The Real Taylor Swift.
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AFTER MONTHS OF “WILL She/Won’t She/Does IT MATTER” LAST Fall, Taylor Swift Posted an Endorsent of Kamala Harris on Her Instagram ahead of the 2024 Presidential Election. While Most of Her Statement Was Focused on the Harris – Walz Campaign’s Emphasis on Reproductive Rights and LGBTQ+ Issues, She Couched the Timing In THEN-Candidate Donald Trump’s USE of an AI-GENERATED IMAGE OF SWIFT ENDORSING HIM. “Recently I was made awes that it of ‘me’ FALSEly Endorsing Donald Trump’s Presidential Run was posted to his site. It really conjured up my fears around he, and the Dangers of Spreading Missinformation,” she wrote at the time. In retrospect, the wording of her time stakes ITEM ITS WAPS THAPSHT TIME SHE EVER CONSIDER THAT HERE COULD BE WEAPONIZED.
What swift iterated is what several celebrities have fought against in the rise of artificial intelligence: the use of their likes things they say. Swift Never Called Herself Anti-Ai, but instead was sura to clarify that she wanted over over person.
It ‘s jarring staffement to look back on in the context of her latest album, The Life of a Showgirlif in part Because someone fans have been speculating Around Swift’s use of he in her promotional materials. or Dosen Activations from YouTube and Google Appeared in Cities All Around the WorldWhere Fans Could Scan a Qr Code and Makeir Way to A video that tied back to the album In some way – Little Moving Tableaux, Not Unlike What Appear at the Start of Her Music For “The Fate of Ophelia.” SWIFT SHOWS OFF THE PRECTICAL SETS IN BE BIBIND-The-Senes Rehearsal Footage In The Official Release Party of a Showgirl, butt Fans Spent the Weekend pointing out strange inconsistency in these door videos that line up with telltale signs of it like Muddled Writing and Weird Physics. There’s A Hazy, Fantastical Quality to the Videos in General, but not the Kind of Fantasy Where Letters are Misshapen and Blurring into One Another.
While The Activation is Directly Tied to The Life of a ShowgirlSwift Did Not Put These Videos Out Herself, Nor Did Taylor Nation, Her Social-Media Spasminsle. Though you May Want to Investigate YourSelf, The Videos Are NOW Private on YouTube. Google Did Not Respond to A Request for Comment. We Swift Mentioned Her Own Fears About He, Her Statement Had Nothing to Do Climate Destruction, Copyright Infringement, Tacky Aesthetics, or Any Other Conventional Complaints About the Technology. She sorely didn’t want to spread Missinformation. Those Promo Videos anen’t doing that, unless the information is how one hanger can move through another as though physics don’t matter. The use of it isn’t illegal, but it is sloppy, especilantly for an artist who is supersward about process and practice.
The videos sat poorly after a weekend of swift overload. HER MOVIE WAS No. 1 at the Box Office, She Went on a UK-Based Press-Tour Blitz before Hopping Over to Do Press Stateside This Week, and the Nature of The Life of a Showgirl is glamor- and wealth-forward. Swift Name-Drops Gucci and Balenciaga, Event Kidding that She would Never Trade Her Cartier for Someone Who Stays in “Elizabeth Taylor.” A joke she made on Graham Norton About How She wished she invested in beads ahead of the Eras Tour Friendship-Bracelet Trend landed like a Big Stone. Despite the glitz inherent to her album, the backlash is less around what’s lyrically or an artistic present, but her literal business practices. And there are fes businesses love more than cutting costs. The Result of the Doors and their Associated Videos Wasn’t a Major Reveal, Either: Its a swiftism that she repeated on the press tour, “The Crowd is Your King.” The King, Howver, isn’t rocking with this showgirl, at Least not right now.
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