Well, THAT was interesting.
It seems everything’s over. At least for now.
This morning in a fit of rage I had planned on butting in further by tweeting to… somebody… about how Taylor should have just destroyed Nicki for her foolishness, but… no. I want it done. I’m kind of a bit tired of the whole thing, and, TBH, 1989 in general. I mean, after seeing her show I was determined to give Tay and I some distance but then THAT happened and well… the rest is history. I guess.
But I have a point to make, so I’ll reproduce my tweets here, entirely out of context:
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Personally, I would have just tore Minaj’s head off. I mean, she’s only a B-/C+ level celeb, in comparison to Tay’s A+ level.
And Minaj’s tweets were just dumb. She actually accused MTV of being anti-black. MTV!!! Oy.
It would have been so much fun to watch Taylor dismember Nicki. It would have been just hilarious! Maybe next time.
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Ok, notice something? I do. 1) I’m angry. 2) I’m ruthless. I mean, YIKES! and 3) I’ve given up hope on their being some kind of reconciliation between Taylor’s audience and Nicki Minaj’s.
This whole TaylorGate thing is just ugly for all involved. Nothing good will come of this, for anyone. And I mean ANYONE. It’s just a horrible situation in general.
Some thoughts:
1) It isn’t over. Taylor’s fans are upset at Nicki, and for good reason. She called Taylor out very inappropriately and played the race card in the ugliest and dumbest way imaginable. For some reason, black celebrities can’t get it through their thick skulls that if you’re a multimillionaire, you should NEVER EVER claim to a victim of oppression, because you NEVER EVER are. It is a profound disrespect to everyone else on Earth for a black person with a hundred million in the bank to publicly bleat and whine about how oppressed they are. In Minaj’s case, for her to claim that the working class MTV employees who pick the nominees for the VMA’s are oppressing her is the most hypocritical and rage inducing thing ever. Yes, this kind of thing ALWAYS looks extremely ignorant and horrible. No exceptions. The foolishness, stupidity, and shortsightedness of people like Nicki Minaj is the reason that this country is about to enter racial meltdown mode.
Back to Taylor’s fans- they now have a monster sized racial chip on their shoulder regarding Nicki. Considering that Taylor is the most important pop musician ever, this isn’t a good thing for her, or for blacks in general. But blacks, being perennially short sighed and egotistical in racial matters, seem to not care about such things. Well, it’s their funeral.
2) Taylor looks like an idiot. She bungled the situation in the first place by awkwardly responding to Nicki’s tweet, bungled her response to Nicki’s response by trying to throw her male fans (me) and her own ally and friend (Ed Sheeran) under the bus to save herself, and then bungled the apology by groveling like a contemptible idiot.
Jesus, Tay. WTF were you thinking? Nothing you did here was admirable or intelligent. I have to give Ed Sheeran respect for sticking by you even after you publicly turned on him to make Nicki Minaj, someone who should be your lesser, happy. You really cheapened yourself with this nonsense.
And I guess I respect myself for sticking by you, too. Although, maybe not. We’ll see.
3) This is going to end uglier than it began.
This may end with something hideous and unimaginable- a Taylor Swift / Nicki Minaj collaboration. At least, this is what Nicki hinted at in her GMA appearance.
Please God, no. Please people no!!!
NOOOOOOO!!!!!!
Don’t… do this. For the love of God, don’t do this.
Bad Blood was bad enough.
The album version of Bad Blood was great. I still like it. The rap remix is bad. Very bad. And the radio edit of the rap remix is unlistenable garbage. It’s just abominable.
I’ve been trying to spare myself some embarrassment by avoiding this topic, but it looks like I can’t anymore. So here goes:
Many people don’t like rap music. It’s associated, rightly, with things like violent black criminality towards whites, ignorance, and backwardness. Etcetera.
I remember when the rap remix of Bad Blood first started getting radio play. It sounded bad. I, *ugh*, started changing the channel when I heard it coming on, because I wasn’t a fan of it.
Apparently, I wasn’t the only one, because after a few weeks I noticed something: the local stations here started replacing the rap remix of Bad Blood with a radio edit of the song with the rapping cut out, so as to not to alienate listeners.
The thing is, this made a bad song simply dreadful. It became like 3 minutes of Taylor Swift singing the refrain, over and over and over again. It’s easily the worst song the stations play right now. The radio stations themselves seem to know this, as they seem almost embarrassed at having to play it. Whenever they feature that they’re going to play Taylor Swift, they always lead in with Style. It’s like they want to play Style, and they know that that’s what we want to hear, but they’re obligated to play that unbearable song instead because it’s #1 on the charts because of the music video, or something.
Actually, now that I think about it, they still play Style more than Bad Blood! That’s shocking! Wow. At least, that’s how it is around here. Crazy.
And you know? I think that might even hold true for Blank Space, too. Yikes!!!
4) Well, I don’t know. I’m sure there’s a 4 out there, somewhere, but I’m tired and want to go to bed.
So I will.
This whole thing just… isn’t working. I still recommend a peaceful separation of the races, or something like this. I mean it’s *yawn* what we all want, maybe.
*yawn*
*yaaaaaaawwwwwn*