Pop Quiz: How many fux does Taylor Swift, the Honey Badger of Pop Music and America's Baddest Bitch Alive, give about...
- Indie Music?
- Embarassing Her Ex-Boyfriends in Pop Songs?
- The Ostensible "Meaning" of Indie Music Videos?<
- Growing Old?
- The New York Times and Their Silly Questions?
- Anything?
If you answered "Zero Fux," you are correct. Taylor Swift doesn't care about any of that, as evidenced by an interview running in this week's New York Times Magazine.
For example:
On The Matter of Writing Mean Songs About Her Ex-Boyfriends After Telling Them She Wouldn't:
None
On The Matter of Hipster Tastemaking on the Part of Her Ex-Boyfriend Who May Or May Not Be Jake Gyllenhaal:
None
On The Matter of Whether Or Not That Hipster Boyfriend Was, In Fact, Jake Gyllenhaal:
None
On The Matter of Other People's Music and/or Indie Bands She Actually Likes and Can Name:
None
On The Matter of Explaining Herself, as a Matter of Parodying Indie Music Videos:
None
So, here's your takeaway:
- Taylor Swift is the Praying Mantis of Pop Music. She will date you, and when it ends, she will smash your face into the figurative concrete curb of music with a diss track that will expose to the world what a shitty boyfriend you were to her, but not before telling she that's exactly what she won't do.
- Taylor Swift Can't Name Any Indie Bands. Not because she doesn't listen to them, but because she doesn't have time for that shit. She's too busy minting her own currency.
- Taylor Swift Can, However, Name Indie Music Cliches, and Then Lampoon Them. In other words, she's capable of subliminals.
- Taylor Swift Doesn't Care For The New York Times and Their Questions. So she just won't answer them.
Conclusion? Yes: T-Swizzle is still, as ever—if not more than ever—The Baddest Bitch in America. Class dismissed.
Via: The Many Insecurities of Taylor Swift[NYT Magazine]
PREVIOUSLY: Taylor Swift: The Baddest B*tch In America.
