Just to be clear, the photo above is of her childhood home in Wyomissing, PA, and the property is definitely much smaller than Kowloon Walled City. I'm guessing you're talking about a different property?
yeah but if you live there your parents leave you alone at Christmas and two guys attempt to break in and kill you so you have to improvise booby traps
That song was initially "Levittown," but he changed it to make the message appear to a wider audience. And Billy Joel sings about growing up on Long Island all the time! You can still meet him at his Scenes Italian Restaurant if you know the right neighborhood.
ITT: people who would have thrown away rap albums when they found out the rapper never actually dealt drugs defending a billionaire from a little joke she’ll never see.
So many celebrities and famous people grew up very well off, despite their relatable personas. If I ever get famous, I'll be upfront about not being average or typical. I'm not normal. Not better or worse, just not like most people.
I've met some famous people, and I wouldn't say that's entirely the case. I met some before they got famous, and they were genuinely skilled. However, they were so good thanks to their parents fostering their passion and paying for what they needed to improve. A minority of famous people actually grew up poor, but still made it. However, even they benefitted from forces outside their control like living near an artistic community or learning helpful ideas from some random person in their life.
Wealth doesn't hand people success, but it does give them opportunities. They become good at something because they had everything they needed to succeed, while most people don't. I've met rich kids who didn't succeed despite the wealth, although not succeeding as a rich kid is far more forgiving than not succeeding if you're poor.
Few people don't work hard for success, but most people work hard and aren't successful. Being born rich is luck, but so is having physical or mental traits that help you in what you do. Some people grow tall enough to play professional basketball, but most don't. That's not because they deserve it, but because they got lucky. That doesn't take away from basketball players hard work, but they were only able to succeed because chance allowed them to.
I mean her parents would drive to NY for singing and acting lessons, the family relocated to Nashville to enable her carrer, paid for private school, beautiful homes... by all accounts her family provided a strong foundation for her to launch.
She's been supported throughout her life, calling the way she was raised an "asylum" is kind of insulting to people that grew up wondering if there would be food on the table or if Dad was coming home angry again. Not to minimize her struggles but I'm willing to bet most people could actually last an hour
I mean that sounds like it could be a story about super supportive parents, or it sounds like it could be a story about super psycho pageant mom type parents.
Even if it's the former and they were genuinely supporting her dream and not their own, it still doesn't mean it wasnt manic or stressful or crazy.
Or it could just be a made up fictional lyric, or one meant to reference her own internal psychological struggles with the asylum she's trapped in being her own mind.
This meme quite frankly just seems like people who don't understand music trying and failing to clown on the popular girl.
Her father was one of the principals on the closing of DreamWorks Nashville. Big Machine records is what DreamWorks Nashville was rebranded as once severed from the rest of the corporate structure.
He essentially took the commission he got from selling Toby Keith's catalog and then reinvested it into Big Machine before it was open to other investors.
He essentially spent $2m to buy his daughter's career.
If you just compare your life to some of the worst off then yeah, no one ever gets to complain about anything.
This whole outrage is misunderstanding the fact that people can have problems, especially perceive themselves as having problems, that are on their own scale and not comparable to the world at large. Also her songs are written to be relatable to some extent and not just 100% autobiographical so more people can envision their own problems and circumstances. But that's like, 99% of music so it feels weird to say it.
Can some ELI5 Taylor Swift drama? I haven't listener to her since middle school, and my sister's keep trying to tell me what's up but I have no context.
a lot of times albums will have a flow from song to song. Sometimes they just have a collection of different songs, usually a thematic album will have an overall feel to it.
Wow it's magical how she's achieved her success despite all of the adversity. It makes my lifelong suicidal tendencies since grade schoole seem almost comical by comparison, and here I am disabledly miserable. She's just so inspirationish.