First, let’s talk about something nice involving Taylor Swift. It’s not difficult, because regardless of what you think about Swifty’s love life and/or her lyrics, she does give back to her fans consistently and thoroughly. Over the weekend, Taylor stopped by the Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in NYC to visit a young fan with post-transplant lymphoproliferative disease. You can read more about Swifty’s visit here, and there’s video too:
This kind of makes me feel sorry for Swifty. She was trying to do something nice for a young fan with a debilitating illness, and all of the sick girl’s friends and family members wouldn’t stop trying to jack Swifty’s attention. I mean, props to Taylor for treating the girl like a normal kid (the girl is a normal kid, she’s just sick), but the family is annoying, that’s all I’m saying. Oh, and Taylor was only supposed to stay for like a half an hour but she ended up sticking around the hospital for five hours. Which is awesome.
And now for something sort of mean… Radar claims that Swifty’s “advisors” are worried that her “strange personality” is “driving men away.”
Taylor Swift is taking a break from dating at the urging of her business team—because she’s a man repeller!, RadarOnline.com has learned.
“Taylor’s advisers are tired of setting her up on dates only to have her strange personality scare men away,” one source revealed. “Taylor is almost impossible to find dates for because of the nature of her music, which focuses heavily on heartbreak and ex-boyfriends. None of the guys she shows interest in want to be the subject of a mean song six months down the road or be painted the bad guy, so Taylor’s team want her to take a break from boys.”
Good luck with that! Swift’s busy love life has become a national joke, as her ex-boyfriend list includes Twilight hunk Taylor Lautner, Joe Jonas, Harry Styles, Conor Kennedy, John Mayer, and Jake Gyllenhaal. Swift has famously used her bitter breakups as material for her songs, including “I Knew You Were Trouble,” reportedly written about Mayer, and “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together,” which allegedly details her breakup from Gyllenhaal. As Radar has reported, her split from Gyllenhaal was perhaps the worst, as he reportedly took her virginity, then didn’t show up for her 21st birthday party!
Now, those who advise Swift want her to take a break from love affairs altogether!
“They hope she will focus on building some strong female friendships and use that as an inspiration for the next phase of her career,” the source said.
Yeah… she’s hasn’t had a serious boyfriend in more than a year, since the mess with Harry Styles. I’m sure she’s been dating around, but I’m also pretty sure that there hasn’t been anything serious for her in a while. This whole bit about her advisors only now clutching their pearls over Tay-Tay’s love life? It feels dated. She already took a step back, and good for her. Taking some time to be alone is important, especially at her age.
Now, all that being said… yes, she does have sort of a weird personality. She dated a high schooler and she checked him out of his prep school so they could travel around New England, antiquing and having sex in quaint bed & breakfasts. I mean, taking an antiquing tour of New England is fine, but not when you’re checking your high school boyfriend out of prep school to do it.
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I’m not going to say anything bad about Tay-tay because that was really nice of her. I’m sure her fan loved having her there, even if her family was annoying.
I’m a fan, I know that’s not popular on celebitchy, she’s pretty well known for being charitable, I think she topped the list of charitable celebrities in 2012 and 2013. That’s a wonderful thing to be known for.
I can’t say I’m a total fan because I do enjoy reading about her romantic disasters.
But I also listen to her songs when they’re on the radio, I like some of the clothes she wears, and I think she has a much better head of her shoulders than other young pop stars. She seems mostly sweet and harmless. So semi-fan?
I kind of like her. She’s a bit pathetic, but seems to be a good girl. I feel sorry for her that everyone is bashing her for dating around. She should date someone who’s not famous. Also I think she’s got a reuptation problem. Many stars claim to seek advice from her, yet everybody else thinks she’s a dumb little girl who believes in unicorns. I mean she’s friends with Emma Stone! She can’t be that bad.
The more time that passes, the more I like her.
I’m a fan, too, and have never gotten the dislike of HER. I get not liking her music, but she really is a very harmless and apparently very decent young woman. She is also well-known as someone who is very professional and very business savvy,
I love that one of the things she does is help save public libraries in rural areas.
I don’t put much stock in celebrity charitable lists because they’re just based on how much celebrities are known to help raise, which means the list is really about which celebs publicly associated themselves with causes without taking into account private or anonymous philanthropy. Taylor’s had a way throughout her career of making sure people know about her charity efforts, though I don’t think that’s the case here.
Good for Taylor for doing what she can. I’m not a fan because so much of her life and music, by her own choice, is PR-driven. However, that’s not incompatible with Taylor having genuinely giving moments. No matter whether she thought there’d be a PR benefit here, I’m glad she spent time with kids at the cancer center.
The PR benefit to a charity is worth more than the dollars a celebrity donates. It’s exposure that you can’t buy and generates attention and donations. I’ve always thought it was odd to get down on somebody for publicizing what they do, when that’s what benefits the charity the most.
It’s unfortunate her romantic mishaps have come to define her so much, such is life in the spotlight. I’m not as well versed in her other romances but the Kennedy thing was undeniably weird. I think she’s doing the right thing in backing off for a while and road tripping to Big Sur with Karlie Kloss. Hopefully that stuff won’t seem as contrived either once she does more of that. I hope the charity stuff helps her feel fulfilled, too, it is really generous.
One nice thing, I’m really liking her hairstyle these days. 🙂
I’ll be positive, too. She always looks pulled together and cute, though sometimes (the kitten shoes) a little too cutsie for me, but she is young. She gives a lot to charity. Her songs are catchy. She is irritating me much less now that she’s not dating a teenager. I think she means well. That was nice of her to stay five hours.
Lol at the whole She Is Taking a Break from men cause they cant set her up anymore story
but good on the Charity stuff…that is always a plus
I’m going to stay away from the mean, it sounds, I don’t know, a bit ridiculous. Like maybe Radar pulled that story out of its butt.
She did something really nice.
I can’t wait till Taylor gets properly d*ckmatized. Just think of the album that will follow that experience. 🙂
She has dated boys and douchebags. She has yet to date an honest to goodness man. And when that happens. She will have amazing things to say about it.
And I have always like Taylor. She has built a stunning career out of hard work. And keeping her clothes on….
Visiting the hospital for several hours was a nice thing. Wish more celebrities would take time to do things like this. Even if it’s mainly for the PR, it still means a lot to a very sick child.
Exactly…I would love to know I made someone’s LIFE just by showing up and talking to them…
No shade or hate: she works hard, is successful and seems like a nice person. Wish her the very best!
That was really nice of her and props to her to stay even longer.
I am not a fan but I kinda of like her and some of her songs too…. she is not one of those trainwrecks-popstars and that is a bonus nowadays!
What a lovely thing to do. I am sure it’s very humbling to realize how much joy you can bring to someone’s life in such difficult circumstances. I can’t imagine a more difficult life hand being dealt than childhood cancer, for the child and their family. Good luck to all those kids.
I have never been a fan, but she seems like a nice person. At least she has something to offer the world other than the shameless botoxed self promoting the Brothel of Kardashian has to offer us.
I like her with short hair better.
That is a sweet and wonderful thing to do. Not the first I’ve heard of her being very charitable, she seems to be a genuinely compassionate person in that regard.
taking a break from men = stop with PR relationships because is so obvious now.
I personally think the girl’s popularity stems from the rise of social media and her management team’s ability to capitalize from it by engaging her demographic of Tweens,their mothers and grandmothers. Her music is very average and unremarkable. I think her management team saw the backlash of her colorful dating life and her image as being a flakey,immature,stalking serial dater and how it started to eclipse her wholesome all American girl image…..so they want to rein her back.
I really don’t care for her because who really knows her beyond what her management team puts out. She is just a product……a very wealthy product……not real. If she was truly talented like Adele and Pink who really never mask their true identity then I would think otherwise.
Bingo! Dead-on with everything you said in this post, and you were a lot nicer about it than I would’ve been. 🙂
I don’t think she is just a product at ALL. She’s been remarkably self directed from an extremely young age, has written her own songs that expressed her own thoughts, and she’s been quite generous to causes she cares about. She’s had a big impact for good. I visited the Country Music Hall of Fame, and she’s given lots back there too. And this is a VERY young woman, still: can’t wait to see what she’s accomplished by her late 30’s!!
I really, to be quite honest do not like how she continually plays the victim card and I didn’t like her attitude towards my favorite gals Tina Fey and Amy where she inferred they could go to Hell in a vanity fair interview.
I also do not like how she gleefully rips on her ex -boyfriends through song. Her high profile boyfriends are public figures and she seems to have no problem ripping them in the public square while her tween army of millions attempt to destroy the guys career.
If you are a guy and a celebrity it would be a very risky move to date Taylor Swift.
Taylor donates to charity big deal…she is worth hundreds of millions and she writes it off and gets good press for it.
Many people donate time and money to charities and do so with limited means.
She seems very good to her fans and I hope the girl (Shelby?) gets healthy. In more shallow news, I like the long bob she’s rocking! I’m not responding about the “boyfriend” thing bc it’s just sexist and demeaning to act like she’s a freak for being single at the ripe old age of 24 or, you know, that being a single woman in general is a condition equivocal to leprosy in biblical times. (<– I know that sounds like a response, but that's nothing close to the dissertation I could write about Swifty vs. sexist, slut-shaming media…)
Exactly. Concentrating on her bad luck in relationships is so sexist. It either happens and you find the right person or it doesnt – in your own time.
Mmmkay…. so if commenting on her “bad luck” in relationships is sexist, then what pray tell is commenting on one’s bad luck in relationships in a deliberately obvious and vindictive manner to millions of people for the purpose of getting attention and making tens of millions of dollars??? Sexism works both ways you know.
The way in which Taylor Swift is covered is extremely sexist. Take one of her exes, John Mayor. Not only did he write a song about her (which is fine IMHO, because he’s a singer/songwriter – like her – & that’s his medium) but he came out and said NASTY things about his ex, Jessica Simpson. He’s also single (at 36). Now, some media coverage paints him as a little sleazy, but has he been given the “there must be something freakishly wrong, he will die alone!!!!” edit? No. That’s something the media only does to women.
@Alyce John Mayer’s actually not a good comparator… He’s taken a lot of heat for being a giant sleazebag and it has negatively affected his career. When you think about it, he’s genuinely talented (I don’t really like his songs, but he really is a gifted guitar player) but no one gives a hoot about him anymore unless he’s dating someone famous. His popularity took a huge nosedive after that gross Playboy interview and has never really recovered.
@Alyce, this is what I meant. If a woman “can not hold a man” = there’s something wrong with her. If a man in his 30s/40s keeps changing women = the norm.
commenters here or else where have yet to sway me against this girl… team swifty!
This chick is gonna fool around and make me like her or sumpin…
I need a crucifix and a glass of wine. STAT.
seems like a nice girl and very pretty. also with the odd personality, some people who are more introverted don’t have as much social skills as extroverts. i read a lot when i was a kid, books were my friends so i was a little bit of a “nerd.” some people might think i have an odd personality, people should cut her some slack, i think. how about more posts on her, less on kim k? sounds good to me
“Hey, before going in to see my sick daughter, let me stop you here & show you my other daughter first. It’s more important to me that you see my other daughter first. The sick one can wait.”
I think I can see who’s the favorite child here.
I’m cutting the family some slack because I’m sure they’ve been through hell. So what if they felt a little happiness from Taylor’s kindness too?
Swifty cannot win. Some might think it is genuine while others think it is PR. If her career was not so calculated stories like this would not be met with such a polarizing reaction.
I feel like in 5 years she will quietly marry a multi-billionaire and the joke will be on all of us.
In all ‘fairness’, I wonder if there are a bunch of rich dudes that go around taking THEIR high school gf’s (cuz you know they are out there, dudes in Swifty’s age group that date YOUNGER) out on quaint “I will bed you in a bed and breakfast” tours . . . ( it is gross either way – but not a new practice, begun by Tay Tay).