free to like what they like.
I know she made a stand against record company greed, which I appreciate.
She supposedly gave out like $50million worth of bonuses to the crew on her latest tour.
She tried to keep her ticket prices lower than she could have charged.
What Kayne did to her was incredibly rude and she handled that situation with class.
Her dating Travis and attending his football games has somehow pissed off a lot of people for some reason and their response is usually something misogynistic.
The right wing media seems to hate her.
I heard she came out in favor of LGBT rights.
Given that she started off as a country singer and seems to be moving further left, I can only imagine she's influencing at least some of her fans to be more compassionate.
The only legitimate criticism I can think of is that she's worth about $2billion. She's been fairly good about being charitable from what I understand, and got most of that bread through her recent tour, so I'm willing to give her the benefit of the doubt that she uses her money to do some good things.
Out of all the ways that someone could earn billions "Pop Star" is probably one of the least exploitative ways to go about it, it's not like she made it by underpaying workers like most capitalists.
I'm honestly a little annoyed by knowing so much about an artist who's art I don't even care for, but it's even more annoying that when I do hear about her, people are usually criticizing irrelevant things.
Can anyone tell me a good reason why a Leftist should jump on the 'Hate Taylor Swift' bandwagon along with Fox News and Donald Trump? Just seems like a weird person to go after when there are so many more people actively making the world a worse place.
Mainly that she is rich and has a private jet. I agree with you that she is one of the better billionaires. Not that it is easy to look good next to the other 1% when they are either raping kids or protecting the rapist. .
Also check out her song mixed with NiN.
https://youtu.be/DhvXST1Rc3g
Lol. You might be able to appreciate DragulApt. I unironically love it!
That is such a fever dream of a music video. I wish it had more Macho Man.
RIP.
I watched a few more of his mash-ups, none of which quite live up to this one imo, but it seems like he puts the Macho Man somewhere in each one of his videos :)
So beautifully put. Thank you.
I didn't post this because I hate her, she doesn't bother me. I like TPB is all.
Trailer Park Boys rock!🤘
I was more addressing the other commenters who did seem to be slagging on her.
Yeah it's dumb. She doesn't bother me, she's successful, good for her, and she hasn't seemed to abuse anyone. Also she's had some terrifying stalkers. Nobody deserves that.
Money is a zeros sum game. There's no such thing as a "good billionaire".
When more money is made compared to the labour that is put in, it usually leads to some kind of oppression/injustice. On some level you can ignore this injustice, but here we are talking about potentially 2 billions.
Just some reasons to not like her as a leftist
I never claimed she was a 'good billionaire'. I'm saying it's possible that she will choose to do some good things with her money. I'm not saying she will, just that I am willing to allow her to prove me wrong before I decide against her.
I agree, it 'usually' does. However in this case I'm kind of having a hard time figuring out where this oppression/injustice is happening. She's an 'artist' and people who enjoy her work buy/listen to her music. It's not food, shelter, healthcare, or any of the other things required to live, it's music and people would likely survive just fine if they never heard another song about how terribly Taylor's ex boyfriend had treated her.
And (again- this is just through the grapevine), but I hear that she gives large bonuses to her staff- payments that are above and beyond the agreed upon amount she 'owes' them. I suppose it's possible even likely that she doesn't give them a fair share of the profits, but I have no proof of that either way- and I'm not even sure how you would go about determining what a proper share would be in this case, but it sounds like at the very least she does more than most employers. Maybe not the perfect scenario but ill take flawed over terrible any chance I can get.
Point out the injustice and I'll happily criticize her for it. I figured it could probably wait until the Musks, Ellisons, Suckerbergs, Bozos, Pages, Brins, Trumps, and their ilk had been reckoned with but if a pop singer is really that big of a problem count me in on the hate train.