[Documentary Experience] Swift - Miss America: Share the courage to be yourself

A lot of people who hate Taylor Swift will attack her by saying that her works are becoming more and more commercialized and ugly. For me, commercialization is not a bad thing. Everyone's Chinese king, Jay Chou, is not too early. Are you going commercial? Commercial works usually cater to the public's preferences. Don't listen to them if they don't meet your own taste. There's nothing to criticize. Music has its own advantages.

In addition to the change in music style, there is another thing that Swift is often criticized for, which is her love life. Everyone says that he always associates with handsome guys, changes boyfriends one by one, and even writes the story of his ex-boyfriend into songs. These behaviors Let her become a slut and a bitch in the public's mouth.

But there is no marriage responsibility, normal relationships and then break up, isn't it something that many normal people do? Because she is a girl, changing many boyfriends represents indiscretion; her previous boyfriends were all handsome, so she scolded her from the Appearance Association. Please, the love-hate entanglements of other stars, cheating and divorce, etc., are much more exciting than Swift's changing her boyfriend! Who doesn't like handsome guys and beauties? Everyone criticized her for getting fat, not because she didn't meet the public's aesthetic standards, but on behalf of the public's appearance association who likes to see slender beauties! It seems that men who like beautiful women have good eyesight, and women who like handsome guys are nympho. This world is too unfair to genders other than heterosexual men.

Also, it's ridiculous enough to write the story of an ex-boyfriend into a song. It's a bitch. Many creators project their personal experience into their works, just because she is a star in the world's attention, so she will Being magnified, just because she is a girl, it seems that she deserves to be called a bitch.

Girls accumulate a lot of love experience when they are young, and they are considered disrespectful. When they reach a certain age without love experience, they will be called old maids. The value of a girl seems to depend only on whether you have had a relationship with a man.

Back to the documentary, even though music is criticized for becoming more and more commercialized, Swift, a superstar who still stands on the world stage, is 30 years old, but she is still the little girl who likes to sing and create music. In the film, you can I saw Swift who was preparing the album, because she hummed a satisfactory lyric and melody, and jumped excitedly like a little girl who just got a gift. She really likes to sing and write songs.

Like many ordinary girls, she has a loving interest, likes to be coquettish with her family, has precious pets, and also has a vulnerable side.

Swift, who has just debuted, is so thin that it fits the morbid aesthetics of the world. She is always asked, "How can I be so thin?" and the answer is "normal diet and exercise!" In fact, the answer is only Half of it is true, it is difficult to achieve such a figure with a normal diet. Only hard diet and exercise are the truth. You can't say too much, because you are a goddess superstar surrounded by thousands of people. You have to create a self-image. The false image that fairies do not eat fat and will naturally lose weight.

Even if she is already very thin, celebrities are always unable to escape the magnifying glass of everyone. Sometimes Swift is photographed fat from a camera angle, and everyone thinks she is too fat, and even suspects that "she who is unruly in the eyes of the public" is unmarried and pregnant. already? She was fed up with everyone's attention, so she decided to hide, but everyone didn't want to let her go, but instead said, "It looks like I'm really pregnant, so I'm hiding to give birth!"

Swift, who found it useless to hide, and Swift who still loves to sing in front of everyone, finally decided to cast aside her worldly vision and be brave to be herself, so she made herself not so thin and sickly, although she was still She was scolded for being fat (in fact, she was still much thinner than many ordinary people), but she learned not to care.

In the past, she was very concerned about other people's opinions and was a singer who longed to be loved, because when she stood alone on a huge stage, she was actually very lonely. After the curtain call, I was alone again.

Now she has learned to love herself more, to be brave to be herself, and not to beg for the approval of the public. She is accustomed to projecting her personal experience into music creation, and she also strives to convey this spirit through music.

She also chose to publicly speak for women's rights and marriage equality, supporting candidates with the same ideas as herself, hoping to influence more people to be as brave as herself.

An artist, especially a female artist, is a female artist who has just debuted and is positioned on the sweet sister line. It is very risky to speak out for politics, and what she wants to advocate is the most hated feminism in the traditional patriarchal society, and she also challenges the majority of Americans. Faith, because many churches cannot accept the concept of marriage equality.

She started by persuading her father that she was very lucky. Her parents did not disagree with her, but her father was worried about her acting career and wanted her to leave politics alone. She still communicated patiently with her father, and communicated later She cried and said that she was so worried that women could not be protected, that gays would be kicked out of restaurants because of their sexuality, etc. In the end, she successfully reached a consensus with her family and expressed her support for candidates with the same ideas on the Internet.

There are also voices scolding her, but because she is willing to stand up and vote, there are more young people, but in the end, the conservatives won.

"This may be my last political voice as a singer, but I know I'll regret it if I don't," Swift said.

Although the candidate she supported at the time lost, she really wanted to comfort the disappointed Swift and told her, "When you gave your acceptance speech to encourage everyone to vote, the girls in the audience were all looking at you with sparkling eyes!" Because the eyes of those female audience members have lived in the rules set by the patriarchy all their lives, and finally saw someone standing on the same front as themselves, fighting side by side, and breaking those rules, that person is Taylor Swift.

Jumping out of the world's aesthetics, breaking the world's definition of gender, and putting aside everyone's attention, she is brave to be herself, and in the process of self-growth, she shares this courage with the world.

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