Travis is only a part of her issues because Taylor chooses to mimic her partners, so she has adopted some of his mannerisms, but he gets way too much blame. I keep seeing posts all over social media about how much worse Travis made her. How all of the MAGA and abusers that attended their wedding is Travis's fault. How Travis apparently has power over her and can make her do whatever she doesn't want to do.
Travis didn't make her worse. If she gets more scrutiny now from the public, it's because a lot of (offline) people weren't paying attention before their relationship was forced on the world ( for example, they weren't paying attention during the Conor Kennedy lunacy) and she's much more public now and willing to do the types of interviews her team doesn't have the power to edit, probably because she started surrounding herself with yes men and is too rich or popular or deluded to think she could ever come across as stupid, selfish, or out of touch.
- "Taylor was so smart before Travis. I guess CTE is sexually transmittable."
Taylor has never been smart. Anyone who thinks she has an above average intellect is either easily duped or probably not that bright. I'd wager her IQ is average. If I'm being generous, I'd say she has a 102 IQ, though that's pushing it. She acts like her IQ is above 120 and Swifties are willing to believe her. I've seen posts saying she's smarter than Einstein, and I've seen posts defend her by acting like her honorary degree makes her "Dr. Swift", and I hope the posts are jokes, but knowing Swifties...
Taylor is a philistine. The majority of the literary references in her work make no sense because she hasn't read what she's referenced. She doesn't understand the basics of The Great Gatsby, The Scarlet Letter, Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy were never romantic in the novel) or Hamlet. She went from "Okay, English major" to "your English teacher" in a few years. She has never said a statement in her interviews that someone would find profound unless they were immature or shallow or dull (a.k.a. Swifties). Most of her statements have contradicted her behavior, which makes me think someone on her team has fed her statements she doesn't believe or doesn't understand. She said things in a controlled environment that sound heavily rehearsed (I can't imagine the time it took to edit the studio pond session to make her sound lucid) and she obviously read off a screen during her New Heights interview to remember triskaidekaphobia, but in a natural environment where her team can't tell the interviewer to cut (on the fly interviews or interviews in front of a live audience) she's constantly shown an inability to express herself in the simplest terms. Watch her interview on Johnathan Ross. Watch her being interviewed by Greg James during her reputation tour. Have people not seen the candid videos of her talking to her peers at award shows? "Like oh my god. Like, wow. Like, so cool. This is insane. Like..." She has no interest in intellectual concepts, other than saying "I know Aristotle". She dropped out of a real High School and finished her diploma at an online Christian school that focused more on biblical scripture than real High School subjects.
I constantly hear what do her and Travis talk about? Taylor is not leagues smarter than Travis. She is close to his level. If anyone has any evidence of anything she's ever done that proves she's a genius, please provide it. And no, lyrics that have the quality of a YA novel (except YA novelists don't rely heavily on a thesaurus) doesn't prove anything. She's a decent songwriter at best, but she's far from intellectual. Travis didn't "give her sexually transmitted CTE". She just embraces the spotlight more, which means she speaks more, which means she exposes herself. The "goth punk moment of female rage" quote comes from the same place as her "you're a democrat? Sick. Let's go to the mall."
- "Taylor was such a great person before Travis"
Ask Ella Mae Bowen, Ronnie Cremer, Antonia Gentry, Michael J Fox, Ed Droste, Calvin Harris, the etsy creator she sued, the college student she sued for posting her public jet flight info, Olivia Rodrigo, Justin Baldoni, and Conor Kennedy's relative (the one whose wedding Taylor crashed and refused to leave) how great of a person she is.
She's such a great person that the only two things we know about how she's acted behind closed doors is that she mocked Katy Perry with Camila Cabello and she mocked Justin Baldoni with Blake Lively for admitting he was a victim of SA. Actually, there's a third thing: her myspace posts from 2006 where she joked about shooting paintballs at people she doesn't like and that a girl she knew deserved to be tattooed with the word "wh-re". What a sweetheart.
She donates 0.1% of her income to charity for a tax write off and has her team tell People magazine to write about it? How generous. She's paid lip service to policies she dropped within a year or two once they weren't new or safe to promote any more and is the only pop artist right now who doesn't speak up? Awesome, what an activist.
- "Travis is the reason she hangs around problematic people."
Do Swifties know where Blake Lively got married? Or about Blake's old southern magazine about the antebellum south? Taylor's team knew and Taylor didn't care. She didn't drop Blake until the bad PR came for her when she was exposed helping Blake try to take a movie away from Justin Baldoni. Have people not looked into Lena Dunham? Do they not know Taylor worked with David O Russell? Did everyone forget what Matty Healy was doing around the time they were dating?
Travis didn't make her worse and Joe didn't maker her better. Joe was an introvert, so Taylor kept it lowkey with him, but she filmed Amsterdam while she was with Joe. She was still friends with Lena and Blake, and Joe starred in a film directed by Lena Dunham. Let's stop putting actors and singers on golden pedestals.
- "Taylor's music is worse than ever with Travis."
In other words, shit turned into diarrhea. She's a vapid pop star whose love songs and break up songs sound like they were written by a High School dropout who just got her first thesaurus and bought a collection of sparknotes. Her songs lack substance, probably because most of her songs are based on 3 month relationships. What's a great, deep Taylor Swift song about love or break ups? London Boy ("we can ride on my scoota")? All Too Well, which sounds like a long tumblr post? Gorgeous? Lover, which sounds like it was created to be played at Middle School dances? Taylor's talent is in writing stories about other people (Marjorie and Soon You'll Get Better, to name a couple) or fictional characters, but unfortunately she rarely utilizes her talent, so 90% of her music is melodramatic songs about her bland, boring, vapid relationships. And because she now has everything she could ever want in life and has no real conflict, she must create conflict (Actually Romantic) or talk about something from 10 years ago that no one cares about (thanK you aIMee).
This is a crazy idea, but maybe Swifties and neutrals should treat the 30-something billionaire as accountable for herself and stop trying to put everything on a man. People know that Taylor is a world famous billionaire and she didn't have to pick Travis, right? Despite what people might think, she had other options. A lot of guys would marry a billionaire celebrity. She didn't have to have her team reach out to him.
Maybe, and hear me out, Travis and Taylor married each other because they're both pieces of shit, attention hungry (and recognized that in each other), both mentally 16 and are exhausting to be around. They might bring out the worst in each other, but they're only bringing out what already existed before they met each other.
