Taylor Swift, one of the most influential singers of our time, has 10 Grammy Awards, 29 American Music Awards (Michael Jackson has 24), and 23 Billboard Awards. On the day after the release of the single "Lover", Spotify (a music player software) had 37 million effective views, and the album "Lover" had 62 million views on the day it was released.
Through the numbers, you have a general idea of the singer's appeal and influence, and the "Love Story" and "Red" that can make you hum along softly are the performance of her nationality.
Hyperlink "Love Story"
Taylor Swift signed with Sony/United Television Music Publishing at 14, released her self-titled debut album at 17, and became the youngest Grammy winner at 19.
In the past ten years, she has been the "darling" of various media. People's attention has spread from her music to her personal life, emotional history, the ex-boyfriend behind every hit song, and her involvement in the Various dramatic events.
In 2009, when Taylor won Best Video for "You Belong With Me", singer Kanye West rushed to the stage to steal the microphone during her speech and said Beyoncé had the best video in the world.
In 2016, Kanye West released "Famous" and said in the song "I made that bitch (referring to Taylor) famous", claiming that the move has Taylor's consent.
Public opinion turned to Kanye West, and launched the global hot topic #TaylorSwiftIsOverParty (TaylorSwiftIsOverParty), the former American sweetheart has become a hypocrisy, forming gangs, and pretending to be a victim The man of snakes and scorpions.
The hostess of the talk show "The View" even put it this way: " I don't believe she was so insulted by that statement, I think she saw an opportunity to be a victim. "
Let's rewind everything back to the beginning. "Miss Americana," Tyler recounts, leaning on the windowsill to flip through his old diaries, "My whole moral code as a child and now is that I need people to think I'm a good person ."
That's exactly what she did, being nice to people, trying to maintain her good looks, using "whether people applaud you as the basis for a belief system", being taught to be loved, praised, to be happy, not eating to maintain weight, just exercising .
When she confessed to the camera that she didn't eat because "the photo made her belly too big", I seemed to see myself, and saw countless ordinary girls trying to adjust themselves because of the eyes and standards of the outside world. Even because of utilitarian education, he tirelessly pursues the recognition and praise of the outside world. The sound of the outside world seems to be the only standard that defines oneself.
However, as Lady GaGa said at the beginning of the documentary "Five Feet Two Inches", "I'm 30 years old, and I feel too good to question my identity as a woman." Taylor, who is nearly 30 years old, also broke free from social concerns. Women's established standards, get rid of the prejudice of "beauty", and re-acquire "the ability to be happy", not the happiness brought by being recognized by the outside world, but the happiness that comes from the heart after finding the self, the happiness that is happy for no reason .
"There's always something about beauty that you just can't achieve," she said, "because if you're thin enough, you're not going to have the kind of butt everyone wants, but if you're heavy enough to have the ideal butt, Your tummy just isn't flat enough. It's all… fucking impossible. Because it's better to look fat than to be sick ."
As a pop star, Taylor's attacks don't stop there. In addition to being attacked as "fat", as a typical example of the stigma a woman will receive in society, from her appearance to her personal feelings, she can be judged on too many things. Society's strict standards for women range from being slender to being innocent, to not having more than a few partners, otherwise they are "sluts".
It is ridiculous to think that if a man has several girlfriends, he can get the applause and applause of the same sex, and if he says "brilliant", at most there are more than one "lovely" title; if a woman has a few more boyfriends, it is not only a man, but also a man. Together with sex, she will stand up and scold "shameless".
It is a commonplace that Leonardo DiCaprio has 60 girlfriends, and the tone of the manuscript is still so friendly - what is the charm of "he"?
On the other hand, Taylor, a "leading new media in China" (written on Encyclopedia), a fox, can boast that Taylor has "84" ex-boyfriends without research, and she is a singer who was "achieved" by her ex-boyfriends.
So the question is, what is the charm of Xiao Lizi that makes various media show mercy to him, even full of praise?
Because he is male.
The answer is that simple.
What if she were a man, as Taylor envisioned in "The Man"?
"Cause if I was a man, then I'd be the man."
The second half of the documentary records the first time Taylor, who never revealed his political stance, publicly supported the Democrats. But it's not all untraceable, from her lawsuit against the DJ who sexually harassed her, to the opposition (you read that right there are two oppositions) to the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, anti-gay, against women having fair pay Councillor Martha Blackburn, who figured out that she has a right to expression, and decided to use it to bring about change.
In her sexual harassment case against DJ, she asked for only $1 in damages, demanding that women's dignity be respected.
She won the case, but the process was "inhumane". She was asked why she didn't scream, why she didn't act more quickly, why...
What a familiar rhetoric, your performance does not match the victim's performance, the victim will scream, cry, will... There is no such thing as a perfect victim in the world, and everyone's reaction to being hurt will not be the same, It will not follow a pattern to meet the expectations of the public. JingYao in Liu Qiangdong's case was suspected of "jumping with a fairy" because he supported Liu Qiangdong with his hands. The comments on the rape case on Weibo were full of sluts and humiliation, and Taylor had to face distorted details and related cross-examination in court.
(What would happen if you were raped and had nothing but mutual talk with him?)
Taylor is using her influence to urge people to face up to the safety of women. Issues related to sex are always avoided, in a gray area, and it is difficult for women to maintain their rights even if they are harmed. Indeed, "Women always encounter this."
The world needs someone like Taylor, she needs to fight back in the face of sexual harassment, she needs to be angry when faced with sexual harassment, she needs her courage, her integrity, and she needs her to tell us to fight and try. Even if Martha Blackburn is elected in the end, even if there are still people attacking her, she still goes up, just like Taylor rising from the elevator to the stage at the end of the film to perform, what she conveys is not only her own story, her own Mood is also an attitude, a kind of sobriety-a sober cognition of female identity, the guardianship and firmness of justice and equality.
"I'm going to work hard while society tolerates my success," she said.
"I still wish I had a sharp pen, fine skin and an open mind," she said.
At the age of 30, Tyler is finally no longer bound by secular standards, no longer dieting for his body, he has begun to express himself, he has begun to work for equality, he has begun to love, he has begun to hate, he has begun to be vivid, and he has begun a second life.
At the end of the documentary, Taylor walked to the stage with a smile, carrying a pink guitar on his back, holding his head high and smiling brightly, as if he had broken free, and a beautiful new life was in front of him. As soon as she opened her mouth, we knew she had always been our favorite Taylor Swift.
PS Brother-in-law's five seconds appeared just right
This article was first published on the WeChat public account Spiritual Youth (id: jsqn_2020)
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