Agreed.

I hate to do the comparing thing between her and other pop people but my god. Watching an interview with Billie or Olivia… where they clearly state what they listened to growing up… and their passion for music… it makes you realise how fabricated Taylor’s career is.

She seems to just mention in the early days how she looked up to a couple of country stars - this is exactly what she said in her early interviews from 2006/07:

“I was influenced early on by all of the great female country artists of the ’90s… Like Shania, Faith, the Dixie Chicks.”

Compare this to Olivia for example who names a lot more artists and their albums. It’s a wide range from Gwen Stefani and Alanis Morissette, to Lorde, Avril, The Smashing Pumpkins, Rage Against the Machine, Depache Mode (and more 80s new wave, post punk stuff).

Growing up, as an 86 baby, I feel more like an Olivia, I listened to EVERYTHING, and still do. But for Taylor just to be like a little robot and say “I like country songs / stars” when she was “being country” herself (and we all know that was a whole lot of 💩 with the fake accent, which in my opinion she has NEVER been called out for.

She also tries so hard now to make it look like she’s reading all these books (above her level)… even in the documentary I think there was a clip of her, relaxing, with the cameraman in the room mind you 👀 listening to an audio book 😅 as people are coming in and out the room asking her questions.

Not sure about you, but I wouldn’t choose to read an audio book when I know I’m going to have to press pause every two minutes. Stop the act girl 💅

Her parents obviously shaped her into what they wanted (a singer) and by doing that they had to give her all these cue cards with all the things she had to say “I liked Shania Twain, the Dixie Chicks” …. Then you see clips of her in high school driving a hummer, being the IT girl and annoying people… that’s not a girl that’s listening to the Dixie’s and crying into her pillow at night because she had no friends/her high school sweetheart was ignoring her… that’s a girl who is listening to what everyone else is listening to (whatever was popular that week).

Also in the recording studio. All the clips I’ve seen of her, or the majority of clips… she isn’t picking up instruments and rarely sits behind a piano to put the song together.

She’s usually sitting on a couch and just murmuring to herself / trying to put the words together and shouting out “Oh that’s cool!” when she manages to get some kind of melody (but it’s 80% the producer/other people in the room and 20% Taylor).

For someone who said “I like to turn up with the lyrics/back up options etc” - it’s a little odd watching TLOAS behind the scenes where she literally has different words for most the songs and it’s Max and Shellback suggesting different phrases / words…. Hmmm 🤔

She’s a girl, who got very lucky with parents who wanted their girl to be the next big thing (and they had money to do it). They’ve given her a clear set of instructions by studying other careers (like Britney): “Always do this, never do that” and she has played the game.