Taylor Swift Stereotypes

When the opening track from Taylor Swift’s album 1989 blares through my room my whole body electrifies with sound of pure creativity. The album cover is showered with Swift’s recognizable handwriting over a polaroid showing a timeless sweatshirt, most likely from the 80’s. Inside is filled with Swift’s crisp voice singing brilliantly written hooks about everything from love to insecurities to finding yourself in a world that has already defined you.In 1989, Swift somehow found a way to take her creativity to the next level, and since my brain tends to be a creative mess with ideas bubbling through constantly I fell in love with the uniqueness that flows from the speakers when I plug in 1989. As a creative person myself, listening to something

In this work, Taylor is trying to prove how fearless she was at a young age and the extraordinary

Taylor Swift, a pop icon and polarizing figure, is often known for her empowering music, feminist attitude, and meaningful lyrics. Many of her fans praise the feminist messages some of her songs deliver, however others say she comes from a position of privilege and only advocates for white women. Still, a common perception of Swift is that she has evolved from an innocent country singer into a more controversial and sometimes provocative pop singer. What is ignored though, is that despite this perception, themes depicted in “old” Taylor’s music still displayed highly problematic concepts about gender, just in less obvious ways. Particularly in her music video for “You Belong With Me,” the audience if presented with a fulfilling love story involving a nerdy girl getting the popular. On its surface, this concept may seem normal, but the narrative of this video unintentionally conveys significant gender issues in today’s society. Thus, through her 2008 music video for “You Belong With Me,” Taylor Swift ironically presents herself as the ideal nerdy girl next door who gets the guy when she suddenly turns beautiful while demonizing a cheerleader, revealing problematic notions of how women are supposed to look and behave in society, as well as reinforcing negative female stereotypes.

Recently, 24- year old country singer/popstar Taylor Swift released a music video “Shake it Off” which was I sort of introduction to her newest album 1989. The video received some backlash for it was seen by many as offensive, and stereotypical to African American Culture. In the video Swift dresses in what some may consider Hip Hop attire, attempts to “twerk” and even has a section where she partially sings as well as raps. She even uses talks about

Or perhaps the real artist, Taylor Swift’s purpose is to show the audience how ridiculous is the media image that has been created on her. It is a warning for both boys and girls, primarily those who are hoping to attract love from boys that love is perpetuated by its tortuousness. It is painful if boys will lose interest, that is Swift’s warning. The song revolves around a message for girls: do not be a daydream dressed like a daydream; do not be a nightmare dressed like a nightmare; do not find out what kind of a girl he wants and be like that forever, do not be heaven, do not be nice, do not be magic, never be too plain or perfect and good. You can also add torture to love and bring darkness to light, it is all about the

Over the past few years tragic events seem to be surrounding our society. An array of killings, social protests, police brutality and racism have startled the nation. Lately celebrities have been addressing these issues more and more on TV, in interviews and in the public eye. One incredible artist just used her talent to address all of these issues and more in her new music video "Formation". Beyoncé is an iconic figure in our culture, spreading her talent, feminist views and activism worldwide. This video is one of a kind. It is not centered on her but on Black America. There have been many critics disagreeing with Beyoncé 's video. They felt that she spread negative messages of police throughout her video. Others, however, loved her video. They felt she used her platform to reach out and address issues. Supporters and critics of the video have expressed their opinions in many different ways. In this paper I will analyze this video that has been shared worldwide. The question I ask is: "How does Beyoncé depict the complexity of Black Americans?" In order to answer this question, I will apply Pentadic criticism to analyze this discourse.

Thesis statement: Taylor Swift is one of the most successful female artists in the world who portrays her personal experiences through her music.

That woman today doesn’t have a lot of power because we live in a planet where in other countries and religion, men are to be believed to be superior to women. Also for the second point women should claim any type of abuses, even if it is a minor incident, to alert me to step away and not to mess with women, even if these types of defenses mechanics could be called by men as feminism.

In the past five years, social and political injustices against people of color have been a reoccurring story in the news. Presently, it is common to find out that another defenseless black teen has been killed or a black woman is getting a twenty-year sentence for being found in possession of marijuana. In fact, we, as a society, have been desensitized to such news. It, unfortunately, doesn’t faze us, everyday people, anymore, but it should. Especially for innocent, little girls killed in drug raids like Aiyana Stanley-Jones. In 2013, the famous rapper, J. Cole, released a heart-clenching video in dedication of Stanley-Jones for his song “Crooked Smile.” The song “Crooked Smile” promotes female empowerment through encouraging women to accept themselves, moreover J. Cole tells his fans that he is an everyday person just like them which is seen from him keeping his own crooked smile. The music video of “Crooked Smile” narrates a story about a drug raid that leads up to an innocent, little girl’s death. The music video features the story behind the little girl’s death through moving images in this mini film. The song and music video are seemingly different from each other, initially, however they both share a common message of “No one’s perfect.” The music video, “Crooked Smile”, aims to persuade its audience to act against such social injustices like America’s war on drugs. J. Cole organized the “Crooked Smile” music video to, specifically, focus on the similarities of people

“Fast Car” is a song written by Tracy Chapman, who is an American folk, blues-rock, pop and soul singer-songwriter. Produced by David Kershenbuam it was released on April 1st, 1988 in her Tracy Chapman album. Tracy wrote this song because it was about a relationship that didn’t work out because it started from the wrong place. This song is about a girl who has grown up poor and stayed behind with an alcoholic father after her mother left him for drinking. The girl met a man whom she thought can help her get a better life for herself and dreamt of being happy with the man she loved. Now how does this song communicate and teach us about communication? Tracy used music as a medium to sing a message to fans and listeners about not just her personal

disappointing therapy. Other critics use the story as analysis of how women function in a patriarchal society as

In musical superstar Taylor Swift’s music video for her song “Blank Space,” she is portraying herself as the high maintenance and dramatic girlfriend that the media believes she is. The speaker of this text is the media’s perception of Taylor Swift and her message is about the disconnect between who Swift really is and who the media sees her as. I believe Swift has two purposes for this music video. One is for her character in the music video to warn her audience about the type of love that boys want, and the other for real life Taylor herself to poke holes into the media’s concept of her love life. The video is filled with satire and paradoxes to convince us that our idea of Taylor Swift is not an accurate opinion of her.

In J. Cole’s music video “She Knows” he tells a story through a juvenile young man's point of view, who is also the visual motif. The video begins with the young man stealing money from his parents. Starting with his title the viewer becomes curious as if this is the thing “She Knows”; and by default “She” being the young man's mother. The message of J.Cole’s video is predominately captured in two different scenes. The first being when the young man's mother gazes at him as he is being dropped off at school and the second being when the young man gazes at his mom, he walked into his house after school and found his mom with another man. Although both scenes add to the overall meaning of the video, they each does have a meaning of their own.

Award/Grammy-winning singer & songwriter Taylor Swift is a world-famous artist, having roots in the world of country music. Taylor Alison Swift, pop’s top recording artist, was born December 13, 1989 in Reading, Wyoming. Named after country singer James Taylor, due to her parents admiration for country music, her legacy was already set and stone. She was to become a country singer and she realized that at very young age.

For my Taylor Swift assignment, I took very detailed notes on the music video to try and help me get a good idea of exactly what was going on. I then decided to have my main focus on the dark spots on Taylor Swifts career. I decided to focus on these because most of the music video focused in on her past and how it has changed her to be a new person. In the video, there was also reference to taboos which I explained in my writing. I was very confident on this paper and decided not to revise for that reason.