I’d like a Taylor Swift Derangement ep
I have a bluesky account and the number of people on there who are chronically mad about Taylor Swift having a billion dollars is insane. They are like ‘she shouldn’t be allowed to amass that much money I don’t care if she gives it away!’ it’s like Taylor Seift Derangement Syndrome
She endorsed Kamala, which backfired. Since the party in power isn’t taxing her she’s literally giving away millions. During her tour she gave huge donations to food banks here and in the UK. She paid huge bonuses to her tour workers, like in the six figures level bonuses. All of these bluesky people are mad about stagnant wages; she’s been paying people what they’re worth for adding value to her career. I’m not even a fan I’ve just worked in the entertainment business and still keep an eye on trade publications/entertainment news. She’s incredibly responsible compared to most of the rest of the music industry.
There are also straight up insane takes ‘how dare she shut down part of the city in the hottest week, the 250th birthday of the country’ etc
People LEAVE THE CITY in July. Esp the kind of people who can afford to live in the ‘good’ parts of manhattan. They often can rent a lake or beach place in Maine or RI for a week, or they have a ‘country home’ in Milan NY or somewhere. There’s LESS traffic in midtown right now. Like they’ve def never lived in NYC, these critics.
Other lower paid workers often have the 4th off (and the 3rd this year, the Friday before) and so they go hiking outside of the city (my roommate, a waitress, used to do this when I lived in NYC, metro north is not that expensive) or if you have a metro card you can easily get to a beach like Coney Island for the 4th.
These are just bizarre takes because if you’re going to seek a permit to shut down a Manhattan street IMO this is a pretty decent time to do it. The fourth isn’t a restaurant or shopping day. There’s already less traffic than normal in midtown Manhattan on the 4th, at least there was when I lived there. City workers in a lot of offices will not have needed to get to offices Friday or Saturday this week, things like that.
My first job ever as a teen in the northeast was in a drycleaners. They would shut down the plant for the hottest forecasted week of the year, usually in July. The machinery at the plant would break down if they didn’t, due to the heat. So this was planned, like customers knew in advance, and no one was working doing pressing in those conditions. Like a lot of very working class people will probably not actually be working in this heat because you can’t; the machines will stop working. And Manhattan doesn’t even have much industry left: the land got too valuable. so like: what poor person is being terribly inconvenienced by any of this? Probably like, none, TBH.
The know nothing activists of bluesky just do my head in. I was a casual stagehand at one point, I was out of work and someone got me on ‘the list’ for the summer festival season. I worked a 4th of July weekend, I was making $46/hr due to holiday OT. Thats with no seniority! That’s a few years ago, in a smaller market than NYC, with a lower cost of living. Swift used MSG an **entirely union** venue; anyone who worked at this wedding setting up or taking down will have made like real money.
I don’t even like this woman’s music! I’m not her target audience! I just don’t understand why Oprah is a billionaire & gave us crackpots like Dr Phil; Selena Gomez is a billionaire from her beauty/cosmetics whatever that is; Jeff Bezos & Elon Musk are billionaires who seemingly aspire to be Bond villains; but Taylor Swift and her success and her wedding bring out the ire of all these ‘activists‘. ‘How dare she use planes to travel for her tours’ like: WHAT? Why do they care? This is for work! record label execs used to take helicopters around NYC for shits and giggles, just because they could. It wasn’t really even faster for them! They’re mad that someone who has a huge audience and draws money to cities took a plane for legit work reasons? huh?
Like do they just hate her for being successful? Is it jealous fat girl thing, is she just blonde enough and just pretty enough they can’t stand her? I’m not even a fan of this woman but my god WTF they SHOULD like her, she ticks a lot of their boxes. She pays living wages, endorsed a Dem, gives to literacy programs and food banks, uses unionized venues. WTF!? Where’s the issue?
sorry for the rant but my god. The hate she gets for like, giving money away and doing things at convenient times is bizarre. And is bluesky like an elon funded op? is he paying people to be annoying there so Twitter can keep chugging along? or does it just attract the worst people in the world organically for some reason?