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Post by erik on May 11, 2016 8:04:06 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on May 11, 2016 8:13:18 GMT -5
This seems like an article from The Onion...
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Post by erik on May 11, 2016 8:22:31 GMT -5
Quote by robertaxel:
And don't I wish it were.
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Post by Dianna on May 11, 2016 15:19:20 GMT -5
oh brother! well at least she changed that god awful mom hairstyle she's been wearing.. and now looks very much a pop star. Love her new look. and that's all I'm sayin'
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Post by erik on May 11, 2016 17:42:00 GMT -5
Well that's a change. When, if ever, do you suppose the voice will go along with it? Because to my ears, it still hasn't.
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Post by philly on Nov 24, 2017 3:11:29 GMT -5
Invest in a Fallout Shelter: Taylor Swift Is Pissed Randy Cappuccino @randycappuccino | November 21, 2017 - 3:29 pm **And as the dust settled from the dropping of the final bomb, the first signs of surviving life were heard… Taylor Swift’s Reputation was being played over an emergency broadcast system.**
Perhaps the time has finally come that Taylor Swift has to face consequences for being a venom-spitting ice queen within the music industry. According to an insider with Grammy selection ties, T. Swift’s unabashed off-stage fuckery since her last album has not made her a lot of friends. Whatever conglomerate that Swift Inc. is operating under is trying to buy all the Grammy’s they can for Reputation, an album that was ‘meh’ at best (but will definitely win some stuff because money). Unfortunately for her, sabotaging Katy Perry’s even more ‘meh’ album lost some rich white guys enough money to hold a petty grudge against the Princess of Petty herself.
Her disrespect to fellow artists has infuriated key figures in the industry including members of the Grammys jury, which could ruin her chances at the 2018 awards in January.
An industry insider revealed: “A lot of people on the voting committee are not liking Reputation at all. Taylor wants to win as many awards as possible but has rubbed so many people up the wrong way in the last couple of years. A lot of the jury members have worked with Katy, Calvin and Kanye so when Taylor has tried to humiliate them, it has left a bad taste. Ultimately she may pay for that when it comes to winning awards.” (from PageSix)
Look, I think it’s kind of pointless to speculate about what’s going to happen at the 2019 Grammys right now (Swift’s new album isn’t eligible until then). Not so much because her new album is just not that good, but because the Grammys have zero credibility after snubbing Frank Ocean, Beyoncé, Kendrick, Prince’s Purple Rain… basically anything involving black people. Last time I checked, T. Swift is a super-human WASP with an army of sorority chicks that will happily take a bullet to the puss for her–she’ll be just fine. www.thesuperficial.com/invest-in-a-fallout-shelter-taylor-swift-is-pissed-11-2017
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Post by philly on Nov 24, 2017 22:24:49 GMT -5
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Post by erik on Nov 24, 2017 22:39:25 GMT -5
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Can anyone conceive of Linda ever doing the kinds of things that Taylor Swift is doing here? Because I can't.
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Post by sliderocker on Nov 24, 2017 23:12:48 GMT -5
Well that's a change. When, if ever, do you suppose the voice will go along with it? Because to my ears, it still hasn't. Puberty?
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Post by the Scribe on Nov 25, 2017 0:04:27 GMT -5
When you make a lot of money it brings to you a perception of power and authority to do what you want with no blowback. When people lose their sense of reality they find themselves in trouble. Just look at Agent Orange and his minions I call Agents Orange. No good will come of it.
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Post by philly on Nov 25, 2017 12:55:02 GMT -5
She's so nice:
"Taylor Swift writes great songs and is a great role model. She doesn’t have the Joni Mitchell voice, but she’s a good storyteller. It comes down to communication". - Linda Ronstadt, 2015
Could you imagine Linda singing a TS song? *shudders*
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Post by erik on Nov 25, 2017 18:25:39 GMT -5
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Short answer: No.
Linda's quote about T-Swift was probably unusually kind to us, but it was likely because (and we all know this as a fact) Linda took a lot of heat from a certain subset of critics for her allegedly "wrong-headed" interpretations. It was probably for that reason, and the fact that she mentioned elsewhere that her daughter Mary was a fan of T-Swift), she offered at least her tacit support to the Aphrodite of Auto-Tune.
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Post by philly on Dec 6, 2017 21:58:46 GMT -5
They leave out Rose McGowan but include Tay-Tay. TS sued someone who definitely did not have power over her. Not so brave IMO.
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Post by erik on Dec 6, 2017 22:50:46 GMT -5
Taylor just has never struck me as a feminist in any real way, and just suing a DJ for groping her doesn't make her a hero for women, or young girls.
If you really want a feminist who, on the one hand, doesn't make a big deal of it by public proclamations, but, on the other hand, makes a great career for herself by bringing all of her own feelings and creating art out of them...well, why not look to Linda??
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Post by philly on Jan 2, 2018 14:01:26 GMT -5
Hell, why doesn't she just start up a religion...Taylor Swift’s ‘Reputation’ tour shaping up to be a disasterBy Richard Morgan January 1, 2018 What is Taylor Swift’s “Reputation” worth? Not the jacked-up prices she’s charging for concert tickets.
That’s the verdict from ticked-off fans, who are balking at buying seats for the 28-year-old pop star’s tour to promote her new “Reputation” album, citing stratospheric markups and greedy sales gimmicks.
“I paid $150 for my ticket with amazing seats for the 1989 tour. Now for the same seats I have to pay about $500,” Twitter user “swiftieloves” recently griped.
A look at Ticketmaster’s interactive seat charts confirms that Swift’s schedule of 33 dates for the North American “Reputation” tour has yet to produce a single sellout, from its May 8 launch in Phoenix to its Oct. 6 finale in Arlington, Texas.
That’s despite seats being available to the general public since Swift’s birthday on Dec. 13. By comparison, all the dates on Swift’s “1989” tour in 2015 “sold out within minutes,” according to concertsandsports.com.
“Sales so far have been a mega disappointment,” one music industry insider told The Post. “There are hundreds if not thousands of tickets left for every show.”
The stumble out of the gate is especially embarrassing given that the “Reputation” album sold more than 1 million copies within four days of its Nov. 10 release.
On top of high prices, some prospective buyers are getting irked by Ticketmaster’s “Verified Fan” program, which required participants to register weeks before tickets went on presale, proving they were bona fide fans and not bots looking to buy tickets for scalpers.
Ticketmaster, which has used Verified Fan for U2 concerts, “Hamilton,” “Springsteen on Broadway” and other big shows, told The Post the program tries to “provide fans with the most reliable access to tickets and combat bad actors that use bots that subvert that process.”
But Verified Fan — which got rebranded to “Taylor Swift Tix” for the tour — has added a controversial feature called “boosts” that promises fans a chance to “improve [their] position in line to purchase tickets.”
Some boosts were innocuous, such as joining Swift’s official mailing list. But others cost money, such as pre-ordering the “Reputation” album, shelling out $50 for a T-shirt or purchasing the $60 snake ring that Swift wore in her “Look What You Made Me Do” music video.
“To get ‘further in line’ to buy Taylor Swift tickets she wants you [to] buy merch from her … this greedy snake,” Twitter user “Q_Taryntino” fumed.
Music blogger Bob Lefsetz called Taylor Swift Tix “a tone-deaf scam” that amounts to “upselling with a theoretical benefit” rather than a guarantee of better seats.
Indeed, some fans who bought into the “Reputation” tour’s presale between Dec. 5 and Dec. 8 got nasty surprises when tickets opened up to the general public five days later.
“I wasted my time buying with the presale code as the tickets available to the public were much better,” Twitter user “paigelizabethh” wrote.
“Any particular reason that #Reputation tickets in the 100s section during presale last week were $446 APIECE and now they’re $267?” asked “bigbiiisch.”
Ticketmaster touted Taylor Swift Tix as “an unparalleled success,” saying it delivered “the biggest registration we’ve ever had.”
By charging higher prices and blocking out scalpers, Swift and her tour promoter Louis Messina could fatten their coffers by as much as $1.5 million per show, according to an estimate in Billboard.
That sounds like a shrewd business strategy, but Swift still has a lot of tickets to sell to make that upside. In the meantime, the “Swifties” are getting restless.
“Taylor Swift’s 1989 tour tickets sold out in only a couple of hours,” one disaffected fan, “alexiam77,” tweeted. “Today, you can *still* get really well-placed Reputation floor seats. If that doesn’t tell you your tickets are too expensive, idk what will.”
Messina didn’t respond to requests for comment. Swift’s music distributor, Universal, said it wasn’t immediately able to comment. nypost.com/2018/01/01/taylor-swifts-reputation-tour-shaping-up-to-be-a-disaster/
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Post by erik on Jan 2, 2018 22:05:56 GMT -5
Things like this would probably doom anybody else's careers, but it does seem that the more her name is run down in the press, the more her price goes up.
As H.L. Mencken was known to say: "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public."
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