Are you actually familiar with her body of work? I’m not a fan of her, per se – I don’t really care for her public persona, wouldn’t ever attend shows, etc – but I’ve enjoyed a few songs off each of her albums, and I’m baffled by your assertion. At 20, she was writing songs like “Love Story” and “You Belong With Me,”…

The reason why Beyonce is often raised in these discussion is because she is uncritically lauded as the perfect celebrity-performer activist. In reality, she is far from it (on par with Swift), but any criticism is forbidden.

I have no idea why people are siding with Kanye. I know he’s mentally ill but he treated her awfully. He freaked out about her award (then lovely gracious Beyonce gave up her award time), he wrote a creepy song about banging her, called her a bitch as a kid, made a creepy sex doll of her and put it naked with a Bill…

His song *did* demean her. I have never given even half a fuck if she did sign off on it. Kanye was super gross with that line. She is a manipulative little shit who enjoys her white woman victimhood status and her White Feminism, and we should all absolutely call her out on that bullshit, but can we stop acting like…

#kudrowvibes

She dances like I do when I pump up the monster jams while cleaning the house. All she’s missing is a spray bottle and slightly bewildered pets.

That could explain the decision not to even feign like she was singing, and just dance like a dork to her pre-recorded vocals.

I can kind of support this. It would explain the lack of decent choreography (just throwing something together at the last minute. I wonder if there was some apology before or after, to the…

Me: I’m going to be strong & fearless from now on.

Seriously, wtf is it with TS hate? She’s freaking 28 years old, she’s coming into herself as a person. And yeah, she’s channelling a different aspect of her personality. May I remind everyone that at her age Beyonce introduced Sasha Fierce?

Thank you. I’ve been struggling to find words for why all the “play the victim” talk is bothering me, and it’s this.

apparently she has the flu and was receiving IV fluids before the show

Ok, I liked the zombie. But probably because I’m so ready for halloween.

I laughed at the dancers’ “I <3 TS” shirts. I do think Taylor reads all the comments.

Seems like this isn’t a song so much as an intro to the album.

The video is much more self-aware than the lyrics, which is good.

Confession: the more I hear this song, the more I like it. I don’t want to like it but the heart wants what it wants.

what did we make her do

Holy shit am I tired of hearing the phrase “playing the victim” used about a woman who was literally just in a courtroom getting justice for being sexually assaulted this month.