rant · moment 17 of 27
Why We're Obsessed With Taylor Swift's Relatability
from Taylor Swift’s Engagement & The Digital Prison | The Tim Dillon Show #459 · #459
3 min
He continues on why Taylor Swift's relatable, mediocre appeal fits a culture obsessed with celebrity rather than talent, and questions why people live vicariously through her instead of caring about themselves.
- Tim on Taylor Swift's appeal: everything has to be relatable, and that's exactly what she provides.
- A friend insisted men couldn't handle Swift's success until now, then hoped she wouldn't have kids to preserve her music—Tim questions what more people could possibly want from her.
- At our current stage of societal decline, nothing is ever enough, even after a globally celebrated tour.
- People cannot maintain a healthy relationship with celebrities at Swift's level because society is driven by creepy obsession with celebrity itself, not talent.
- What society actually cares about is spectacle—how big it is, how many people attend—not the talent behind it.
- Tim on living vicariously through celebrities: we absorb their accomplishments as ours and their failures as ours, which he never understood.
- The core question: shouldn't people care about themselves a little bit instead of defining themselves through someone else?
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