dodging the haters
- taylor swift
9 times taylor swift had the perfect response for haters
July 2, 2014 at 4:15:00 PM
She may be young Hollywood's most popular BFF, but even Taylor Swift, has to deal with haters. But in true Swiftie style, the superstar always has a ~flawless~ response for online bullies and critics.
When people criticized her for writing about her exes:
“For a female to write about her feelings, and then be portrayed as some clingy, insane, desperate girlfriend in need of making you marry her and have kids with her, I think that’s taking something that potentially should be celebrated—a woman writing about her feelings in a confessional way—that’s taking it and turning it and twisting it into something that is frankly a little sexist.”
When fake friends turned their backs on her:
“They’re [haters] just building you up to knock you down. But for me, they haven’t.”
When bullies posted mean comments about her:
“I never read one hateful thing said about me by some 12-year-old. So I got to live an actual life. And I’ve kept that mentality. Just because there’s a hurricane going on around you doesn’t mean you have to open the window and look at it.”
When she was booed at the 2013 Billboard Music Awards:
“It's fine, if all you've done is call someone perfect it's not a bad thing.”
When a fan was bullied on Instagram:
When negative articles about her were posted on the Internet:
"I know when not to read an article. Is it going to help my day? Is it important for my life? If the answer is no, then I just don’t click . . . I'm careful about getting sucked into the rabbit hole that is the Internet because, as a songwriter, I don't have the option of having thick skin. As a writer you have to be open to everything, and that includes pain, rejection, self-doubt, fear. I deal with that enough on my own. If you look hard enough, you could find somebody on the Internet criticizing every single thing about you. If you're me."
When she was hurt by what other people said about her:“The little I am exposed to hurts my feelings. The only things I can really control are my songs and my behavior. The rest? If I focused on it, that would lead to insanity.”
