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    Photo of the Swift Asylum, it’s actually horrible! Just 3,600 sqft on 11 acres?? who could live like that!

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        Just to be clear, the photo above is of her childhood home in Wyomissing, PA, and the property is definitely much smaller than Kowloon Walled City. I’m guessing you’re talking about a different property?

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      yeah but if you live there your parents leave you alone at Christmas and two guys attempt to break in and kill you so you have to improvise booby traps

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      No argument that she’s from the wealth & privilege class

      But you don’t become the biggest pop star ever with a completely healthy upbringing, either, right?

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        …why not? Pop isn’t exactly a reaction like metal, punk or hyperpop, it’s just… The default genre of music she could have made?

        What unhealthy part of any upbringing would compel someone to make pop?

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          Anyone that driven was probably abused mentally to some degree at the very least… I know you think you’re being “funny” because it’s just “pop music”. Like being pop means it isn’t a horrible cut throat industry that regularly chews up and destroys child stars …

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            You know what else regularly grinds up and destroys children?

            Poverty.

            Which occurs to far more millions of people than whatever tf this princess went through

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            No, she had the fucken cash to sit around and get the fucken recording equipment and instruments for country songs. That shit ain’t cheap, and she started before the home recording revolution. So you know Papa Swift paid for some studio time. Its not abuse at all, its wealth and privilege to pursue what you want.

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              You’re not wrong on all your points but also jesus christ if you think DIY started after T Swift.

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                No, but in the 2010s it became much cheaper to record at home than it ever was and we saw countless artists come from that.

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                  I had prosumer home recording equipment back around the turn of the century, and it wasn’t anything new.

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                    How expensive was it though? Probably more than the cost of a cheap laptop and a USB mic.

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            From everything ive heard, it seems her parents were super supportive and understanding, from driving her hours away so she could get lessons/coaching, to moving across the country so she could start her career.

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            Abused mentally could mean not voted home coming queen. Tempest in a teapot can still be a tempest to someone fixated on the teapot.

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        But you don’t become the biggest pop star ever with a completely healthy upbringing, either, right?

        Sure you could. Why not?

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        But you don’t become the biggest pop star ever with a completely healthy upbringing, either, right?

        Paul McCartney had, by all accounts, an idyllic childhood

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        Keep it down, you might interrupt the circle jerk. Don’t worry, they will tire soon.

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      not only that, but a SUMMER HOME too?? the audacity, how can one live in only TWO houses?!