Taylor Swift: America's Cultural Colossus

[TripletDaddy]

Look guys we need to lay off of Levin here. When CJ and DDD made comments about his favorite pop princess needing a breast augmentation and how everyone was thinking that she needed a breast augmentation, it was clearly so over the line and inappropriate. It wasn't something innocuous like telling a parent on this board that he needs to make sure to have his children tested for an STD.

Levin was only joking that time. That was classic humor!

[TripletDaddy]

I like CJ. But I disagree with his assessment of TS's assets. I definitely think that she doesn't need a boob job. Her attractions can be found in her fresh young looks and her long angular limbs. She's definitely no Selena Gomez type, and she wouldn't want to be. "Coltish" is the best word I can think of to describe her charms. Such women don't need big boobs. It detracts from their attractiveness.

I don't think pasting bigger boobs on every woman across the spectrum improves every woman's charms unilaterally.

next.

[creekster]

I don't think pasting bigger boobs on every woman across the spectrum improves every woman's charms unilaterally.

Huh? If you (imputing an actor to the passive construction) are doing it to all women "across the spectrum" then it is being done unilaterally. Although the outcome may not be universal.

This entire thread jack is puerile. But you all know that.

[cougjunkie]

I like CJ. But I disagree with his assessment of TS's assets. I definitely think that she doesn't need a boob job. Her attractions can be found in her fresh young looks and her long angular limbs. She's definitely no Selena Gomez type, and she wouldn't want to be. "Coltish" is the best word I can think of to describe her charms. Such women don't need big boobs. It detracts from their attractiveness.

I don't think pasting bigger boobs on every woman across the spectrum improves every woman's charms unilaterally.

I like you as well KL.

I think someone with Taylors body type could definitely be enhanced by a little enhancement. I don't think she needs cartoon cans by any means. But at the most she is pushing a small B-cup. I think a nice comfortable C would really help her look more proportioned and not so skinny.

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

Interesting that Levin goes after junkie for this talk of breast enlargement. Nobody has talked about that subject more than Goatnapper on this board, or likely anywhere on planet earth, and Goat has suggested this is common talk in the military. I would've guessed Levin to be a patriot, not a rabid hater of the military and America. Honestly I'm not sure an all-American girl like TS would want Levin as a supporter. #sjbh

FTR I enjoy Ms. Swift's music while not being a particular fan of her looks. I am sure she would find my looks as disturbing as she would my musical talents.

[TripletDaddy]

None of this is news to Swift, as she has long been rumored to have either gone under the knife or want to do such.

http://www.celebdirtylaundry.com/2014/taylor-swift-boob-job-breast-implants-enhancement-plastic-surgery-photos/

“Taylor has always had a complex about her boobs. She says they are too flat and need to be perkier. Right now she’s making discreet inquiries, researching the type of procedure she wants. She’s excited about getting a new body and hopes it will help her love life.”

Other media types believe she already had it done

It's believed by many plastic surgeons that in 2012, Taylor Swift had a boob job. She insists she's never had any plastic surgery, but before and after photos tell a different story. Back in 2012 (before the alleged breast implants), Taylor Swift's breast size was just an A cup, but she's now sporting a C! People who argue against it believe she just wears padded bras. However, there's plenty more photos below where she's not wearing one. The noticeable transformation came when she was already 21 years old, so it can't be attributed to aging. In the left photo, she isn't wearing a bra and is barely an A cup.

[Jeff Lebowski]

None of this is news to Swift, as she has long been rumored to have either gone under the knife or want to do such.

http://www.celebdirtylaundry.com/2014/taylor-swift-boob-job-breast-implants-enhancement-plastic-surgery-photos/

Other media types believe she already had it done

Damn that T-Swifty. She is as shallow as CJ!

[cougjunkie]

Damn that T-Swifty. She is as shallow as CJ!

She was until she got that boob job!

[Moliere]

[Levin]

Sorry to interrupt your sexist boob parade, but back to the issue at hand:

It’s these last stats that should blow your mind. It isn’t just that Taylor managed to keep her platinum-weeker streak going. It isn’t just that she defied early predictions for 1989’s sales, beating the odds in a terrible climate for albums. Or that her risky and painstaking effort to cross fully from country to pop succeeded beyond anyone’s imaginings. It’s that her album is so, so much larger than anything else out there—she is the exception to every rule, standing astride the music business like a colossus.

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2014/11/taylor_swift_s_1989_sales_top_1_million_copies_here_s_what_that_says_about.html

[MarkGrace]

Sorry to interrupt your sexist boob parade, but back to the issue at hand:



http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/c...ays_about.html

You going to the tour?

[Levin]

Taylor Swift is not only "standing astride the music business like a colossus" -- and she is that -- she's is a global phenom of the sort unseen since Michael Jackson graced the stage. And what's even more remarkable -- and this is what I find most amazing -- is that she has maintained her sanity, unlike the person she is now being compared to in terms of worldwide dominance. She has kept her sense of humor; she's down to earth; she's the hardest working person out there; she takes nothing for granted; and she finds happiness in doing good for others, showing up to children's hospitals unannounced, donating millions to charity, and comforting grieving mothers who have lost their young children to cancer.

Behold your cultural export, America, and for once, be not ashamed.

[Levin]

She is doing really well of course but sales data is misleading since those numbers count digital downloads. Today's widespread distribution didn't exist even a little over a decade ago. Your stats would imply that her three albums should rank among the greatest of all time since she is the only one to accomplish this feat.

By now, I'm sure you realize how ignorant this statement is. Selling albums has never been harder than it is right now. See every person in the music business. I thought you were more knowledgeable than this. You sometimes seem smart.

[Levin]

Mods -- could you change the title of this thread to "Taylor Swift: America's Cultural Colossus"? Thanks.

[MarkGrace]

Damn, that was fast. Levin pulls some weight around here.