In a virtual reality the question of fake intimacy is paramount.
Recently, Taylor Swift claimed John Mayer was being "presumptuous" when he claimed her song "Dear John" was about him. She told Glamour Magazine: "I don’t talk about my personal life in great detail. I write about it in my songs, and I feel like you can share enough about your life in your music to let people know what you're going through. it's not that I'm this egomaniac and I don’t want to hear anything negative, because I do keep myself in check. But I've never developed that thick a skin. So I just kind of live a life, and I let all the gossip live somewhere else. If you go too far down the rabbit hole of what people think about you, it can change everything about who you are."
True, but if you present yourself, in your music, as a certain thing, it is hard to hide from it.Let's state the obvious: all that stuff with Conor Kennedy (JFK's Grandson) was done in such a way as to be publicized. The pictures of Conor and Taylor reading to Rose Kennedy were posed and planned, the stories of Rose Kennedy introducing the sweethearts? Lies, according to Rose Kennedy.
So what's going on here then?
I have no doubt that Taylor Swift is a greats songwriter, but as John Lennon once put it, in order to be the biggest band you have to be the biggest bastards. From The handling of the Kanye West fracas, thru John and Jake, Swift has had no trouble using her personal life to move units. Nothing wrong with that, the cost of doing business, etc. But the Glamour quote? talk about suspending disbelief.
Reading to poor Rose Kennedy… Conor should have his ears boxed.