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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Taylor should have kept her pretty trap shut.
Taylor not so swift hitched her wagon to the leftist train to wrecksville. Ask the Dixie Chicks who took that same ride down.
What terrific news! I choose to think it’s because more parents are now more aware and more disgusted by what passes for “Teen Entertainment”. And limiting their kids’ TV viewing accordingly.
She ceased being a teenager a decade ago, teen idols usually don’t make it far 9 to their 30s...
Good. On so many levels.
She needs to take her granny panties and go away.
I’d still hit it.
Normally, I’d say “Shut up and sing”, but in this case....
just “Shut up”
I never understood the attraction of these awards shows. Even if I was interested in the topic, I could consume the actual product instead of the awards. You could see a couple of movies instead of the Oscars.
Tailor must be pushing seventy by now.
I remember when the most exciting part of this award show was wondering who would get slimed.
They weren't going to let her into the club any other way.
“She will be a very rich, hot dog down a hallway, numerous cat owner & wine drinker.”
And working in Hollywood.
The “celebrities giving themselves awards” shows are overkill. Who cares?
That makes sense b/c otherwise for the life of me I can’t see why these dinosaur, self-congratulatory shows still exist. I doubt I’ve watched one for 20+ years.
Similar to Madonna, another leftist pop singer who really craved to be a movie star.
The teens - and their parents - chose to not watch.
She writes and sings a lot of songs about ‘getting even’, or vengeance.
She has moved on to doing the politics of “getting even”. Not gonna end well for her.
I never did like her music, and now, I like it even less.
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