Why Hate Taylor Swift?

I recently made a facebook post expressing my love for Taylor Swift as a musical artist and I was surprised at the response I got. People commented that they thought her music is nothing more than a whinny annoying girl who has way too many boyfriends, complaining about her life. And I really don’t get it. Why do so many people hate Taylor Swift?

I mean sure, she does not know how to dress herself in a logical or attractive way. She is NOT country anymore; she can’t even pretend to be country anymore! And she’s dated every mop-headed creep in Hollywood . . . and it seems like they were the ones who broke up with her. Weird. But, hey, she’s a child star who hasn’t completely lost it. She’s not on hard drugs or anything, no major alcohol problems and no major sluttiness. So what’s the big deal? Why hate Taylor and her very honest music lyrics?

In psychology there’s something called projection. It’s when an individual “projects” traits about themselves onto other people. This is why we don’t like other people. If we see a trait we don’t like about ourselves in someone else, we get super annoyed by that person. For example, Sally really hates her laugh, it’s loud and annoying. On the train one day Sally sat next to someone who was laughing loudly and it really bothered Sally more than anyone else on the train because she saw something she disliked about herself in someone else. Likewise, all the people who complain about Taylor Swift complaining in all of her music are the kinds of people who complain constantly.

Those who say “ALL” of Taylor Swift’s music is complaining obviously have never listened to anything by Taylor except the songs from the radio. I don’t mean to sound like a hipster, but they need to come out of the mainstream before they make their judgments. My personal favorites by Taylor don’t have a single hint of complaining (Enchanted, State of Grace, Treacherous, Jump and Fall) so maybe others should actually listen to her album before they play critic.

And, let’s be real. She writes her own music. That’s awesome. Very few musical artists do that. And she writes about what’s important to her and what she’s going through. Let her complain, it’s her therapy. If she can make a ton of money off of it, snaps to her! What she does is rare; there is only one Taylor Swift.

So really, Taylor has done nothing wrong. Anyone who hates her has chosen to hate her, for the sole purpose to hate someone. Before you decide to hate her, take a look at yourself and figure out what you can do to be a better person instead of rant about how obnoxious Taylor is.