Another year, another Grammy Awards which turned into the Taylor Swift Show. People aren’t happy, but the grumbling has a different vibe this year, especially given Taylor’s ubiquity throughout the past year and the general sense that she’d actually won a lot of new fans and she’s one of the most powerful women in the world. But post-Grammys, people suddenly seem kind of… over it. Maybe it’s too much, but that’s Taylor. First off, Taylor wore a white Schiaparelli gown to the Grammys. The gown itself isn’t all that flattering on her, and it looked way too costume-y. The accessories absolutely hurt the look, from the black gloves to the absolutely tragic hair to the layered necklaces (although the “midnight” timepiece choker was fine). Her makeup was pretty bad too, but I always think her hair and makeup artists secretly hate her.
So, let’s start out positive – Taylor stood throughout Tracy Chapman and Luke Combs’ performance and she was singing along and really jazzed about it. She also stood for SZA, and SZA gave her a nice shout-out when she won too. Taylor’s Midnights ended up winning for Album of the Year, her fourth win in that category, which is a historic achievement.
Hours before she won AOTY, she won the Grammy for Best Pop Vocal Album, which was her 13th Grammy win. She used her speech to announce that her new studio album, The Tortured Poets Department, would be coming out on April 19th. The snake fam was in shambles, because they’ve spent months decoding Taylor’s hints that she has been recording Reputation (Taylor’s Version). Here’s my thing – I absolutely believe she has been rerecording Reputation as well, and I’m sure she will announce that release date at some point this year. But Swifties are now trying to prepare themselves for a brand new album-drop cycle. It’s a lot. It was also kind of tacky that she used her Grammy speech to break the news about the new album, but then again, she does love surprising her fans.
One of the weirdest moments for Tay and her fans was when she won AOTY and she seemingly blanked on Celine Dion completely. Celine made a surprise appearance to present AOTY – Celine has been dealing with Stiff Person Syndrome and has rarely left her home. While Taylor did blank Celine on stage (big time), they posed together backstage and I would assume Taylor was respectful.
All’s fair in love and poetry… New album THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT. Out April 19 🤍https://t.co/WdrCmvLHyA
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— Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) February 5, 2024
not trying to be hater but being handed a Grammy by Celine Dion in her very triumphant first public appearance in a long time and barely making eye contact insane
— adam (@adamjmoussa) February 5, 2024
Snatched that Grammy from Celine like a purse on Canal Street omg
— oomf magazine (@oomfmagazine) February 5, 2024
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She has such phony friendships.
it doesn’t seem like she does? a lot of the people she’s friends with have been around for a decade or longer…
I don’t think the Celine thing was the huge snub people are making it out to be. she just made Grammy history, I think she was distracted lol. they clearly met backstage, I’m sure it’s fine.
her entire outfit was a mess. the hair doesn’t go, the gloves are way too long, she should have only had the clock choker on. sigh.
I think her running around like an immature teenager/chicken without a head, standing up without thinking she’s blocking someone behind her, hogging attention, announcing an album was so TA.CKY., wanting to show eveyrbody how she knows eveyrbody, not being humble and not acknowledging/not giving the respect for our beautiful Celine, is going to break her success cycle, a week before the superbowl. The people will not forgive her for that, and I’m guessing a lot Swifties might be side eyeing her too this morning. Just before yesterday, I was rooting for her and T. Kelce, but this morning seeing this live – it’s like a cold shower. Not the taylor swift I thought she was. Very entitled. ewwwww She’s gonna look back and be CRINGE about it too. I would be so embarrassed this morning. She lost her shine when getting that trophy.
Miley Cyrus did sooooo well! Who would’ve known…
Regarding Celine, everyone was told not to touch her as her condition is quite painful, even the slightest touch. It was explicitly expressed to all that you were supposed to get permission from Celine for any kind of contact, because of the potential pain she may be experiencing (as that nerve condition can flare up at any moment). I’m relieved for her that Taylor didn’t try to hug her.
I am a total Swiftie but hearing about this is just CRINGE. Although it could have just been her distracted … 🙂
I kinda feel like she was trying so hard so show how supportive and great she was w Lana del Rey she spaced on Celine in the moment. I felt like Celine was beyond graceful and kind about it though.
Prolly she shouldn’t drink during these things, she does seem overly flustered.
I’m frankly surprised however at Celebitchy. Chick wins the fourth Grammy for AOTY, beating whatever record held by Stevie Wonder, Paul Simon, whoever the third one is – essentially further cementing her legend/icon status – and this entry is headlined not with winning the award, but on a negative angle about her dress? Really we care more about what her hair looked like than the fact she won the awards?
I don’t how genuine or close Taylor’s is with her celebrity friends but the ‘girl squad’ has definitely been beneficial PR wise both ways. For Taylor having so many celeb friends makes her look popular, people think “oh she must be a nice person if all these people like her”.
In a group made up of models, she gets to be queen bee, and live out her fantasy of being the most popular girl in high school. A lot of them talk publicly about Taylor and how great she is, which is definitely OKed by swifts pr. With so many celeb friends, taylor is getting so much good publicity for nothing. The also act as mouthpieces for when she’s mad, they will tweet something to defend her, whilst T remains ‘dignified and silent’.
Also emma stone is Oscar campaigning at the moment and she keeps being asked about Taylor, and Emma is not even in ‘the squad’. Taylor’s name is literally getting latched onto Emma’s publicity campaign.
For the celeb friends, they are generally less famous than Taylor, so jumping on the swifty bandwagon gives these ‘friends’ access to a massive fanbase. Also being in a massive female friendship group creates the illusion of ‘sisterhood’.
That’s just my analysis.
her and Emma Stone have been friends since they were seventeen. she’s definitely in the squad, she’s just private.
Emma might be friends with Taylor, but it doesn’t look like she friends with any of the other girls in that ‘squad’. She seems to stay out of that clique.
The black opera gloves and a white gown – WHY is this a thing?
I genuinely despise the black opera gloves. I would’ve been fine with just the white dress and necklaces.
It is a horrible look I don’t care who wears it on what red carpet it will always be awful. Who ever decided on this needs to be let go.
She appears to be cosplaying Kate Middleton’s BAFTA look.
Had the same thought.
Same thought. And an enormous mistake it is.
Yes. And it was hideous the first time around.
This dress makes her look huge and she’s obviously not big. She also looks like the quirky aunt with the fussy style at someone’s wedding who tries to steal all the attention by being super extra (“this wedding’s super hot, darling, thank GOD I brought my own fan!”).
I can’t believe I’m saying this but I think Kate’s looks was better than this.
I don’t know. She was wearing B&W, because of the cover art on the new album, opera length gloves are very in fashion right now, and no designer is hotter than Schiaparelli, I think a Kate homage is prob a coincidence. Taylor’s red carpet looks are almost always meh, though.
I thought the same thing, but thought this at least looked better than Kate’s look. I went back to compare the two, and despite feeling like Phoebe in Friends discovering Monica and Chandler (My eyes! My eyes!), I loathed the one shoulder look dress with the long hair that should have been in an updo, and Kate’s cream colored shows had no business with that outfit. And the black gloves really don’t work with a one-shouldered dress. Its like Taylor took her look and tried to make it better. She still failed. But I also got the feeling she decided the white looked too wedding like and felt the need to displace those rumors, so she scrounged around for whatever she could find.
Yes, and I dislike it just as much.
The more I learn about Taylor, the more impressed I am!
@February Pisces, I prefer Taylor’s look to Kates. Kate’s gloves were too heavy for her look, Taylor’s seem lighter if that makes sense. In both cases, I would prefer just the dress, truthfully.
Here to say the same. It was my first thought.
Swifties who know a lot more about her easter eggs than I do said black and white references the black and white Reputation album cover. I have no idea if that is right, but I’ve only recently started listening to some of her music and don’t understand all the symbolism she creates for her fans.
Yes, it looked like it would be B/W for Reputation TV…. turns out it was black/white for the cover of her new album, which is also black and white. 🙂
Before the Grammys, Taylor and all of her friends changed their profile pictures on Instagram from color to black and white. The cover art for the new album was released and it appears to be a black and white photo. So her black and white outfit probably ties into all of that.
I agree, it’s never a good combination IMO.
I thought she looked ok except for her hair and she wore her white dress and black gloves better than some.
I agree, this was not that bad. Her hair is never great
I thought she looked nice too.
I thought she looked nice. A lot of the dresses this year had weirdly structured tops – a trend that I will be happy to see go bye-bye – and I think hers was better than others.
Also, I am not a fan of the black opera gloves with a white gown look but agree the black and white theme was totally an Easter Egg. My 15 yo literally screamed when Taylor announced the new album so she was clearly all about the fans which I kind of love.
The makeup is good, the accessories are good, but the dress seems so harsh. As long as she felt happy and confident in it, all the power to her, but it’s not my favourite look.
I didn’t think it tacky to announce her new album. I thought it was a flex and she’s allowed one given how hard she worked. I also like that part of her speech, emphasizing that for her, the work is the goal. I’m sure she enjoys her wins and strives for them, but I liked that angle a lot.
I also loved that part of the speech! I thought she was great and pretty genuinely surprised when she won album of the year.
I agree about the album announcement! it’s also not the first time she’s announced an album during an awards speech.
Mixed feelings on her announcing her new album, but I think that’s because I’m still just very shocked it’s NEW?? I really wasn’t expecting new music (aside from maybe a single or two) during the Eras tour.
Swifties online are quite literally *foaming at the mouth* and convinced this new album is 16 diss tracks of Joe Alwyn…and while I expect there will be some…I couldn’t care less about that man or their relationship to listen to an entire break-up album 😅 I always found them the equivalent of stale toast. I’m more interested in music that she’s written recently, because she has been glowing with confidence and happiness. Alas, what Taylor says goes, and if it’s relitigating the break-up, oh well.
I have also seen people online say this will be about him, as the title is a play on the name of a group chat he had called ‘Tortured Men’s Club.’ Hard for me to understand, but maybe she’s still not over him?? Although I’m not sure her and Travis are that serious. I saw a video from an afterparty of her and a man being super flirty (I’m NOT trying to shame her, I just know her fans would melt down if the equivalent video of Travis and a woman circulated, lol)
I don’t think she should be completely dragged for it, but she knows that she takes up a lot of the oxygen in the room and a lot of other artists are having a singular moment that in many cases doesn’t even get televised. She doesn’t owe it to anyone to make herself smaller, but at the same time if she wants to be an ally for change she can do that by making space for other people at the table. Since it’s a well known issue that the Grammys are very…singularly minded in who they reward with the highest honors, it feels a little tone deaf to be taking up more space with an album announcement. Like, there were already going to be articles about her historic win of AOTY and that is going to push other winners down the feed, but the album announcement is going to do the same. I don’t begrudge her the success she has worked incredibly hard for, but she could have made the same announcement at one of the Tokyo shows this week too. Although, I come back to wondering if I would have these same thoughts about a male artist, or if we expect more from women than men.
I feel like the swifties (including myself) were expecting Rep TV to be announced last night or in Tokyo (my theory). To have a whole new album…for me personally I am not as excited because selfishly I want to go see the eras tour again in Europe next summer with my daughter who didn’t get to go last year, and my first thought was nooo she’s going to change the concert now. What’s going to get cut? How will it be different? How much harder is it going to be to get tickets? Yay for new music but I really did not expect a whole new album till after the eras tour. I say this as a huge fan of her and her music. And this one looks like it’ll be a mix of folklore/evermore and midnights, which would be amazing.
It was a weird vibe there at the end of the show. Midnights is incredible, but so are those other albums. And it was a little strange she didn’t say anything to Celine, who is an icon. I’m sure she was just excited. But I think people are looking for anything to pick at her being at the top, so it’s going to get a lot of attention.
I’m guessing she’s not going to change it much. she’s not going to have the ability to stage out a whole new era with dancing/sets.
Yeah maybe they’ll be surprise songs or maybe she’ll save those performances for a new tour.
What’s wrong with her makeup 🙁 that’s how I do mine for a big night out, I thought it looked good but I don’t know now 🙁 her hair is not the one!
Yeah I wouldn’t have chosen to announce my album at this event and what is this celine dion erasure!! I would be beside myself at being in the presence of a queen like CD, imagine blanking her! Truly not okay 🙁
It’s fine, she just always does it like that. She doesn’t look glammed up, she looks like it’s just another Tuesday for her.
The only clips I’ve seen are her dragging an unwilling Lana del Rey onto the stage for her acceptance speech (over Lana) and obnoxiously jumping around with her “squad” on stage seemingly not recognising (???) or acknowledging Céline freaking Dion. Contrasted with how gracious Miley was to Mariah Carey, Taylor came off self-absorbed and immature as ever.
Not even getting into the drunken (??) antics of rough housing with Jack whats-his-name when he was being shouted out as a prolific producer in the AOTY category. Like, she really can’t ever take a breath and let other people shine?
It makes sense for Lana to be on stage somewhat because she and Taylor have a collab on the album (snow on the beach). But it was clear Lana didn’t want to go up there. 😆
I enjoy Taylor but it was cringe watching her pull poor Lana onstage when Lana just lost and most likely wanted to lick her wounds.
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Taylor’s hair looks too flat, wet and parted in weird ways. I guess the hair stylist was trying to be creative but the style ended up looking a bit silly.
I saw derangers positively comparing Taylor’s outfit to Kate’s BAFTAs outfit. That’s probably confirmatuon that Taylor’s outfit wasn’t great.
Her hair looks like a hot mess. But I do like Tay because of how is making to GOP tremble in their shoes.
And Celine looked really good. I hope she continues to get stronger.
It’s funny that the GOP is mad at her and all of a sudden she is “over” sigh. This woman literally hasn’t done anything and is the middle of a flashpoint for FOX News. They are so awful. I
Ehhh she looked ok. But her hair always looks a mess. How does a woman with access to the best stylists and products in the world always have horrible hair?! She always manages to look like a wet poodle
I just now watched that video, and… I didn’t think anything looked that bad? Who were all those other people on stage that Taylor was hugging and speaking to? It looked like she knew them, she acknowledged them and then accepted her trophy and stepped up to the microphone like business as usual. Why would she make a big deal out of hugging Celine Dion? Are they acquainted? If Celine is so medically fragile, maybe she asked beforehand for people not to manhandle her on stage.
Possibly. I’d like to know the inside baseball of Celine’s appearance. She looked lovely, but I also wondered about the coat. Style or warmth?
In the behind the scenes picture of the two of them hugging, Celine seems in pain to me, but then what do I know, it’s all internet guesswork.
Wishing her the very best for her health, and congrats to Taylor for her win.
I don’t think she had to hug her. I think people were looking for a gracious acknowledgment and at least a head nod. She didn’t seem to really even look at her. It was a huge deal for Celine to be there. It was a mistake on Taylor’s part for sure but I can also see people making too much of a deal out of it.
Usually the winners hug the artist handing them their trophy ( or at least acknowledge them) It’s a bad look especially with what Celine is going through. It’s hard for her to even leave her house so she deserved at least some acknowledgment from Taylor. Yes, Taylor was excited but this came off as rude and disrespectful. I know they took a pic backstage but that doesn’t change what happened.
I didn’t watch. Thought it would be a hot mess and sounds like it was. I’m very surprised that Celine Dion was even there. It had to be a great effort to pull it off. If Taylor made no acknowledgement, that’s really rude and classless. Disappointing.
Given Celine’s health condition, it’s possible that she asked for that not to happen? There could be things like that, particularly on stage, that might tend to make her unsteady?
@Kirsten she didn’t even look at her, Celine handed her the trophy, she grabbed it whilst watching someone else. She was rude.
Also she didn’t acknowledge her in her acceptence speech. Miley was extremely gracious in comparison.
I thought she wisely waited until they were backstage so she could ask if it was okay to hug her. I am certainly not grabbing someone with a well documented, but not well understood, illness that affects the entire body without checking first.
Miley didn’t hug Mariah but she did acknowledge her and was very humble and gracious in explaining how much receiving that trophy from her hands meant.
Also Miley’s was her first Grammy, not the 13th.
Taylor should have done at least the same. She is a 34 year old industry veteran, I don’t buy the “being too excited to say anything”. She should have made it all about Celine, tbh. It’s not like she needs the spotlight.
She didn’t have to hug her, but acknowledging her might have been nice. Celine said something to her when Taylor turned around to leave too. I doubt she was pleased, and that photo backstage was all Taylor hanging off Celine, it was not reciprocated. She was gracious and nothing more.
She could have looked at her. Maybe said “thank you.” I don’t think a hug is necessary.
@misah that is the dumbest thing I have ever heard! She shouldn’t have made it all about Celine. Taylor made history! Now did it come across as a bit rude yes, but she clearly was distracted by someone saying something to her. Again not her best look. She was wrong but it wasn’t that big of a deal.
Also it isn’t like she stood up there and said some people nominated didn’t deserve it! Like another person who got an Award. She cheered and celebrated everyone, even when she lost and enjoyed all the performances.
Again she had a bad moment, no question but it clearly wasn’t intentional.
LISA… can you try defending her without denigrating a Black man who was sticking up for his Black wife?
@bonobochick I don’t know if you follow Luvvie Jones on social media, but she had some good points about this yesterday (about weaponizing femineity) and that was something that came up in her comments – that people are mad at Jay Z because they don’t view Beyonce as worth defending, but those same people will always find Taylor worth defending. she said more than that but overall it was a really interesting take.
I love the dress actually I just hate the hair. It looks like she just woke up, put some of it in braid and that’s it.
And I do think it’s tacky to announce your album at an event that isn’t about you. While there’s been a lot of criticisms of the Grammys and a lot of it is rightfully deserved, it’s still an industry event about everyone. And it’s not like Taylor is one of those who hate the Grammys so she’s not doing this to make a statement.
VMAs I got since it’s a fan voted event but the Academy are not her fanbase. She has a concert coming up, she could have done it there.
I just do not get the appeal. Like not at ALL. SZA album was far beyond hers in a way that is almost rude…
The fake smiles dIrected at her when she won AOTY tell me everything I need to know
…People are tired of this mascarade.
As a legend once said…beautiful gows..beautuful gows.By the way mention should be made of JAY Z SHADING the heck out of the grammys and pointing out that they are WILLINGLY keeping AOTY out if Beyonce’s hands for no other reason than…..you guessed it.
I’m not a fan of most popular artists these days, I can’t imagine that they are truly the best, most creative out there, so much of it sounds the same to me. I like more independent artists, I guess, plus I’m old and the new pop crowd isn’t for me, LOL.
I hope Beyonce wins AOTY at some point.
Actually, she was incredibly respectful. Celine suffers from this neurological disorder where it can literally hurt to have someone touch you. If anything, Taylor was actually being kind when she provided distance during that moment. You need to ask for consent before touching anyone but someone with Stiff Man’s syndrome (an awful disease with an awful name), you have to give them space to let them clear you before touching them. My mother had this disorder. It’s awful.
That being said, Celine looked amazing. Her speech was wonderful and she seemed to doing so well, which is a freaking miracle. That disease is trash.
Thank you for sharing this information, Marrymejane. (Lovely screenname btw! Eyre?)
I didn’t realize that. Maybe everyone needs to just take a step back and stop creating their own narratives without any attempt facts or background on what is happening. The manufacturing of hate and anger is in overdrive everywhere.
But there is a pic of Taylor literally hanging off Celine?
This. Very convenient that it was “OK” for her to hug/hang off Celine backstage after the roasting had already begun.
It looked like Taylor was overwhelming Celine in that picture, but I know a single picture doesn’t tell the whole story. Excuses will always be made for Taylor.
That awful disease, also known as Moersch-Woltman Syndrome, was renamed to Stiff Person Syndrome more than 30 years ago.
Doesn’t make a change for the people suffering horribly from and with it, but it has been taking into account since then that it can affect any gender.
You don’t have to physically touch someone to acknowledge their presence. I cannot believe we’re moving the goalposts that far to “actually Taylor is so intuitive she knew at that moment that Celine was in pain and she did the best thing for her!” Please!
@Sunday, yep. 100percent. The way the goal posts get shifted to accommodate her while they get shifted to justify excluding others is really… Something.
Agree with this 100%. There were plenty of ways she could have visibly and respectfully acknowledged Celine presenting her the award without touching her, without (as someone succinctly put it on Twitter) snatching it from her like a purse on Canal Street.
yup. is it so hard to acknowledge that Taylor could have done a much better job on stage and simply made a mistake? i don’t get these bizarre justifications. people make mistakes, especially in excitement and maybe a little loaded!
Lol this exactly. The way people twist themselves into knots to explain away Taylor’s narcissism…
I agree, she could have acknowledged Celine on stage. So very rude.
No-ones saying she needed to hug or touch Céline. Miley barely touched Mariah and Luke was about 2m from Tracy but they both demonstrated clear gratitude and respect to the legends in different ways.
I’m not a physical toucher at all. But you can still look at someone in the face, smile at them and give a genuine thank you. You could put your hand on your heart, or clasp them together as an emphatic gesture of gratitude/ respect. You could make a cute blowing kisses gesture or bow/ worshipping gesture if you wanted to be over the top and silly. You could step to the mic and say “thank you so much, Céline, what an honour, I love you”.
Ignoring her was the least respectful option but sure.
lol. Since swifties can’t defend her immature actions, they are creating fake reasons out of air. Watch Miley’s acceptance speech, she showed such respect to Mariah Carey who presented her the award. You don’t have to touch the other person to show your respect. Taylor didn’t even look at Celine.
She’s literally photographed hugging Celine later lmao. Plus that doesn’t excuse her not looking her in the eye and saying “thank you.” She was rude.
But I thought Celine’s condition was “painful and no one was allowed to touch her”? No one can keep their story straight. She could have acknowledged Celine and nodded to her. She didn’t even look at her. It’s rude.
No. She didn’t even look at her, grabbed the award and then turned to a person behind her.
She was rude.
Celine looks absolutely incredible. Her hair is gorgeous. Classic and stunning.
Yes Celine Dion’s body is fragile.
Yet, how would smiling and thanking Celine and then acknowledging her in her speech create a dangerous situation? Criticism of Taylor’s rudeness and self-centredness has nothing to do with failing to embrace Ms Dion.
So many people have mentioned this before but Miley didn’t hug Mariah, and still managed to be completely gracious and humble, while still acknowledging her own hard work.
Taylor could have held her distance, looked Celine in the eyes and said “thank you, I’m honored that you came here tonight”. No one would have said a thing about disrespect. But she really did just snatch the statue from Celine’s hand😅 Like literally NO other celebrity has done that ever in any awards ceremony before? They always acknowledge the presenter! Taytay isn’t a 16 year old girl, she’s a grown woman now, and she KNOWS how analyzed all her actions are. Which makes this super weird. I guess she was caught up in the Taylor Swift show and forgot herself and the image she wants to project. It gave privileged Karen vibes. Which, my guess, isn’t too far off from the truth of who she really is…
Drunk Taylor is the best Taylor.
I’m a huge TS fan, but even I can say that her award acceptance was a huge misstep. Poor Celine, the ICON of ICONS left twirling around on the stage with Tay’s award in hand waiting for TS to finally come over to accept, and that’s how she does it?? I’m sure she’s beating herself up over it, but I’m second-hand embarrassed for her.
Ditto. I’m sure there are some reasons, but she needed to at least look her in the eyes and thank her. I was waiting for her to mention the honour of being given the award by Celine at least. That said, this is just what everyone needed since they’ve been propping Taylor up so high to counteract the MAGA hatred. Now they can all come together and knock her down.
IDK. I thought the whole thing worked together and I actually liked it.
I have no idea why the people at Schiaparelli thought combing a white dress with black gloves was a good idea, when it’s been done so badly before.
And Taylor’s hair was bad.
Announcing her new album was cringe, but her ignoring Celine takes the cake.
Black Twitter coming for Taylor because how she barely acknowledged Celine was a sight to behold.
Taylor looked like an off brand Barbie. How can you go to Schiaparelli and Danie Roseberry and say, “Make me budget!” Alas, like Kate Middleton, they take anything haute couture and make it mall/ tacky high street.
Taylor’s make up artists and hair stylists are stealing a living and I love that for them.
I haven’t seen any great Shiaparellis in a long time.
Literally thought why is Taylor Swift wearing a wedding dress?
I don’t know, I didn’t see anything wrong with it? She won a big award for a really really great album and she’s celebrating with the people who helped make it happen. What is she supposed to do? Celine seemed to stand off to the side for a reason.
I liked her look, but she dressed in a way that we were all expecting Rep TV but then she’s giving us brand new music. So that was confusing. Also, now I will literally never get Eras tickets thanks to the possibility of her including new songs from this album. 😣
Why did she take a dig at Miley?
Bragged about it being her 13th to Miley’s first grammy ever and Mileys lucky number 3 to Swifty’s 13. Just to one up her because she copied her speech. It was a dig and she knows it.
No it wasn’t. The desperation to try and make Taylor evil is something. I mean my god.
But I guess people who were desperate to tear her down got some little things to make up their excuses so they didn’t look like maga freaks
Immature Taylor disrespecting powerhouse Celine.
Ouch! Well said, Patty. 👍
The way Swifties have been pointing to Celine’s illness as the reason for Taylor not “hugging” her (certainly didn’t seem to care about that when she practically hung all over the poor woman in those damage control photos) is disingenuous. Taylor didn’t even acknowledge her—just yanked the trophy out of her hands like she was the help while “aw shucks”-ing over an undeserved win. It was classless, disgraceful, and arrogant.
Between that and the way she conducted herself in both acceptance speeches in general, she showed her true colors last night. There’s a reason so many in the audience didn’t care for her nonsense.
Taylor has always been to much. I can’t watch any of the award shows with her in them.I’m so sick of her jumping up and stealing the camera away from whose ever performing.And she knows exactly what she’s doing,by stealing the spotlight.
I actually enjoyed this look! I couldn’t imagine how difficult it would be to pick out fresh and new fashion when you are a celebrity of her level. I’ve been loving her street style too! Although I love Taylor Swift so I tend to enjoy what she wears. I still am obsessing over last year’s Grammy look. It was going to be hard to top. I still listened to reputation from start to finish and I’m really looking forward to the vault so I was a little bummed that that’s not the next drop. But I was genuinely shocked about the new album in April. My personal favorite is when she doesn’t announce that she’s dropping music, and just as a silent drop and then you can lose your mind, and instantly binge the music. 😂
I liked it too. It is definitely styled for the wearer’s preferences instead of what others would deem ‘fashionable’ but I appreciate that. Not everyone has IT, which is why they all have stylists … but who says you HAVE to have it? Just be YOU.
Her hair grew on me as I saw it from other angles. I liked the idea of it with the french braid going around. Kudos to her hairstylist who went for something different! I just didn’t think it worked with the dress.. formal with casual funky hair.
New music will be fun, but I’m still all up in Midnights, as its a phenomenal album. I think it’s too much! Slow down! lol But I read where a producer of hers said she is never NOT writing .. so she wants to share it. I get it.
I didn’t watch the show but did watch the clip with TC/LC “Fast Car.” Dating myself here but that has been one of my favorite songs since it came out, even a metal head can appreciate storytelling. I think LC did a wonderful job conveying respect and reverence for TC without even getting near her. Loved the duet
As a fervent concert goer who happens to be 5’4″ I HATE tall people in front of me. I’ll risk life and limb to ride the rail just to see the bands I want to see lol. I wish tall people were more self aware (I say that with very little self awareness on my part, I know!)
The Celine thing was an awkward mistake that she’s probably beating herself up for. The pic with her backstage seemed clearly intended to make up for it. As a sometimes socially awkward person, I can see myself making a mistake like that that looks huge to spectators, but it would never be deliberate. I can tell by the way Taylor hunches her shoulders that despite being the biggest celebrity on the planet right now, there is a part of her that still somehow has imposter syndrome.
The album announcement was fine. I have to admit I’m excited. Taylor keeps her fans fed like no one else. Any fanbase would love to have the constant stream of new content and surprises that Taylor provides, let’s be honest. Kacey Musgraves also announced new music so what Taylor did stepped on that a bit, but I think Taylor had this planned for awhile. I don’t think it was deliberate, but if I were Kacey I’d be bummed. I’m excited for both albums.
The look was fine. I completely forgot that Kate did a similar look, but I thought Kate’s look was fine too. Taylor’s makeup almost always looks good to me. Very few misses on makeup. Her outfits and hair are more of a mixed bag.
She was surely planning – if she won – to announce the album while accepting her 13th grammy. I’m a fan, not an easter egg swiftie, but I know the 13 favourite number thing. LOL
I agree on her makeup. I didn’t get that comment in the post. I guess we are all getting so used to all of the contouring and heavy foundation that we forget how beautiful a clean makeup look can be.
Why did she take a dig at Miley?
Bragged about it being her 13th to Miley’s first grammy ever and Mileys lucky number 3 to Swifty’s 13. Just to one up her because she copied her speech. It was a dig and she knows it.
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Watching the video, I see her look back towards Celine and they seem to acknowledge each other maybe? Not sure, it’s hard to tell from this angle. Just something I noticed.
I really liked her look, but except for the black choker-like necklace, the rest of her look was more appropriate for the Oscars, not the Grammys. So that is the only reason I wasn’t crazy about it. Wrong event.
Clearly, she didn’t mean to be rude to Celine. She was caught up in the moment. Was it rude? Yeah, absolutely. Taylor isn’t known for that when she accepts awards from people. If anything, she is always overly effusive towards all other artists at award shows involving her peers in the music industry So much so that I think she will feel awful how it looked on stage when she watches it back, because she is usually very respectful of all of the older artists also.
Why she brought Lana up is not just because Lana did a song with her on Midnights, but because Lana rarely gets her due for ignoring what her label wanted after her first big hit and creating a lane for herself and staying true to it. and continuing to be in the business of creating new music her way. Although, if I were Lana, I would have hated it. I mean, really hated it. Lana handled it well in spite of that.
I really liked Taylor’s speech, though, because it is all about her passion for the process of creating music. I am glad she talked about her passion for her craft. I don’t know if she deserved best album because I haven’t listened to most of the albums nominated. I listened to her album Midnights maybe two times and it was the first time I actually liked an album of hers. Taylor isn’t someone I listen to, but I admire her drive and songwriting ability lyrics-wise. I don’t think she’s that great of a music writer, though. The music behind the lyrics is always written in the same way as far as how it is sung and the rhythm of it, even with help from Jack Antoff.
I don’t get the hoopla over her acceptance for AOTY. She was drinking throughout and looked overwhelmed and over excited on stage. It wasn’t her best moment but it happens to everyone. I have seen some mind boggling discourse around it. People are angry at her for many underlying reasons and they got one small window of opening and took it. Look, I am not saying she is above criticism but it has to make sense, the level of criticism vs. what actually transpired. I don’t see why she can’t release more music either. She has a ginormous fan base that is crazy for her music….they will lap it up. People that are asking for her to be sent to Tower of London over not acknowledging Celine aren’t buying her albums, singles or tour tickets. As for the fashion, she has never been one of those glamorous artists that do red carpet really well. I thought her dress would look better with less accessories and different hair.
Agreed, but I like the look. I also wondered if various instructions went around for being cautious and respectful of Celine’s health. I’ve experienced that and it can get awkward and people become overly cautious and don’t know how to act. Plus I watched Tracy and Luke and cried and Taylor standing the entire time was great and I could relate. Which is what we look for in art and artists. Plus, the whole attack women in power from fear makes me frustrated. Like you, I agree no one is above criticism and piling on also benefits those I won’t give benefits to. Especially not for this type of perceived slight in a chaotic type of overwhelming situation. Also, has Celine noted being offended? Who am I to either pile on or defend when I’m not invited to do so? That’s also something I don’t like when others come to defend poor little me and I didn’t ask or need it.
I can see the discourse around Grammy’s snubbing SZA as a logical thing to talk about. But perceived slight on behalf of people none of us know when there’s more to the night when cameras aren’t rolling isn’t fair by any measure. Taylor’s success also gets questioned every time. No, Kanye didn’t make her who she is. There are people around the world that don’t know crap about Kanye and her grammy that love her music, buy it. She is not selling out toyrs worldwide because of what happened years ago. As for her PR driven persona, so what? She is good at it, has a competent team….being angry at that is meaningless.
She just seemed really drunk to me. Drunk and overly excited so she didn’t know what she was doing on stage.
She has the same hair you have when you’re a teenager, you desperately want to have bangs but you can’t make it work and it always ends up looking greasy (I speak from experience).
She always ends up looking like a wet poodle. Literally has the worst hair of any celebrity. Like girl you have access to the best hair stylists in the world and you choose to look like this? I don’t get the hype with her. Average music. Below average looks. Dated racists.
She gets so much shit that other artists don’t get. Miley did the same thing 5 minutes earlier to Meryl Streep and no one said boo. For both of them, they were just overexcited.
I don’t think people are over her. She is incredibly popular. She’s so popular that the inevitable backlash has begun.
Meryl Streep? Wasn’t it Mariah Carey and Miley acknowledged her.
They are referring to the Record of the Year award where Meryl Streep and Mark Ronson gave it to Miley. She acknowledged Mark but not Meryl.
Instead of Taylor stood up and.. for me it was “Taylor stood up and made sure she was the centre of attention once again”.
She was very rude to Celine as well, the pic backstage was damage control.
Not a fan, haven’t been for years.
Best thing about this was seeing Celine. She treated Celine like a normal presenter. Not a Swiftie I listen to her albums when they come out and rarely after. Everyone thinks this is the breakup album. I feel sorry for Joe Alwyn already. I only liked a few songs from Reputations but that’s normal for her albums.The dress and gloves worked much better here than on Kate. The only let down was the hair.
I actually really liked the dress sans the gloves. I liked Midnights, but it definitely wasn’t AOTY worthy and far from her best work lyrically or music wise.
I know she’s played the new relationship so well that everybody’s forgotten she was happily annoucing she was dating a racist mysogynist asshole just a few months back, but she can’t help herself.
Taylor Swift must always be the most important person and that’s why she’ll ignore anybody when it suits her, just like she ignored how the dude she was hooking up was shitting on other women. If it’s not about her, it doesn’t signify.
Oh, I don’t think Swifties forgot. They’ve ignored or downplayed that nasty moment (“he was only a rebound/hookup!!!”), just like they do with every other problematic moment Taylor has.
IF she’s going to wear Opera gloves, of course they should be Black Opera gloves, to “match” her Black shoes and Black choker!
Ahhh man I was hoping we’d get a little break from Taylor in 2024, but a new (and stupidly titled) album means she’s gonna be alllll over. I do wonder if overexposure will backfire on her, but she’s so calculated on her every move, who knows.
I have rheumatoid arthritis and I have to say that someone hugging me or shaking my hand when I’m flaring is TORTURE. I now try to quickly tell people if it’s not a good day for physical contact, but sometimes I can’t get the words out in time.
That said, Taylor absolutely should have said a couple of words about Celine. But she’d just made history — and she seems to enjoy a few drinks at these things LOL. That doesn’t excuse this — just may explain it.
I liked her dress and jewelry, but the gloves were terrible. And I think it was fine to announce her new album at the Grammys. It’s a music industry event, so why not?
Never thought I’d see the day when Miley out classed Taylor
This was just…BAD. The accessories, the dress…BAD. Taylor just comes off as so phony and performative to me and always has. And blanking on THEE Celine Dion?? Not cool.
Also…can someone explain to me how Taylor managed to have the most boring Schiaparelli dress ever made?? Like…HOW?!
Everything about Taylor is so performative and over the top. It’s crazy that people think everything about her if genuine. When your as famous as her and are at an event where there are cameras filming everything, you know that every action will be picked- up upon, and in Taylor’s case, will go viral or be analysed or praised by millions of people.
So for example when Taylor is at an awards show and an other female artist wins an award. Taylor is the first one to jump out of her seat, and stand first whilst everyone is still sitting, and jump up and down clapping. All her fans see this and think, ‘wow Taylor is so amazing, the way she supports other women’. Taylor know this, and she’s also inserted herself into someone else’s narrative and got attention for their win at the same time.
She’s very smart, I’ll give her that.
I’ve been waiting for the backlash, and here it is. No woman is allowed to claim her space in this world, or make a careless mistake.
Thank you, Angela.
Women are judged so harshly. Live and let live, it’s not that hard.
Thank you. This exactly.
Come on, let’s not do white feminism.
She’s being criticized for that mistake. No one is above reproach and when people make mistakes they are called and sometimes they apologize. Let’s see… since this was a mistake… if she apologizes instead of using a photo for damage control to quell people criticizing her for her mistake.
Kind of tacky? It was TACKY up and down. She also took a dig at Miley Cyrus for some reason.
1. Blanked out Celine,
2. Bragged about it being her 13th to Miley’s first grammy ever and Mileys lucky number 3 to Swifty’s 13. I feel she was jealous straight up and announced it just to one up her because she copied her speech. It was a dig and she knows it. She is not a girl’s girl.
3. Promoted herself so shamelessly …
I was one for those people really dug her this year and started following for the first time ever and looking forward to what she was doing. But she has not changed and kinda got worse. Holding on to old grudges at her age and being me me me me me when she already has it all was very tacky. This night wasn’t about just her. Anyhow it’s not like she cares but I didn’t follow her try hard shit before but seeing it in full display was something. Do you Taylor… get those Grammy’s step all over people and don’t change how self absorbed you are.
Miley damn girl huge fan! The outfits, the attitude, the graciousness and the amazing performance had me re-watching over and over. She looks happy, like really really happy.
I wish them both well. I just didn’t get why she came so salty to this event.
Jeez the comments here about a successful woman who works her arse off and gets awards for it sound so bitter and ugly. Not surprising since that tracks on CB. Some people in this thread are genuinely twisted.
I didn’t mind the dress, hated the accessories. She did diss Celine but that was clearly over excitement and they had those nice pics later. But all this bs about her taking all the oxygen, how can she help what others do when she’s awarded and often the focus.. Some of you guys are simply derangers when it comes to Swift.
She was born on third base and thinks she actually hit a triple. Gimme a break. 🙄
What are you going to do now that she refuses to listen to others and embraces her success as she should? Cry more, I guess.
This saying applies to so many men, but I don’t really get it as applied to Taylor. She came from a normal family who owned a Christmas tree farm near Philadelphia. It’s not like she was born into a famous musical family. She didn’t even have Billy Cyrus as a dad (though that must have been its own nightmare).
Again, I think she should have acknowledged Celine.
Her dad is very successful stockbroker so, while they did own a Christmas tree farm, it isn’t exactly “aw, shucks, we were just Christmas tree farmers.” Swift definitely inherited business savvy.
The saying DOES apply to Taylor, actually. Late last year, court documents of a dispute between Taylor’s old/first manager and her/her family made the rounds. Included was an interesting email from her father, ranting and boasting about having multiple homes (2 in PA and at least one vacation home he made a “nice profit” off of), a boat, and investing hundreds of thousands of dollars into her career back when she was a teenager. She’s downplayed her background significantly (a lot like her friend Lana, funnily enough). She was rich from birth.
She has to be one of the most inauthentic, disingenuious, self-rightous , entitled “artists” out there and I’m sick of seeing her. But she is the walking, talking personification of white supremacy so of the course the industry will give her AOTY forever, even posthumously, instead of recognizing women of color.
Can she just go away?
For what it’s worthy, I like her and hope she continues to write and publish music. She’s great and I love watching a woman at the top of her game.
Walking, talking personification of white supremacy is very insulting, especially directed at someone who is taking a very public stand in favour of the democratic party.
Dems are just as racist as Republicans. Voting for the party doesn’t mean one is magically not racist.
“Walking, talking personification of white supremacy is very insulting,”
That’s a hard no from me.. She’s continually infantalized if any critique is made about her. Meanwhile Megan The Stallion gets shot and people immediately jump to victim blaming.
TS is the queen of weaponized femininity.
I am not a big fan of either Celine Dion or Taylor.
I do not buy or listen to their music unless it pops up on the radio.
But! Celine has had a huge career and her health issues are very well known.
Taylor should have had the good manners and shown respect by going right to Celine to collect her award. Look her right in the eyes, say a few words.
Celine is rarely seen in public, it took a lot for her to attend and present at the Grammys.
Taylor is 34, stop jumping around like it’s 8th grade!
Easy enough to act calm, shake hands warmly with CD, say how lovely it is to have CD present this award.
It would have been so quick and classy.
These award shows continue to be irritating to me. These are wealthy, successful performers. So many seem to have no idea how to behave. Miley Cyrus once again takes the stage and screeches out “I just won a Grammy, y’all” Geez. Hey, you are not at a barn dance here, Miley. Dolly Parton would never act this way!
Drunk, high, stupid, rude, or top level Narcs? Some are all of the above.
I still can’t get over how Kanye stormed the stage with Taylor to carp about how Beyonce should have won, and that was years ago. Whoever is supposed to be in charge needs to get control of these fools.
You couldn’t have said all that without leaving Kayne out of it from what he did years go? I can’t stand him but it’s interesting how many people feel the need to denigrate Black men and women in defense of her.
Defend Taylor without deriding a Black person challenge.
I want to give her some points for trying something a bit more mature, a bit less demure than what we’ve seen before, but the hair, my God, the hair. It’s a “wet poodle” look, it looks flat, greasy, ratty 🫣 Girl, get a new glam team, this one does not have your best interests at heart.
Taylor Swift has reached max over exposure months ago.
This look?
Kate Middleton cosplay, dirty, greasy looking hair, too much jewelry. And her behavior is just soooo constantly seeking attention. She and her “Squad” PR team are everywhere!
Celine Dion, Joanie Mitchell, Annie Lennox, Billy Joel were all in person. All of whom have had huge careers lasting decades.
Taylor just sucks all the air out of the room. All.the.time.
I’m guessing Taylor wouldn’t have seen Kate’s BAFTA look. It’s not like Kate is a style icon, no matter what the derangers say.
But I loathe the black evening glove/white gown combo on everyone.
I loved the gloves! Nobody should wear an elegant evening dress without gloves. I can’t believe more women don’t wear them at the Oscars. They should. It completes their look.
Her hair was a hot mess, as was her makeup, but I thought her dress was gorgeous~and I like the gloves, I have NO IDEA why so many are in an uproar about them. LOL. Clearly there are no longer fashion “rules” to follow in this new digital age, people need to start adapting!! Or just keep telling the sartorial equivalent of ” get off my lawn”. 😂
If you’re going to wear an elegant dramatic white gown then keep everything else simple. The hair should be up in a chignon or twist and minimal but elegant jewelry. If that isn’t edgy enough for the Grammys then wear something funkier
Agreed. I think she should have done side swept sculpted old Hollywood finger waves with this look and it looks like the hairdresser might have started along these lines and didn’t have time to finish whatever is going on here. The dress and gloves are fine. I don’t get why everyone is hating it.
Taylor grew up in my town. I know many of her former classmates and one of her grade school teachers. Her dad at one time sold advertising for a country music radio station and that’s how he had Nashville contacts. She was not popular. Preferring to be alone with her notebooks. She’s now reliving her teenage years as the prom queen dating the star of the football team.
After watching the clip… she really should have acknowledged Celine. A kind word, a “What an honor” moment, a tiny bow in jest or some kind of nod to her, a kind tribute to the absolute legend handing her her award. Anything. She could have honestly said or done anything acknowledging Celine for 0.5 seconds and this would have been a thousand times better. I also think she could have acknowledged Beyoncé if she was going to acknowledge Lana… but it definitely felt like a huge miss that she immediately started showering Jack and Lana with accolades and didn’t even make eye contact with Celine.
The whole thing was weird and awkward AF IMO. I can’t believe Taylor made more of a stink over Lana del Rey (who I love) than a literal icon like Celine Dion. I can only speak for myself as a gay boy who grew up in the 90s, but I would have lost my sh!t up there on stage with Celine.
I can’t believe Taylor Swift has four Albums of the Year. The Grammys are a joke. There has been nothing memorable about any of the albums she won for.
Coming back to say that I saw video of Taylor’s dress and it’s so much better “live” than in photos. That said, the jewelry and gloves for me still don’t really work. As for winning yet another AOTY, and her onstage behavior…well. Disappointed but not surprised
This entire look is embarrassingly bad, imo.