Sure Taylor Swift is young but not that much anymore, in the sense that she already has had a long career, plus I am sure she is surrounded and advised by a million people, and nevertheless nobody told her that this new role as New York City’s Ambassador was not exactly the smartest move? Everybody will tell you she sounds ridiculous and pompous.
She has lived in NYC for two minutes, has written a song about the city, and this is enough to school us about the famous place? Excuse me for having the weakness to think I know more about NYC than she doe, I walked and biked that island for a year from south to north. NYC & Company has nevertheless declared the pop singer New York City’s Global Welcome Ambassador, and has produced five short videos showing Taylor getting all animated about NYC and telling us why it is such a wonderful place. Obviously, she fails, she knows nothing about the city beside the fact that NYC is bold, bright, electric, and of course Taylor being attracted by everything meretricious…..
NYC has neighborhoods with good lattes, NYC has good people, and NYC is big but cozy at the same time… She also dares to teach people about NYC’s vocabulary, words she is obviously learning as she speaks/reads… Five videos about this platitude, triteness and series of clichés? Did you need this New York? Swift lives in a $20 million penthouse in the most expensive Manhattan neighborhood and so she should not be giving us street lessons… explore neighborhoods? Are we supposed to believe that? Next week, she will venture to the West Village, wow, that really is an adventure, but next time she also should try the Bronx … From her Tribeca neighborhood, I bet she visions Manhattan like a sanitized giant shopping mall, or like Disneyland – oh here is frontierland, oh here is fantasyland.
But may be NYC has deserved Taylor Swift, may be NYC has lost any personality, I heard it is becoming more and more gentrified like an upper-class place where only super wealthy people can afford to live. I guess she was even well-paid to do this (as if she needed money!) So fuck you NYC & Company, to give such a vanilla-latte face to New York, first she was a fake country star, now a fake NYC ambassador, what’s next? As long as she stays far away for LA, I will be fine.
