The Pink Tax Return — Maybe Billionaire Taylor Swift Is Just Out of Touch
New York, New York — October 20, 2025
All right, not to jump on the bandwagon of hating Taylor Swift — but I will.
I’ve been a lifelong Taylor Swift fan. Notice how I don’t say Swiftie. My earliest memories are Taylor-scored: Fearless music videos on a chunky old desktop, Speak Now blasting through my mp3 player on the way to middle school, Red making me believe I almost do was written about me and my secret science crush Jacob.
But Midnights lost me a little. And The Tortured Poets Department? Just didn’t hit.
Not bad, exactly. Just glitter-covered exhaustion from America’s oldest teenager.
I think what makes this one hard to swallow is the glamour she built it up to be — the cinematic trailers, the burlesque aesthetic, the goddess-in-glamourous energy. Fans were ready for trumpet, saxophone, a little jazz, some kind of smoky-lounge reinvention. Instead, it felt like a recycled Pinterest board of previous heartbreaks.
Let’s be honest: Taylor Swift is a billionaire now. She’s not the “relatable lover girl” anymore — she’s the girl who flies 20 mins on a private jet. That’s why the idea of this album was flawless, Swift has spent her entire life as a showgirl, but the songs or album didn’t reflect anything but her lust for travis.
The writing, too, just… isn’t there. Track fives used to hurt. Dear John, All Too Well, The Archer. But now?
“Every eldest daughter was the first lamb to the slaughter, so we dressed up like wolves and we looked fire.”
Girl. What the hell? Is this post what’s making me too punk for the internet? did I use that right?
It’s not that she’s lost her talent. Maybe she’s just lost her footing in reality. There’s only so much tragedy you can mine when your heartbreaks are worth a billion dollars. She’s girl-bossed too close to the sun, too busy curating her legacy to give us anymore relatable insights into her life.
You Live in luxury and you can’t even deliver a luxurious album to us? You’ve spent your life as a showgirl but don’t have anything to say about it. Sorry Taylor this one is a flop.
