The Hype Around Taylor Swift's Wedding Seems Forced

It seems public good will has run out for Taylor and Travis and the media is working overtime to try get us to care.

It’s important to remember that public relations (PR) drives much of what makes it to the news and what we talk about. So a good indicator of when someone has hired a PR agency to push their story is when many major news outlets are reporting on it, but engagement is super low. No news outlet is going to continue organically pushing content if it's obvious the public doesn’t care.

And, IMO, we’re seeing that now with Taylor Swift’s wedding. Like this post from People Magazine that has less than 7,000 likes on a page with 14.7 million followers:

By comparison, I posted a photo of my horse on Reddit two days ago, and it got 100,000+ upvotes. Not bragging, just illustrating that my pet gets more attention on an animal subreddit than Taylor Swift’s wedding is getting on the top social media website from the leading celebrity news publication.

When she announced her engagement on August 26 of last year, that did have real hype. And you could see it. Posts about it had high engagement. Lots of people were sharing the news or Taylor’s engagement photos on their stories. People were making Reels and TikToks about it. Now that we see the wedding is actually here, it’s a tiny fraction of the interest we had then. It does not seem like people care that much, which tells me: Taylor Swift has officially fallen from public grace.

Stuff has been piling up against Taylor for years, and her public strategy has always been to play it safe and go with whatever the popular opinion is. And only if she must. She was hounded about her politics for years before she finally showed support for Democratic candidates. And even then, people are skeptical about her politics - I posted a TikTok about her once, and people in the comments were calling her “MAGA Barbie”.

I feel Taylor Swift works incredibly hard and diligently to craft a public persona, but that persona clashes with who she actually is, as evidenced by her actions. She promotes this girl’s girl thing, and she wants the credit for being progressive. But then she’s out polluting the environment with excessive private jet use - which she will not scale back on despite enormous public backlash. And now with her wedding, we see that she has ties to some truly awful people. One of her guests is Steven J. Demetriou, a man responsible for running ICE detention centers.

I also find Taylor to be incredibly disingenuous. She had the surrounding block of Madison Square Garden blocked in the name of “privacy”. But then she does weird shit like having Adam Sandler officiate her wedding (a Zionist btw). Why are you always doing things to get your name in the news and then crying about privacy, Taylor? And why did you invite 1,000 people?? I refuse to believe that either Taylor or Travis is a close friend of Hugh Grant, and yet he is at their wedding?

Shutting down busy NYC streets on the Fourth of July, of all days, has New Yorkers rightfully complaining. This tweet from Maria Figuero encapsulates good points and info:

The Hollywood Reporter also published an article calling out the ridiculousness of Taylor’s wedding. And it truly is ridiculous. What is the point of having a wedding where you force all attendees to sign “ironclad NDAs,” only to host it at a major sports arena in one of the world’s most prolific and busiest cities during a holiday weekend? Contradictory behavior.

This wedding just seems like an elaborate display of Taylor's self-importance.