Perhaps I’m not being fair with the criticism, here.
I don’t like what I’m seeing with Tom, yes, but I also don’t like, much, what I’m seeing from Taylor. Perhaps her swimsuit pics dazzled me too much for me to see this.
Truthfully, I thought that Taylor was going to take a bit of a break and lay low for awhile after her relationship with Calvin Harris ended.
But, she didn’t. I kind of thought that she would spend some time alone, like… like she promised, back in the day, after the 1989 tour ended. I thought she would chill for awhile. But then all of THIS happened.
I get that Taylor’s thing is “too much”, but this seems a bit too much, even for her.
Even for me.
It’s a lot, and it’s too public, I think.
Taylor’s appeal has been largely based on the fact that she was public, but also private in some ways. Now, not so much. The sense of mystery about her seems to have dissipated.
Perhaps that’s inevitable. Being famous must make it almost impossible for someone to maintain mystery, and being the world’s most popular musician might make it impossible, literally. There’s no way she can keep the veil over herself. Certainly not in her case, and most definitely not when you consider the blinding lights shining on all of her friends, too.
And- she had a kind of earthiness, too. She was famous but very grounded. Lately, she doesn’t seem grounded at all.
Perhaps that one is my fault. She’s now grounded on me rather than, I don’t know, her childhood, or her past experiences in school or whatnot.
I used to write blogs about this problem, but the fun of 1989 and the tour removed all of these concerns from my mind. But now, these problems of hers are appearing once again, and they’re bigger now, since they weren’t dealt with the first time around.
I blogged before about how important it was that Taylor keep up her status in the Country and Western community. If not musically, then at least socially. But, she hasn’t done this. If she had, maybe she wouldn’t be having the problems I see her as having, now.
Today she’s so far removed from that scene that it would have been odd to see a country star at the 4th of July party she just had. Anyone she would have invited would have looked terribly out of place.
Yeah, that advice would have been perfect for her. She should have taken it. There’s something inherently grounding about country music. Even country-pop hybrid music like Taylor’s earlier works seem quite grounded and real compared to everything else in the pop culture milieu.
Well, I tried to warn her. And she had years to do something about this. But… she didn’t do anything.
*Hrrrumph*.