I Probably Wouldn’t Have Let Her Finish
Welp, Taylor Swift just won a bunch of Grammys (Grammies? Grammy’s?) and did a bad job on a duet with someone I deeply admire, and I’m pissed about it.
Back when the “I’mma let you finish” incident went down, I would always joke that I was on Team Kanye. Which is unreasonable because, true, he was rude. But now I might mean it.
I mean, the first reason is that, in my opinion, Taylor Swift’s music is not very interesting or groundbreaking. But whatever, it’s the Grammys. But like Kanye, I am a downtrodden nerd who just wants the good guys to win*.
The second reason: that Taylor Swift song (not the “I’m a pretty princess” one, the other one) makes me sad every time I hear it. Or see the video, where she wears fake glasses. The fake glasses really sum it up for me… because I wear glasses, for real. And I have wavy hair, instead of straight hair, like the popular one in the video (even though, in an unexpected move, popular girl’s hair is brown!). And I had a rough coming-up sometimes because of my for-real weird dorkness. And it cheeses me off that Taylor Swift is trying to do the Avril Lavigne “I’m on the outside, like you,” thing without really committing to not looking like the homecoming queen who would never talk to you. And when I say “you,” I mean “me.”
So is this another case of me getting defensive when the other girl is prettier than me? Yes. But damn it Taylor Swift, stop trying to play like you’re not prettier than me. Insult to injury. And seriously, I will never forgive you for being so flat on “Rhiannon.”
*I could argue the point of why Kanye, at least in his own head, is a downtrodden nerd instead of The King of Everything (which he kind of also is) or I could just point you here: http://www.maximumfun.org/2009/09/13/kanye-being-kanye and let the super-smart Jesse Thorn do it for me.
Being on Team Tay Tay: 2Klate
Taylor Swift = (1/30 * Stevie Nicks) + (1/30 * Kanye West)
