The Era’s Tour illusion…
The other day I was scrolling online and a video came up of Taylor’s performance of “You need to calm down” on the VMA’s.
The thing that shocked me, was that she went from a sitting down position, to getting up and singing (presumably live, as opposed to a pre recorded track), and how shaky her voice was, as well as how, out of breath she seemed when she had literally just got up and strutted to one side of the stage. I have provided the link to the YouTube video.
Now, what got me was the fact that so many Swifties think she was SO amazing being able to put on a 3hr plus performance, singing “live” during the Era’s tour… when in reality it’s super obvious with some clips online (search you need to calm down era’s tour), she has her “speaking/singing parts” where they turn her microphone on.. before it goes back to the pre recorded track.
This is obvious during some other songs too where the pre recorded track is a certain pitch and she comes in and sings her “live part” in a completely different pitch.
What gets me annoyed the most is the way she tries to make out she’s one of the first female singers to train super hard (we’ve all heard the treadmill story, I believe she probably did this once and then never stopped telling the story)… because where was that infamous training montage in the documentary? Surely she could have faked the scene even, because she was going on about it so much 😅
Her show was basically made to be as easy as possible for her… look at her costumes and hair / make up throughout the whole 3hrs… she looks like she’s just stepped out from make up and hair. Compare that to some other people over the years (Beyoncé, Britney, Gaga), who look half dead by the end of their shows (and rightly so). Even Britney… she had some abuse for lip syncing but at least she danced her butt off through the whole show with *actual* choreography that wasn’t just strutting, pointing, wiggling and repeating.
Yet in the documentary we had her make it look super hard that she was riding (what seems like a fun contraption) from one end of the stage to the other… yes she was walking and running about a little but so would I for the money she was making per show!!
I hope deep down she actually realises how easy she’s had everything since day one (and knows she can never compare herself to any true artist). She had her dad buying her career, she has her team which is basically her family around her, Kanye basically escalating her career (I’m sorry but he did, she played the victim card to her advantage), the whole story about her master recordings… although it was her dad who sold them in the first place to make money… all of her interviews these days are controlled by her and the team so she CHOOSES the questions… (she’s never had any truly awful interviews like Britney did), she can push the Ellen was mean asking about my boyfriends narrative but please, that was nothing and she could have easily answered Ellen back had it not been for her team wanting the good girl image for her.
Now, I’m not saying she hasn’t put any work in whatsoever.. I’ll give her some credit, she’s played the game and gone along with everything her parents have said and does know a thing or two by now about making money… but did she do it all alone in the same way people like Madonna did? Nope. My issue is with the way she exaggerates every little detail and story…
Edit: Grammar (went on a rant towards the end but I stand by what I say)! 😅