Maybe the most apt encapsulation of what’s wrong with the Swift persona.

Taylor Swift can’t be both a queen and an underdog.

Really? We’re going to this again O’Neal? She is not a genius nor will her work matter in 10 years, let alone 50 years. Just stop it with the Millennial navel gazing thinkpieces about a less talented Mandy Moore.

I agree that it starts off kind of neat. It’s something where I want to see where it goes, but then I do, and it’s shit. Is Taylor Swift some infallible angel, or something? Because this whole “me against the world” schtick is getting old.

This video feels a lot like those car commercials where they gather random people and all those people can do is praise the car in unnatural and creepy ways. “When I hear Chevy Pickup, I just think ‘sexy’.”

I see two possibilities here. One is that Taylor’s constant feuding with other celebrities over petty and insignificant things is all a manufactured act — it was conceived by a marketing team to keep her persona in the news. Which is pathetic.

I’m pretty sure that, when I was young, there were mature artists who just pursued a career

She says she underlines it but then in the video does a highlight instead.