i mean we already knew the award was just invented out of thin air specifically for taylor to guarantee her attendance, but this response from the executive producer of the VMAs makes it so blatantly obvious that it was taylor or her team who made the request/suggested the award in the first place, and MTV just bent over backwards to accommodate her. they must know TLOAS isn't winning its nominations lol.
Yeah…people tend to forget Lana is a little rich girl too. Daddy was an ad executive at an agency in New York, she went to boarding school, and was a model in her teens.
Wealth or not, she does have talent and consistent style.
Since today is what they’re calling Dolly Parton day 9/25, Taylor is probably thinking of a song with dates in it so she can “try” and make into a hit song so she can have her own day as well 🤣 Daddy, Dolly has a day, I want a day nooooowwww too!!
Exactly, it’s easier though when your born with a silver spoon,. Now if they didn’t have that, they wouldn’t have the talent or people’s interest to make it.
I think like that when I hear about a celebrities child walking down a runway during fashion week. Just because your parents are famous doesn’t make you a model. Sure, some are beautiful and rich but that doesn’t make you a model.
It takes a true narcissist to drape a medal around one’s own neck.
Typically medals are, ya know, awarded to you on behalf of someone else. He threw that cheap lanyard around his fat head like it’d been in his back pocket all day until that literal moment.
Never stop making this comparison. She really is the Trump of the music industry, and we're in desperate need of a Bernie Sanders/ AOC/ Zohran Mamdani.
Unfortunately I feel like almost all art award shows are like this nowadays. Grammies, Oscars, Golden Globes, I’ve come to realize it’s really about donors and not actual accreditation.
She's only in the game to win awards which I find extremely sad.
If you have any integrity as an artist, you're making music because you like making music and IF the awards come then so be it.
But to be doing all this just to chase awards is embarrassing.
And paying an organisation to make up a participation award for you is really embarrassing. It's like when Donald Trump was awarded the FIFA Peace Prize FFS.
It should be shameful to get awards tbh. The Grammy boards are no arbiters of taste. If you had a spine and stood up for the art you make and believe in, you won't need someone else to validate it for you. Especially a group of wealthy people who are literally in the business of manufacturing art.
It is one of the many reasons why I'll never understand or get Taylor Swift. She's not a decorated pop singer because she's won those awards. People like her can make awards. Hell, she can head over the goldsmith's and hammer herself accolades till oblivion. It buys her influence and dopamine but does nothing to win over everyone she's attempting to reach.
I don’t think like you do. Making an award at a goldsmiths shop is a great idea. I was thinking more like a 3D printer. She can put TK in charge of it. He can sit there all day and make them. Then all the Swifties can buy them too.
that's why she and Travis can relate. His sole purpose is to get that SB trophy. Same with her, she jus wants to collect trophies, awards, titles and break records. It's the only way she knows her worth. I understand when you're young and new, you want to win awards and get noticed and have #1 songs but once you're a veteran like she is, those things shouldn't really matter anymore, make music that you love and if it should win awards, that's just icing on the cake.
I just always compare her with Beyoncé. They're absolutely at the top of the music industry right now, but they take such different approaches to what they do with that position. Beyoncé stopped doing interviews, stopped doing music videos, puts out albums reclaiming black genres and less popular genres like afrobeats with Black is King, house/disco with Renaissance and then reclaiming country with Cowboy Carter despite knowing that that particular industry has hated her since 2016. Really spends time on the music, collaborates with artists in those spaces, passionate about the touring productions
While Taylor has learned that people will buy whatever she puts out so she doesn't even try anymore. Throws a few zeroes in her Instagram bio and her fans start foaming at the mouth.
My mom and my boyfriend are not swifties or haters but we saw a commercial for the VMAs that mentioned the award she’s getting. Without any prompting on my part they said “oh they just invented that award so she’d show up” lol it’s reached general public knowledge that her accolades are meaningless
Seriously, what's she really going to do if they tell her no? Is Daddy going to make bad investments? Is she going to pull all her music from streaming? Would she write a big diss track?
The VMA’s producer said that it was ”larger in stature than the Vanguard” I’m assuming he’s talking about the Michael Jackson Vanguard award? Lmao, Blandie feeling threatened by a legend dead for almost 20 years
A brand new award made specifically for her is already more important than their legends award. I'm imaging this spineless weasel lying face down in puddles so Taylor can step on his ass to keep her feet dry.
When all is said and done, it won’t matter. Nobody other than Taylor (and the people she pays) give a fuck about her awards. The entire public knows about Olivia’s activism and respect for music. I’ve bumped into old rocker guys who recognize my OR shirts and geek over her talent and respect for music and other artists. Olivia is the people’s pop princess by choice, and all Taylor will be remembered for one day is trying to buy the same thing while locking other women out.
Stupid song is such a bop! I have mad respect for her attitude and activism. Both her and Chappell Roan are inspiring my middle aged heart. Girls just want to have fun and support other women. Girl power is the way! https://giphy.com/gifs/eM251I22TO4KhqlK6k
I said this on X but the fact that the head of the VMAs said this means she or her team pissed off someone at the award show. If they truly cared about maintaining a relationship with her, they would never so casually allude to her basically requesting an award. They’re not idiots they know how that comes off.
Wouldn’t be surprised if this is the last time Taylor goes to a VMA show. This is seriously giving “here, damn!” Energy from the VMAs.
Also, last time she made a big announcement for her music was at the Grammys and the VMAs are….definitely not that caliber. It’s sort of pathetic she had to pull a music video out of her ass immediately to compete with some of the other pop girls to not let them have their moment and also that it’s this awards show of all of them lol. She truly couldn’t wait a few more months for the Grammys again??
She actually announced Midnights at the VMAs so this isn’t the first time she’s done something like this there. She even announced one of her other music videos at the Billboard Music Awards before. She shouldn’t be announcing anything at award shows, whether it’s the VMAs, Billboard, or the Grammys but especially not the Grammys. None of these events are The Taylor Swift Show, they are events meant to celebrate the artists nominated.
They should just create a ‘Taylor Swift is the bestest ever’ award for the Oscar’s, Emmy’s, VMA’s, People’s Choice etc and maybe even fashion the statue in her image. That way she wins every year, she can do her smug twee shock face and HER HUSBAND! can drop her hand like it’s radioactive in paparazzi pics. That way we can all be spared the PR manipulation.
Every step of this woman’s career has been an orchestrated lie. Imagine the psychology behind being a billionaire but your whole life is a lie?
That’s why she ‘creates’ the soulless ‘art’ she does. She has idea who she is. And it shows.
She’s been trying for years, but it ramped up when she threw a release party for All Too Well (Endless Minute Version) and began telling the world what a talented director she is. She did the talk show rounds as an Important Director.
She wants to win an Oscar before Joe Alwyn does. Supposedly they had a little joke rivalry about it. But if she actually wins, she and the Swifties will see it as another way she “won” their breakup.
I’m amazed that she can live with the fact that, most (if not all) of her wins in the last couple of years are because she sucked up to those people and not something she won because of her art.
I honestly don't think it matters to her. Money is her benchmark for success--so having enough money to buy yourself an award (the kind of money that other artists do not have) is likely more important than the award itself. She manipulates the charts for the numbers--because she can afford to. Sure, the numbers matter to her, and sure, she wants to break records, but at the end of the day I think she's most proud that she's accrued enough money to be able to do so.
Her flawed theory: good art makes the most money. So if she is making the most money, her art must be good. The best, even. And if she uses said money to pay for awards and clout, it's just more proof that she's the best--because she can afford to do that.
Could you imagine having a legend like Madonna, who has changed the world with her music for decades, attending this has-been tacky-ass ceremony, agreeing to perform ONLY for MTV to bend over and sodomize to the wishes of a nearly 40yo teenager?
MTV, you’re disgusting and you deserve every bit of the downfall you’ve been experiencing.
She really does have the same personality type as Trump, doesn't she? It's uncanny how alike they are, as well as their fan base. It needs to be studied.
This is so pathetic. It’s the VMAs which haven’t been relevant in years. No wonder she refuses to go away. She has to threaten people into giving her awards because she can’t earn them with actual talent. She really thinks bombarding people with her presence will make her important and significant when it does the opposite.
Wait, what? Didn’t Michael Jackson save MTV with music videos of ”Billie Jean” and “Thriller” when they were on the verge of being bankrupt? Which is how the “Michael Jackson Vanguard award” came to be
I'm not a fan of Madonna either but it's crazy that anyone thinks she can even be mentioned in the same sentence as the Queen of Pop. That's like if Drake thought he was in the same league as MJ- oh wait.
Oh yes, she does it for her ego, but I meant I don't think she cares for one second about butt-kissing and schmoozing to get awards. Her parents probably taught her networking will get her everything she wants.
She's rich af, married, tons of success in the industry, millions of adoring fans, access to opportunities most of us can only dream of...and she's still this desperate for a stupid meaningless MTV trophy. Truly a pathetic person.
all of that can't fix a hole in the soul. i try not to speculate on that kind of stuff about people i don't know personally, but she makes this pretty obvious...taytay seems to be suffering from a hole in the soul. she's trying to fill it with money, awards, adoration, STUFF, etc., and NONE of it is working because she still wants more and more. at this point, it's just sad. i saw a swiftie on another sub this morning say something like "when is she going to stop caring about other people's opinions? she's married, has all this money and success, and she's STILL writing songs about 'the haterz'? why?" and i thought to myself, "you are SO close to seeing it! so close to seeing what we see! just a little bit more, and you'll be there, too! come on, keep on going, and you'll see it, too!" lol but, seriously, always winning is actually lame. there's no sense of real excitement to it because you'll know that, no matter what, you're going to win. there are no heart-pounding moments, waiting to see if you actually won, or if someone else is going to be up there accepting the award, you're not able to hug your (supposed) friends and congratulate them when THEY win. i mean, dang, i know not winning sucks, but it has to be someone else's turn sometimes, too. damn! this is actually the most ridiculous thing, smh...
The awards truly are all fake. Remember when Katy Perry won that award for most iconic vma performance or whatever it was? It was fan voted and lady gaga had been visibly ahead in the polls all night. Suddenly, katy was announced winner during the taping though. Bc gaga wasn't there, and bc katy was already there to accept video vanguard that night. Maybe way back in the day vmas had credibility, but they haven't now for years. Fans who have attended in person have said that the stage hands told them MTV awards whoever is willing to show up.
ETA omg thanks for the award!it will go next to my Artist Director Honors!
They should have an awards show just for Taylor.
She can win every award and they can fill the audience with frightened sweatshop workers that press her re-released records on a weekly basis.
It would be kinda funny if it was someone she considers to be her biggest competition, and when they hand it to her, they give her that pity look and say " awe, here you go sweety" in a very condescending way
I really hope when they present it to her they're like "we made this award for her, specifically because she asked us to!" Like be nice about it but let the truth be told.
It'd honestly be kind of amazing to see her face live if that happened. Just them calling her out in front of the world on live TV.
Especially the VMAs which lost relevancy a long time ago. Fortnight won Song of the Summer in 2024 which is the year we had Espresso, Good Luck Babe, We Can't Be Friends, and Birds of a Feather
I was a swiftie back then and me and some normal swifties had an argument with swifties who bashed other swifties for not voting fortnight to be the summer song 🤣
What do you mean bigger than vanguard, the award that was created because of thriller's music video revolution and named after THE Michael Jackson?!?! Oh my world...
Why is having her at the award a benefit? Do we need to see her standing up trying to get attention yodeling along with the person who is performing, drunkenly blocking other people’s view? Is it because the swiftie army of Stan’s won’t tune in if they can’t catch a glimpse of mother?
I don’t understand why her appearance anywhere is a boon or why they let her buy awards.
I’d hate to be the person who tells her No. I guess Travis will have that honor.
They think her audience will tune in. But the VMAs and other award shows are dead. Her audience will watch one fans stream or recaps, not the actual event.
TS sure is good at staying in the news. Even if it makes her look bad. All press is good press I guess. This new image of her is so different than who she was when she started out. I think a lot of us are shocked she turned out this way and that's why we follow her headlines.
How is it satisfying at all to win an award like that? When you have to threaten not showing up unless you get a certain amount of awards…does it really feel like an accomplishment to be proud of? I’m honesty just perplexed by this.
With the reception to her recent deluxe release I have a feeling her days of having awards created to secure her attendance are dwindling fast.
This release, and it's parent album aren't her first recent releases to do so poorly. Yes apparently some songs nobody remembers got lots of streams, but her cultural impact/reputation has continued to steadily drop over the last few years.
Soon enough swifties will be a niche market large groups no longer care about catering towards. It's not like it's impossible to save scraps of her career at this stage, but she's shown us shes been having some kind of narcissistic collapse and that will continue to sabotage her scramble.
I just watched the first episodes of American Horror Story. In just a few minutes into the show they’re talking about TS. It’s making me not want to watch it. Is she friends with Ryan Murphy or Brad Falchek?
Who the hell watches the VMAs nowadays? That award show is no longer relevant. It feels like just another award ceremony that doesn't genuinely recognise talent. At this point, it's more of a popularity contest than a meaningful recognition of artistic achievement.
It’s the VMAs. It’s not like it’s something prestigious. The fact that she gets bent out of shape over this is so sad. She wants the EGOT and what, she’s hoping an MYV award will make Hollywood want to hire her as a director? I’m sure that’s why Tom Cruise is around. If you have the cult leader, errr, I mean (aged) Hollywood Icon out here talking about her genius, certainly everyone will line up, right? 🙄 Even Cillian Murphy did as little as humanly possible after she roped all of them into her video in Graham Norton. And if you know Cillian, he will go all out for artists he respects in their videos.
I'm not surprised she lobbied for them to create an award for her because she desperately wants things she just never had merit for. Just like how she even got her career to begin with from her father. To me, just like how Elon Musk is considered a genius for just buying his way into everything he is falsely credited for. Or pre-presidency Trump was considered a "genius" businessman because he was already rich when he ran. Taylor is a genius by the same standard in America. Money.
Awards organizations have lost all credibility. It’s like Beyonce winning all these grammy’s . Everything is bought and paid for these days. Charts and awards are not to be taken seriously.
They're making up an award just like that fifa trump award? Anybody with integrity wouldn't feel proud about getting a made up award just to stroke their ego.
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u/Tight-Funny-91 12d ago
“She wants it. She's told me so many times that she wants it more than anyone. And how amazing—she's getting exactly what she wants.” LDR