• masterspace@lemmy.ca
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    7 months ago

    I mean, asylums aren’t known to be horrible because of the quality of the architecture, but how people treat other people in there.

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      7 months ago

      I mean her parents would drive to NY for singing and acting lessons, the family relocated to Nashville to enable her carrer, paid for private school, beautiful homes… by all accounts her family provided a strong foundation for her to launch.

      She’s been supported throughout her life, calling the way she was raised an “asylum” is kind of insulting to people that grew up wondering if there would be food on the table or if Dad was coming home angry again. Not to minimize her struggles but I’m willing to bet most people could actually last an hour

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        7 months ago

        When people write songs are the lyrics always supposed to be literally true? There’s some interesting stuff happening out there if so…

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        7 months ago

        I mean that sounds like it could be a story about super supportive parents, or it sounds like it could be a story about super psycho pageant mom type parents.

        Even if it’s the former and they were genuinely supporting her dream and not their own, it still doesn’t mean it wasnt manic or stressful or crazy.

        Or it could just be a made up fictional lyric, or one meant to reference her own internal psychological struggles with the asylum she’s trapped in being her own mind.

        This meme quite frankly just seems like people who don’t understand music trying and failing to clown on the popular girl.

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        You may want to look more into it.

        Her father was one of the principals on the closing of DreamWorks Nashville. Big Machine records is what DreamWorks Nashville was rebranded as once severed from the rest of the corporate structure.

        He essentially took the commission he got from selling Toby Keith’s catalog and then reinvested it into Big Machine before it was open to other investors.

        He essentially spent $2m to buy his daughter’s career.

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        7 months ago

        If you just compare your life to some of the worst off then yeah, no one ever gets to complain about anything.

        This whole outrage is misunderstanding the fact that people can have problems, especially perceive themselves as having problems, that are on their own scale and not comparable to the world at large. Also her songs are written to be relatable to some extent and not just 100% autobiographical so more people can envision their own problems and circumstances. But that’s like, 99% of music so it feels weird to say it.

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          7 months ago

          Our goal should be to resist and overcome those harmful instincts. That’s kinda the purpose of ethics/morality

          Whereas her “art” seems to encourage us to give into our base impulses of vindictiveness, scorn, petty jealousy, grudges, etc.

          Not a very Christlike role model. Which is ironic given the protestant religious/cultural upbringing of much of her fanbase