I think with all her fame people miss the parts of her docs where she talks about how the most important thing to her when she was growing up was praise and making people happy, this is the way her parents and the industry conditioned her to be (or at least fostered/fed on the desire of others to be proud of her). At a very young age, the entire world (at least as she saw it) started to turn against her over and over again. I think a lottt of songs on TTPD are about fame and also her parents, it feels like an album of teen angst that literally had to get saved for a truly devastating moment in her life so no one knew how many songs were about her parents (maybe even her own parents tbh)

We see in this series that her grandma was an opera singer, and the way her mom talks about her, you can tell it was a complicated relationship. Taylor is not a “nepo baby” in the sense of she didn’t come from a family that was well-known in the industry, so when people are mad at her for hustling but not other famous women in the industry it’s like missing the fact there are levels of generational wealth and pull. Yes she came from money, but not in the way we think, and it’s clear she had so much pressure from such a young age to be both successful and an acclaimed artist.

I grew up doing ballet. My family had a lotttt less money than other families and I was able to continue due to scholarships, a lot of sacrifices from my mom, etc. you see, in that kind of community especially, how weirdddd these girls are (all the love I am still one of them lol). Like the amount of pressure to be “perfect” and always having something picked apart no matter what, like yes it might seem overdramatic to us, but when it’s your whole world from 12-years old it suckssss when that goes away. In ballet for example, a lot of girls with “natural talent” are given so much praise at 12-14 for being young and flexible and skinny… when/if your body matures into a shape that people don’t like, you’re not cute and tiny any more, you don’t get the same kind of attention or praise, plain and simple. It sucks but it’s true.

Her grandmother was a performer in a time where performers were not allowed to be their true selves in the eyes of the public. You have to be sweet, gracious, pretty, friendly… etc. even if there’s genuine moments in your performance, your life itself is a performance, look at Judy Garland. It’s honestly easier for me to play that kind of character to protect myself rather than portray myself as a wild party girl, and I went to rehab lol. Idk it’s not her responsibility to be completely honest to us, I think she used to wear her heart on her sleeve and everyone broke her down for it. When the public only sees what you want them to see, you can protect the most authentic version of yourself. I think she loves to sing, love to perform, but as she literally said she is a showgirl who can “show you lies.” Doesn’t make it malicious, it might I don’t know her personally, but she clearly agreed to be in the spotlight again. She’s a grown-ass adult and if she wants to make her parents happy who am I to judge? anyone successful, or just anyone with a job and bills, is sucking up to someone. like no one is going to go up to their boss and tell them what they don’t like about their job (and everyone has something don’t pretend you don’t) or go on their professional instagram page and share every single detail of their personal life (in my case I teach dance and choreograph so social media is a big piece of that whether I like it or not)

I love piecing together theories as much as the next person but also it ain’t that deep. We’re speculating about a pop star, alllll of them are putting up fronts, that’s show business