3. Her Dating History Is Practically Her Discography (And That's Not Ok)
So Taylor Swift is mostly idolized by young preteen/teenage girls, as well as older females and maybe a sliver of men. For the most part, we can agree though that her fan base is predominantly young, impressionable girls, and for the most part we can agree that she's not as toxic of a role model as Britney Spears or any of your Kardashian-esque reality stars. But young, impressionable girls who are looking up her are still presented with a girl who has a habit of dating high profile men, breaking up with them or getting dumped by them, and writing songs slamming them in a rapid succession. Granted, not every one of her songs is about breaking up with someone, but there's a good number of songs like that on her discography, and they happen to be big hits. Her audience is receiving the message that it's ok to start publicly burning your ex after you've parted. Your break-up is public record for not only your relevant social groups, but the whole world in general! Basically, we're telling kids that it's ok to pull a "Scottie Doesn't Know" and create a slam song that'll follow your accursed ex-partner for the rest of their days. Sure, everyone's had that impulse to write a hit piece against someone they used to date. Hell, it's a practical grist mill for material, as Adele, Gotye, and others have made huge hits out of heartbreak. However, the way Taylor Swift does it just seems a little...immature. For instance, "We Are Never Ever Ever Getting Back Together". Just the title alone sounds like something that should be screamed at the top of your lungs, whilst stamping your feet and putting on your best angry face. It's more of a shouty put down than say something as emotional resonant and grown up as Adele's "Rolling In The Deep". Ms. Swift's music, because of it's rather Pop heavy content, sounds like it has, as Hermione Granger would say, "the emotional depth of a teaspoon". It's really hard to consistently convert meaningful emotion into musical form, and I'm sorry to say that it just doesn't seem like Taylor Swift has the maturity to get to that point yet. Either that, or her handlers are selling her way way too short to meet her target audience's expectations. In which case, I urge Ms. Swift to fire her people and start an image re-branding campaign at once. Unless she likes being seen as the schoolyard heart breaker.