[ SECRET POST #6852 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6852 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Comments

[fscom]

06. https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/7983580d6fd7.png

[(Anonymous)]

Elizabeth Taylor is a great song but the focus of the album was on luxury from the start. It's Showgirl. It's meant to be expensive. It's why her friends are draped in Gucci and scandal and she likes it. It's why she namedrops Musso & Franks, the first restaurant to have a Hollywood star of its own. It's an album in love, out loud, with big things, fancy things, and unapologetically so.

It's a great album, a lot of fun, and she doesn't need to tailor her OWN experiences to anyone else's tastes. She's a billionaire. She doesn't have the same experiences a lot of people do. These are her experiences, her experiences in the life of a showgirl.

[(Anonymous)]

Interesting point.

[(Anonymous)]

Sounds insufferably boring.

[(Anonymous)]

I'd rather be filthy rich and insufferably bored than poor and insufferably bored by daily life.

[(Anonymous)]

Even as someone who's a bit ambivalent about the album, I want to heartily second this response.

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[(Anonymous)]

[Billboard with the words, "Oftentimes it doesn't feel / so glamorous to be me / The Life of a Showgirl / Taylor Swift." Added caption by Secret OP: "In Fight Club-esque font?"]

Honestly, it seems like a Choice(tm) PR-wise to lead with this lyric, even if this turns out to be a great song. The context might change things, but it has been released WITHOUT context. In giant sparkling letters in Times Square. 25% of the population there is homeless; optics are not her strong suit.

[tabaqui]

Um.
It sucks that people are homeless. Doesn't stop other people who are NOT homeless from having bad experiences, too.....
Plus, also? It's a song.

[(Anonymous)]

Well you can be annoyed by this OP because other people have it worse than you, for shame.

[(Anonymous)]

Thousands more people have now seen this billboard because of people outraged by it like OP.

They know what they're doing. It's not that they're bad at optics, it's that "good optics: isn't their aim. It's eyeballs and buzz, and you lent them your attention and the attention of everyone here.

It's not good optics, it's good marketing.

[(Anonymous)]

Uh...I don't think the record-buying and concertgoing public she markets her albums to are homeless people in Times Square?

What a weirdly performative outrage secret. Are you mad about the Prada and Emirates ads too, or just at some singer?

[(Anonymous)]

They wouldn't even be mad if it were any other singer doing the same thing with the same lyrics. Taylor Swift haters are just as obsessed with her and insufferable about it as Swifties are.

[(Anonymous)]

All those luxury brand stores better black out their shop windows, lest a homeless person walks by and feels bad.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not really one to step up and be mistaken for a Taylor Swift fan because at best I'm someone who knows of Taylor Swift and I know and like some of her hit singles.
Generally, I have issues with her public persona more than finding her endearing.

So it's really annoying when I too often see people finding the most insignificant things to criticize her. If you're really concerned about homelessness maybe find another way to bring awareness or give support.
Shaking your head that some rich person had advertisements about themselves isn't doing jack shit.

Like, I fucking get it. Taylor Swift is rich and famous, and most people would love to have the access to privileges she has, so it can be really annoying to hear her spin some "poor me" narrative about her life.
But at the same time, it's so disingenuous and just as thoughtless towards actual real homeless people to use them as an excuse to paint Taylor Swift/her marketing team as somehow bad for placing an ad where a lyric of her song gives off "privileged" vibes.

If you hate her, hate her. Just stop using some excuse to try to paint her as somehow a bad person.

[mercurios]

taylor swift? being tone deaf? i simply cannot believe it! /s

that said, this secret is bait because i find it hard to believe ANYONE promoting something in time square is thinking about socioeconomic inequality while doing it. she just needed two lines of lyric that helped her promote an album called 'life of a showgirl', makes sense