[ SECRET POST #3937 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3937 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

So I don't entirely disagree. But I think it's a little more complicated than that, especially in this case.

First of all, in the case of Taylor Swift, we're talking about someone who absolutely has the power and the ability to have complete and total final say over everything she puts out. I'm pretty sure, even if she's not the director or the only credited songwriter, she has an enormous amount of agency in the creative process. Treating her as an empty vessel for other's creativity is just broadly factually incorrect.

Second, it's true that the songs she releases are not her true self. But I think the same is true for anyone else. Any person creating and releasing music is putting out a representation, and usually something that is to some degree a commercial product if it's being released for money. You can never draw a direct line from any kind of performance to the true being of a person, in Taylor Swift's case or in any other case. These aren't really things that are distinctive to Taylor Swift or pop music. Now, is Taylor Swift's persona more opaque and elaborately constructed than some other people's are? Yeah, absolutely, but it's a mistake to talk about it as though this is something unique to her or to pop music. The basic idea that anyone can have some kind of pure, unvarnished representation of their soul on record is completely and totally wrong.

And the other thing there is that, ultimately, the fact that her persona is opaque and constructed means that you can talk about that persona as a creative product in much the same way that you can talk about the music. The fact that you have a persona that's an artifice around the music doesn't mean that we conclude that those appearances are false, meaningless, insignificant, not worth paying attention to, etc. It is another mode of presenting something to the world, and representing something. Not that it necessarily has to work for you, of course.