u/Confident_Office_720

The "fame tax" is clearly hitting him. He’s had enough. Look at the huge contrast between their visit to London in 2024 (images where she's wearing a pink dress are 2024) and their most recent visit yesterday.

Last year he was smiling ear-to-ear, practically high-fiving the paparazzi and soaking up every second of being the main attraction. but now he looks absolutely miserable. it’s a total stark contrast!

​I don’t blame him, the logistics would do my head in. Imagine needing 10 bodyguards and a military plan just to leave the house.

He looks like he’s finally realized the fame isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.

Who would've thought that big daddy clout monster would get sick of the attention!

(And to preempt the "he was already famous" comments: he was nowhere near this level. He would not have been getting stalked by paparazzi through the streets of London on his own, he just wouldn't. So let's just leave those comments elsewhere, please.)

Quote is from her NY Times interview -- fyi, It’s quite the irony that for someone who prides herself on being a lyricist and songwriter, her point was such a "word salad" that the journalist actually had to act as a translator to make it make sense. For an artist who markets herself as a literary genius and an 'english teacher', she’s remarkably bad at articulating her opinions:

>“I’m a massive sombr fan, of his songwriting. And his lyrics are so intensely confessional. ‘I don’t want another man’s child to have the eyes of the girl I can’t forget.’ Are you kidding me?" Taylor said. She continued, "Having a male artist say stuff like that is really good for the cause of women to be able to say stuff. If there’s any way we can make confessional songwriting a little bit more of something that isn’t, like, people take that as like you were being messy. You have to be fair to everyone then.” It sounds like Taylor is saying that when male artists are open and personal in their music, it helps normalize confessional songwriting and highlights the need for women to be judged by the same standards rather than criticized as “messy.”

What the hell even is this?

She is acknowledging that society dismisses women as "messy" specifically for writing confessional and emotional songs, but then she suggests that the solution is to wait for men to do the same thing so the genre becomes "fair." and women are more respected when they do it. This is a complete failure of perspective. How is it ever a good cause for women to wait for male participation to validate their own work?

Waiting for men to normalize a specific style of art so that women can finally be taken seriously isn't a victory! It reinforces the patriarchal norm that women’s emotional expression is only respectable once it’s been filtered through a man. There is nothing good about that, and it certainly shouldn't be celebrated.

You aren't challenging the patriarchy when you act like a male hall pass is a fantastic way for women to move forward. Seeing this as progress is just embarrassing.

It’s even worse when you realize the artist she’s referring to, Sombr, is known for being quite misogynistic himself. The idea that a man who doesn’t even seem to respect women all that much is the one who will normalize emotional songwriting and make things fair is just dense.

It’s becoming obvious that her feminism is just performative af. It sits right alongside the internalized misogyny in her lyrics, where she is constantly putting men on a pedestal while tearing other women down to make herself look better for them.

The audacity of her to sell 'f*ck the patriarchy' key rings.