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☎️ Phone a Snake: YOUR Unpopular Showgirl Opinions

🕑 Added 2025-10-09 11:00:10 +0000 UTC

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Meghan Sullivan

Yes Emily and harry were seen kissing in Japan iirc

S B

Something hasnt been able to leave my mind ... Taylor repeatedly talks negatively about her fans? In BDILH and now in wish list for the world to leave them the f alone ... But who's buying all the CDs and vinyls she's putting out?? Her insane fans! It's hard for me to feel special as part of the fandom when she talks more negatively about us than positively. Idk

Kris Knutson

I agree. There’s also a gender element to this. People are okay with a successful woman when she’s miserable. They’re not interested in/are quite angry with a successful woman who’s happy.

Sasha

I wonder if Taylor Swift has exhausted the limits of diaristic storytelling...not because her emotions or experiences are finite, but because the form she built to express them has begun to collapse in on itself. After years of training her audience to decode her private life through lyrics, every new line now arrives pre-interpreted. What once landed as raw confession no longer carries the same weight, because she’s performing *feeling* itself. To me, that is the conceit of The Life of a Showgirl. It takes artifice as its subject, with flashes of brilliance when she momentarily peeks out from under the feathers. The awkward lyrics and sense of distance aren’t just lapses in form (though there are a few truly indefensible lyrics 💀); they reveal what honesty sounds like after it’s been commodified for two decades. I think the album asks what it feels like to live inside your own mythology when self-expression, performance, and survival have fused. Maybe her final act will be to disappear under the stage and reinvent herself, and the form, entirely.

Stephi

I'm wondering if relatability is easier to achieve on the more painful / negative spectrum of emotions, especially given the massive wealth disparity. It's easier to relate to a heartbroken billionaire than a freshly engaged, supremely happy one. It's easier to nurture a parasocial fan relationship when you're out there "slaying dragons" with eachother. It's hard enough to be friends with a newly engaged, elated friend when you are miserable. Now imagine that friends is also a billionaire, living in a different stratosphere. So long as Taylor was in and out of shitty relationships, at least her life was lacking in that very universal sense. I don't think that Taylor doesn't care about the fan base anymore. But the fan base is now harder to distinguish from the general public, post-Eras Tour. While I'm thrilled for Taylor to finally be in a solid, supportive relationship, I'm also not interested in the Tayvis brand becoming a thing.