Taylor’s Swift Road to Fame Causing Backlash? A message to Taylor & Kayne and a warning to all the young starlets-to-be

Kanye, how could you? Terrorizing a 19 year old in front of millions of people, media and celebrities?!? Not cool. The poor thing could not find her voice after you literally tore the mic away from her to acclaim Beyonce as the real winner of Best Female Video at this years MTV Music Video Awards.

The event created lots of controversial buzz and MTV decided to publish the feedback they received after Kanye’s show stealing performance. After watching the video again, I’m still wondering: was all this fuss just a failed attempt of “scandal-promotion” or a real act of rebellion? Was it Kanye or Taylor that the crowed booed?

As any artist/celebrity (and everybody else on earth I guess), Taylor Swift has supporters and critics. Unfortunately for Swift, she has actually started to irritate lots of women, it’s has nothing to do with her music though, it’s the actual message she is spreading.

“Rather than choosing an established/evolved talent (Beyoncé) or a revolutionary (Lady Gaga), the Grammys chose someone who, according to her lyrics, has spent her entire life waiting for phone calls and dreaming about horses and sunsets.”

Ther rutheless ladies of Jezebel, Bitch Magazine and Autostraddle are pointing at Swift, showing her as the antithesis of feminism:

With her pretty face framed by a halo of blond locks she looks like an angel – a pretty face always helps to spread a message. However, with her supportive and wealthy family background helping her reach her stardom dreams, Swift doesn’t have the same credibility as other fellow-singers – as described in Autostraddle Lady Gaga would have fought Kanye West back on the MTV stage, and Beyonce at the same age was praising her independence and celebrating strong and powerful women.Another point is that Taylor Swift, who’s promotion pillar is the fact that she “writes her songs herself”, basically sings about girls, being outcast, waiting for the boy-prince to come and save them – see this brilliant infographic produced by Autostraddle.

It may be a relief for mothers to see Taylor Swift as a role model for their daughter, rather than high-heeled sexualized child like Noah Cyrus. However, Swift’s message cannot help young women to face real situations because she sings fantasy! For instance, Swift’s songs are simplifying relationships (the virgin against the whore, fighting for the love of the boy), mystifying sex and referring to old puritan concepts (take a look at her song Fifteen below).

Moreover, Taylor Swift’s habit to repeat over and over she is a freak, hiding behind glasses, is becoming pretty irritating. Come on Swift! Just take a quick look at the last Gaga apparition before claiming idiocies.

Talking about Lady Gaga – you know I’ve got a weakness for her – I was reading this article about the rocketing success of this young ambition-driven women and the way she managed to transform brands instead of giving her name and image for a campaign.

From a general point of view the front of the music scene has been pretty much a female only space (with Gaga and Beyonce leading the way). This article describes this fact this is a general trend:

“Jody Rosen, music critic of Slate, the online magazine, declared “we are living in the year of the diva”, when “boys’ music” such as hard rock and gangsta rap is fading both creatively and commercially.”

Is Taylor Swift a durable option in the pop music landscape? Will she survive in a jungle with all these amazons? And was Kanye trying to get his fame back, by sabotaging the speech of a new starlet?
Let me know what you think – and who you would have booed at the MTV VMA awards!

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