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Originally Posted by mynameisjim
Only thing I don't like about her is how fake her persona is. In real life, I've never seen her in anything other than designer clothes and dating the most famous men on Earth, yet her songs are all about being the ugly girl or the girl nobody notices.
I know all artists have a persona, but at least they are somewhat based in reality. For example, the rock stars talking about booze and womanizing usually actually do that, the rappers talking about cars or rims actually live like that, etc. It just seem country music is the most fake with millionaires talking about not being able to afford gas in the pick up truck or whatever. Like I said, I understand all artists are fake, but she seems to be the worst offender in that regard.
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I think most of her songs (at least the ones where she talks about being the ugly girl nobody pays attention to) are from when she was a kid. She says she was awkward in school and didn't have a lot of friends so she was never cool or popular. I don't see why that is so hard to believe. She comes from a pretty well off family and she started trying to be a singer early in her life, but that by no means makes you popular at school. Kids can be jealous and spiteful and will tear you down when you try to do things.
Now she wears nothing but designer clothes and dates famous dudes, but I would guess when she was 13-16 that wasn't the case and a lot of her songs are aimed at that time in her life.
I will agree with you that a lot of country music is very fake. They get someone to write a song, get a good looking person to sing it and sell it to you as sentimentality. Swift, I believe, writes mostly from the heart though. She isn't broke and she is no longer unpopular, but I think there was a time when she was kind of the uncool kid in school and she taps into that in some of her songs.