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\"\"<\/a>God, what will it take to make Taylor Swift<\/strong><\/a> stop bitching about guys who broke up with her? Why is it such a crime??<\/p>\n

Can anyone think of another female vocalist who complained so much about being dumped?<\/p>\n

If you happened to see her perform on Saturday Night Live<\/em> over the weekend, you are probably wondering how you can get those ten minutes back. A tedious new version of some song that her fans loved back in the day when it was only 5 minutes long, it was the stupidest thing ever. My husband and I both laughed and groaned throughout, wondering why there was a video of a couple mooning around in the background. Didn’t she think she could hold our attention with her big chunky white veneers and hair-flipping?<\/p>\n

Anyway, if you didn’t see it, the new song is about her break-up with Jake Gyllenhaal, when she was 21 and he was 30. Apparently, the 9 year age difference is one of his felonies, like keeping her scarf. 21 and 30 sounds pretty normal to me. Do couples have to be within a couple of years in age these days? Is anything else exploitation or a power imbalance? Poor Jake really takes a beating, because he dared to get tired of her. But victimhood is her brand. First it was Jon Mayer, boo hoo, then a million other bad, mean boyfriends.<\/p>\n

I admit that I don’t know why she’s a star. She seems like such an awful person, obsessed with making money and shifting genres to suit the times. I also admit to a visceral dislike of her physical self. She looks like a rodent and her hunchback<\/a> or scoliosis is disturbing.<\/p>\n

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I further admit that she’s been annoying me for years and years. Here’s something<\/a> I don’t even remember writing!<\/p>\n

But it’s so nuts to read a fawning appreciating of her in the New York Times<\/a><\/strong>, which I thought was a refuge for normal adults.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll Too Well\u201d parallels the emotional work that many women have been privately undertaking in the wake of the #MeToo movement: Looking back on past encounters or relationships that left them with a seemingly outsize feeling of unease; wondering what exactly constitutes exploitation or emotional abuse; wishing they could go back and extend some compassion or wisdom to their vulnerable younger selves.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Haha, whatever. If this break-up song is a masterpiece, what is Back to Black<\/strong>?? To paraphrase Etta James<\/a><\/strong>, I’d rather go blind than see Taylor Swift perform again.<\/p>\n

I wish I had something incisive to say about her as an “artist” or phenomenon, but I’ve always been at a loss, urging millennial friends to explain her appeal. But they always hate her too, because none of my friends are idiots, I guess.<\/p>\n

What if all her mean boyfriends got together and wrote a song about dating her?? Why can’t we have that? All the guys would get cancelled for their toxic masculinity, sure, but why can’t they sacrifice themselves for the greater good?<\/p>\n

If you can explain Taylor’s success, please, I would love to know! Mean while, enjoy Amy and Etta, who know how to take a romantic punch.<\/p>\n