BREAKING: White Girls Discover Taylor Swift Might Not Be Such a Great Role Model
Taylor Swift, the white feminist icon beloved by self-victimizing white women everywhere, released an additional four songs to her 2025 album, The Life of a Showgirl (TLS), on Sept. 25, 2026. The drop, titled The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore, was teased as early as February 2026 in her “Opalite” music video. With the release of the deluxe, Swift broke the Spotify record for most streamed female artist in a single day, thanks to the hard work of millions of AI bots and the now-water-scarce towns in rural Ohio.
Despite the record-breaking numbers, fans seem to be telling a different story. Many Swifties who previously purchased TLS felt disappointed from this followup, claiming that Swift just wanted to increase sales at the expense of fans. Those who already purchased the album now have to balance their paycheck to both feed themselves and buy the latest album from their close personal friend Taylor. With this release, a difficult-to-swallow moral dilemma is presented—could it be possible that the corporate billionaire is exploiting consumers out of personal greed?
“It just kind of seemed like she was releasing music … just to have more things to make money off of,” said Isla V. Munee, a 19-year-old sophomore at KMU (King Midas University) majoring in Love Thy Neighbor and Corporate Capitalism.
Munee, who worked at Doofenshmirtz Evil Inc. this past summer, said that her internship and majors have influenced the way she consumes media, including how she felt about Swift. “I really loved it when she released the #girlboss [sic] ‘Taylor’s Versions,’ but then she started to come out with exclusive tracks, charge $1,000 for nosebleeds, even re-release the same songs again…while she’s already a billionaire. It kind of felt like what I learned at my internship: how to optimize the Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization for a business.”
Wyatt Teers, a 16-year-old from Nashville (she’s actually from New Jersey but is really attached to her southern roots), has loved Swift since before she can remember. “Taylor has been with me through, like, every stage of my life, like all the struggles and hardship I’ve gone through as a girl in a man’s world,” said Teers, speaking to the INDY after her 8 a.m. pilates class, donning a matching Alo set and Golden Gooses.
Teers is also inspired by how Swift’s platform is used to uplift women in a male-dominated career. “She’s literally like my feminist icon. Even though she hasn’t said anything about the 50,000 women who have been killed or severely injured in the last 3 years in Gaza. And her husband was ‘honored’ to play in front of Trump, the convicted rapist. And she sued her protégé over a song with an already-stolen chorus. Love her though. Like, not all women get to have their own private jet. She’s basically the modern-day Amelia Earhart.” The white feminists have declined to comment on this statement.
Fans are also starting to find out that her music just isn’t what it used to be. From plagiarism allegations to TikTokers “predicting” her next lyrics, some have found that Swift is starting to lose her touch. “She used to be my Shakespeare. Now, I think maybe ChatGPT could write songs better than her,” said Munee.
Online critics have compared her songs to boiled chicken and rice, AI slop, and J.C. Penney music, while her peak demographic of SEC sorority girls have gaslit themselves into thinking Swift is still a lyrical mastermind. So, what do the fans—who have devoted countless hours seeking Easter egg clues about her album, spent thousands of dollars on her brand, and committed their whole lives listening to their goddess and savior Taylor—do now? How can they reconcile her desire to maximize shareholder value with their image of her as a small-town country girl who made it out of the farm?
Teers offers her solution: “I’m probably going to get concert tickets and purchase the vinyl.”
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Minhal Nazeer is a junior in the SFS majoring in Culture and Politics and minoring in Herd Mentality. She is fearful of getting cancelled and/or hatecrimed by the Swiftzillas for this piece.
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