SAW (2004) wrote:i love taylor swift, and i owe a lot to her considering she's the reason i love music so much nowadays. she' seems like a genuinely caring person, i can vouch for this considering the thing that made me become a fan of her was that she made a video specifically for my after school program at the time. this being said, lord, i cannot stand her modern fandom, and im not a fan if her modern music. her older songs are still bangers, but i cannot witth her new stuff. i know tastes change, but i still consider myself a fan of pretty much every genre, with the exception of like, 80s r&b. but i just cant get into her newer tracks, they dont sound as poppy as the ones shes made before from what i've heard.
ahhh you're verbalised my exact thoughts! her old songs are classics, but...
i think that her newer music is inoffensive and really, not bad, but they've never stood out to me. her songs seem to have the same underlying vibe even across albums from what i have heard, and there's just a weird musical aftertaste that i just can't get behind, as weird of a description as that may seem lol
but the fandom? oh. god.
some members seem to pride themselves on their extreme reputation. it's impressive, just how loyal of a following she's amassed, but it makes me entirely unwilling to consider associating myself with the vocal minority who swarm even the slightest possible criticisms of taylor. and even from what i've observed multiple times through social media, in-fandom fighting and gatekeeping is rampant, and it's just like???? guys????
i mean it makes sense because there's a lot of younger fans but this is a woman in her 30's, she does not need to be protected so valiantly!! and while most taylor fans are nowhere near the toxic minority, i have to admit it does make me slightly cautious about the fandom as a whole