For those of us who grew up watching a parade of early-aughts starlets in the tabloids tumbling out of coke-fueled nights at the clubs, all too often without underwear, the relatively straight-laced celebrity of Taylor Swift has always been refreshing. Since her teenage years, her rise to fame has always been characterized more by her undeniable merit than theatrics or notoriety. Since being signed to a major record label at just 14 years old, the now-33-year-old musician has become the highest-earning female artist of all time across 10 original studio albums, four rerecorded studio albums, five extended plays, four live albums, and nearly 20 years of touring, the latest of which is projected to generate more than $5 billion.
Ordinarily, Time magazine chooses world leaders, not musicians, as its Person of the Year, but ordinarily, musicians are not generating the equivalent of the gross domestic product of African and Oceanic nations. Furthermore, as Swift relays, she hasn’t just achieved the same universal fame as an Elon Musk or Donald Trump but also the same inability to be canceled.
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Speaking to Time, Swift reflected on the climax of her decade-plus feud with Kanye West and Kim Kardashian.
“You have a fully manufactured frame job, in an illegally recorded phone call, which Kim Kardashian edited and then put out to say to everyone that I was a liar,” Swift said of a deceptively edited recording West’s then-wife released in 2016. “That took me down psychologically to a place I’ve never been before. I moved to a foreign country. I didn’t leave a rental house for a year. I was afraid to get on phone calls. I pushed away most people in my life because I didn’t trust anyone anymore. I went down really, really hard.”
As I relayed back in 2020, an eventual complete recording revealed what Swift maintained all along: that she was livid when West released a song claiming he made her famous, not that West joked that he “and Taylor might still have sex.” Yet Kardashian and her camp went nuclear, branding Swift a snake and her outrage performative.
Swift’s response to Kardashian’s failed hit job is instructive. Swift did not make herself a victim or throw a public tantrum. Instead, she bunkered down and played the long game. She published Reputation, a de facto reinvention of an album that left a series of Easter eggs telling her side of the story, and when West’s allies purchased 10 albums worth of her masters, she simply rerecorded her discography. Her last “Taylor’s version” sold the equivalent of 3.5 million worldwide during its opening weekend and domestically had the biggest debut in a decade.
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In the meantime, West and Kardashian have divorced, and he was dropped by his labels after a slew of antisemitic diatribes.
What Swift has to say about her approach to the whole conflagration is good advice not just for young girls but young people dealing with jerks everywhere.
“Nothing is permanent, so I’m very careful to be grateful every second that I get to be doing this at this level because I’ve had it taken away from me before,” Swift said. “There is one thing I’ve learned: My response to anything that happens, good or bad, is to keep making things. Keep making art. But I’ve also learned there’s no point in actively trying to quote unquote defeat your enemies. Trash takes itself out every single time.”
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