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Chapter 399 Reputation (Part )

Dislike and even hatred for Taylor Swift is not a temporary curse bestowed upon her by Kanye West.

They are the twin poisonous flowers that have been accompanying Taylor along with love and admiration since his debut.

At first glance, Taylor Swift doesn't seem to have any notable vices or flaws. She doesn't smoke or take drugs, didn't drink until she was 21, and hasn't even written about alcohol. She doesn't sex up, objectify herself, or post revealing photos on social media.

The most exaggerated thing is that by 2016, Taylor had released five albums, nearly singles, and tens of thousands of words, but there was not a single swear word, let alone excessive sexual innuendo. It was so clean that it could be played directly in Disneyland and for toddlers. This is rare in the new age American music scene where shit and fuck are everywhere, clean versions are not necessarily that clean, and people don’t know what to sing about without dirty talk.

A white Puritan from a small town, she is sweet-looking, tall, and impeccable in her conduct. She never makes mistakes in her public statements, has a continuous creative talent, and a keen sense of pop culture. She started with the most down-to-earth country music, gradually added other styles, and finally stepped out of Nashville with the album "1989", and entered the core circle of pop culture with the retro trend of Synth-Pop.

Whether you're the rednecks of the Deep South in the Mississippi River Basin, the intellectuals of the North in New England, the new generation of hippies on the West Coast who want to hollow out the kernels of bagels and fill them with avocado, or the yuppie on the East Coast who hate it so much that they want to eat it raw... No matter where you are, what class you come from in the American social spectrum, as long as you have a pair of ears that can recognize beautiful melodies, you can always find resonance in Taylor Swift.

Even the most discerning critics have to admit that Taylor Swift is the most orthodox embodiment of the American dream, a moral role model that parents can let their children admire and follow, and one of the most flawless celebrities in the 21st century.

And all of these lovely qualities are precisely what makes Taylor Swift so annoying.

No one likes perfection.

Because there is no perfection in this world.

The deeper you immerse yourself in the big dye vat of society, the deeper your understanding of this truth becomes. This is the core reason why Taylor Swift's fan base overlaps with the audiences of Disney and Nickelodeon in the early stages of her career. What young children see through Taylor Swift is an unparalleled fairy tale world - not a fantasy dimension where mice and ducks play the leading roles, but a beautiful future that can really be touched one day.

They firmly believe that as long as they grow up to Taylor's age, they can pack their bags and go to New York to make a living, and this world capital that is as bright and colorful as a kaleidoscope will welcome them with open arms. They can indulge in love and win all the favors in the world, perfect faces, newly rich upstarts, and well-tailored suits. They can tame any bad man and be obedient. If they are tired of playing games, they can find a handsome man who looks like James Dean to settle down and enjoy a timeless and meaningful love. Even if they accidentally meet a scumbag, it doesn't matter, because they will have a strong enough heart. No matter what kind of troubles they encounter, they can forget them by dancing and shaking their heads, and then easily meet another loyal Howard Hughes, and take a plane with him to the African savannah to welcome the next feast of life.

Young fans yearn for such a life because the idol they see on the screen every day lives exactly such a life.

But for the millions of adults who have left school and are busy working for a few coins, all they can feel is a huge and strong sense of tearing and illusion. Because, although Taylor Swift is trying to get closer to mainstream culture and doing her best to make her stories more universal, making them sound like real experiences that will happen to every middle-class girl, she has been lifted up by Hollywood, but what she has built is still an unattainable castle in the air.

Can the middle class live like Taylor Swift? I'm afraid it's hard for ordinary rich girls to boast like this. If the "Tim McGraw" in the "Taylor Swift" era, in which a girl secretly loves a boy from the same school, and the sweet rural love story of two young people in "Our Song" can still make people empathize, then the Cinderella-like "You Belong With Me" in "Fearless" and the "Love Story" that pays tribute to Romeo and Juliet have already had some romantic fantasy meanings.

By the time of Speak Now, the male protagonist who had an affair with Taylor Swift had gone from an unknown small town boy to a world-famous Hollywood star. Red, an album that was almost entirely influenced by Jake Gyllenhaal, made people feel even more alienated - how many girls of Taylor's age could meet a lover like Jake and perform a heartbreaking summer romance?

Taylor is becoming more and more successful. Although she is still faithfully recording her own life, it is no longer something that mature non-diehard fans can guess and understand. Looking at Taylor Swift, whose first-week sales of each album exceed one million and who has won many Grammy Awards, and then looking at herself who is living in panic and doesn't even know how to pay the rent for next month, some people will envy her, while others will turn this envy into hatred.

Why is your life so flawless?

So, these people are denouncing Taylor Swift's hypocrisy behind her perfect mask online. They call her "trash" because she behaves like a naive teenager, whether she is 17 or 27. They claim that she flirts with all kinds of people, gets obsessed with handsome guys, dumps them when she gets tired of them, and then uses them to make her next album. They accuse her music of being unnecessarily aggressive, and whoever provokes her will be written into her songs and posted on Spotify and Apple Music for people to listen to over and over again, bullying again and again. They think this fully speaks to her terrible personality, saying that she can't live without the spotlight, saying that she complains about her life being full of drama, but she creates all kinds of famous scenes for herself to attract media attention all the time.

Persuading good women to go to the water, persuading prostitutes to become good women. This mentality of men is actually a common myth of mankind. If you put down your butcher knife, you can become a Buddha immediately, but if a truly kind Buddha gets angry once, he will be knocked off the altar. People want to see a perfect tower like Taylor Swift, who is almost a god, collapse, and they also hope to see a beautiful jade that can shine in the broken stone like Kanye West.

This dispute in the late summer of 2016 provided an impeccable script for all the audiences keen on creating and destroying gods.

It turns out that Kanye, who seems arrogant and rude, was actually worried that a certain line in his new single would worsen the relationship between him and Taylor, so he took the initiative to call the latter and asked Taylor for permission with a smile in a humble and friendly tone that is almost unheard of by the public.

It turns out that Taylor, who appears to be tolerant and kind, and always plays the role of the victim, is actually so two-faced. She promised Kanye on the phone that she would write whatever he wanted, and she had no problem with it. But after the single was released, she immediately changed her mind and used Kanye as a bombshell in her Grammy acceptance speech, once again attracting the world's attention and sympathy to herself.

It turns out that Kanye is so good and Taylor is so bad.

It turns out that Kanye is the victim, and Taylor...

It is the vicious snake that is hidden deep inside.

So, a carnival party started on Twitter. At the beginning, it was those haters who had hated Taylor for a long time who accurately posted a topic: #KimExposedTaylorParty, Kim Kardashian exposed Taylor Swift's carnival party. These two people are too famous, one is the queen of reality shows, and the other is the queen of pop music. More and more ordinary netizens clicked on the topic, and more and more onlookers participated in the discussion. As mentioned repeatedly above, most people do not have a deep hatred for Taylor, but as long as they are human, they cannot refuse this ups and downs of the plot reversal.

A flood of negative comments came one after another. In addition to the blind obedience, it was indeed because the edited video released by Kim Kardashian was so convincing. In the video, people can clearly hear Taylor thank Kanye for calling her and calling the mention of her name in the lyrics of "Famous" a "compliment."

"If anyone asks me about this, listen, I think it's better for me to say, 'He called me before the song came out... Are you kidding me? We have a great relationship.'"

Taylor's original words in the video were in stark contrast to her righteous and resounding condemnation at the Grammy Awards. For a moment, even her most die-hard supporters lost their voice to refute.

Within days, millions of memes, gifs and tweets using the hashtag made Taylor a laughing stock.

The slut-shaming that started with "changing boyfriends too frequently" finally evolved into a complete denial of Taylor Swift's personality.

The brave man has cleared his stigma, the great devil has removed her disguise, and everyone is a hero.

"Kim is like, 'Go to bed babe, I'll fix it' #KimExposedTaylorParty."

"Katy warned us, Nicki warned us, Demi warned us, Calvin warned us, Kanye warned us, and Kim, showed us the truth."

There was an overwhelming amount of ridicule, insults, and personal attacks, but the most damaging was this tweet:

"Kim held onto this video and waited patiently until #NationalSnakeDay to release it #KimExposedTaylorParty."

This well-written humorous joke by Twitter user @ayethatskrissy quickly caught the attention of Kim Kardashian.

@KimKardashian: Wait, is today really National Snake Day?!?!? They literally have a holiday for EVERYTHING… I mean EVERYTHING!

The 37-word tweet was followed by a square of green snakes spitting red apricots. Twitter, which was already boiling, exploded completely this time. Any hot topic on the Internet needs a memorable core contradiction and a simple and clear slogan. In this witch hunt against Taylor Swift, National Snake Day and Taylor Swift's "actions" formed a perfect echo, and the green snake emoji in the emoji keyboard became the best summary of Taylor Swift's hypocritical behavior.

Within hours, the emoji had completely flooded all of Taylor Swift's social media accounts, especially Instagram.

In this situation, Taylor Swift did not back down, but continued to stick to her statement and refuted Kim Kardashian's slander against her.

"When Kanye West secretly recorded your phone call and Kim posted it online."

This unfinished sentence is followed by a screenshot of a text on a mobile phone memo. It is obvious that this was sent by an angry Taylor Swift herself without informing her public relations team.

"Where is the video of Kanye telling me he was going to call me 'that bitch' in his song? It doesn't exist because that conversation never happened. You can't control someone's emotional reaction to being called 'that bitch' by another person in front of the whole world. I certainly wanted to like the song, and I wanted to believe Kanye when he told me I would like it. I wanted us to have a friendly relationship. He promised to play the song for me, but he didn't. While I wanted to support Kanye on the phone, you can't 'approve' a song you haven't heard. I was never given the full backstory or heard the character assassination part of the song, but was falsely portrayed as a liar. I very much wish to be excluded from this story, and I have not asked to be a part of it since 2009."

Reading this passage now, the grievance, confusion and anger of a young girl who was wrongly accused are vividly expressed on the paper, but to people at that time, these long passages just showed Taylor Swift's usual strong character. Taylor said in the memo that she had never heard the complete song, and had never supported or "approved" Kanye, a claim that was completely contrary to her answer in the video. With public emotions already ignited, Taylor's fierce response would only make everyone think that she was firing at them, further arousing the anger of bystanders who shared the same hatred of the enemy.

So, to Taylor Swift's surprise, no one cared whether Kanye West had played the line "that bitch" to her, and everyone continued to target her, and the intensity of the attack even intensified. Not only ordinary people, but also Hollywood stars joined in. Pharrell Williams liked a video insulting Taylor Swift, and then quietly deleted it. Zendaya liked two tweets, "I'm glad Zendaya never really followed Taylor's blind faith and joined her team as a lackey," and "My girl Zendaya was smart not to get involved with Taylor." Demi Lovato, who has always been at odds with Taylor, clearly liked a tweet "I love Kim Kardashian."

On Kim Kardashian's allies side, Hailey Baldwin posted three clapping emojis, Kendall Jenner quickly followed up and liked the two people's tweets against Taylor, and Kylie Jenner also secretly forwarded several seemingly unrelated tweets, but all of them were related to "seeing reality clearly" to express her position. Khloe Kardashian's tweet wrote: "Kim is a savage! Don't mess with her man, dear #KUWTK".

Chris Brown, a domestic violence expert who has been at the forefront of the fight against women's rights, tweeted: "Oh no...someone said something I didn't like and my pussy hurts. Go back to making music and shut up."

Add to that Katy Perry and Calvin Harris, who had already been in a feud with Taylor Swift, and suddenly, the sky was covered with dark clouds and the whole city was in turmoil, as if the entire entertainment industry was attacking Taylor.

Although many of Taylor's best friends are still speaking out for her, including Selena Gomez, Marsha Hunt, Ruby Rose, Lena Dunham, Ed Sheeran, Chloë Grace Moretz, and of course, Karlie Kloss, all of them have been blacklisted by netizens as "Team Taylor" and were quickly drowned in the fury.

Among them, Selena Gomez, who supported Taylor Swift most clearly and strongly, became the next target of siege. Netizens questioned why she spoke out so frequently for this "powerful" bestie, but remained silent on the murder of another friend, Christina Grimmie, and even further extended it to a series of issues such as "Black Lives Matter", gun control and Latino equality, directly silencing Selena.

Without a doubt, we thought her reign as the queen of the industry was coming to an end.

This comment from Yahoo News has become a consensus among almost everyone inside and outside the circle.

Taylor Swift, who won three awards at the beginning of the year and once again won the title of Album of the Year, was the talk of the town. However, by the time of the Mad City Music Festival, no one cared about her and she dared not show up. Her career had come to an end.

"This is a... witch hunt."

Following Han Yi, Madison Beer, who walked towards Taylor Swift and her group of girlfriends, muttered softly.

"You said it was... directed at Taylor?" Han Yi turned his head, looked at her and asked.

"Yeah, this kind of cyberbullying, no matter how nicely you say it, what difference does it make in the end? I've experienced it before." At this point, McGrady lowered his voice a few notes, "At that time, I said a few words for Taylor on Instagram, and was... taught a lesson by Yuzhen."

"I'm not teaching you a lesson." Zhao Youzhen sighed helplessly, "I'm just worried that those people will transfer their emotions to you."

"I'm not afraid either." Maddie puffed out his neck. "There are many people who scold me, but these few won't make a difference."

"Why don't I remember you posting a message in support of Taylor?" Han Yi was a little surprised.

"Because you hardly look at my account." Madison said faintly.

"Who said that? I read everything you post."

"Really? Now open it and let me see how many posts you liked."

“I just watch, I don’t like.”

Han Yi coughed twice, then calmly changed the conversation - this was the only advantage of having four girls around, that is, there would always be plenty of options when you wanted to change the subject.

"But I was a little surprised. I didn't expect Taylor to show up in Las Vegas so unexpectedly... Didn't she know that all the Kardashian family were there?"

The person receiving this question was naturally Barbara Pavin, the only one among the five who had had some contact with Taylor Swift. She was not her best friend, but she maintained a friendly relationship with her.

"Honestly, I don't know if she knows." Barbara pursed her lips. "We are not that close. I only knew Taylor was coming when I arrived at the scene today. As for why she would..."

"Because I told her that the best way to overcome fear is to face it. The first step to defeating your enemies is to show up in front of them."

Barbara's words were interrupted by another clear voice. Before his eyes could completely move to the face of the uninvited guest, Han Yi recognized the identity of the visitor through the voice.

The supermodel, Karlie Kloss, who had just brought her boyfriend to hook up with him twenty-four hours ago.

"After experiencing the live atmosphere of Mad City yesterday, I called Taylor tonight and told her to come to Las Vegas no matter what."

Karlie Kloss strode towards Han Yi and naturally took the arm of her boyfriend Joshua Kushner. The two looked at each other with a smile in tacit understanding, and then turned their eyes to Han Yi in unison.

"I told her there was something here that she needed... whatever it was, it had to be here and not in her bedroom."

"Yi... and all my new friends, please allow me to introduce to you my best friend, the greatest music creator of our time - Taylor Swift."

(End of this chapter)