Taylor Swift The Life of a Showgirl
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JoyfulPlatypus
Contributing Reviewer
October 9th 2025


1265 Comments

Album Rating: 1.5 | Sound Off

Not trying to stoke the flames but haven't there been grooming accusations against her for some time? Not in the sense that she's behaving like Dahvie Vanity or some shit, but people like to dig up some old relationship she had where the guy was 17 and she was in her early 20s. I remember hearing something about how she checked him out of HS or something. But this would've been at least 10+ years ago and nothing similar has happened since.

budgie
October 9th 2025


42289 Comments


if someone thinks a 17yo dating a 20yo is grooming they are socially retarded

JoyfulPlatypus
Contributing Reviewer
October 9th 2025


1265 Comments

Album Rating: 1.5 | Sound Off

It's creepy, but I do agree calling her a groomer is hyperbolic.

Cygnatti
October 9th 2025


36392 Comments

Album Rating: 1.0

She’s not a nazi, nor a racist, nor a tradwife - she’s just really lame and full of it. But the groomer thing is kinda real. 17 and 20 is not a big deal but she dated more teenagers years after that.

JoyfulPlatypus
Contributing Reviewer
October 9th 2025


1265 Comments

Album Rating: 1.5 | Sound Off

Kinda gross to remember a time when I was in HS and I saw these older guys dating all the attractive upperclassmen and I was like "wow those guys are cool"



Then I grew up and was like "wtf guys"

budgie
October 9th 2025


42289 Comments


gotta date someone @ ur maturity level right
why all the dudes who wore monster energy drink teeshirts and listened to ICP had to date 14yos

budgie
October 9th 2025


42289 Comments


shit at that point u cant tell who's grooming whom

hobblepot
October 9th 2025


3000 Comments

Album Rating: 1.0

I mean she did have relationships with dudes who were considerably younger than her, one of whom she only dated because he was a Kennedy or some shit. Ignoring that she’s still a billionaire who doesn’t use her platform for good and uses a private jet so I think she should be shot tbh

kodama
October 9th 2025


243 Comments

Album Rating: 1.0 | Sound Off

> Not trying to stoke the flames but haven't there been grooming accusations against her for some time? Not in the sense that she's behaving like Dahvie Vanity or some shit, but people like to dig up some old relationship she had where the guy was 17 and she was in her early 20s. I remember hearing something about how she checked him out of HS or something. But this would've been at least 10+ years ago and nothing similar has happened since.





She's the wrong gender for people to call that problematic.

zaruyache
October 10th 2025


28609 Comments

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i'm a feminist so i'm allowed to shit talk it





saw a post about her kennedy obsession arc, rich people are weird man

jrlikestodance
October 10th 2025


6739 Comments


I will listen to this to scientifically hate on it

kodama
October 10th 2025


243 Comments

Album Rating: 1.0 | Sound Off

> i'm a feminist so i'm allowed to shit talk it



You don't need to have certain ideological prescriptions to criticize the actions of a woman. You don't need to be white to say trump is the piece of shit he is, you can just see it with your own eyes.





JerseyJimmy
October 10th 2025


295 Comments


"Ignoring that she’s still a billionaire who doesn’t use her platform for good and uses a private jet so I think she should be shot tbh"

that's the name of the game

WatchItExplode
October 10th 2025


10700 Comments


I'm going to just jump in here on page 14 to say I haven't listened to this but I do find it fascinating that she she still has enough pull to generate this volume of dialogue, even if it is mostly negative

ScuroFantasma
Emeritus
October 10th 2025


12956 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

someone thinks a 17yo dating a 20yo is grooming they are socially retarded [2]



“I mean she did have relationships with dudes who were considerably younger than her”



…and also dudes that are considerably older than her too, right? Let’s not have selective memory, she dated 33 y/o John Mayer at 19 and 29 y/o Jake Gyllenhaal at 20.



I’m no Taylor fan but reading reviews and comments about this album is an absolute trip, this milquetoast pop album has become a focal point for literally every pet issue you can name and project onto it. Oh she wrote a song about Elizabeth Taylor? Why does Taylor hate Palestine, doesn’t she realise she was a zionist!?!! Oh she wrote the exact same empty platitudes about domestic bliss that have dominated pop charts since the 90s? Uhh, that’s a tradwife right-wing conservative dogwhistle honey. Billionaire Taylor Swift you can’t write sad songs anymore idiot you’re rich and also single-handedly destroying the planet with your private jet.



There’s well-founded criticisms and analyses to be made here and there but c’mon guys can we stop failing the Life of a Showgirl rorschach test and call it for what it is — a safe, commercially accessible, mid-ass album.

budgie
October 10th 2025


42289 Comments


cant believe im defending her but all air traffic accounts for less than 1% of global co2eq and private air is a tiny fraction of even that, we should be bitching about shitty city infrastructure requiring personal vehicles for commuting not some no talent vanilla hack co-owning a chartered jet to sing shitty songs to brainless losers there are bigger fish to fry folks

RogueNine
October 10th 2025


6044 Comments


Private jets are cool.

budgie
October 10th 2025


42289 Comments


ewww john mayer dated a 19yo at 33 why isnt he cancelled

kodama
October 10th 2025


243 Comments

Album Rating: 1.0 | Sound Off

> cant believe im defending her but all air traffic accounts for less than 1% of global co2eq and private air is a tiny fraction of even that, we should be bitching about shitty city infrastructure requiring personal vehicles for commuting not some no talent vanilla hack co-owning a chartered jet to sing shitty songs to brainless losers there are bigger fish to fry folks



She is contributing a massive amount more to the issue than other people out of unnecessary levels of convenience. This action is a naked example of extreme opulence that in a just society would not be allowed.

Futures
Contributing Reviewer
October 10th 2025


17204 Comments


lol



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