“The world moves on, another day, another drama, drama,
but not for me, not for me, all I think about is karma.
And then the world moves on, but one thing’s for sure
maybe I got mine, but you’ll all get yours.”
Taylor Swift’s new song is a great comparative metaphor to the current state of the United States and the institutionalized racism that has run rampant for centuries.
Taylor Alison Swift grew up on a Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania. It’s hard to say the she didn’t grow up with a lot, her father was a bank manager just like her grandfather before him and so on, and so on. Her parents moved their family to Nashville in her early teens to help her pursue her music career.
She’s spent her career garnering a lot of success for what are in their simplest form diss tracks. She has called other women promiscuous for being with her ex-boyfriends. She’s called out personal details of her exes lives to the public, all in pursuit of her revenge.
The Washington Post eventually calls out Taylor Swift’s recurrent theme in her song writing to be revenge. Quoting her own words and lyrics straight from the source herself, “The lyrics make it clear: You don’t want to be the name underlined on any Swift list. As she’s stated in the past, ‘There’s nothing I do better than revenge.’ When she calls you out, get ready.”
For a woman who has made a career based off past relationships and hatred towards her peers, she seems to place a lot of blame on the revolving door of enemies and not so much on the recurring common denominator – herself.
Listen, I know that Kanye West is no saint, but placing all the blame for your problems on his angry face simply drives the American point hard that white woman can do no wrong, by calling him out as the person who has basically brought on this whole “new Taylor” since she brought herself back from the dead essentially after a scandal.
Capitalizing on not only her mistakes, but her straight up lies to the public, seems to show a bit of her true colours. She’s making money on the exposure of her sham and capitalizing where others didn’t.
So here goes,
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African Americans who just want justice and to not be blamed for every little thing that happens to whiny privileged white performative feminists, but also want to be respected for their art and not pushed aside when someone’s feelings get hurt – 0
