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Post by Admin on Jan 31, 2020 18:10:27 GMT
Taylor Swift definitely has it all. A booming music career, supportive friends and family, two of the most adorable cats, and even a loving boyfriend who she’s blissfully happy with. Though she’s pretty content with life at the moment, many people have wondered when the singer’s finally going to settle down, especially now that she’s the big 3-0. While she’s been asked this question multiple times in the past, Swift made a rare statement about taking that next big step in her brand new Netflix documentary, Miss Americana. Swift admits that her life’s just too hectic at the moment Many people might look forward to settling down with their significant others and having kids, but not Swift. While the singer has shut down questions about marriage and children in the past, she recently opened up about why she has yet to settle down. In a clip from her Netflix documentary, Swift explains that the next few years of her life are already planned out and becoming a mother and wife right now just wouldn’t be ideal. “There’s part of me that feels like I’m 57 years old, but there’s part of me that’s definitely not ready to have kids and definitely not ready for all that grown-up stuff,” she said. “I kind of don’t really have the luxury of figuring stuff out, though, because my life is planned two years ahead of time. Literally, in two months, they’ll come at me with dates for the next tour.” Although she’s not ready to settle down and start a family of her own, the “ME!” singer made it clear that she couldn’t be happier with Alwyn and likes where they are in their relationship. “I felt alone, I felt really bitter,” she says in the documentary as she’s opening up about how she fell for her beau. “I felt sort of like a wounded animal lashing out. I figured I had to reset everything. I had to reconstruct an entire belief system for my own personal sanity. I also was falling in love with someone who had a wonderfully normal, balanced life.” “Even though it was a really horrible [time], I was happy,” she gushed. “But I wasn’t happy in the way I was trained to be happy. It was happiness without anyone else’s input. We were just…happy.”
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Post by Admin on Feb 1, 2020 1:23:02 GMT
This well-documented drama is rehashed at a length that feels excessive in a film that runs less than 90 minutes. Wilson digs up what feels like every single snarky blog post, nasty hashtag and invasive, if also somewhat inane, red-carpet interview. Swift frames the VMAs incident, which happened when she was 19, as a formative trauma. Wilson’s aim is clearly to contrast the singer’s nearly lifelong identity as America’s sweetheart—a rise recounted in montages that follow her rise from tween Nashville newbie to teen country phenom to 20-something pop eminence—with a period in which she increasingly found herself in the cultural crosshairs, tarred as a liar, a selfish careerist, a privileged white woman eager to paint herself as a victim.
As Swift—who, to her credit, comes across as intelligent, articulate, genuine and self-critical offstage—points out in Miss Americana, it’s become impossible for her to do anything without inviting the accusation that everything she does is calculated. Reputation, an attempt to hit back at the haters and in all likelihood regain control of the narrative by authoring her own cartoonish, self-deprecating villain edit, was a case in point. Especially with that history in mind, Wilson’s effort to recount how her subject became the brave, new, outspoken Taylor is undermined by the fact that she’s allowed to sidestep some obvious questions: What’s going on with Swift and her boyfriend Joe Alwyn? What factored into her decision to appear in the critically maligned Cats? How does she parse the complicated racial and gender politics underlying her feud with Kanye? Why did it take her so long to denounce the white supremacists who notoriously made her their patron saint, dubbing Swift an “Aryan goddess”?
The film does address why Swift stayed mum on such mainstream political debates as the 2016 election, during which everyone from the lowliest reality TV stars to Beyoncé and Oprah entered the fray. Convinced that no one wanted to hear the opinions of a young entertainer and cowed by the example of the Dixie Chicks, who alienated conservative country listeners by vocally opposing the Iraq War, she followed her team’s advice to keep her views to herself. As she tells it, facing down a DJ who groped her, in a high-profile sexual assault case that she won, was what convinced her speak out in defense of her beliefs. Wilson captures her ranting, in her own enviably eloquent way, in support of the Violence Against Women Act. Miss Americana culminates in a thrilling scene where she faces down a cabal of middle-aged white guys—including her father—who don’t want her to come out against right-wing Tennessee Senate candidate Marsha Blackburn in the 2018 midterms (who would win a narrow victory despite Swift’s efforts). She does it anyway, fans, managers and relatives who disagree be damned. Because, Swift insists, the election is a matter of “right and wrong.” Finally, it seems the old, good-girl Taylor really is dead.
This isn’t the only moment in the film that reveals more about Swift’s personality, struggles and state of mind than so many reflections on getting heckled by Kanye. In another moving scene, she speaks for the first time about an eating disorder that for many years had her scrutinizing the way her body looked in every poorly composed paparazzi photo and starving to fit into a size 00. Are these “calculated” disclosures? The long list of glaring omissions—as well as Wilson’s reticence to investigate how this political awakening has affected her daily life offstage and outside the boardroom—make it hard to argue otherwise. Yet they do come across as genuine. With a more elegant, purposeful structure or at least more time to explore her toughest choices, Miss Americana might have given fans a satisfying portrait of the real Taylor Swift. As is, it’s more like a sketch. And that’s a shame. After an album as bright and vivid as Lover, I can’t imagine I was the only one hoping for more color.
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Post by Admin on Feb 1, 2020 7:14:07 GMT
Taylor Swift’s got her Shiv Roy political-consultant turtleneck on. Swift, famously, publicly apolitical until recently, urges you to get out there and participate in democracy on her new track “Only the Young.” The song, which was written and released exclusively for her new Netflix documentary Miss Americana, encourages young people to get involved in politics. “The game was rigged, the ref got tricked / The wrong ones think they’re right / You were outnumbered — this time,” Swift sings, presumably alluding to the 2016 presidential election. The song also faces the harsher realities young people experience. “You go to class, scared / Wondering where the best hiding spot would be / And the big bad man and his big bad clan / Their hands are stained with red,” she sings, referencing mass shootings. But Swift has faith in the youth of America. I mean, if a teenage Swift can become an international pop star, today’s teens can take on the world. Miss Americana is out on Netflix now. Sen. Marsha Blackburn praised Grammy Award-winning artist Taylor Swift for her talents and efforts to protect songwriters and musicians, despite being slammed in the singer's Netflix documentary “Miss Americana," which debuted Friday on the streaming platform. Blackburn, R-Tenn. issued a statement directed at the pop star Thursday, saying the two can find common ground despite the two not being able to see eye to eye on a slate of social issues, according to Variety. http://instagram.com/p/B7W1KlpjYi8 “Taylor is an exceptionally gifted artist and songwriter, and Nashville is fortunate to be the center of her creative universe,” Blackburn told Variety. “While there are policy issues on which we may always disagree, we do agree on the need to throw the entertainment community’s collective influence behind legislation protecting songwriters, musicians, and artists from censorship, copyright theft, and profiteering." In the intimate documentary centered around the normally private megastar, Swift chronicles her inner battle over speaking forthrightly about politics. The star slams Blackburn, saying the Republican's 2018 Senate campaign was what pushed her to find her political voice, the outlet reported.
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Post by Admin on Feb 1, 2020 18:04:26 GMT
If you’re like me you greatly enjoyed the excellent scene in the Taylor Swift Netflix doc, Miss Americana, where Taylor has her cat, Olivia, in a chic backpack carrier that any cat owner would be envious of. But if you are truly like me, you already own that exact cat backpack. Turns out another thing we learn is Miss Americana herself loves a good deal, as you can get this exact bag for under $50 on Amazon. Guess we can have nice things! Both my cats prefer it to the more standard, duffle-esque bag since they are up higher and can see things better. I will even leave the bag out when we aren’t using it since the cats enjoy getting into it and glaring at me through the bubble window (probably because I was late feeding them and they are deciding which body part to consume first if I were to die suddenly). Getting them in when they don’t consent is easier, too, as it has three doors you can try to pour your cats into. It is a little awkward to walk with since the bottom of it is so rigid, but for cat lovers and those who are only walking five feet to a private jet, it’s totally worth it. Once you’ve successful purchased the backpack, you’ll want to make sure it’s zipped up all the way. (Stick with me here.) My cat, the Captain, managed to break out once when we were on a boat to Fire Island Pines (yes, I too am a straight woman who is an ally). I’m assuming he was trying to live up to his namesake and commandeer the boat. Thankfully, the bag comes with a hook that can latch your pet in if they’re wearing a harness, so he didn’t get far. (On a more serious note: if you want a cat backpack but not the one owned by me and my sister-cat-mom Taylor, make sure it has proper ventilation. Many do not, which can cause pets to overheat on trips.)
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Post by Admin on Feb 2, 2020 18:03:50 GMT
"I'm so sorry to hear that you've struggled with some of the same things I've struggled with," Swift commented. http://instagram.com/p/B7_tVe-AbG8 Taylor Swift is sending a "massive hug" to Nikki Glaser after the comedian apologized for body shaming the singer in an old interview. On Friday, Glaser took to Instagram to share her regret over past comments she made about Swift's appearance. The remarks, which included the Comedy Central star calling Swift and her friends "too skinny," are featured in the pop star's new Netflix documentary, "Miss Americana." And Glaser's heartfelt apology didn't go unnoticed by Swift. "Wow. I appreciate this so much and one of the major themes of the doc is that we have the ability to change our opinions over time, to grow, to learn about ourselves," the "Lover" singer wrote. "I'm so sorry to hear that you've struggled with some of the same things I've struggled with. Sending a massive hug."
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