Honestly I was never that into Taylor Swift UNTIL she started putting the money where her mouth is. I mean, her music has always been catchy or fun but seeing her interact with fans and be so incredibly giving is what made me love her.

OTOH, if Taylor had sent a tweet about it, people would be saying how she was just doing it for publicity. There’s no way to please people who have decided, for whatever reason, that they hate her.

That girl has brass balls, man. She caught lots of shit a couple years ago when she wouldn’t let Clive Davis get away with taking a shot at her in his autobiography. Her music isn’t the kind I tend to listen to, but she has my respect forever for being a great songwriter with an amazing voice who takes zero shit. Even…

That was a nice gesture. Good on you, Taylor.

I personally will not be satisfied until Taylor rips her right arm out of its socket and donates it to Kesha, proving that she is literally “lending her hand” to the cause. Until then, I am ferociously anti-Swift and all of her actions.

How is giving a quarter million dollars “maintaining nuetrality”? I really don’t get it. I think TS made her support and opinions very clear. Actions speak louder than words and all that.

I know it’s deeply uncool to like Taylor Swift here, but this isn’t even the first time she’s donated money directly to folks; she donated 50k to the nephew of a backup dancer who was diagnosed with cancer. She also donated another $50,000 to a fan battling leukemia. Whether you want to cynically brand this as a PR…

“The move, of course, is so quintessentially Taylor Swift. On the one hand she appears to have made the grandest gesture of all her peers—$250,000 rather than 140 characters—and on the other, by not commenting personally, she maintains the neutrality a corporate darling requires.”

I was wondering if anyone would bring up the apparent Patron Saint of this place.

The person running Taylor Swift’s brand is Taylor Swift

Ok, so let me get this straight. Demi is bumping her gums on social media, and Taylor Swift quietly donated a quarter of a million dollars to Kesha. Who’s ‘really doing something’ here, again? “Well, I voiced support on social media!” Whoop dee doo. Talk is cheap. Talk is *free*. How about STFU and get up out of your…

It wouldn’t be Jezebel if news of Taylor Swift doing something good wasn’t negated by shitty commentary by someone else.

Well it’s a good thing this isn’t about Demi.

Hm, Beyoncé the Feminist didn’t donate anything and didn’t say anything about Kesha - yet no one even mentions her. Weird.

For fucks sake.

Demi is being an asshole. Straight up. Whatever the ins and outs of announcing giving the money (though it seems Kesha’s mother was on that), Taylor did something substantive. Support is fantastic and I’ve no doubt Kesha appreciates all that she’s received but hell if a fat bill hanging over your head doesn’t make an…

Demi’s not wrong either though.

You can’t pay lawyers and landlords with Twitter Support.

Said this before, saying it again. The fact that Demi is using Kesha’s sexual assault to shade Taylor Swift and continue a feud in her own self-interest is rediculous and not in the best interest of the victim, as it should be.

....are you kidding me? Donating $250k isn’t good enough without a tweet. Fuck off.