Taylor Swift’s tunes aren’t empowering, they’re whiny & drab – I’m sick of this ‘writing about your ex’ drivel

SHE’S named her latest album The Tortured Poets Department but Taylor Swift has created this insufferable Tortured Parents Society – and I’m one who refuses to add a single digit to the one billion times her latest album was streamed on Spotify in just a week

The reason? Folk like me are getting sick and tired of all this well-trodden ‘writing-about-your-ex’ trope. Her songs sound exactly the same and she isn’t a role model for the young girls who follow every step of her bejewelled knee-high boots.

Recent barbed comments about the US megastar are, without a single doubt, music to my Tay-tortured ears and I have never been more hopeful that the tide is turning.

When Pet Shop Boys front man Neil Tennant, a bloke with 40 years of bangers in his back pocket, had the gall to describe her music as “disappointing”, it felt like an awakening.

Finally, real truths have been spoken by a man with true talent but, of course, and predictably, the Swifties piled on.

The backlash on social media includes comments such as: “another ‘who’ speaking on the GOAT” , along with a reminder of Blank Space, Shake It off, Love Story…

Greatest Of All Time? – more like Generic Old Album Time.

Meanwhile, Denise Welch of Loose Women fame took a veiled swipe at Taylor, remarking: “I wasn’t aware she had an album out at all,” as she laughed through gritted teeth. “I wish her all the best.”

Which mum wouldn’t come out fighting for her boy? It is, and I’m talking to the uneducated non-Swifites here, Denise’s son Matty Healy who T-Swizzle disses for his stature on The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived.

Taylor cashing in on her ex’s flaws is, as her own song goes and her latest album shrieks, Nothing New.

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Once the hype surrounding her latest album subsides, so will the sales.

More parents should be like me.

Ms Swift is banned in my house – she’s like a broken record you just can’t shake off and I’d much sooner my daughters, aged 15 and 12, listened to the likes of Lizzo and Doja Cat, strong women with feisty, empowering songs.

Her songs are not female empowerment – they’re whining. Whinging about boys, whining about the press, whining about Kim Kardashian.

If Taylor’s madly in love one minute and bitching about her ex partners the next, what kind of an example is she setting to impressionable young girls? And don’t get me started on those toxic friendships where once close pals become frenemies whenever she feels like it.

I’m so glad my girls have better taste in music – I don’t want them to be sucked into this utter nonsense.

And when listeners tune in for the feuds – rather than actual quality tunes – there will inevitably come a time when the disses run dry and interest fades.

And when that time comes, where will this young powerhouse drag her material from then?

There’s a limited supply of names you can shame when you’re only 34.

And don’t give me, ‘spare a thought for the poor billionaire with two private jets and eight pads’, garbage.

It’s time she put her feet up, bathed in the glory of her success – but please could someone give her a one-way ticket out of here first?

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$4.1 Billion -Taylor Swift is personally expected to make from the global Eras Tour

£500 – Each Swifty is expected to spend on one of Taylor’s UK gigs (tickets, merchandise and more)