Taylor Swift: Infomercial Touts New Single, “You’re So Vain” for Idiots
Taylor Swift is now the cheesiest performer in current pop music, which is a hard distinction considering what’s out there. Her new single is actually called “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together”– the latest chapter in her series of songs about dating a famous actor or singer and then breaking up with him. It’s artless and stupid, a novelty song you’d perform at the end of a drunken bar set.
To make things worse, she’s made a 30 minute professional scripted and lit infomercial to launch the single and its upcoming album, called “Red.” I guess she has zero pretensions about being a serious “artist.” The infomercial is filmed in front a “spontaneously excited” audience of “fans.” who “randomly” have appeared on a set. So, it’s over: giving Taylor Swift Grammy awards at 19 was the worst thing ever.
The funniest part of the infomercial, I think, comes at 18:00 when she points to her head with each index finger to demonstrate the phrase “in my mind.” Someone must have told her where it was, or used to be. Or could be.
She’s ready for the move now into the Martha Stewart world, which will mean billions of dollars. She’s already licensing a few products, but you can tell where management is going to take her. The sad part of course is that it happened so fast. Usually you do the artist thing first, build a reputation and some creds, then clip over into perfume, makeup lines, and home decor. Taylor has just done it very Swiftly. She even has a Kennedy boyfriend, four years younger. The tabloids say Ethel Kennedy saw something in her. What she saw was “money” and a common preference for cynical exploitation. Why else would you pimp out your grandson there months after his mother commits suicide in a public way?
Oh yeah, that song: it’s utter crap. Try to imagine as you watch this video, real female singer songwriters–from Joni Mitchell to Chrissie Hynde to Fiona Apple–describe their songs this way in a commercial. The song is without poetry, imagery, or any real writing. It’s just junk. Doesn’t she have two dozen songs like this? Who cares who she dated? This is “You’re So Vain” for idiots. If only Robert Altman were alive. Taylor Swift would his next movie heroine.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6gFma4H7fA&feature=player_profilepage
Oh yeah, bash the twenty-two year old who has more of a career and more morals than your sorry ass ever will. Yay for looking pathetic!
I think you mean whether. Weather wise, Taylor has a stormy life.
may be true, but it came off as tacky. Sorry. And she’s capable of writing better stuff than more breaking up with stars songs.
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that “fans” are actually her fans that she picked and flew them from around the world all expense paid. and that is actually her parents house in Nashville and after the chat… Taylor invited them all to hangout and have dinner to her condo. just saying.
From what I’ve seen about her, she’s taking herself there (rather than outside management doing so). Too bad… She doesn’t lack in talent, but subtlety and finesse are clearly foreign concepts.
I guess her cheesey infomercial worked, it was just released that this “crappy” song just broke lady gagas record for reaching #1 on itunes less than 50 min. Weather or not you think its a lousy song. It could be #1 on the hot 100. And more than likely another 1 million first week sales record for her album.