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Hannah Verdier reaction as Taylor Swift’s tunes aren’t empowering, they’re whiny & drab – I’m sick of this ‘writing about your ex’ drivel and more…Travis spoke up in defense.
Writer and mum Hannah Verdier says Taylor won’t be around forever, if Swifties would only give their heads a shake…
SHE’S named her latest album The Tortured Poets Department but Taylor Swift has created this insufferable Tortured Parents Society – and I’m one who refuses to add a single digit to the one billion times her latest album was streamed on Spotify in just a week.
The reason? Folk like me are getting sick and tired of all this well-trodden ‘writing-about-your-ex’ trope. Her songs sound exactly the same and she isn’t a role model for the young girls who follow every step of her bejewelled knee-high boots.
The A-Lister is known for using her love life as inspiration for her musicCredit: Getty
Recent barbed comments about the US megastar are, without a single doubt, music to my Tay-tortured ears and I have never been more hopeful that the tide is turning.
When Pet Shop Boys front man Neil Tennant, a bloke with 40 years of bangers in his back pocket, had the gall to describe her music as “disappointing”, it felt like an awakening.
Finally, real truths have been spoken by a man with true talent but, of course, and predictably, the Swifties piled on.
The backlash on social media includes comments such as: “another ‘who’ speaking on the GOAT” , along with a reminder of Blank Space, Shake It off, Love Story…
Meanwhile, Denise Welch of Loose Women fame took a veiled swipe at Taylor, remarking: “I wasn’t aware she had an album out at all,” as she laughed through gritted teeth. “I wish her all the best.”