What are we really celebrating here? Someone with a fairly clean image — I mean what dirt do we have on Swift really? She has break-ups and then she writes about those break-ups, like every singer-songwriter that has ever written a song in the history of the world — might have been exposed as being aware that Kanye West intended to release a song that directly references her. If we accept that it is possible she knew about the second line — which we don’t have confirmation for — and chose to deny that, her image is now a little smudged. So what? And then? Why do we want her to fail? Really, let’s talk about this. Why? How is it in anybody’s interest for one of the best pop singer-songwriters in the world, someone who young women across the world adore and seek to become like, because she is successful and privileges her friendships with other women and she sings about her feelings, to be brought down? Like what does that actually achieve?
And maybe can we reserve our ire for something like worth raging against? Like maybe we could dismantle the structures that mean that successful men are considered worth emulating but successful women need to be brought down a peg (by a man, mind you)? Like maybe we need to just stop for one second and like think about the thing that’s making us clap our hands in glee. And whether or not painting a picture of someone on a wall to joyously celebrate their ‘death’ is very funny.
I’m not sure it is.
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