All due credit to the amazing Taylor Swift, but it seems to me that even before the Kelce drama I'd seen 10 times as many articles and videos about TayTay's tour and her Swifties as I had about the Beyhive and the apparently MORE successful Queen Bey.
Is it my mistaken impression, media racism, political bias (liberal T vs radical B), better Swift promotion (see Kelce), or is something else going on?
Speaking of music and politics:
Maren Morris Names The Trump-Related Reason She’s Leaving Country Music
"If you truly love this type of music and you start to see problems arise, it needs to be criticized," said the Grammy-winning singer.
Maren Morris says a lot of the ugliness “on full display” following Donald Trump’s presidency pushed her to leave country music.
“It just revealed who people really were and that they were proud to be misogynistic and racist and homophobic and transphobic,” the Grammy-winning singer-songwriter told the Los Angeles Times in an interview published last week. “All these things were being celebrated, and it was weirdly dovetailing with this hyper-masculine branch of country music. I call it butt rock.”
Morris, who has advocated for Black and LGBTQ artists in the genre, said she plans to part ways with the country music industry because of its failure to become more accessible and to tackle its history of racism and misogyny.
The singer has criticized a number of figures in the genre. Last year, she slammed Jason Aldean’s wife, Brittany Aldean, over transphobic remarks, and this year took a jab at the country artist himself over his controversial song “Try That in a Small Town.”
“I thought I’d like to burn it to the ground and start over,” she told the LA Times. “But it’s burning itself down without my help.”
... She described Aldean’s song, which has faced backlash and been accused of being “pro-lynching,” as “a last bastion.”
“People are streaming these songs out of spite. It’s not out of true joy or love of the music. It’s to own the libs. And that’s so not what music is intended for,” she said. “Music is supposed to be the voice of the oppressed — the actual oppressed. And now it’s being used as this really toxic weapon in culture wars.”
Wow
. I hope 33 year old Morris is switching to pop, lesbian emo, R&B, protest folk, death metal
, whatever, rather than retiring. Ditching country sure worked out well for TayTay.
Edit:
Wiki already lists her genres as: "Country, country pop, pop, R&B, hip-hop".
If I was more of a fan I would grab some popcorn and closely follow the RW's inevitable whiny, victimized denial and outrage
. Stay tuned for death threats and getting run out of Nashville.
He had practice for tonight's game vs the Broncos. Looks like it worked out for him - 7 catches for 109 yards, leading all receivers in a 13-0 game, at halftime! Don't fret, though, the lovebirds have the postgame:
. I think she still lives in Ohio, which is even closer to Jason's Philly games.
I credit her sausage festival launch 
That's brilliant, thanks. It didn't occur to me that he tossed it forward to the front row. It looked like it went straight up, "seemingly into the void" as the article says. Ah, now I see: