Which would still be an amazing show :)

You can tell that the person who wrote this article is a child, because of course you saw Soul Man if you had Comedy Central in the ‘90s. It played constantly.

Actually I was thinking less of her fans and more about the pop culture blogs (like this one) and people who ostensibly should know better. Like it would be one thing to pass on that a fandom lost their mind about something; it’s another to presume that something must be true despite there being little to no evidence…

Yeah, that’d be my disconnect with the fandom. Like...you cannot be a walking Fortune 500 company *and* be the underdog.

I feel like you have to really force it to read that as implying that Swift doesn’t play live.

Eh, I won’t fault someone for being moved by the music at a show.

You could say the same thing about trump supporters.  America loves an underdog, so when they love someone, they have to turn them into an underdog.

Seeing musicians I like do it really well live is basically the biggest hit of positive emotion I get as an adult, I don’t cry but I don’t blame her for crying.

My wife loves her and has a (lengthy) playlist she’ll run while we’re doing stuff around the house, and when you listen to her history of hits all stacked up it really does get repetitive. It can be funny in smaller doses, her takedown songs are entertaining, but at this point in her career I can’t see her relying on…

I remember seeing a clip of a grown woman at a show crying. I can’t imagine living a life so sad that seeing your favorite singer up close makes you a blubbering mess, and my life is really, really sad.

From now on this shall be known as osteoporosis gossip.

I feel like people who think that these concerts have live singing in them also still think wrestling is real

I am sure I am going to get attacked by the Swifties around here but a lot of her popular music and persona is about how she is the “wronged woman” in many relationships.    So her fanbase takes the lead from that and defends her like they are pit bulls.  

It’s amazing that the fandom of Swift, one of the most popular, rich, and powerful people in pop-culture, relies almost entirely on seeing her as a victim or at least constantly in danger of being victimized. 

It’s worth noting her two most popular shows, Seinfeld and Veep, were written by two TV legends, Larry David and Armando Ianucci. Have any of her movies been helmed by similar talent?

I feel like if anyone deserves the benefit of a doubt on one of these “controversies,” Dave Grohl is the one.

a bit of a stretch. but good clicks

It’s surprising for Grohl to be throwing such obvious shade Swift’s way, first because he’s clearly aware of the consequences of “the wrath of Taylor Swift,” and second because the pair have always been friendly in the past.

Eh, that seems pretty mild and harmless as far as swipes g-oh my god I don’t care about any of this. I’m not above celebrity gossip, I’m here after all, but goddamn, there’s no meat on this bone at all. There’s barely even a bone. 

Oh man this might be too much for me on a Monday, do you have any less important news?