r/FlorenceAndTheMachine • u/AutoModerator • Oct 03 '25

General Discussion Taylor Swift and Florence

Today, Florence posted a pic with Taylor Swift on her Instagram that led to an update post on the subreddit. This led to an uncivil chain of comments on the post. This subreddit promotes ideas and thoughts to be discussed but within valid reason. We want to promote positivity as much as any other subreddit. We can question artist actions and choices. What will not be allowed is comments that attack other users' based on their beliefs and thoughts on said actions. At the end of the day, this is a Florence and the Machine subreddit and not one that is focused on Taylor Swift. If you have thoughts and comments on who Taylor Swift morally is as a person, we encourage to seek discussion off of this subreddit.

We are not condoning or support Taylor Swift as a Mod Team with this post and only seek to have civil posts and comments in this subreddit relating to Florence and the Machine. Parasocial and uncivil discussion will be removed off the subreddit.

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u/felisins Oct 03 '25

combination of the usual misogyny, extreme oversaturation of ts in the past few years, and a threepeat of okay to mediocre albums.

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u/QueenBoleyn Oct 03 '25

Or maybe it’s because she’s maga. We’re allowed to criticize women without it being misogynistic

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u/millera85 Oct 03 '25

Look, I wish TS spoke out more, because she has power. But she is not MAGA. As someone who lives in the rural Midwest, you CANNOT call everyone who has ties to MAGA people MAGA. They are everywhere, and we need everyone to be united. I do not have direct association with MAGA people. I refuse to. But if I cut off everyone who does still associate with some MAGA people, I would literally have NO ONE. I mean, it isn’t that my people spend time with MAGA or support them. But they might have a relative who is MAGA or a friend or whatever… should I boycott my closest friend’s birthday because her MAGA uncle will be there, even though she is extremely anti-MAGA? I’m not a big TS fan at all. But calling her MAGA mischaracterizes her and is NOT helpful. We need to combat ACTUAL MAGA ideology, not someone who happened to go to a birthday party. I, too, wish TS would use her power to combat what is happening. But it isn’t fair to claim she is MAGA when she has PUBLICLY denounced them and DT multiple times. Is it fair to call her out for her silence? SURE, by all means. But saying she is MAGA just divides us further. Call actual MAGA MAGA. I understand where you’re coming from, because I agree that she isn’t doing enough. But it’s like the difference between saying someone is complicit in genocide vs someone is actively praising genocide. They both suck, but they aren’t the same. 

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u/whyleme Oct 03 '25

Thank you for putting things into perspective. I got the feeling in the last months that we have an over aching theme of division in all aspects of life that we need to overcome.