Taylor Swift, Privileged Daughter Of Wealthy Plutocrats: The 'Real Story' About Her 1% Upbringing

Salon ^ | FRIDAY, MAY 22, 2015 06:00 PM | SCOTT TIMBERG

[RobbyS]

Indeed, and besides, her Dad had a decent voice. Too many advantages, right?

[BreitbartSentMe]

Shake it off... Shake it off...

[IluvmyKalashnikov]

Funny, looks like she’s looking at me. Arm wrestle over it?

[spodefly]

So let’s acknowledge that she began life with a slight leg up on the privilege escalator.

In other words, lets disparage the success of her family and diminish her success by belittling the very reason people form civilizations -- so that our children are better off than we are.

But if you are a "you didn't build that" zombie, it makes perfect sense to envy and disparage success.

[SoFloFreeper]

But this kind of thing is especially offensive since there have actually been plenty of musicians who really were underdogs. Johnny Cash was raised by poor cotton farmers during the Great Depression. John Lennon’s mother and father abandoned him. Jimi Hendrix’s early life was a nightmare that involved shoplifting food so he could eat. For decades, the average blues and country musician came from poverty or close to it. Billie Holiday was jailed, as a teenager, for prostitution. And so on.

The writer of this piece may be an urbanite liberal hack, but I have to say this: he gets this absolutely right.

In a similar vein, most of those who are crying racism and bigotry today are doing a massive disservice too true victims of racism and bigotry. Black citizens of the sixties suffered under the bigotry of Democratic Party all over the United States. THEY were victims.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Swift’s family are good people who worked for a living. I know of them here in PA. They’ve been to my office building to meet with a friend who runs a real estate office.

That they sacrificed for their daughter and that she made it and is now wealthy, is how it is done.

[dfwgator]

1. She’s sexy without being slutty.

Just wait.

[jagusafr]

I see what you did there...because I have daughters who love TS.

[Bratch]

She doesn’t have a drug problem, is not queer and works hard at what she does.

[PCPOET7]

there is a war going on in the democratic party expect it to get real mean in the next 6 months

[Catsrus]

I don’t care where she came from either. The fact is - I just plain don’t like her music, but more power to those who are fans.

[Yaelle]

Jealous much?

Also the worship of underprivileged. Let’s not always glorify poverty. It can be intelligence that causes the avoidance of poverty, remember. Of course it’s the American Dream to start out humbly poor and rise to success. But it is also worthy of admiration to do good with what you have, at any socioeconomic level. And Taylor Swift is doing so. She is a success. She happens to be white. Deal, Salon.

[editor-surveyor]

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“Plutocracy?”

Really?
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[wardaddy]

And Stevie Nicks

[dfwgator]

Yep, she’s “Gone Hollywood.”

[MaxMax]

+1

[The Toll]

Every single celebrity has the same exact story. Don’t kid yourself. I’ve been there, I know. Every rags to riches, small town kid makes it big story you ever heard is a lie. All of them. All of them.

[Rinnwald]

What?! T-Swizzle has no street cred?

Thank you for the hard-hitting expose, Salon.

[austinaero]

I can’t place my finger on the exact reason but I think she is kinda creepy.

[Vermont Lt]

I was watching a concert of hers last night. She is a gifted writer and a pretty good performer. Her mannerisms in public are pleasant. She seems polite and grateful.

Her songs appeal to younger girls, but us old folks can listen to them. I can even understand most of the words.

What a horror show she is. I cannot imagine that her parents are proud of her at all. //sarcasm