Hot Take/ Musical Confession Thread!

Fleetwood-Matt said:
I disagree with you here, if anything I think it’s harder to avoid stuff now a days since everything is so interconnected. I personally avoid her the best I can she is unavoidable. Any conversation her fans can connect back to her. Hell look at the past football season where she was the center of attention, or even politics she is intertwined with. I wish I could blacklist celebrities so I would never have to hear about them again but being on the internet in any capacity you will see countless mentions of her
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I’ll have to disagree with you there as I’ve been able to avoid the entire post Oasis discography of Noel Gallagher.

And also the entire career of Miley Cyrus.
 
I’m Just Ken said:
I’ll have to disagree with you there as I’ve been able to avoid the entire post Oasis discography of Noel Gallagher.

And also the entire career of Miley Cyrus.
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I think my IRL brain has some kind of protection circuits. As soon as the talk goes onto shit tv or music or whatever my ears go into selective hearing mode. If I’m on the Netflix or the Spotify their existence doesn’t offend me, I just scroll past them onto the thing I want.
 
Joe Mac said:
Man I remember the 90s. If you hated a song you were stuck leaving the tv and radio off until it ran its course.

Maybe I’m just good at tuning out things I don’t want to pay attention to…
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Yeah, I don’t run with media that is inundated with Taylor Swift music. TBH, I hear the majority of her, Olivia Rodrigo, BTS, Billie Elish, Dua Lipa music in TV commercials. I don’t seek it out or listen to top 40 radio. None of my IRL friends care about pop music and I don’t spend much time around people younger than like 35 or children so my exposure is very limited. I am more likely to hear a Guided By Voices or Horsegirl song in my day-to-day life than I am ever likely to hear a Taylor Swift song.
 
I’m Just Ken said:
I’ll have to disagree with you there as I’ve been able to avoid the entire post Oasis discography of Noel Gallagher.

And also the entire career of Miley Cyrus.
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Neither of them has ever been outside of the music/tabloid news cycle.

Taylor has dominated this year. Movies, check, the Bear, check, album sales, check, politics, check, football, check, sticking it to the man, check, plus all the tabloid circus from all of that and being you know Taylor Swift.

Imagine if Madonna had started dating Joe Montana at the height of her ubiquity.
 
Joe Mac said:
I think my IRL brain has some kind of protection circuits. As soon as the talk goes onto shit tv or music or whatever my ears go into selective hearing mode. If I’m on the Netflix or the Spotify their existence doesn’t offend me, I just scroll past them onto the thing I want.
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At this stage in my life, I just find it easier on my mental state to just let so much go. There's a lot of media out there that I will never consume because I don't have the time.
 
Lee Newman said:
Neither of them has ever been outside of the music/tabloid news cycle.

Taylor has dominated this year. Movies, check, the Bear, check, album sales, check, politics, check, football, check, sticking it to the man, check, plus all the tabloid circus from all of that and being you know Taylor Swift.

Imagine if Madonna had started dating Joe Montana at the height of her ubiquity.
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Didn’t she date someone vaguely famous for playing the roid ball? And married a movie star. And if she had a single out it was on the radio and the tv and so was much harder to ignore because you didn’t have 1000+ channels of each and an unlimited repository of music and tv in your pocket?

Tabloid culture has always been shit so I’ve always ignored it.
 
Lee Newman said:
Neither of them has ever been outside of the music/tabloid news cycle.

Taylor has dominated this year. Movies, check, the Bear, check, album sales, check, politics, check, football, check, sticking it to the man, check, plus all the tabloid circus from all of that and being you know Taylor Swift.

Imagine if Madonna had started dating Joe Montana at the height of her ubiquity.
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That is great for her and her fans.
 
Fleetwood-Matt said:
I disagree with you here, if anything I think it’s harder to avoid stuff now a days since everything is so interconnected. I personally avoid her the best I can she is unavoidable. Any conversation her fans can connect back to her. Hell look at the past football season where she was the center of attention, or even politics she is intertwined with. I wish I could blacklist celebrities so I would never have to hear about them again but being on the internet in any capacity you will see countless mentions of her
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I guess it’s just confusing to me that people get offended or upset when someone is injected into a news cycle. It’s so easy to just move along IMO.

I follow a few news accounts and almost always there’s a comment from someone that says “who cares?” That takes a lot of effort to inject your opinion on someone you dislike or are indifferent about.
 
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Joe Mac said:
This idea of fatigue of an artist you don’t like it’s vaguely comical and ridiculous to me, why do you care? I mean what would these people have been like in the 60s when there was a new album every 6 months.
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Joe Mac said:
It’s so easy to ignore stuff you don’t like in the 21st century, there is so much content. It’s not like people are stuck with broadcast tv and the radio anymore!
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I'm going to chime in here but first some context: I do not listen to TS; I have never been able to get through and entire TS album from start to finish; I could not tell you the difference between any of her albums; I have heard the earworm Bad Blood b/c I have a teenager in my home; and other than that I really have no opinion about her music other than to say its not for me.

But I can say the exact same thing about Meshuggah (insert "Bleed" for "Bad Blood" to complete the analogy).

What I do know is that - I literally cannot escape her.
She's not easily ignored.
I can't even put on some sad bastard/indie rock album these days without her creeping into the discourse.

She's Turned into Orwell's Big Brother but blonde and covered in sparkles.
 
Joe Mac said:
Man I remember the 90s. If you hated a song you were stuck leaving the tv and radio off until it ran its course.

Maybe I’m just good at tuning out things I don’t want to pay attention to…
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I don't think I've ever heard any T Swift song all the way through - with the exception of the 1989 album covered by Ryan Adams and the first album she did with Aaron Dessner - I think it's called Folklore? All I remember about it is that I bought a lilac purple pressing as it's my fave color. I listened to it exactly once. I have also heard the duet she does with Matt Berninger on The National's "First Two Pages..." album, but it's easy to avoid as I can skip it on Spotify, and it's track 1 side 2 on the LP, so I start playing track 2.

That said, even though I have absolutely no interest in her music (or most pop music for that matter) it is impossible to avoid the media coverage of her. Yes, I roll my eyes when it's on tv or scroll past on twitter etc. I don't hate her, I don't think I truly hate her music, it's just that I am beyond ambivalent enough to even give it a listen.

It's very difficult to ignore the coverage of her: when Jack Antonoff got married last year, the wedding was on the Jersey Shore, and the swifties found out and swarmed the venue and pretty much shut down a few blocks. That shit is terrifying. I can't imagine being in the public eye like that.
 
Joe Mac said:
Didn’t she date someone vaguely famous for playing the roid ball? And married a movie star. And if she had a single out it was on the radio and the tv and so was much harder to ignore because you didn’t have 1000+ channels of each and an unlimited repository of music and tv in your pocket?

Tabloid culture has always been shit so I’ve always ignored it.
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I think she dated A Rod but it was long after her hey day.
 
Yeah the politics and sports things aren't something she asked for. As far as I know she's done one interview about the whole thing which was with Time who bestowed an award on her. She's a lightning rod on those two subjects because her boyfriend takes money for promoting a Covid vaccine and that rubs some morons the wrong way. She also is treading into man territory with NFL fans and they are almost as big of gatekeepers as music snobs.
 
Viking Dan said:
I'm going to chime in here but first some context: I do not listen to TS; I have never been able to get through and entire TS album from start to finish; I could not tell you the difference between any of her albums; I have heard the earworm Bad Blood b/c I have a teenager in my home; and other than that I really have no opinion about her music other than to say its not for me.

But I can say the exact same thing about Meshuggah (insert "Bleed" for "Bad Blood" to complete the analogy).

What I do know is that - I literally cannot escape her.
She's not easily ignored.
I can't even put on some sad bastard/indie rock album these days without her creeping into the discourse.

She's Turned into Orwell's Big Brother but blonde and covered in sparkles.
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You have discourse about Swift when you listen to sad bastard indie music? I just listen to the sad bastard indie music…
 
Melt Face Molly Drop said:
I guess it’s just confusing to me that people get offended or upset when someone is injected into a news cycle. It’s so easy to just move along IMO.

I follow a few news accounts and almost always there’s a comment from someone that says “who cares?” That takes a lot of effort to inject your opinion on someone you dislike or are indifferent about.
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I agree the people who say “who care’s” are ridiculous. And I know I can just scroll pass it; that’s exactly what I do. But it’s beyond annoying just how much I have to scroll pass. From TikTok’s to Reddit posts to Facebook suggestions she is everywhere. If there was an easy block button for topics this wouldn’t be an issue but I feel like the only Option to avoid seeing her name is to become a hermit; and even then I feel like they would find away to inform me of what she’s doing
 
Fleetwood-Matt said:
I agree the people who say “who care’s” are ridiculous. And I know I can just scroll pass it; that’s exactly what I do. But it’s beyond annoying just how much I have to scroll pass. From TikTok’s to Reddit posts to Facebook suggestions she is everywhere. If there was an easy block button for topics this wouldn’t be an issue but I feel like the only Option to avoid seeing her name is to become a hermit; and even then I feel like they would find away to inform me of what she’s doing
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Maybe that’s where I’ve become blissfully unaware as I deactivated my Twitter, TikTok, and Reddit. If I want to learn about anything I’ve got to seek it out. My Instagram feed is mostly memes tbh.
 
Melt Face Molly Drop said:
Times I can recall Taylor showing up in my life:
1. Watching Chiefs games
2. Grammys (and thus friends reposting her album announcement)
3. Eras Tour

I don’t listen to podcasts or follow entertainment accounts (or Taylor).

Where the fack else is she showing up for you?
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Radio (my GF likes to listen to the radio, every sixth song is a Swift tune and DJs love to wax poetic on her), politics (both her own advocacy and the ill-mannered takes of others), film (her concert film was a major media discussion, she is also in films albeit bad ones), concert touring discussion, discussion about other musicians and music, significant others forcing her into conversations on entirely unrelated topics, people who hate her forcing her into conversation on entirely unrelated topics, Spotify algorithms throwing her into playlists constantly, etc.

Like, I'm kind of envious of y'all who get to choose entirely what your world bubble looks like but some of us live with folks or interact with people or have Taylor participate in areas where that luxury doesn't exist.
 
Melt Face Molly Drop said:
Times I can recall Taylor showing up in my life:
1. Watching Chiefs games
2. Grammys (and thus friends reposting her album announcement)
3. Eras Tour

I don’t listen to podcasts or follow entertainment accounts (or Taylor).

Where the fack else is she showing up for you?
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Her music is always being used on TikToks, the golden globes, various music/vinyl reddits and Facebook groups I follow are constantly talking about her and just last week the political podcast I followed posted this episode

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