Taylor Swift managed to make it all about SWIFTY, didn’t she? Swifty wore this J. Mendel gown on the red carpet, then booked it to be ready to open the Grammys with a (not great) performance of “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together”. First, the fashion. The J. Mendel gown is… fine. It’s okay. I don’t hate it, but it’s pretty pageant-gown-y. She also won a Grammy before the big show even began (for Best Song Written For Visual Media Award), but I think she lost all of the big awards she was nominated for.
Also – her hair. I’m so damn tired of the bangs. And the braid? Ugh.
As for Swifty’s performance… well, was it just me or did it kind of suck? Like, her voice always sounds so weak live. The whole vibe of the performance was “Swifty in Wonderland” because SRSLY. And then she did a mocking British accent for the “talking part” of the song, which I guess was supposed to be directed at Harry Styles. Except… he dumped her? And she spent weeks trying to get back together with him? Hahaha.
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All I see is BANGS!
Also: Mayer really did a number on this poor young woman. I mean, how much of a douche do you have to be to scare a girl’s management team into a pr fake-couples-setting-up fenzi?!
This is all so desperate and exhausting.
Desperate and exhausting is the perfect way to describe everything about her – mentally & physically. Ugh. She just needs to go away for awhile & come back with a totally new schtick.
I never, ever want to hear that song again. So over her and all her drama. She started out so fresh and her songs were fun and catchy but what the hell happened to her…exhausting as the article implies.
The dress is very pretty. But it’s a style you’d expect from her. Agreed about the ugh hair. But second ugh for that performance outfit.
+1 absolutely beautiful gown but the bangs with the fancy updo make it look a bit weird
I admit I find a few of her songs catchy and sing along when they come on the radio, but she CANNOT sing live. It’s embarrassing to watch.
I also really don’t understand why you’d want to craft your whole “image” around being the bitter ex. It just makes her seem pathetic.
I liked her red carpet gown. She’s a terrible performer.
She’s pretty but so annoying. Her vapid songs and voice suck so much… like always.
I heard my second Taylor Swift song last week- “I knew you were trouble”.
Now, there is this singer -Katie Melua, who always sounds like a terminally ill kitten and her music grates on my nerves.
From now on she has a serious contender in Swifty. She sounds like a crow on drugs.
I can’t believe she has ever won so many awards.
I loathe her, I saw footage of her posing with her grammy on the E! After party special and she looked so smug! Ugh! Go away!!!
..yes.. something about her makes me feel a little violent. lol.. I am CONSTANTLY reminding myself that she’s TWENTY THREE!!! 23..not 16. With her damn catchy songs..ugh..
Everything about her is exhausting.
Is Swifty going for an image revamp?
First the bolt-ons, now this performance? Maybe it’s me, but it seemed like a knock-off of an old Britney video, but it could have just been the strange ringleader outfit.
I think she is trying for sexier but it just comes off awkward-to me anyway..
Didn’t she just wear a similar dress? I feel like It’s always the same with her just different colors and embellishments.
And I was thinking she always wears white – beigey white, grayish white, creamy white. It’s always white! Live a little, girl.
I don’t like this dress, and I’m kind of tired of her style. Sigh, just grow up. As for the british accent..so immature..
You’re crazy if you think that was a British accent. Attempt at a deep voice? Yes. Accent? No. With that said, she needs to go back to country because her voice and writing style are not suited for pop.
Agreed, that is not an English accent.
At least the girl actually SINGS when she ‘performs’ live, wobbly notes and all. I like that about her.
She looked like she had the best time dancing and singing along to everyone while she was in the audience. It was cute.
Yes. That is exactly as she and her team planned it. It was carefree Taylor last night.
I saw her making goo goo eyes at the lead singer of The Lumineers. And then I realized that he is over 30 so he will be off limits.
Her performance was crap. I’m so over this chick.
Her “real” performance was over dancing and singing in the audience. Talk about try hard! There were moments were she was “dancing” and singing along to the words and her friend next to her looked as though she wanted to pretend that Swifty wasn’t even there!
I agree. She was so forced in the audience, she was clearly performing for the cameras. Very irritating and not cute.
Her gown would’ve been redundant had not been for the interesting embellishing done with the ribbon. I say she looks good. She is a pretty young woman and it would take lots of mistakes for her to look bad.
Agreed. I think the “Swifty” hate makes people automatically dislike anything about her, but I thought it was a pretty dress, and her hair was pretty. I dont get all the hate for bangs. They work for her face.
I loved the dress- both stand alone and on her. She did wear a white gown recently, but that an entirely different style.
The performance was weak, tho.
There’s just nothing sexy about Taylor, and the dress did nothing for her. I get why boys/men don’t stay around long. She looks, thinks, and acts like a middle school girl, and as long as she continues to sing about her former boyfriends the endless jokes about her are going to continue. I swear her circus outfit and performance last night made me think I was watching her on a Disney Channel special.
It’s sad that she really is just seen as a one-note joke now.
I’m over her, I don’t think I’m alone is this sentiment.
She’s not the best performer but I haven’t seen her go wrong on the red carpet yet. That dress is gorgeous and it looks great on her.
I was a big fan of Taylor’s but the shine really came off her star for me when she started dating 18 year olds. Now she really does seem cloying and try-hard. I thought the Grammys show last night was the best in years and years and years, but I was so irritated with all the camera shots of Taylor “rocking out”. Especially since she was trying to sing along with the same indie bands she’d mocked! It just screamed, look at me, I know the words to every song ever written, like ever!
Makes her eyes tiny and dare I say it reminds me of Leeann R just a tad mostly due to the face expression of total cluelessness….
I think she is drop dead pretty…and could probably have a successful modeling career…as well. She has perfect features..hair to die for..and she’s built for the runway. I like her even though she’s probably a little bit flakey…She is young..hopefully she’ll tone it down a bit as she ages.
+1
I think she’ll end up all right. She’s growing and learning now, unfortunately for the world to see every stumble, but she will eventually wise up.
bangs, bangs, bangs. get rid of them already.
I think without the T strap in the middle, it would have been super gorgeous.
I just can’t this morning, I feel like vomiting after seeing J. Ho. And now Swifty? Ugh. Just ugh.
God, that song is so lame and annoying I thought my ears were going to blow up. You know, I really do think Swifty has some real talent, but this business of writing break-up songs for 15 year olds is really getting old. To quote my man John Lennon “You should always write songs for people your own age” If Swifty doesn’t realize that soon, she will just fade away. I mean, is she going to be 30 years old still writing about going to the high school dance?
of course not. She’ll be writing about getting dumped at the high school dance.
She pimps out her love life to sell records way too much. So immature. Did she really need to pretend to be that British guy? She better not never ever ever complain about a lack of privacy.
Where is Kanye West when you need him?
^^:). Great+1
Who would have thought that one would be actually wishing Kanye would show up?
Ha! Indeed! 🙂
Ugh, she’s sucks so freaking hard. I don’t have time in my life for children, especially childlike women. I just want to see movies and listen to the music of grown & mature lovely women.
I thought her look was meh and boring. I have seen this look on her over and over again. I thought her costume and the opening act was hideous.
LAME. Also, I feel like she has wore this dress over and over before. Is that just me?
I absolutely love this dress.
Exhausting. Same ol’ pale dress, same ol’ terrible hair and bangs, same ol’ smug expression.
She sucks. What is she hiding under those bangs? The sign of the devil?!
I used to like her. I used to defend her. I still like “Back to December.” But COME ON!!! Grow up a little now, Taylor. Her schtick is older than she acts.
Swifty looks like a hostess at Ceasars Palace. She over exposed. Time to re-invent yourself, sweetie.
I do like the dress and it would have looked lovely on a different, perhaps older and less pale, woman. However, TS is always wearing a similarly styled dress to almost every formal function she attends. I suspect she’s going for the “Glorified Goddess” look–if she could just get away with wearing a “Princess Trapped In The Tower” gown everywhere, she’d likely change to that style, but I suspect even she knows people will laugh if she goes there, as, indeed, they did with her Rapunzel photo-shoot.
I think she has a lovely face, but there’s something so…unsexy about her. I think it’s a combination of her bad posture, her immaturity, and her awkward body movement. I just watched the movie “Valentine’s Day” last week, and she’s so amazingly annoying in it. But what I really noticed is how awkward her body moveement is–she’s all spindly arms and legs like a 9yr old girl who just hit her first growth spurt. I noticed it again while she was onstage and while she was ‘dancing’ in the audience. I HATE that she appears to be a Mumford & Sons fan. They were mine first, b*tch.
I wasn’t a fan of hers at first, I thought she was overrated, undeserving and repetitive. But hells, as a girl who’s gone through my share of nasty boys and bad breakups, her songs are relatable and fun. AND in an industry that likes to over-sexualise women in songs, this is a refreshing change.
In her effort to downplay her career based on her relationships, she intentionally does it again with the diss on the Grammy’s. What is the deal with the immature girl? It’s no longer cute, or trendy…she’s just become a joke.
im TIREDDDDDDDDDDDD of herrr!! uuugghh enough
I thought she was sensational. She carried herself well on the red carpet. I have enjoyed watching her mature. Who ever wins her affection will have a singer with class as his wife. I guess everyone thought Ja Lo was the best dressed?
And when did you see her mature?
I can’t hate her because she wrote a song that will be forever trashing John Mayer. Just like “you’re so vain” and “You otta know” we will forever remember who she is referring to.
I actually like the dress, but the bangs are just too much, to the point of distraction.
I remember a long time ago hearing the Tim McGraw song of hers on country radio and I really liked it. She could have grown as a country artist, and as it is, she needs to grow in a new direction, period, be it in pop or country.
I think the hate for Taylor Swift is way out of control, she’s not taking drugs, drunk driving or stealing. As long as she’s not dating underage boys, I don’t see the problem. But she does need take a break, it’s overkill right now.
She looks great in that dress, love the hair too but we embrace a fringe here in the UK.
I agree, I don’t like that back together song but I can’t help but like ‘Red’, fact is the girl can write a good pop song.
Maybe I’m dating myself, but Alanis Morissette did the “jilted ex” thing SO MUCH BETTER. I miss those days. Taylor, take notes.
Exactly! And she only did it ONCE, not every damned song and public performance. And to this day, a lot of people still make fun of her one song putting down an ex–and, frankly, I was a bit appalled when I eventually found out it was about Uncle Joey from that Stamos show. So why is Swift being given a pass on this recurring theme? Is it because she’s doing a phony but ultra-feminine and demure call out rather than a real loud “Fuck you!” to her exes?
I like her, but also seriously need her to go away for a while. It seems to me she’s going cray cray and is already past the “adorably nutty” part.
Again, I like her. Not that there is an actual need to reaffirm this, it’s just a fact that I used to not only enjoy her music, but her interviews and the overall publicity coming from her as well. Now it’s mainly about boys, one after the other, brought to our attention in a very ugly manner.
She needs some real time for herself, without even friends around, but I’m talking crazy- Taylor on her own, no way! And with an upcoming album tour, nothing will be stopping anytime soon.
As for her appearance- I have always liked it, with a few exceptions, but this isn’t one of them. Well, except for the bangs, lol!
1) I love the dress if it didn’t look look like it was help apart by duct tape
I feel like Taylor jumped the shark with that performance. The “british accent” and comment was tacky and lame. I’m sure her fans are eating it up but I found pathetic.
I really wish more people would call her out on her horrible live singing. It would be great if that performance became a jump-the-shark moment in the general media, but it seems that no one is saying anything about how lackluster the singing and dancing was :-|.
I could not make it to the end of the Never-Ever Ever song..T. was talking, posing & projecting a shrilling-off key yodelling sound. Bloody horrible.
T. seems like a genuinely bitter bitch..every age group of men she has cavorted with dump & dispise her.
Ally people criticize her because she can’t sing live to save her soul, her songs are treacly vapid jr. high school stuff, her “romances” are all pr generated, and she’s typical of a time when pr and marketing substitute for real live musical talent; She hit it big way too soon and her development, musically and emotionally is stunted, She’s not gaining new fans because she fundamentally doesn’t have that much talent to strike out in a new direction – what’s she going to do hard rock, rap?
Bonus points for using the word treacly. Describes her ‘music’ to a T. 😀
Kaiser-The Country girls will ALWAYS go for pagent-y ‘glam’ (or Las Vegas showgirl). It seems it’s just their thang 🙂
I like everything except her hair and her face. Her face and hair ruin the dress for me. She’s so rat like.
Honestly, I feel bad for Taylor Swift. Yes she dates a lot of guys but she’s young. Most people date around when they’re in their twenties. I truly think the media blows it out of proportion, what with the houses and “stalking” and everything. It bugs me when people willingly believe all the crap tabloids print. We don’t know what goes on in her relationships.
I actually like her hair and dress, it’s got a Grecian vibe.
I don’t know if you can blame the tabloids when Taylor prints most of her gossip in her own liner notes.
The media focuses on her relationships because she has made her CAREER focus on her relationships. Tacky.
She needs a change. No album for a while, some time out of the limelight, some time without a dude. She also needs a major image change when she comes back – short hair, songs about something other than dudes, grown up styling.
I think Tim Gunn would call that dress ‘overdesigned.’
It’s funny I was in England a couple weeks ago and bought some of their tabloid magazines and all of the articles about swifty and Harry styles say that he is desperately
trying to win her back, pretty much the
opposite of how she is viewed in the American press. I think she is a psycho and believe our version..
Pretty~~~