Taylor Swift was named Billboard’s woman of the decade on Thursday night - but her speech contained none of the usual award show platitudes.
Instead, the star criticised “toxic male privilege” in the music industry, championed fellow female artists and escalated her feud with Scooter Braun.
“Women in music are not allowed to coast,” she observed. “We are held at a higher, sometimes impossible-feeling, standard.”
“I’ve seen a lot,” she added.
Listen up you dumb bitch.
No one ever stopped you from owning your music. EXCEPT, you chose to globally distribute it using powerful record companies with the resulting huge payday.
Go pluck your guitar on your front porch back in Reading, Pennsylvania and create all the music you want. No one will take it away from you. But if you choose to cash in for hundreds of millions of dollars by using the rootless cosmopolitans to distribute it and make you a famous commodity, then there’s a price you pay. You seem to want both the fame and money, AND the freedom of an independent artist.
Doesn’t work that way, roastie.
Here’s the video of her whining for nearly 15 minutes. On the verge of tears at multiple points. Press S.
Fragile Femininity: When you need an entire TV show, awards and group of women to pat each other on the backs and tell yourselves evil men are keeping you down, then have male chauffeurs drive your limousines back home to your gated multi-million dollar mansions, which are all protected by armed men.
Maybe she just needs a good plankin. Anyone volunteer? Someone out there must be backed up a bit. If your dying of thirst, you’ll drink from a mudhole. She’s as graceful as a one legged spider.
Y’all are harsh but I understand what you’re saying. She obviously didn’t make such great business decisions but I think what also happened was a bunch of people somehow managed to invest in her music like you would on the stock market. Those investors were able to invest enough to take control of it. So I don’t know if she signed it all away willingly, she just may not have understood what she got herself into. That is still her fault and she really shouldn’t be complaining about it so much or blaming men in general for not understanding something on her own. It’s just a very low-class and stupid move that she should have avoided and didn’t. I don’t really have much sympathy for her because she still made out better in life than most anybody else does. She can go cry in her champagne somewhere else.
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