Why I Don't Like Taylor Swift

Why quite a lot of people don't like her. This may appear to deviate somewhat from specifically music, but the thing is, which I would have thought obvious, but a lot of people try to deny when they don't want to ignore the power of a message, is that music and artists have a lot of influence over people. A lot. If hymns went in the charts, think how many more Christians there'd be.

"There's a place in hell for women who don't help other women". You're right there, in general, Taylor, but what you're missing here is that you said this about two women who made a joke about you, and the women you said it to were TINA FEY AND AMY POEHLER. DO YOU NOT KNOW WHAT TINA FEY HAS DONE FOR WOMEN? HAVE YOU NEVER USED THE INTERNET OR WATCHED A TELEVISION?

The faux-country-ness, as well. I'm more of an innocent Southern Belle than her, and I'm from the north west of England.

Now, here are the main reasons. The reason is NOT that she goes out with a lot of guys, because that is not wrong. That in itself is perfectly fine. What is wrong is that she can never just have those relationships as relationships, she uses them for publicity and to create material for her songs, in which she repeatedly enforces the victim role on herself despite the fact that she's the one slagging off all these guys the moment they turn their backs. It's fine to go through relationships, as I say, but to repeatedly try to play the 'I am completely faultless in all of this, that guy's a big meanie oh somebody protect me I am innocent flower' card, it's tiring and frankly doesn't work at all. As somebody on the internet said, maybe the ex-boyfriends should write a song called Maybe You're The Problem. I don't like Harry Styles, but the way she's been trying to take the piss out of him after they split up - and yet she can't take a joke herself - it's just pathetic, really.

She uses homophobic lyrics; "So go tell your friends that I'm obsessive and crazy, that's fine, I'll tell mine that you're gay" - Picture To Burn. Now, I'm guessing there's going to be a lot of people going 'oh, but that's not homophobia, she's just using it to insult him'. Yes. She is threatening to insult someone by insinuating that they are a homosexual, which would indicate that she at least believes that it is a bad thing to be, and therefore a worthy choice for an insult. That's homophobia in the everyday. She could have said boring, unintelligent, sexist, overly aggressive . . . but no. Gay. Obviously.

She uses her music videos to slut-shame. Whenever it's a hero vs. villain situation, the heroine of the 'story' is always a 'pure' girl, dressed more demurely because she hides her body, whereas the villain wears revealing clothes and is dressed closer to what you would commonly call a 'slut'. This is bad because it enforces the idea that you are allowed to judge a person's entire character on the way she is dressed - maybe the 'slut' just enjoys wearing that kind of clothing. Maybe she is doing it to attract the attention of anyone in the area who happens to like women because she wants to have sex with them. So what? How does that make her a bad person? How does hiding your body make you a better person? Because you're 'waiting till marriage', so the man who owns you can perform the action that supposedly changes a woman's entire life? My point is here, she is attacking women who use their right to say yes.

And that, ladies, gentlemen and variants thereupon, is why I don't like Taylor Swift.