![]() Swift, who once asked to be excluded from that narrative, is now telling her side of the story, and not all of it is pretty. It’s the reason she stayed out of politics through most of the decade and the reason she stayed out of the public eye through most of 2017, when her long-running Kardashian-West feud finally blew up in her face. It’s the impetus for her growth as a teen country sensation and for her metamorphosis into a pure pop titan. Her entire career, she explains, has been a quest for public approval. “My entire moral code is a need to be thought of as good,” Swift says early on in Miss Americana, out tomorrow. You come away understanding how pressure like that could convince a gifted, chipper songwriter to go heel. A lurid sequence in Swift’s affecting, occasionally revealing new Netflix documentary Miss Americana lays out several consecutive years of increasingly ghoulish entertainment-show clips to try and trace her pathway from “Innocent” to “I Did Something Bad.” Much of it is jarringly tasteless. Near the end of the decade, some saw the singer as a diva who deserved to be taken down a peg. At the beginning of the last decade, Taylor was America’s sweetheart, a hometown heir to the pop-country estate Shania Twain built. For Swift, the turn began with humor about her signature awards-show facial expression and graduated to taxonomies of the men she dated and snark about her figure. Mary Sue is powerful, but she adheres to an unrealistic standard.įrom Speak Now to Reputation, incremental changes in the public perception of Taylor Swift dovetailed with a growing distaste for wholesomeness in celebrities. Anyone who seems too perfect must be faking it. ![]() Play it too nice, and people look for cracks. Come up too quickly, and you get called a grifter or an “industry plant.” Advocate too hard, and you’re pawned off as a social-justice warrior out to rack up “woke” points. You think you can by striving to do and be good, but people are hard to win over now, and with good reason. ![]() ![]() Miss Americana invites you in, but never all the way in.
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