Taylor Swift has come to represent the worst of affluent white female liberals. Surely she is a role model and hero for both them and the media. Most recently, she made a sourpuss expression when a comedian and actor Jo Koy, host of the Golden Globes, made a light-hearted joke about her:
"The big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL? At the Golden Globes, we have fewer camera shots of Taylor Swift."The harmless comment was hardly even a dig at her. It wasn’t exactly laugh out loud funny, but if you’re the subject of the joke, at least make some kind of funny face to show you’re a good sport. Have some social grace, you humorless bore.
It’s become a point of cultural observation that the NFL camera pans Swift’s face from the stands often in games, as she watches her boyfriend.
Quoted in Good Housekeeping from her Time Magazine cover, we can see that for some reason this has been a sensitive issue for Swift:
"There’s a camera, like, a half-mile away, and you don’t know where it is, and you have no idea when the camera is putting you in the broadcast, so I don’t know if I’m being shown 17 times or once," she explained at the time. "I’m just there to support Travis,” she says. “I have no awareness of if I’m being shown too much and pissing off a few dads, Brads, and Chads."One gets the feeling that Swift is triggered by other people being triggered by her.
It’s hardly a personal swipe at the pop-tart. The joke is really more about how famous she is, like her face is everywhere. And yet that makes her angry.
Meanwhile, the media is covering for her. They say that the host’s joke is an invasion of her “personal life.” In this frame, it wasn’t as though Koy merely made a joke, he had crossed some kind of personal boundary which the rest of us weren’t aware existed.
According to the magazine Good Housekeeping, “Social media wasn’t thrilled with how the comedian subtly called out the singer’s personal life on camera.” Yet anytime Swift’s bad character is exposed, I’m happy. Good Housekeeping described it as an “unamused facial expression.” It was more like a bitchy facial expression, frankly. Good Housekeeping later says that Joy “singled out” Swift, which continues with this victimization language.
Yet now Koy has been completely whipped and has issued a kind of contrite statement on this ridiculous matter. From NY Post:
“I think it was when the Taylor [joke] one was just a little flat,” he said when asked if he has any regrets about his hosting duties. “It was a weird joke, I guess.”Jo, bro, why are you apologizing? It wasn’t remotely a “weird joke” seeing as that people have already been discussing Taylor’s presence at the football games. I mean, I don’t care personally, but people are discussing it.
Koy continued:
“But it was more on the NFL . . . I was trying to make fun of the NFL using cutaways and how the Globes didn’t have to do that,” Koy explained. “So it was more of a jab toward the NFL. But it just didn’t come out that way.”That sounds like a hostage video.
As Revolver.news put it, “Maybe we now know why Taylor can’t keep a man—she has no sense of humor. Who wants to be with an overly self-indulgent stick in the mud?”
In my opinion, Swift is overrated. One can understand why she’s popular, but not why she would have a good critical reception, considering that her music is basically irrelevant in terms of artistic expression or innovation. Her ego, inflated by her army of fans and the media, simply makes her insufferable.
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