{"id":942,"date":"2026-07-06T22:39:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T22:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movingandmortgagehub.com\/?p=942"},"modified":"2026-07-06T22:39:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T22:39:18","slug":"in-defense-of-taylor-swifts-bad-taste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movingandmortgagehub.com\/?p=942","title":{"rendered":"In Defense of Taylor Swift\u2019s Bad Taste"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" a=\"\" alt=\"A pairing of two photos. On the right is a photo taken outside of Madison Square Garden of a digital white sign that reads \" arena,=\"\" at=\"\" background.\"=\"\" black=\"\" building.=\"\" class=\"wp-image-941\" closely=\"\" cropped=\"\" diptych=\"\" empire=\"\" food=\"\" height=\"575\" in=\"\" inset=\"\" is=\"\" just&#038;t=\"\" left=\"\" line=\"\" looking=\"\" magenta-colored=\"\" married!\"=\"\" of=\"\" on=\"\" our=\"\" outside=\"\" people=\"\" photo=\"\" right,=\"\" sans=\"\" serif=\"\" shadow=\"\" side=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/movingandmortgagehub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/adab517507e8e6f6cf1ce9a0c779033f-1024x575.webp\" state=\"\" swift=\"\" taylor=\"\" the=\"\" to=\"\" truck=\"\" type.=\"\" up=\"\" width=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/movingandmortgagehub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/adab517507e8e6f6cf1ce9a0c779033f-1024x575.webp 1024w, https:\/\/movingandmortgagehub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/adab517507e8e6f6cf1ce9a0c779033f-300x169.webp 300w, https:\/\/movingandmortgagehub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/adab517507e8e6f6cf1ce9a0c779033f-768x432.webp 768w, https:\/\/movingandmortgagehub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/adab517507e8e6f6cf1ce9a0c779033f-1536x863.webp 1536w, https:\/\/movingandmortgagehub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/adab517507e8e6f6cf1ce9a0c779033f-1280x720.webp 1280w, https:\/\/movingandmortgagehub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/adab517507e8e6f6cf1ce9a0c779033f.webp 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>\u201cThe more I read<\/span>, the more embarrassed I am for everyone involved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Secondhand humiliation was the looming theme of a group chat on July 3, as friends and I, like the rest of the world, took in the details that emerged from Taylor Swift\u2019s wedding to Travis Kelce inside Madison Square Garden. There was the couple\u2019s own logo, a personalized T&amp;T that appeared on everything from wedding handkerchiefs to custom furniture, before dramatically showing up on the \u201cJUST&amp;T MARRIED\u201d signs that flashed outside the venue. Nearby, the Empire State Building lit up as Swift\u2019s \u201csomething blue.\u201d There were the raffled off luxury gifts that included Cartier watches and a vintage car. Blown-up couple photos draped across the walls.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/movingandmortgagehub.com\/?p=939\">Wall Street Just Won\u2019t Stop Financing the Fossil Fuel Industry\u2019s Expansion<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s easy to imagine the superstar going feral as she brainstormed all the ways she could bend the world\u2019s most famous arena to her local prom queen sensibilities. Swift, after all, is a billionaire, and the possibilities for cringe are endless. Plus, people tend to lose their minds when they\u2019re planning the most heteronormative, ordinary, domestic thing anyone can do. How else do you explain inviting 1,000 people to a wedding?<\/p>\n<p>Yet for all the skin-crawling aesthetics, there was something joyful about watching the most famous woman alive so unapologetic in the same corniness that has always accompanied her meteoric fame and throw a giant-ass party. Was it intimate? Wasn\u2019t there, couldn\u2019t tell ya. Is beer-soaked MSG my idea of romance? Yuck. But these are the choices of a woman who has been singing about imaginary weddings for an entire career, and the stress of whittling down the guest list for a small event was something she already told us she\u2019d be avoiding. (\u201cI\u2019m not gonna do that,\u201d is what Swift told Graham Norton, one of the 1,000 guests eventually invited.) It was as if by drenching her wedding in extreme ridiculousness, Swift was confirming, as Tyler Foggatt wrote in the <em>New Yorker,<\/em> that she, like her fans, viewed her nuptials as the grand \u201cnarrative closure\u201d to years of public heartbreak and pining. That might seem embarrassing to admit for some. But that\u2019s probably one of a billion reasons why you and I aren\u2019t Taylor Swift.<\/p>\n<p>Still, do storybook endings grant unlimited license to committing some of the goofiest wedding details I\u2019ve ever come across, when private islands for the ultra-wealthy are right there? Some of the sneering has been justified; the extravagant details from Swift\u2019s wedding are indeed the consequences of what happens when billionaires exist. Others, mad about the event, blamed Swift for causing power outages in the area. (It \u201cabsolutely did not,\u201d a Con Ed spokesperson later confirmed.) But did you really expect anything less? Creating a spectacle out of romance is bread and butter to Swift\u2019s lore, and even for all the tackiness, I can\u2019t help but admire Swift\u2019s dedication to decidedly unhip, unabashed romantic kitsch when everyone\u2019s in an arms race to exercise taste these days.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/movingandmortgagehub.com\/?p=936\">\u201cMorally reprehensible\u201d: Prediction Markets Offer Bets on Wildfires<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s especially true for the other billionaires of the same set. Take, for instance, Lauren S\u00e1nchez Bezos, a try-hard who operates under the assumption that style can be purchased; Mark Zuckerberg palling it around with Kylie Jenner after sitting front row of Prada like that\u2019s not awkward as hell; the AI overlords who think taste can be developed and sold for profit. Sure, Swift\u2019s own proclivities might be steeped in the same luxury. But the context in which Swift\u2019s money appears, at least when it comes to her wedding, is rooted in something different, a quality that can\u2019t be bought or machine-learned: earnestness. It\u2019s the same quality that has been central to both Swift\u2019s art and enormous popularity. How else do you explain a 20-minute vow that leaves a grown man in tears? It certainly wasn\u2019t anywhere in the last headline-making billionaire wedding.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor Swift might be the uncoolest bride on earth, and that\u2019s refreshing. Then again, to be unbothered with externally imposed notions of what a \u201ccool\u201d bride should look like is its own kind of luxury.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/movingandmortgagehub.com\/?p=933\">America\u2019s 250th Birthday Will Be a Scorcher Not All Will Survive<\/a><\/p>\n<\/article>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The superstar\u2019s unabashed embrace of her corniness is refreshing in an age of \u201ccool bride\u201d sameness and AI-engineered taste buds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>In Defense of Taylor Swift\u2019s Bad Taste - 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