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 Swift looked into the mirror and realized she is old.
She wonder who all those teenage kids were then she got drunk.
Once I thought she was the prettiest girl on the planet. Now, she's barely a blip on the "hot" radar.
Swift is an attractive woman who had the best makeup artists and clothing designers. When completely dolled up, she has an ethereal beauty. She's got a decent voice, and some of the best studio musicians and production people. She did pop type country, with the scorned teenage girl angle, kind of like the Beach Boys built a teen surfer angle.
As the Beach Boys reached a point where it was a little creepy for guys in their thirties+ singing about teenage girls at the beach, Swift was reaching the age where she couldn't play a wronged teenage girl, anymore.
She wants to transition into movies. Her new "woke" persona is an attempt to get the power moguls in Hollywood to start offering her roles. Like the rest of her career, it's calculated, but it's a bad calculation.
At her best, though, she was a heartbreaker;
Not going to diss her, but like most celebrities, she's primarily image. I've no idea who the real Taylor Swift is, but I suspect she's a reasonably attractive woman who cleans up super nice, high maintenance, and pretty self-absorbed.
Some attempts at reinvention are a home run. Taylor’s whiffed.
To me, she's a 'never was'.
Still a fan, still listening, just waiting til she returns to her senses... waiting....
think Kid Rock pretty much nailed it last week when he said Taylor Swift became a Democrat because she wants to get into movies.
They weren’t going to let her into the club any other way.
For your sake, hopefully to different people. I do not think that she is going to sweetly grow old.
I was thinking like, you know, for a weekend.
yes... waiting....
I’m not surprised they run dreck. With the increased reruns of shows, as NBC does with America’s Got Talent and many game shows that ran just days before, the networks demonstrate they have run out of gas. Now they grasp at straws.
If you tape the 2 hours of AGT and fast forward to only the good performances in about 15 minutes, it’s not a bad show.
Ain’t that the truth? If you skip the poor me stuff and the wildly unentertaining acts, the show is good for twenty minutes at most. The same goes for American Ninja Warrior.
love my fast forward.
I’ve taken to recording CFL football games in full, then watching at the first increment of FF. It gives sufficient continuity without skipping too much, knocks out the annoying commentating, and cuts maybe an hour off the viewing time.
I always watched all sports and all day on super bowl sunday.
In my sinning days between marriages, was invited to LA by a super lady and her hairdresser friend, another super woman. Oops it wa super bowl sunday. They didn’t give a rat’s a$$ about the NFL, kind of like me now.
Anywhoo we have the time of mu life in Westwood at her moms who was a high up with Boxer in her campaign. But the women made me feel like a real man all weekend.
We went to Phantom and all the things that get women excited. I have some one in lifetime experiences. Worth kissing the game live.
Drove back on sunday during game time. Had it on VHS Denver blown out by the 9ers. 29 minutes including a commercial twice. I learned there is more to live than catching everything on TV live when life is going on around you. Still tape baseball playoffs and fast forward till someone gets on base.
I went to dinner with some friends, one of whom was taping a Cowboys game at home while at the dinner. He was doing just fine until overhearing someone at the bar tell the ending score. We had one unhappy camper on our hands. LOL
yes one year I had the radio on first story on the news, ball score of something I was taping.
They should have gotten Steve Harvey to name the wrong winner.
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