Complex: ‘Taylor has history of Omitting facts to fit Narrative’

[Kimmo 82,189]

Taylor Swift Has a Long History of Omitting Facts to Fit Her Own Narrative

Once again, Taylor Swift is making headlines for a conflict with someone in the music industry who she says has wronged her. But for some Taylor Swift fans, like myself, it is starting to feel a bit like Groundhog Day.

—The first notable example in 2008, Swift made an appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show and painted a picture of the Jonas Brothers star as a ruthless heartbreaker.  “When I find the right person, I'm not going to be able to remember the boy who broke up with me over in 25 seconds when I was 18,” she told Ellen.

Jonas later pointed out, the phone call was only that short because Swift hung up on him while he was trying his best to end things amicably. Ironically, Swift finally made a public apology to Jonas about putting him on blast all those years ago during her latest appearance on Ellen last month. She blamed it on her youth, but unfortunately, it was just the first of many public disputes.

—In 2014, Swift released her single, “Bad Blood,” and fans put together the pieces that it was about fellow pop star Katy Perry. The pair's long-running fallout began because Swift thought Perry was trying to sabotage her Red concerts and stole backing dancers. Perry went on to say this was not the case, and the dancers had originally been on tour with her, but began working with Swift while Perry was focused on making new music. Perry claims that Swift refused to discuss the issue with her. Before long, two of pop’s biggest stars were trading insults through songs and music videos, as Swift flaunted her star-studded 'You Can't Sit With Us' girl squad.

—In 2015, Nicki Minaj tweeted her frustrations about missing out on nominations at the MTV Video Music Awards, which prompted Swift to leap into defensive mode after assuming the tweets had been aimed at her. “@NICKIMINAJ I've done nothing but love & support you. It's unlike you to pit women against each other. Maybe one of the men took your slot,” Swift tweeted in response. She was quickly put in her place by Minaj and fans who made it clear that the tweets were about a bigger issue within the music industry, and they had nothing to do with the singer. Swift apologized, and glossed it all over by inviting Nicki on stage with her, but the incident caused many to wonder what her true motives were during situations like this.

— In 2016, Swift's relationship with Calvin Harris came to a sudden and bitter end. Swift moved on to Tom Hiddleston within weeks, but she couldn't entirely drop the beef she seemed to have with her ex. The pair had secretly worked together on his smash hit, “This Is What You Came For,” and the song had been written by Swift under the pseudonym Nils Sjoberg. They keept their teamwork secret, but Swift changed her mind after Harris did an interview saying he couldn't see himself working with her on music. Swift’s team reportedly leaked the information about the song to tabloids, and she was portrayed as a victim who was disrespected by her man. In response, Harris tweeted, “Hurtful to me at this point that her and her team would go so far out of their way to try and make ME look bad at this stage though... I figure if you're happy in your new relationship you should focus on that instead of trying to tear your ex bf down for something to do.”...“I know you're off tour and you need someone new to try and bury like Katy ETC, but I'm not that guy, sorry. I won't allow it.”

—In 2016, Kanye West felt like he could mention her in the lyrics to his 2016 hit, “Famous.” The song includes the line, “I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex/Why? I made that bitch famous,” West insisted that he received Swift's approval for the lyric, but her camp told People, “Kanye did not call for approval, but to ask Taylor to release his single ‘Famous’ on her Twitter account. She declined and cautioned him about releasing a song with such a strong misogynistic message. Taylor was never made aware of the actual lyric, ‘I made that bitch famous.’” But Kim Kardashian claimed she had a recording of ’Ye and Swift's phone call, and released it. Proving that West and Swift did talk about her name being mention in the song, the video revealed that Taylor even gave him her approval to rap about them having sex one day. The video failed to confirm whether Swift knew he would refer to her as “that bitch,” and she insisted that she never knew the word “bitch” was going to be part of the lyrics. But the question remains: Why didn't she just say West had called, but he hadn't played her the full track? Why lie entirely and claim he never contacted her when she knew he had? Why was she continuing to omit certain details from these disputes to fit her narrative?

Just weeks ago, we saw Swift make peace with Katy Perry at the end of the music video for her new single, “You Need to Calm Down.” In that moment, many of us let ourselves believe that Swift had grown up and become a wise 29-year-old who had outgrown the need to bend the truth and play victim. Unfortunately, it looks like she still has a long way to go.

https://www.complex.com/music/2019/07/taylor-swift-history-omitting-facts-fit-her-narrative

[FlopSlurper 34,336]

well she IS the victim in this situation but anyways

just give them the clicks, the views, the engagements y'all

 

[Guest]

I mean... these are truly some facts about her playing victim a lot of time. But I personally can't judge the drama of today because of her attitude in the past I'm waiting to see how it all unfolds.

[Kimmo 82,189]

6 minutes ago, FlopSlurper said:

well she IS the victim in this situation but anyways

just give them the clicks, the views, the engagements y'all

 

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[JazzGa 14,633]

Omg this article really changes my perspective on the whole thing

Unironically great character assassination, Complex! 

[VoldeLorde2 8,389]

It’s still unfair to Taylor bc she can no longer make Tour DVDs that include her old songs. She’ll have to pay a royalty to use it and that’s IF Scooter allows her to use the footage of said song. Even if she recorded and wrote those songs in their entirety, start to finish, she can’t use the song bc she signed a contract at 15 bc no adult with morals decided to tell her what she was signing up for. It’s like telling Gaga that she can’t use any of the songs she recorded before 2014 bc she was under management with Troy and he owns those song’s masters. No Poker Face, no Bad Romance, nothing. 

And quite frankly, that’s bullsh*t. I’ve been looking into the situation, and the more I find out, the more angry I get. Taylor’s also been hinting at this since the Reputation era bc she knew that this was gonna happen at some point. She made the right call of signing a new contract with a new label that allows her to own HER music bc it is HER music 

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2 minutes ago, VoldeLorde2 said:

It’s still unfair to Taylor bc she can no longer make Tour DVDs that include her old songs. She’ll have to pay a royalty to use it and that’s IF Scooter allows her to use the footage of said song. Even if she recorded and wrote those songs in their entirety, start to finish, she can’t use the song bc she signed a contract at 15 bc no adult with morals decided to tell her what she was signing up for

And quite frankly, that’s bullsh*t. I’ve been looking into the situation, and the more I find out, the more angry I get. Taylor’s also been hinting at this since the Reputation era bc she knew that this was gonna happen at some point. She made the right call of signing a new contract with a new label that allows her to own HER music bc it is HER music 

Well she just pissed him off with all this mess. She made it worse..

[ltlmnstr 2,771]

The only one I disagree with is Calvin Harris. The interview made it seem he wouldn’t work with her because of the type of music she makes. Which, as a DJ and creativity, is defeatist. So I can see why Taylor leaked that she worked on that song for Rihanna.

I don’t see how her love life, which the media just loves to put her in a corner as a jealous b*tch, is relevant with the legal workings of the industry.

What we really need to a leak of emails from the MANY people involved. It’s really Taylor vs like 15 people, all industry people not stan wars.

 

[Sassy McSass 814]

This article seems to be omitting (and manipulating) some facts to fit its own narrative. 

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9 minutes ago, ltlmnstr said:

I don’t see how her love life, which the media just loves to put her in a corner as a jealous b*tch, is relevant with the legal workings of the industry.

Because Taylor has used her celebrity life and romances to fuel her career

[Economy 52,625]

Aha! I knew something sounded weird about that 25 second phone call

[katy666 99]

Don’t drag me...the article’s just documenting some incidents in the past and those things did happen. She used this kind of marketing strategy whenever she’s releasing something. Since she’s releasing next month and the 2 lead singles are not performing as well as expected, it’s not a reach for the author to come to that conclusion...

[S0436 10,215]

The only time I felt sympathy for her was when Kanye West stage bombed her.

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35 minutes ago, ltlmnstr said:

I don’t see how her love life, which the media just loves to put her in a corner as a jealous b*tch, is relevant with the legal workings of the industry

It's to back up the type of person that she is. 

[ltlmnstr 2,771]

25 minutes ago, CustomGiuseppe said:

Because Taylor has used her celebrity life and romances to fuel her career

What woman hasn’t written a song and sang about an ex though?

So are we gonna condemn Taylor for doing what many Hollywood women do?

Elizabeth Taylor, Marylin Monroe, even Madonna splitting from Guy Ritchie was the subject of the song Miles Away.

Are we gonna fault Gaga with Perfect Illusion and You & I?