• @CaptDust
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    Photo of the Swift Asylum, it’s actually horrible! Just 3,600 sqft on 11 acres?? who could live like that!

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        Having been to Kowloon 20 years ago, It sure seemed like every 5.5 acres housed way more than 30k people.

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        326 days ago

        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?

    • @funkless_eck
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      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

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      728 days ago

      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?

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        …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?

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          628 days ago

          Anyone that driven was probably abused mentally to some degree at the very least… I know you think you’re being “funny” because it’s just “pop music”. Like being pop means it isn’t a horrible cut throat industry that regularly chews up and destroys child stars …

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            3528 days ago

            You know what else regularly grinds up and destroys children?

            Poverty.

            Which occurs to far more millions of people than whatever tf this princess went through

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            1428 days ago

            No, she had the fucken cash to sit around and get the fucken recording equipment and instruments for country songs. That shit ain’t cheap, and she started before the home recording revolution. So you know Papa Swift paid for some studio time. Its not abuse at all, its wealth and privilege to pursue what you want.

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              327 days ago

              You’re not wrong on all your points but also jesus christ if you think DIY started after T Swift.

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                327 days ago

                No, but in the 2010s it became much cheaper to record at home than it ever was and we saw countless artists come from that.

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                  226 days ago

                  I had prosumer home recording equipment back around the turn of the century, and it wasn’t anything new.

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                    126 days ago

                    How expensive was it though? Probably more than the cost of a cheap laptop and a USB mic.

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            1327 days ago

            From everything ive heard, it seems her parents were super supportive and understanding, from driving her hours away so she could get lessons/coaching, to moving across the country so she could start her career.

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            627 days ago

            Abused mentally could mean not voted home coming queen. Tempest in a teapot can still be a tempest to someone fixated on the teapot.

      • @zarkanian
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        2428 days ago

        But you don’t become the biggest pop star ever with a completely healthy upbringing, either, right?

        Sure you could. Why not?

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        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

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        227 days ago

        I just don’t think anyone has that kind of drive their whole life without deepseated need of some kind to propel them