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Looks like your stats are a bit out of date, Swift is in first place again: https://www.forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2024/10/08/taylor-swift-becomes-worlds-richest-female-musician-heres-who-is-right-behind-her/
But you bring up a poignant point. Maybe some of it is because of the whole jet thing from some months ago, those discussions were really raging on here and so it’s probably echoing forward.
People have been hating Swift for decades now. They were hating her for writing too many relationship-related songs even before the American left revived.
She's an easy target because her target demographic is teenage girls, and anything / anyone beloved by teenage girls MUST necessarily be gay and worthless.
See also: Justin Bieber, the Backstreet Boys, and the Jonas Brothers.
I highly suspect people joined the left and transferred their hatred from, "Taylor Swift the musician for stupid, hysterical girls, who I hate" to, "Taylor Swift, the billionaire," without once examining the lens through which they first started hating her. And now she gets more "anti-billionaire" hate than Jeff Bezos?
It bothers me.
Misogyny is a tool of capitalism, and to quote Lorde: the tools of the master will never dismantle the master's house. No one is destroying capitalism by weirdly fixating on Taylor Swift and her fans "because she's a billionaire" while criticizing her more than basically all other billionaires.
I look forward to the day I see a leftist meme reminding me "you can't love Bruce Springsteen (1.1b) or Jay-Z (2.5b) and still be a leftist."
Until then, I'm not taking lectures on leftism from people who haven't deconstructed their own feelings of hatred and superiority towards teenage girls.
Edit: I hope I didn't come across as angry at you in particular. You don't seem to be joining in the hypocritical, unnuanced hate.
I made a post about this a while ago! (edit: okay it’s not about this per se but relevant, inspired by Contrapoints’ video about JK Rowling.)
https://lemmy.cafe/post/3014506
I'm glad you got a good upvote:downvote ratio for that post. It's encouraging to know that people are at least willing to listen to a reasonable take on Taylor Swift.
thanks! i actually forgot how successful it was! to be fair, that was back when blahaj zone didn’t federate downvotes so the ratio must be taken with a grain of salt :)