Connect with us

CELEBRITY

Taylor Swift fearlessly bid farewell to her detractors, they are rising above the attempt to bring them down, with confidence, she leaves the negativity, focusing on the happiness they shares

Published

on

Taylor Swift fearlessly bid farewell to her detractors, they are rising above the attempt to bring them down, with confidence, she leaves the negativity, focusing on the happiness they shares

 

From her teenage crushes to her feuds, Taylor Swift has been using confession, testimony and narrative to shape the public story of her life.

 

Taylor Swift fearlessly bid farewell to her detractors, they are rising above the attempt to bring them down, with confidence, she leaves the negativity, focusing on the happiness they shares

Taylor Swift is renowned for her autobiographical songwriting style. Her lyrics feature her friends, lovers, enemies, frenemies and partners. And her fans love her for the personal stories of heartbreak, joy and revenge she includes in each and every song. She is one of many celebrities telling their stories in their own words – it’s powerful because, at our core, human beings are interested in other human beings.

If we look at the hottest-selling books of 2023, memoirs led the charge with Prince Harry’s Spare selling over 3.2 million copies and two million copies of Britney Spears’ The Woman in Me being sold globally (albeit written with the aid of talented ghostwriters). The concept of a person owning or reclaiming the narrative of their life, from the painful and shameful to the triumphant and joyful, has become a focal point of twenty-first-century culture.

From her early albums documenting teenage crushes to her Reputation-era dish on her feud with Kim-ye, Taylor Swift has been using confession, testimony, and narrative justice to shape the public story of her life. Her songs are known for the use of what life-writing scholars, Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson, call the autobiographical “I” (“It’s me, hi, I’m the problem, it’s me”).

Whether her fans think they know exactly who and what experience she is writing about, or whether certain lyrical images from her songs remain mysterious, Swift is widely understood as a woman who writes from life. The first autobiography in history is widely agreed to be Confessions by Augustine de Hippo, written sometime between 397 and 400 CE.

Polish life writing scholar, Matzgorzata Czerminska,has noted a long tradition of autobiography belonging to the masculine, long after Augustine’s and even It wasn’t until the late 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s that a surge of women’s voices were heard across genres – like poetry, memoir and song.

The confessional poets — Anne Sexton, Adrienne Rich, Elizabeth Bishop and, of course, Sylvia Plath — were an important part of this chorus of interior lives. In recent years, academics have particularly linked Taylor Swift’s work with Plath. With themes of mental health, broken-heartedness and death, there are many similarities in their work.

While scholars teaching Swift Studies courses at NYU, Ghent University and Berklee College have been making this comparison for some years now, some critics disagree that Taylor Swift should be called a poet.

Click to comment

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

NFL11 hours ago

Taylor Swift Sounds Alarm on Importance of Free Speech After ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Live Off Air, Accuses Donald Trump of Pulling Strings Silencing Dissent — “They Came for Colbert, They Came for Kimmel, They Even Came for Elmo”

NFL12 hours ago

Taylor Swift Condemns Donald Trump and Abc, Accuses Him of Silencing Dissent and Free Speech After Network Abruptly Pulls Jimmy Kimmel’s Show Off Air in Wake of His Comments About assassinated Trump’s ally Charlie Kirk ‘Not Democracy BUT Censorship’

NFL12 hours ago

Taylor Swift’s Fans EXPOSE Travis Kelce’s Shady Past: Dark Secrets Threaten to Derail Their Love Story after their viral engagement!

NFL12 hours ago

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce Turn Heads at the Opening Night of 1587 Prime Steakhouse, the New Kansas City Restaurant Co-Owned by Kelce and Patrick Mahomes

NFL12 hours ago

Jason and Travis Kelce’s mom, Donna Kelce, poses with Patrick Mahomes’ wife at the after-party of her private wedding to longtime boyfriend Adam Scott, which was attended by Taylor Swift and other family friends

NFL13 hours ago

Donald Trump Left Stunned and Speechless After Journalist Interrupts His UK Visit Speech with King Charles alongside Melania Trump by Asking About the Epstein File, Leaving the U.S. President Visibly Uncomfortable

NFL17 hours ago

Taylor Swift Encourages Tens of Thousands Flooding Central London Streets in Mass Demonstrations Opposing Donald Trump’s Visit, as Protesters Chant “Not Welcome Here” and “Release Epstein File” amid Call for Unity Against Fascism

NFL18 hours ago

Taylor Swift Encourages Thousands of Protesters Flooding Central London Streets in Fierce Opposition to Donald Trump’s Visit, as Crowds Chant “Not Welcome Here” and Unite Against the Rise of Fascism

NFL22 hours ago

Happy Birthday Patrick Mahomes: Kansas City Chiefs Fans, Teammates, and Celebrities Flood the Superstar Quarterback With Love and Tributes on His Special Day

NFL23 hours ago

Taylor Swift Calls for a Thorough Investigation Into Donald Trump’s ally Charlie Kirk’s Assassination by Tyler Robinson, Questioning the Integrity of Leaked Text Messages by DOJ Pam Bondi as questioned by Candace Owen

NFL2 days ago

Here’s Why Swifties Are Furious at Coachella, Claiming the Festival Has Disrespected Taylor Swift With a Major Snub AGAIN, and Why They’re Now Planning to Cancel the Event Altogether which will be headlined by Sabrina Carpenter and Justin Bieber

NFL2 days ago

Taylor Swift Donates $100,000 to Vigil Honoring Assassinated Donald Trump’s Ally Charlie Kirk Despite Political Divide

Copyright © 2024 USAmidia