Taylor Swift at Hyde Park yesterday
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Did any of you lot go?
I was invited at the last minute and very glad I went. Great show. Ellie Goulding and John Newman (and a couple of other people, I can't remember their names) as supporting acts were fantastic. At the end, Taylor brought Kendall Jenner, Sareena Williams, a couple of other chicks and that young British model called Cara with the thick, bushy eyebrows all out on the stage to greet the crowd. A nice surprise.
Taylor herself put on a brilliant performance with lots of interesting chat inbetween. I think she's a great role model for young women.
If you went, did you enjoy it?
I was invited at the last minute and very glad I went. Great show. Ellie Goulding and John Newman (and a couple of other people, I can't remember their names) as supporting acts were fantastic. At the end, Taylor brought Kendall Jenner, Sareena Williams, a couple of other chicks and that young British model called Cara with the thick, bushy eyebrows all out on the stage to greet the crowd. A nice surprise.
Taylor herself put on a brilliant performance with lots of interesting chat inbetween. I think she's a great role model for young women.
If you went, did you enjoy it?
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I quite liked her before that.
I don't like this either and I don't know why. Last tour I found it cute when she brought people like Ellie and Ed on stage as she actually sang with them but this year it just seems to be like look at all my model of the moment mates.
Too queen beeish?
Yes, it's strange isn't it. Wonder what point she's trying to prove with it?
I completely agree, though I really like her latest album.
She's always struck me as quite childish.
She's proud of her friends and wants to show them off and for them to enjoy a moment with her, I don't see that as smug.
I think she's an awesome performer, a fantastic songwriter and all round pretty decent person with good morals. She isn't perfect, but then I don't recall her ever saying otherwise.
So why doesn't she just stick to using those talents when on stage, rather than trying to generate publicity by bringing Kylie/Kendall/Kandy/whatever Jenner and co?
That's the big problem with it for me. It just smacks of another publicity stunt. Isn't performing at Glastonbury alone enough of an amazing experience? She can always meet her friends afterwards in the VIP area and explore the rest of the site together. I also find it unusual that all her "close friends" at Glastonbury appeared to be showbiz darlings or famous sports stars. Did she not have friends with "ordinary" jobs that would liked to have joined her in front of the big crowd?
That's the big problem with it for me. It just smacks of another publicity stunt. Isn't performing at Glastonbury alone enough of an amazing experience? She can always meet her friends afterwards in the VIP area and explore the rest of the site together. I also find it unusual that all her "close friends" at Glastonbury appeared to be showbiz darlings or famous sports stars. Did she not have friends with "ordinary" jobs that would liked to have joined her in front of the big crowd?[/QUOTE]
Taylor Swift wasn't at Glastonbury!
I think you missed the point there.
I actually really like her and I loved her last album. I also defend her a lot when people call her immature and compare her to more sophisticated people her age because I am a year younger than her and honestly me and my friends do not feel like "proper adults" at all, so I get that whole thing with her. And I don't think anyone in this thread has said otherwise about her having a sh*tload of talent but that doesn't stop me thinking that she does like to be "seen" with the right people.
For me it would be a lot more meaningful if she actually brought out her true friends or at least someone who can add to the show like when she brought Dan out from Imagine Dragons this year. I saw Paramore last year at Leeds Fest and Hayley Williams brought her sister on stage and they had a dance together whilst Paramore were performing their last song and imo that was a really touching moment because you could tell it meant something.
The whole Taylor thing to me doesn't though because next tour she will be bringing out whoever else is "in" at the moment or happens to be in town and popular on the DM sidebar of shame. I obviously do not know her personally and I may be very very wrong but it just seems like whoever is big right now is her best friend, they have sleepovers, they have baking parties and then when they fade out of the limelight that's it, you never see her with them again.
None of her old school buddies, nope, just the famous weirdos like Haim sisters etc.