Musings of an Inappropriate Woman

Confession: post Kanyegate (possibly my all time favourite internet meme) I’ve been feeling quite partial to Taylor Swift.

I’d never really thought about her much before - beyond the fact that some teenagers apparently liked her and she reminded me a bit of Carrie Underwood, another blonde American singer whose songs I wouldn’t recognise on the radio - but Kanye’s outburst got me to watch her awardwinning clip, which while not excellent, had me thinking, “Awww, isn’t she sweet?”

I kind of want to adopt her as a younger sister or cousin, much like Blair Waldorf and Hilary Duff before her.

And of course, the reason her video probably won in the first place is because no matter how cool, popular or together she is, pretty much every girl has entertained thoughts like: “She wears high heels / I wear sneakers / She’s cheer captain / I’m on the bleachers”. Even the undeniably dishy Jean Hannah Edelstein tweeted last week, “I wish I’d had giant glasses like that in HS - perhaps I would have been surprisingly hot behind them.”

So as awards-show-upsets-turned-publicity-drivers go, I’d say this one worked.