{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "People talking about Taylor Swift \"punching down\" at poor rural conservatives \u2013 her original fan base! \u2013 need to remember that...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/186336055416/", "html": "<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"/post/186324286023/\" target=\"_blank\">kontextmaschine</a>:</p><blockquote><p>People talking about Taylor Swift &ldquo;punching down&rdquo; at poor rural conservatives \u2013 her original fan base! \u2013 need to remember that &ldquo;being a heinous bitch&rdquo; has <i>always</i> been part of the Tayswift brand.</p><p>Like, in 2011 she had a single about how terribly mean someone <i>else</i> is that just goes on about how they&rsquo;re a pathetic unloveable loser who&rsquo;ll never amount to anything in life while she&rsquo;s gonna be famous</p><p>It was off an album where the title track was about stealing someone&rsquo;s man <i>at their wedding</i>!</p><p>Like, she built her <i>entire public persona</i> on turning on her exes and shit-talking them in public!</p></blockquote>\n<p>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 <i>were both Taylor Swift?</i></p><p>And that even taking the perspective of the down-home girl, it&rsquo;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?</p>"}