OH so this is why writing songs in my bedroom as a teenager never turned me into a billionaire 😂

The fake country accent that disappeared overnight still makes me chuckle.

Her dad had the money. Her mom worked in PR. Put those two skills together and it's not surprising she has become what she is now.

The fact that the house she grew up in was in fact a mansion that didn't have to worry about kitchen table bills

Seeing your teenage child as a commodity is so gross

The craziest part is Taylor saying she grew up on a Christmas Tree Farm in Reading, PA… When her parents had 2 separate homes, one a mansion there and the Christmas Tree Farm being a “gift” from her dad’s client because he owed him… The Swifts also owned a New Jersey beach front property house… Poor people don’t own several houses or properties. That house they had in Tennessee when they moved there was a Mansion and she drove a Hummer to school. None of “humble beginnings” makes sense…

It’s amazing how much her mom escapes criticism. Most people always go after her dad, but her mother is more sinister to me give she’s the reason why Taylor developed an ED & is Taylor’s “therapist”. There’s sooooo much enmeshment between the two, yet it goes almost completely overlooked because people focus so much on her dad. People forget Taylor’s mom is also a pro at this networking game too…..

Considering she made her debut album at 16. It is not surprise that her parents are behind her doing all sort of things to increase her odds at success. Just like most of pro athletes parents that invest on their kids young.

you are actually UNDERselling the abercombie photoshoot importance: it may be that Scott's money and that one abercombie photoshoot is the whole reason Taylor Swift has a career at all. Scott Brochetta did not even care to meet Taylor or hear her sing live before he saw that photoshoot. IDK why but that man is OBSESSED with those photos! Even decades later when Taylor had done a lot and had a slew of albums out, Scott kept talking about that photoshoot and that being the moment he knew she was special. It's lowkey creepy bc she was so young in those photos but it's interesting how Scott did not care about her music but recognized the marketing opportunities instead. He saw so much marketing potential in those photos that he quit his job in the industry and started a brand new record company with Taylor's dad's money that had Taylor Swift as its number 1 priority.

I grew up adjacent to the industry. Everyone knew how controlling her dad is.

As soon as I learned of her parent’s careers as she was growing up I realized EVERYTHING we were fed about her was BS. She’s my definition of an “industry plant”

The worst thing anyone can do is let their parents run their lives. It’s inevitable, you’ll wake up too late with huge regrets.

My husband went to high school with her. She was completely engineered. There were less fortunate kids who  were all INSANELY TALENTED but didn’t have the means to make it big. This is Hendersonville High and close to Nashville. She would perform at talent shows next to incredible talent and people would smirk because, let’s face it. She wasn’t THAT GREAT. Then the cameras came in and she got veneers. She hung out with all the cool kids and talked about how she was going to be famous. She lived in a very nice neighborhood in a huge house. She is a product and was literally shoved down our throats. It’s was a well known fact that daddy had money and connections.

Rich people loooooove to cosplay as poors.

I know her team has done a good job of keeping this all squashed down over the years, but I remember this somewhat always being the narrative around her dad and her career beginning.

Taylor swift dad wanted credit the way that Beyonce gives credit to her dad for her career and the way that Michael Jackson and his dad has been synonymous in his career

It's wild to me to think that there is probably a timeline where Taylor was a nickelodeon star turned popstar and Ariana was a country star turned pop star.

A lady pushing forty,singing about juvenile things,hawking forever plastic bracelets at concerts purposefully focusing on screaming hormonal girls parents paying thousands for a sub par industry plant is stunningly alarming.

I was once talking to some friends about how Taylor and Britney stories are so similar, except from how the parents dealt with it, and now I'm 100% sure Taylor's were just smarter

That birth announcement is very creepy, especially in the context of the weird email. It’s incredible that the Swift parents have avoided the “toxic stage parents” label à la Joe Simpson, Lynn Spears, Brooke Shields’ mom, etc.