Taylor Swift is talking to Vanity Fair in their September issue, explaining a few things about her recent decision regarding Apple, but she is also talking about friendship and her famous rapper friends:
‘I feel like I wasn’t ready to be friends with [West] until I felt like he had some sort of respect for me, and he wasn’t ready to be friends with me until he had some sort of respect for me—so it was the same issue, and we both reached the same place at the same time.’
‘I became friends with Jay Z, and I think it was important, for Jay Z, for Kanye and I to get along. . . . And then Kanye and I both reached a place where he would say really nice things about my music and what I’ve accomplished, and I could ask him how his kid’s doing.’
I don’t even know how to start with this, I really don’t care how these people handle their fake friendship, because they should be honest, they only have business relationship, we are not talking about real friendship, here. The way Taylor is talking about it tells everything…. ‘I became friends with Jay Z, and I think it was important, for Jay Z, for Kanye and I to get along’, meaning I am in business with Jay Z and since he is friends with Kanye, I better swallow my grudge against him and forget about the Grammy Awards incident?
It’s so vain and I don’t understand why she is saying this in an interview, why does this reveal about her? That she will be friends with anyone who is at the top of the music world? That she will be friends with anyone as long as she benefit from it?
And her concept of friendship doesn’t stop there:
‘We even have girls in our group who have dated the same people. It’s almost like the sisterhood has such a higher place on the list of priorities for us. It’s so much more important than some guy that it didn’t work out with.’
‘When you’ve got this group of girls who need each other as much as we need each other, in this climate, when it’s so hard for women to be understood and portrayed the right way in the media. . . . now more than ever we need to be good and kind to each other and not judge each other—and just because you have the same taste in men, we don’t hold that against each other.’
Why do I find this declaration totally ridiculous? We sleep with the same guys but our sisterhood is more important than our slutery? As if we were buying her fake sisterhood, she only has friends in high places from the list she gives (Lena Dunham, Karlie Kloss, Gigi Hadid, Selena Gomez…). Hasn’t Taylor Swift become really annoying? She is a girl who thinks she is entitled to claim the year 1989 because she was born that year, she is miss perfection who wants us to believe she has real problems, she is a multi-millionaire woman who pretends to have normal friendship when everything sounds calculated.