Asylum Rule

Fitting since she makes music for people that are exactly like that.
People that think they're wild and crazy but are actually the most mild and middle class white people you've ever met.
- If swifties were a pokemon, they'd be normal type.
  
  Ditto has a place in the world
  
  dude sometimes I just wanna be a basic white girl
  
  "If they were a spice, they'd be flour."
- yeah but they're into being spanked so clearly they're FUCKED UP and if anyone knew their terrible secret they'd be horrified

Photo of the Swift Asylum, it's actually horrible! Just 3,600 sqft on 11 acres?? who could live like that!
- Okay completely irrelevant but I feel like infodumping and it's crazy how THIRTY TOUSDAND PEOPLE lived in a city just over HALF of her property size. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kowloon_Walled_City
  
  Having been to Kowloon 20 years ago, It sure seemed like every 5.5 acres housed way more than 30k people.
  
  Just to be clear, the photo above is of her childhood home in Wyomissing, PA, and the property is definitely much smaller than Kowloon Walled City. I'm guessing you're talking about a different property?
- yeah but if you live there your parents leave you alone at Christmas and two guys attempt to break in and kill you so you have to improvise booby traps
- No argument that she's from the wealth & privilege class
  But you don't become the biggest pop star ever with a completely healthy upbringing, either, right?
  
  ...why not? Pop isn't exactly a reaction like metal, punk or hyperpop, it's just... The default genre of music she could have made?
  What unhealthy part of any upbringing would compel someone to make pop?
  
  But you don't become the biggest pop star ever with a completely healthy upbringing, either, right?
  Sure you could. Why not?
  
  But you don't become the biggest pop star ever with a completely healthy upbringing, either, right?
  Paul McCartney had, by all accounts, an idyllic childhood
  
  Keep it down, you might interrupt the circle jerk. Don't worry, they will tire soon.
  
  I just don't think anyone has that kind of drive their whole life without deepseated need of some kind to propel them
- not only that, but a SUMMER HOME too?? the audacity, how can one live in only TWO houses?!

guys guys GUYS this song has lyrics in it that aren’t literally true omg
- Wait, are you saying that Billy Joel doesn’t actually live in Allentown??
  
  Maybe he did start the fire!
  
  johnny cash is a fucking liar he never shot anyone in reno
  
  That song was initially "Levittown," but he changed it to make the message appear to a wider audience. And Billy Joel sings about growing up on Long Island all the time! You can still meet him at his Scenes Italian Restaurant if you know the right neighborhood.
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- Isn't autobiographical songs and leaving breadcrumbs in lyrics and music videos Taylor's whole schtick?

Have you met rich people? These two locations definitely housed the mentally unwell.
- There was also no wifi.
  
  And you have to put up with Wes Anderson constantly filming the bougie melodrama
  
  She probably had to wash a few dishes at the summer home. Could you imagine?
  The horror…the horror…
- Most rich people are also sociopaths that show little to no empathy for their offspring.

ITT: people who would have thrown away rap albums when they found out the rapper never actually dealt drugs defending a billionaire from a little joke she’ll never see.
- I throw away rap albums from the ones that actually are murderers, come at me
  
  rap quality scales directly with how hard the lyrics diss violence
  gangsters paradise is genuinely one of the best works of art ever made
  
  Like Travis Scott and those people he helped kill though crowd crush?

She sang fondly about that Christmas tree farm, so I guess this new song is just to shit talk about New Jersey.
- Understandable
- Aren't her albums made up stories now, like theme albums? Like she did with Folklore?

So many celebrities and famous people grew up very well off, despite their relatable personas. If I ever get famous, I'll be upfront about not being average or typical. I'm not normal. Not better or worse, just not like most people.
- That's how to get famous
  
  I've met some famous people, and I wouldn't say that's entirely the case. I met some before they got famous, and they were genuinely skilled. However, they were so good thanks to their parents fostering their passion and paying for what they needed to improve. A minority of famous people actually grew up poor, but still made it. However, even they benefitted from forces outside their control like living near an artistic community or learning helpful ideas from some random person in their life.
  Wealth doesn't hand people success, but it does give them opportunities. They become good at something because they had everything they needed to succeed, while most people don't. I've met rich kids who didn't succeed despite the wealth, although not succeeding as a rich kid is far more forgiving than not succeeding if you're poor.
  Few people don't work hard for success, but most people work hard and aren't successful. Being born rich is luck, but so is having physical or mental traits that help you in what you do. Some people grow tall enough to play professional basketball, but most don't. That's not because they deserve it, but because they got lucky. That doesn't take away from basketball players hard work, but they were only able to succeed because chance allowed them to.
- Jessica?
  
  no, obviously not
- You know, I'm not like most girls.
  
  You can fix me?
  
  You were born in the West and not the North, South, East, or Center?
- I'm just like you, only much, much better.
  
  What's "better" is relative to the goal and environment. In respect to being a functional adult, I'm definitely different _{I'm worse}
- "You're all different."
  "I'm not!

I mean, asylums aren't known to be horrible because of the quality of the architecture, but how people treat other people in there.
- I mean her parents would drive to NY for singing and acting lessons, the family relocated to Nashville to enable her carrer, paid for private school, beautiful homes... by all accounts her family provided a strong foundation for her to launch.
  She's been supported throughout her life, calling the way she was raised an "asylum" is kind of insulting to people that grew up wondering if there would be food on the table or if Dad was coming home angry again. Not to minimize her struggles but I'm willing to bet most people could actually last an hour
  
  When people write songs are the lyrics always supposed to be literally true? There's some interesting stuff happening out there if so...
  
  I mean that sounds like it could be a story about super supportive parents, or it sounds like it could be a story about super psycho pageant mom type parents.
  Even if it's the former and they were genuinely supporting her dream and not their own, it still doesn't mean it wasnt manic or stressful or crazy.
  Or it could just be a made up fictional lyric, or one meant to reference her own internal psychological struggles with the asylum she's trapped in being her own mind.
  This meme quite frankly just seems like people who don't understand music trying and failing to clown on the popular girl.
  
  You may want to look more into it.
  Her father was one of the principals on the closing of DreamWorks Nashville. Big Machine records is what DreamWorks Nashville was rebranded as once severed from the rest of the corporate structure.
  He essentially took the commission he got from selling Toby Keith's catalog and then reinvested it into Big Machine before it was open to other investors.
  He essentially spent $2m to buy his daughter's career.
  
  If you just compare your life to some of the worst off then yeah, no one ever gets to complain about anything.
  This whole outrage is misunderstanding the fact that people can have problems, especially perceive themselves as having problems, that are on their own scale and not comparable to the world at large. Also her songs are written to be relatable to some extent and not just 100% autobiographical so more people can envision their own problems and circumstances. But that's like, 99% of music so it feels weird to say it.
- She treats people horribly.
  
  A lot of people treat others horribly.
  Maybe we're all just shit.

Have been to New Jersey, lyrics check out.

Can some ELI5 Taylor Swift drama? I haven't listener to her since middle school, and my sister's keep trying to tell me what's up but I have no context.
- The conservatives don't like her because she's popular and she is pro LGBTQ+
  
  And she tells her fans to go vote. Republicans really don't like high voter turnout.
  
  That, and many liberals don't like her bc she is extremely fucking rich, and grew up as such.
  
  Thanks!

i think im starting to understand why some people don't really like this album.
though to be fair, i don't listen to music to read a story. So.
- You're missing out if you've never heard Alice's Restaurant Massacree by Arlo Guthrie.
  
  i would post something culturally relevant here, but your root instance is funny to me, so that will suffice instead :)
- I don't even "hear" lyrics in songs! Is it typical for albums to have songs that tell an overall story?
  
  Yeah. There are Rock operas which are albums that tell a unified story, but not one which is meant to be acted out like an actual opera.
  The ~~Doors~~ Who album Tommy was one of the first to be billed as such. As well as most of what The Protomen and The Mechanisms have put out.
  
  re: dark side of the moon
  
  a lot of times albums will have a flow from song to song. Sometimes they just have a collection of different songs, usually a thematic album will have an overall feel to it.
  
  It happens often, yes. But I wouldn't say it's "typical". Depends on what the artist wants to convey.
  
  Idk if common. It does happen tho.

Same kind of asylum refugees be seeking1

Jenny from the Block moment.

As House of 1000 Corpses, by Rob Zombie, starts playing.