Taylor Swift Sweatshops

In 2012, Taylor Swift had released 3 albums; Taylor Swift (2006), Fearless (2008), and Speak Now (2010). Also at the time of Red’s release, she had won 6 Grammy’s including best country song, best country album, and album of the year. Red was also nominated for three Grammy's but didn’t win. As for her public image, she is seen as a sweet and innocent young girl who dates a lot.

Over her 10 years of being in the music industry Taylor Swift has won 271 awards.

Despite her possible experiences before fame, Taylor Swift’s image is arguably the opposite of the nerdy girl she tries to portray herself as in the music video for “You Belong With Me,” leading to gender issues and misconceptions. In the video, nerdy Taylor, who is first ignored by her crush for a popular cheerleader, looks exactly like 2008 country star Taylor Swift, just with glasses. Throwing on a pair of glasses doesn’t make someone ugly, and it certainly doesn’t change the fact that Taylor Swift is a perfect representation of most beauty standards in America. She ever perfectly pulls off also playing the pretty popular girl in the music video, who is supposed to represent everything nerdy Taylor isn’t. Further confirmation that these glasses problematically symbolize beauty standards in today’s society comes at the end of the video, when nerd Taylor shows up at the dance without the glasses and suddenly gets the guy. To

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

Along with Taylor Swift saying this will be a new her, she is also referencing multiple other celebrities throughout the music video. Some say that when she is lying in a bathtub full of diamond jewelry she is making fun of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West when they had been robbed. Kim and Kanye were robbed in Paris while being at gunpoint. She also referenced Katy Perry multiple times. Including, when she crashed her car into a light post and had the exact same hair and an outfit style as Katy Perry would have. Which is Taylor is making fun of Katy saying that she is a drama queen and needs the attention of the paparazzi. She also references Katy by showing her walking a cheetah on a leash and Katy Perry is known for cheetah print and exotic things. Another person Taylor shows reference to be Tom Hiddleston with the black crop top t-shirts saying “I Love Taylor Swift” which is significant because Tom and Taylor dated for about three months, but Taylor broke it off because Tom wanted to go public and Taylor knew what

We have no idea what actually happened between her and Katy Perry. I didn’t realize you had to live and breathe feminist ideology and get along with every woman on earth. She and Nicki Minaj get along fine, Nicki herself has said how much she loves her. Beyonce and Jay Z are her friends. Yes, she’s said some things that sounded entitled. SHE APOLOGIZED. SHE ADMITTED SHE WAS WRONG. Yes, she’s written songs with homophobic (one song, from her first album when she was 16) and slut-shaming lyrics, but she hasn’t released a song like that in over 5 years and has apologized many times for all of it. Yes, she said there’s “special place in hell for women who don’t help other women” because Tina Fey and Amy Poehler made a comment while hosting an award show. Yes, it was a joke. Taylor could have ignored it or responded better to it, but it happened to be during the height of her media scrutiny and she was just fucking tired of people making jokes. How would you feel if every news outlet was making you out to be some psycho serial dater? You’d probably say something you shouldn’t have either. PEOPLE MAKE MISTAKES. SHE’S A HUMAN BEING, and she’s not perfect. Also, PEOPLE CHANGE. People learn. 5 years ago I thought slut shaming was okay. I was racist and homophobic. Now I KNOW BETTER, and I can guarantee Taylor does too, otherwise she wouldn’t have admitted she was wrong. She identifies as a feminist. She supports equality for all people. That’s what feminism is. She’s extremely influential to girls all over the world. There are probably girls out there who are identify as feminists now only because Taylor Swift does. It encouraged them to be as well. She tells her fans that they’re beautiful because all people are beautiful and that they are not defined by someone else’s opinion of them. She has

CDA News has reported both on the open letter from Taylor Swift to Apple and the open leter response to the recording artist by photographer Jason Seldon. In Swift’s letter, she says Apple is being unfair to recording artists by giving subscribers free access for three months and not pay recording artists royalties. Seldon’s letter is becoming a voice for photojournalism in the 21st century, saying what so many photographers have faced during what is best described as a rights war with the music industry.

Everyone knows the worldwide phenomenon known as Taylor Swift. Also just at the age of twenty-six, she has already won more than fifty awards. Most people know her as the girl who wrote "Shake it Off" and "Blank Space", which are both on her newest album, 1989. She has been seen on television because she has preformed at award shows on numerous occasions. Throughout the years, she has grown more popular and is to be considered a great role model.

Swift's lawyer, Baldridge, countered, asking, "What conceivable inspiration would pop star Taylor Swift need, to create a story?"

In Joseph Kahn's music video for Taylor Swift’s Blank Space (2014), the music video embraces the idea that the artist Taylor Swift is exactly as she is negatively stereotyped in the media. Through the use of iconography and hegemony that displays the artist as unstable, the director is able to present Taylor Swift in a negative light with the purpose of presenting a parody of the music icon that is Taylor Swift. Overall the ideology presented in the music video presents the idea that Taylor Swift is self-aware of her self-destructive nature when it comes to relationships or what might be more accurate she is self-aware of the nature of the persona she utilizes to write and sell music. The music video utilizes shots wealth, power, and prestige.

Last Sunday at the VMAs, Taylor Swift debuted the music video for her single, "Wildest Dreams." Less than a week after its release, the video has come under fire for allegedly glamorizing colonialism and being inherently racist.

From personally handing out demos to every record company in sight, to leaving a record deal she didn’t feel would help her, to becoming her own CEO. Even now, she continues to pave her own road, switching genres with her latest album and even pulling her music from places that she doesn’t believe in. Swift shows that believing in yourself and being in charge of your own direction can really pay off. And that inspires me. It inspired me to start scribbling down song lyrics in a purple notebook eight years ago. It inspired me to pick up a guitar two years after that. It inspired me to never give

MA: Did you know that the ex-boyfriend of Taylor Swift, John Mayer, inspired her song ‘I Knew You Were Trouble’? Guess what, Taylor Swift officially has a wiki where you can learn every single dirty detail about her life, except the colour of her underwear (what a shame!) I confess that I am one of those people who spend their time reading Hello! magazine. But deep inside, fellow gossipers, we know that this habit just satisfies our outrageous selfish side that feeds on the misery of others. It is an excuse to bow out from our own problems, the prison and chaos of our state of mind. Well, time to find new interests, because the private lives of celebrities should not be public. Their privacy should be protected.

On Tuesday night, the American singer-songwriter and actress behind the hit song 'Bad Blood' - Taylor Swift and Calvin Harris (the Scottish DJ, singer, record producer and remixer) managed to be in the same town, as the Hollywood couple enjoying their dinner together.

Reportedly, Swift is not phased by Perry’s upcoming diss track. The 25-year-old singer believes the song will help her career in the long run. “She [Taylor Swift] thinks it will help her out because it’ll draw more sales for her own single “Bad Blood,” Hollywood Life reported. Swift is not sweating over “Crocodile Tears” and welcomes the competition. “She’s super relaxed about it, and welcomes the rivalry. Katy doesn’t scare her one bit.”