People talking about Taylor Swift "punching down" at poor rural conservatives – her original fan base! – need to remember that...
People talking about Taylor Swift “punching down” at poor rural conservatives – her original fan base! – need to remember that “being a heinous bitch” has always been part of the Tayswift brand.
Like, in 2011 she had a single about how terribly mean someone else is that just goes on about how they’re a pathetic unloveable loser who’ll never amount to anything in life while she’s gonna be famous
It was off an album where the title track was about stealing someone’s man at their wedding!
Like, she built her entire public persona on turning on her exes and shit-talking them in public!
And she was lampshading this! You remember how the whole concept of the You Belong With Me video, her mainstream breakout moment, was that the cute down-home girl next door and the bitchy popular cheerleader were both Taylor Swift?
And that even taking the perspective of the down-home girl, it’s a story about a girl who can change her appearance to fit any scene to get what she wants set to a song about shit-talking people as trashy to convince you how she deserves to take things from them?