Posted on 08/13/2019 4:24:40 PM PDT by KC_Lion
To say that a highly-publicized Taylor Swift appearance on Fox’s 2019 Teen Choice Awards failed to save the award show from a ratings catastrophe would be quite the understatement.
After hitting a record low in the ratings last year, the Teen Choice Awards collapsed Sunday night with a 28 percent freefall in total viewers and an incredible 50 percent drop in younger viewers, aged 18-49.
Hoping to boost the night’s ratings, left-wing diva Taylor Swift landed the inaugural Icon Award. But Swift’s cynical move to embrace divisive politics has obviously dented her mass appeal and, by extension, her popularity.
In fact, she did herself no favors Sunday night by politicizing the award she was handed. She took that moment to applaud the obnoxious U.S. Women’s Soccer Team, not only for winning the World Cup but “taking a historic stand in terms of gender equality, gender pay gap.”
Boy, that sounds like a rip-roarin’ good time as the Teen Choice Awards.
Actually, it sounds like what all of these awful award shows have become — homework, a trip to socialist summer camp, a sanctimonious lecture from the wildly out of touch, a partisan and divisive night of television instead of something entertaining, uplifting, and unifying.
How bad did the Teen Choice Awards bomb? From 8-10 p.m. on a Sunday night, only 721,000 total viewers tuned in.
That is a CNN-level bomb.
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I’m not bitter about our break up or anything....
She bores me
Swift is a has been.
And she can shove her politics where the Sun don’t shine.
You would think that whoever is in charge of these awards shows would be in danger of losing their jobs, or that the networks would decide to just drop these shows, but I get the feeling neither of those is going to happen.
Whateves.
she turns dirty thirty in just a couple of months, “teen choice”, who’s she foolin’?
13 years after her debut album. The Beatles didn’t even last a decade.
Her “teen fans” never knew a world where she wasn’t sold to them as a “star”.
She got woke.
Time for her to go broke.
Uh, who thought she could salvage the ratings?
She will be a very rich, hot dog down a hallway, numerous cat owner & wine drinker.
Did Taylor Swift accomplish something other than singing formulaic songs written by others while being not ugly?
That’s going to be quite difficult. I think the skeezer is worth 360 Mil...
About 30 guys got tired of her shit.
too many award shows.
At least 30.
Her stuff must not be that good.
She and I should get married.
Dead fish?
Maybe just too annoying.
I got dibs. Aren’t you already married? I’m single.
I’m sure she’s pining for a 44 year old Blue collar worker...
Propaganda does not operate on the capitalist profit model. The multinational corporations that run these award shows and have media outlets are willing to lose money to get the results they want.
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