Your Pop Princess Is a Bad Person

From Sabrina's "weird" statements at Coachella, to Taylor's flirtation with the right, it's time to admit -- your favorite pop princess is probably a bad person. 

In this episode, I'm breaking it all down. Their bad behavior, the bad people they associate with, and the manipulative techniques they use to dysregulate your emotions and control you. 

We're going into the psychology of what it takes to reach the top of the pop charts, and why supporting these "icons" makes us complicit. It's not a game anymore. It is really that deep, and you're in it. 

Transcript

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Hello, hello, hello, everybody. It is me, A B, and I am back, back, back again for another great episode. That is right. It's me, your favorite celebrity Diggy influencer. And we're gonna get into it today. I'm just gonna say it outright. We're not gonna pussyfoot around it. The pop girlies that you love to worship are bad people. They're bad people that do bad things and associate with bad people, and they're not doing anything to become better people. I mean, we can just look at Sabrina Carpenter's borderline racist moment this weekend at Coachella, Taylor Swift uh allegedly stealing her entirely new aesthetic from some other working class showgirl, Chapel Roan raising money for a genocidal billionaire. I mean, you name it, right? They're they're out there doing it. Every awful thing you can imagine. Every day, more and more and more, we are learning that the pop girlies are a rotted crew. And it's time for us to admit the truth that these are mean girls using manipulative tactics against their own audiences to weaponize them, not just against other people, but against themselves. They are manipulative, they are raising money for bad people, they are working for bad people, and they are pretty rotten people themselves. They are mean girls. Scratch the surface, and every single one of them ends up being the same. A mean girl who doesn't care about the little people who are suffering across the world. They don't care. As a matter of fact, they're enabling the people causing the harm and the suffering and the genocides and the wars and the famines and the disease and everything else. And that's what we're gonna break down today. The pop girlies, A-list, celebrity pop girlies are bad people. And when we follow them, when we give them our attention, when we give them our money, when we stream their music, when we buy their merch, when we buy their tickets, we are giving bad people more power and authority over us. Now it's gonna get deep today, but before we get really deep into the waters, before we get into it, before I I start listing all of the bad, questionable, problematic, shady things your favorite pop star has done, let's have a quick temperature check and see what's going on with Hollywood scandals and celebrity manipulations this week. Up first, Frollywood has been born, and it looks like it might be the start of the US brain drain. What am I talking about? There is a laundry list of celebrities who are now calling Paris their kind of home away from home. You've got Kristen Stewart, you've got Angelina Jolie, George Clooney, tons and tons and tons of celebrities are now starting to gravitate towards Paris and towards France in general as their more permanent homes, places where they like to hang out more frequently, a bit more permanently. Um, for me personally, I see this as the start of the brain drain. What is the brain drain? Well, in general terms, the brain drain refers to, let's say, World War II. Just before World War II happened in Nazi Germany, there was a brain drain. Their best scientists tried to flee the country, did flee the country in many cases, like Albert Einstein. Um, academics, intellectuals, a lot of business leaders who didn't agree with what was going on, they would flee as well. This is something that we see happen in fascist governments time and time and time again. The good people, the people who can leave, who don't agree with what's going on, they go and take and pack up and move their families to other places. And you'll see this with celebrities as well as big money and big business. And I think that when we're starting to see these A-list big money celebrities like George Clooney and Angelina Jolie go, actually, I'm gonna go on Tom Hanks. I'm gonna go and get citizenship in another country and I'm gonna pay my taxes to them. And bye, bye-bye, bye, bye-bye, bye-bye. Uh, it's very interesting. So um we'll see what happens over the next couple of months. I think celebrities are gonna keep fleeing the United States personally, uh, but we'll see. We'll see what happens, we'll see if the tides change. Up next last weekend was Coachella, aka all the worst people you've ever ever seen in your life get together to have a big, horrific party. Um happened last weekend, and it was as expected. A lot of garbage people, lots and lots of Kardashians um dressed as you expect Kardashians to dress. It's just a big, it's just a big, disgusting corporate ego fest. What I do think is really interesting is everybody's throwing a fit about Justin Bieber, uh, who did a horrific set. It was absolutely awful. Some people are like, oh, this is talent. No, it's not, it's not. Um, but he essentially just sat in front of a laptop and played like some YouTube videos and sang over some of his old songs. He was just kind of like playing his favorite vines and things. Um, people are really mad about it because he got paid more than anyone else there, including the women. And um, I A, I don't care, right? People are like, that is just so trash. Coachella is trash. Anyone who performs at Coachella is trash. But to me, again, when I saw that, I see someone spinning out. This is this is an A-list Aaron Carter situation. Um, and it's so interesting to me that so many people have been sitting on the internet for years going on and on and on and on and on about their trauma, and they probably follow about 500 different therapists, and they probably read about 200 different blogs about their narcissistic mothers. Um, but they can't obviously spot someone spinning out from trauma in front of them. And here's what I think about the Coachella performance. What I when I watched clips of his Coachella performance, I saw someone who didn't give a shit about that audience. And you know why? Probably because that audience is are the people they're the people who watched him get trafficked and clapped about it. So um very interesting, very, very interesting. I'd love to know what you think. You can let me know over on TikTok or Instagram, but yeah, it's uh it was a interesting performance and uh telling in my eyes. Up third on the docket today, is Amber Heard having children for Elon Musk? This is a really gross, uh I think it's more than a theory, theory that I came across today. Um I got screamed at on TikTok by the diehards who have still been foaming at the mouth over the Johnny Depp Amber Heard trial, still all these years later, about like, oh my god, did you not know this? Um, but no, I didn't know this. And I'm assuming a lot of you didn't know this either. Um, but it looks like Amber Heard is having children for Elon Musk as a part of his like big breeding program, allegedly, suspiciously, potentially. Um, there's a big story on it on the Daily Mail that you can go and read. They wrote about it last year. Uh essentially, what it comes down to is this. Amber Heard moved abroad. She has a very, very, very nice lifestyle. In the last four years, she has uh welcomed three children into her life a daughter, Una, four years ago, and two twins, a girl and a boy, who she just welcomed last year. Now, it looks like from the post that her team has made that this has been IVF. Now, the reason that that is significant and important and the way it ties to Elon Musk is that during her defamation trial with Johnny Depp, it came out that she had embryos with Elon Musk from their previous relationship, and she was trying to, she was in a legal battle with him to keep them. That kind of lines up with the birth announcement that she gave last year with the birth of her twins when she was like, This is the family I've been striving to have for years, despite my fertility issues and all this other kind of stuff. And it also kind of lines up with what Elon has been doing, right? Because Elon has 14 children with four different women, and we know for a fact that he's got sealed legal agreements with some of these women to produce children for him. So it would kind of make sense because Amber Heard has gone on the record and said she doesn't have money, and yet she seems to have been able to move abroad to secure a passport, even though she's not working in a foreign country. Uh, again, from the pictures of the interiors of the places she's living, seems to be quite a high quality of lifestyle. Uh, no partner not working says she doesn't have money, but she's been able to undergo multiple rounds of IBF. Uh yeah, and she's she's got multiple children that she's supporting on a very high quality of lifestyle. So where's that money coming from? Um, it sounds like it might potentially be coming from Elon Musk. And if that's true, wow, that is that if that's who she's breeding with, uh okay, Eva Braun. Next up, uh billionaire Bill Ackman has offered$64 billion to acquire Universal Music Group. Um, now Universal Music is the label that has Taylor Swift, Sabrina Carpenter, Lady Gaga, Kendrick Lamar, tons and tons and tons of your biggest favorite A-list celebrities, which we're gonna go into a little bit deeper later. But what you really need to know is that Bill Ackerman is a big fan of Donald Trump. He has voted for him, he has supported him, and even more importantly, he is a big, big, big, big, big fan of a certain bomb-dropping country in the Middle East. He has purchased a$20 million apartment in their capital city. He has multiple times, he's basically on a big campaign trail at the moment, telling people to invest all their money into the quote unquote technology, which of course we know is weapons, um, all kinds of stuff. He's a really, really horrific person. And um let's just say he him buying universal music is the equivalent of the buyout that happened with Larry Ellison and Paramount. Okay, it's bad news bears. And let's just say if the artists continue to perform on Universal Music, then we know who and what they are. And last but not least, in the grossest possible news, the White House Correspondence Dinner invitations are going out. And they're super excited to let us know this year that Donald Trump is actually joining them. Yeah. He boycotted them last year, but now they're very close and they're buddy buddy. And so all of these celebrities are gonna hang out with Donald Trump. Now we don't know who the official list is gonna be yet. Who's there's there's been limited uh announcements of some of the subgroups of this White House correspondence dinner that are gonna be having different events around it, but as far as the main dinner goes, we don't know who the celebrities are gonna be yet. But um you want to talk boycotts. This is a boycott event. Any celebrity who performs at this White House correspondence dinner with Donald Trump in attendance, nah, they're out. All right, all right, let's get into it. Your A-list pop girlies are mean girls, the whole lot of them. They are bullies and they are mean girls, and they pretty much have to be to be at that level. Um, you're supporting bad people. Like, I'm sorry, but we just we just that's it. Um if you're buying their tickets, if you're buying their merchandise, sorry, you're supporting bad people. And I'm gonna give a a a multitude of examples for you here so that we can have a nice little understanding before we get into the rest of it. Now, before we get into Sabrina Carpenter and Taylor Swift and Selena Gomez and Lady Gaga and all the rest of them, um you need to understand that the point of this conversation is that these are not people who can be trusted. These are corrupt people, corruptible people, manipulative people. These are people who don't have an insight in the terms that you think. These A-list mega pop celebrities are billboards. They are walking husks that stand for nothing but greed. They want more, they want more, they want more, and they want adulation for it while they fund the people who create harm and while they create harm themselves. And if we keep supporting them, if we keep giving them our attention, if we keep giving them our time, then that is what we are supporting too. Let's just start right off the top with the most recent example, Sabrina Carpenter. Uh now, Sabrina Carpenter has sold herself on this quote unquote short and sweet persona, but over the weekend at Coachella, it became very apparent that she is anything but short and sweet. Well, she might be short, but she's definitely not sweet. She made an absolute fool of herself and exposed her mean girl nature when a fan in the audience who was Middle Eastern made a sound of support and celebration, and Sabrina, upon hearing it, calls her weird, even after having it explained to her. Let's listen to the clip. Is that what you're doing? I don't like it.

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My culture.

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That's your culture, is Yodeling?

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It's a call! It's a call of celebration.

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Is this Burning Man? What's Ugh I mean, uh, right. So what you listen to is exactly exactly what it sounded like. Middle Eastern fan makes a sound, explains that it's a sound of celebration, and Serena Carpenter, even after having explained to her, doubles down and says, That's weird, I don't like it. Um, it's really, really ignorant on a couple levels. Number one, that is a very unique sound. That is a very distinct sound. And any person who has any reference point for Middle Eastern people knows exactly what that sound is, like exactly what that sound is. Um so the ish, I think she kind of exposed herself there by revealing that she doesn't have a lot of exposure, probably to other cultures, not in any kind of way that any kind of person who's doing the work to be like actively decolonized would be doing, right? Um, but also it's just mean girl at the lunch table behavior that just like ew weird. Like you are at a show, you were at a concert, you have a whole audience of people who are screaming and cheering for you, who are obviously celebrating to be there. Someone makes a noise, even if you don't know what that noise was, it's not good etiquette or behavior to be like, ew, gross, weird. What was that? Like those people are there to celebrate you, just say, Oh, wow, thank you, love you, duh, play it off, just be polite. She couldn't be polite. She couldn't, she was in a professional for her, a professional performance, and she couldn't even remain professional. So it's like, what are we paying for? Are you uh are you gonna pay to go into an audience and be insulted to have your culture made fun of? That's mean girl shit. And that's not the only evidence that we have for really like kind of gross behavior, right? Because we also have her entire brand, which is selling herself as yeah, short and sweet, but she essentially sexualizes herself as a child. There's a lolita thing that's going on very, very much. She's even got lyrics about it where I think she calls herself a Nina or something like that, which is a little girl, by the way. A little girl. Um, lots of problematic stuff there, selling this over sexualization in this child package, especially in the age of Epstein. And especially in this age where women are fighting for rights and you're gonna fetish children. It shows a lack of empathy and concern for other women. It also shows someone who, again, not doing the work. This is not someone you're gonna sit down and have an intersectional feminist conversation with. I doubt she can even spell intersectional. Um, but it it continues. It's mean girl, it's mean girl, it's mean girl. It's I don't care about others, I just want to be at the top, I just want to win at all costs. I don't care how it hurts other people, I don't care about other people. It comes through again and again and again. I don't care about other people. And we can look at her track record of dating as well. She's now had this ex-boyfriend who's come out who's like horrifically transphobic and all this kind of stuff. It's like, how are you attracted to that? If you're like making music for the girls, are you? But you're attracted to those kinds of men. Okay. Now she's not the only one. Uh, without a doubt, Taylor Swift is the the way bigger mean girl on the scene. I would say that she's probably the Regina George of the Pop Girlies, very intentionally, very, very, very intentionally, very calculated, very on purpose. Uh, you can go all the way back to the very, very beginning. I know people personally that went to high school with her that were bullied horrifically by her, that basically got to the point that they wanted to take their lives, one of them, because of how badly they were bullied by her. Uh, there's people on TikTok as well who have talked about this, who've talked about going to high school with her, her being mean, her bullying them, um, just being really all around entitled and cruel to anyone who didn't fit the like blonde-haired, blue-eyed pop girl standard. And we've only seen those antics kind of continue and carry out, you know, through the years with Taylor Swift. She sues her own fans who try to make just fun little honorary merch of her, which is freaking insane. Uh, she sued Olivio Rodriguez for saying that she was inspired by Taylor Swift, which is also insane. You're suing a teenager for that. She's tried to sue people who've tracked her private jet, which is public. That's public information. These these um because they were proving all the climate damage that she inflicts. Um, she uh she she sued black women who try to talk about all of her right-wing dog whistles that have been in her music since at least 2016 when she was releasing the dog whistle content during The Proud Boys Marching in Charlottesville, right? So absolutely horrific. And she continues to align herself with horrific people, with right-wing people, people who think women shouldn't vote, who think women should be in the kitchen barefoot, popping out children, as Taylor has reiterated in her own music, which we now know she stole from someone else. It's mean girl behavior. You don't steal from people, you don't silence people, you don't align yourself with the people who want to take away rights from women if you're a good person, if you have empathy. And then there's also the fact that she's a billionaire, right? Which has been done through exploitation. And I know people go, well, she donated a couple grand to food banks that in those cities. Let's calculate the damage the production of her plastic sweaters has caused. Let's then add in the damage from the shipping, the massive shipping costs of all that plastic merchandise that she sells. Let's talk about the labor costs of cleaning up stadiums after her fans go and trash them and leave trash everywhere and buy more plastic trash at the merch stands for her. And I think we're seeing more and more and more of that come out. I mean, in her documentary alone, she was willing to exploit the parents of murdered children to try to make herself look sympathetic after bad reviews to a bad album. Um, she's now aligned with this man, Travis Kelsey, who has all kinds of questionable, questionable things going on with his charities to the point that one of them I think has been suspended at this point until it's uh there's clarification on where the money was going, how it was being spent. Um again, mean girl stuff, manipulative freaking behavior, being attached to someone like that is just as big of a red flag as anything that she does. Because all this, if we know about it, she knows 10 times more, right? And what we know about him ain't good. So um a bad person. Just a bad person. And now we have this Bill Ackman situation developing with universal music, which is really gonna tell us this is it, this is the make or break. This is gonna tell you exactly who Taylor Swift is. Bill Ackman, again, as I mentioned up top in the temperature check, Bill Ackman is a billionaire, supports Donald Trump, has supported genocide, has supported weapons and arms and all that kind of stuff to genocidal powers um actively, like currently, right at this moment, is telling people to invest in the quote unquote technologies of this genocidal power who is genociding Lebanon at the moment. Um she is potentially now gonna be on this person's label because Bill Ackman has offered$64 billion to Universal Music to buy the label. Now, if Taylor Swift stays on that label, if this deal goes through and she stays on that label and she stays quiet and she says nothing and she just keeps producing music for Bill Ackman, she is the exact same as Bill Ackman. She she holds the same beliefs, she holds the same values, she associates with all the same people, and it's time for anybody to stop acting otherwise. And P PS, you cannot associate with Bill Ackman and be a good person. You cannot. And if you doubt me, go and Google him. Go and Google how he spends his money. If this deal goes through, spending your money on Taylor Swift, giving her any attention, listening to any of her music, is putting money in Bill Ackman's pocket doing what he does. But as you know, if you listened to last week's episode, Taylor Swift's not the only one who likes to rub elbows with fellow billionaires. Uh Chapel Roan, who we also learned grew up super, super well-to-do, super, super privileged, despite her fairy tale creation story of being from the trailer park. Um, she also likes to rub elbows and raise money for billionaires like Ronald Lauder, who is in the same category as Bill Ackman, very, very nasty person, nasty investments tied to some really nasty things. And Chapel Rone is working for one of his companies, happily raising money for him, abandoning the independent uh cosmetics companies that she used to once very vocally support, just left them in the dust so she could go work for the company of a genocidal billionaire. And I don't know what's more mean girl than that, you know, putting money in the pocket of someone who is also funding little girls being blown up. So and what's sad is we can basically go on and on and go down the list. I mean, Selena Gomez is not really a pop star, I wouldn't say, but she's she's also bullying. She's now encouraging women to get into trad wife behavior. She's obviously, obviously, one of the most insecure people, one of the most insecure women in Hollywood, and she's trying to sell that like strength. And she's she's convincing other women to mask their insecurities as strength with weak men. The whole thing's disgusting. We could go on to Lady Gaga, who's got all these questionable ties to the same genocidal powers, um, who was posting pictures of herself during COVID when people were losing their jobs, losing their homes, losing their loved ones, she decided to do a Dom Perignon ad. And she was taking pictures in private jets, flying around in private jets during COVID, wrapped in scarves that looked like money. Okay? And if that's not, you know, if that doesn't trigger some ether rich response in you, I really don't know what will. Uh, but it's all of them. They you cannot reach this level. Of pop celebrity and be a good person. It is not possible. And here's why. Let's let's look at the people you have to associate with to reach this level of pop stardom. Okay. This level of but pop fanaticism, pop idolism. If the actions of the pop princesses aren't red flags enough for you, if you can't follow the bread trails of who they work for and who they give money to and how they treat their fans and how they treat other celebrities and how they treat, you know, the people on Etsy and the people tracking their private jets, then all you have to do is look at the people that they associate themselves with. Because we now know in the Epstonian age exactly how the A-list tier of Hollywood works. And we only have to, and I do count these pop girls as part of this like Hollywood machine, but we only have to look at the Peggy Siegel, Jeffrey Epstein connection first and foremost. I'm gonna get into some other really bad ones here, but you all you really need to do is go and look through the emails between Jeffrey Epstein and Peggy Siegel. Peggy Siegel was like the she had the what was called the golden Rolodex in Hollywood. It was 30,000 different names, numbers, email addresses, 30 different connections, and it was all of Hollywood's elite, like top of the top of the top. A list people that we're talking about here. And she gave Epstein access to these people, unfettered access, unfettered. And you can even she's just casually talking to him in one of these emails about Timothy Chalamet and how he's definitely gonna get an Oscar because he gave up his money for this Woody Allen film he was in, but they were all really mad about it because it's just so ridiculous. Why is everyone so mad about Woody Allen uh molesting his children and marrying one of his daughters and then continuing to molest children? It's just so ridiculous. Horrifying. There's also emails in there from Peggy Siegel. I'll put these on the Patreon. There's emails in there from Peggy Siegel where she's telling Epstein, Oh, don't worry, I'm gonna collect money from these studios. So he was in financial deals with these studios, which gave him access to actors, to musicians, to the top of the top. Everybody who was A-list in Hollywood went through Peggy Siegel and Epstein got to them through her too. You had to play, you have to play with these people to reach that top tier, as much in acting as you do in the music industry. And if you think that all of these, these people, all of these little pop girlies, if you think that they were not associating with Peggy Siegel, uh, I got some sand to sell you in Antarctica. But I can already hear some of you going, well, they weren't working with Peggy Siegel. That was actors. Okay, let's let's use a really music-specific example. Let's talk about Tommy Matola. Let's just do a little brief one about Tommy Matola. Now I have a whole episode of this podcast about Tommy Matola. Go back and listen to that if you want the really, really deep dive. But this guy was the quote unquote kingmaker of the music industry. And guess what he did? He bought a huge ranch out in the middle of nowhere and imprisoned Mariah Carey in it when she was in her 20s. Not even a joke. He started messing with her when she was 18 and he heard a demo tape, and then he got her, isolated her, married her, put her on a ranch, and kept her prisoner to produce music for his label. That is not a freaking joke. You can go and look this up. It sounds a lot like Epstein's Zorro Ranch, doesn't it? And this guy's worked with everybody. He's worked with everybody. Bad Bunny, like I think he was Ariana Grande. He worked with Ariana Grande at one point. It's absolutely insane. You can go to his now abandoned uh Twitter and Instagram, and you can see because he was just constantly, he was best friends with Jimmy Fallon, constantly posting all this stuff. But he was known as the Kingmaker. He was the one that took new artists and transformed them with Sony Music. And Michael Jackson came out in the 90s and said, this guy is a devil and a racist, and you need to stop working with him. But guess who didn't stop working with him? Uh Celine Dion, I think TLC, it was tons, tons, tons of pop celebrities worked with this man. Again, go and Google it. Just further proof that if you are going to be at the top tier of pop, you have to be willing to work with disgusting predators and either enable them or keep your mouth shut to allow them to continue to be predators. And there is no getting around this. These people all knew each other and worked with each other. And that is who we are funding when we give them our attention, when we stream their music. Now I want you to think of the psychology of this too. Yes, I've given you examples of these pop girls just being shitty people. And I've now given you some examples of the bad people that had to be worked with in order to reach these upper echelons, these predatory gatekeepers, right? But I'm like actually stop and think about the psychology of what it takes to get to that point. First of all, you look across, across the board to be a super, super, super successful A-list pop girly like Taylor Swift, you have to lack empathy. You have to lack empathy, which she does majorly, majorly, majorly, majorly lack of empathy. How do I know that? Well, a 10-minute private jet flight is a lack of empathy because that's damaging the planet that everybody else, uh, everybody else has to live on. Number two, plastic jumpers being dropped shipped from China. Also, not good for the environment, super harmful to the ocean, which is in critical condition at the moment. I don't know if you've heard about what's going on with the reefs. Um, uh lack of empathy. Then we also have her suing working class people over and over and over again. Lack of empathy there. Completely unneeded, unnecessary. She she consistently uses the legal system to try to harass and intimidate people and to silence them. That is not an empathetic move. I mean, the diamond on her hand that she flashes and brags about, a blood diamond, a blood diamond that's hundreds of years old and was mined by slaves, bragging about that, bragging about having something on your hand that people died to get, that people were enslaved to get out of the ground for you. That is an astounding, disgusting lack of empathy. And that's what it takes because she didn't become a billionaire without drop shipping all those plastic sweaters, without taking those little teeny tiny private jet. That's all a part of the giant game that has helped build her on what she is. Lack of empathy. Oh, also, Taylor Swift dumps her trash all over the streets in New York City. Look it up. She's been cited more than 30 times. I don't know what could be a bigger lack of empathy than literally dumping your trash on a city street where everybody else has to live and walk through it. But then we have the entitlement, this idea that you have to treat the celebrity and in whatever way they demand, that you have to love them no matter what they do, and that you should respect them no matter what they do or what they are. There's this real sense of you will worship me because that is what I expect you to do. I think we see that a lot in Chapel Roan's behavior, especially if you've seen that video of her sending her security guard to someone who's standing like 20 yards away across an airport, filming her, and she sends a security guard to go and say something to this person. That to me smacks of entitlement. That is like you will behave as I choose for you to behave because that is the behavior I deserve. Why do you deserve that behavior? You are a celebrity, there are that's a job, and there are certain things that come with that job. You're not entitled to some kind of special experience outside the bonds of the job that you agreed to do. But what's really big for me, and it's actually something that the itch honestly reminds me of the serial killers, like when you watch serial killer documentaries, um, there's a huge lack of morals in all of these people. Like they all lack morals. Well, why do I say they lack morals? Well, they're working with people who buy bombs and drop them on kids and women and innocent men. You know what I mean? Like, w where where is the morality in that? Where's the morality in lying to your fans? Chapel Roan trying to extort the working class by creating a fairy tale story about her growing up in a trailer when she grew up in a five-bedroom home with two kitchens on multiple acres, and her family owning and running a huge resort and golf course. Um, and and then working for a billionaire. Uh, y'all say it again. She's now working for Matt Cosmetics, and Matt Cosmetics directly funds bombs being dropped on children, and that is just fact. That's just that that is what it is, whether you like it or not. Um, you don't have morality. You don't have morality if you abandon the little cosmetics companies who helped build your fandom to go and work with a billionaires company that is funding bombs dropping on children. There's a lack of morality, and they'll justify it. Their PR people will justify it every which way to Sunday, just like serial killers always justify what they're doing as well. There's always, you know, they always have a very valid reason for what they do, right? By far, though, the biggest glaring red flag to me when you look at the psychology of these women who put themselves in this um place of this massive pop star, every single one of them smacks of insecurity. But every single one of them tries to sell their insecurities as strength and then encourage their female fans to echo and repeat that same insecure behavior. Uh Taylor Swift, you can you can tell by Taylor Swift's body language that she's an insecure person by the way her posture, the way she approaches other people, the way she stands, the way she's got to drink to be around everybody all the time. It's insecurity. That's smacks of insecurity. And like having to write an album about your boyfriend's penis, and like, yay, I got the football player, that's it's insecure. It's insecurity. Selena Gomez, my god, I think Selena Gomez must be the most insecure person in the industry. But here's the thing, right? When you're an insecure person, but you mask it as like, no, no, no, no, I'm not insecure and like chasing men and chasing outward validation. I'm a strong girl boss. What you're showing is that you are a liar. You are a liar. And when you're willing to lie that deeply about who and what you are, what you stand for, you you're gonna be a manipulator. You're gonna be a manipulator because they are putting on a mask, they are selling you a falsehood, they are selling you a fantasy to manipulate, control, change, coerce the way you behave, the way that you think. And to me, in my eyes, personally, all of that comes down to fundamental insecurity. They are chasing, they are it's like that um the hungry spirit from the um from that old anime movie. I can't remember the name of it now, but the hungry ghost, and he just he has to consume everything and he's dropping gold everywhere, but he's just this empty black hole that can't be filled. And that's what I see in these women that are like, I have to have more and more and more and more because I have to prove, I have to prove, I have to prove they're insecure. They don't have like a rooted anchored sense of self. And it's it's kind of sad, but you this is the kind of person that you have to be to crawl to that level of fame. Now, within all that, I'm not gonna say that all of these people are narcissists, but I will say that um entitlement, uh, a lack of empathy, lack of morals, fundamental insecurity, those are all signs of narcissism. If you go and really, really deep dive into narcissism. I got lots of stuff on Substack you can read um on that topic if you'd like to get a grip on what a real narcissist is, especially these covert or soft narcissists, vulnerable narcissists, uh, communal narcissism, all that good stuff. But um, it ain't a good sign. Now, here's the real kicker that we can't really ignore, right? And it's gonna come down to it. Some of you are gonna hate hearing this because I think that I'm generally kind of neutral about this. I never tell you stop listening to these people, stop giving them your attention. I just try to lay out the facts and let you guys make whatever decision you're gonna make. But we're getting to the stage of of the country, um, of the world, of our society as a whole, of our species, that we kind of have to start being fucking serious about this and stop it's not that deeping ourselves into where we're at now. Because the fact of the matter is every time you support one of these pop stars, every time you stream their music, every time you buy their merchandise, you put money in their pockets, you are being conned and manipulated. Okay, you are being conned and manipulated, and there's a few steps that they're using to do this, and this is what you're paying. You're paying for this to be done to you, is what you need to understand. Number one, one of the biggest things that they do to con you into funding these people, who again fund genocidal billionaires, um, they use relatability like cult leaders, and it is strategic and it is specific and it is intentional, it is conscious, it is a literal marketing tactic. Like um, in one of Taylor Swift's documentaries, they've got this thing where they film her on the floor and they film her with her cat and all this stuff. That you guys need to understand, that's not just like, oh, that looks good, so let's shoot that. No, they put her in those positions, like sitting on the floor, because there are studies that show that shooting from these lower angles, shooting someone sitting cross-legged on a floor, eye to eye with the camera versus filming them moving around, that makes them feel more relatable. It makes you feel like you it tricks your brain into thinking that you're actually sitting there having a conversation with somebody instead of sitting there listening to a piece of marketing propaganda. Okay. All of this, oh, she's just like me, that you get sold by any of them. Taylor Swift, Chapel Roan, Lady Gaga, uh, Sabrina Carpenter, any relatability, anything that you ever get from them, any Instagram post, any advert that you see, and you go, oh my gosh, she's just like me. Even a song lyric, that is conscious and intentional to manipulate you. That is not an accident. Now, next up, they're weaponizing your emotions against you. And it's one of the reasons that you feel so emotionally dysregulated all the time because this pop music does intentionally dysregulate you. It is emotionally dysregulating you on purpose. The I I've always think of Taylor Swift again because she's a master at this kind of manipulation. She's a master. She will trigger your loneliness, right? Your loneliness, your breakups, your sadness, the lowest points in your life. She'll trigger that. That whole folklore album where everybody was crying over their shitty ex-boyfriends for like two years. She'll trigger you with that. But then, but then in the same album, sometimes even, they'll deliver something upbeat, super upbeat, that then gets your emotions going up again. It makes you feel super positive. And then you're like so grateful to them for making you feel better again. They literally break you down emotionally to build you back up, to build an emotional attachment to them. Again, this is not on accident. This is intentional, and they do it over and over and over again. They are literally making you emotionally vulnerable so they can sell you stuff and make you parasocially attached to a pop singer who is destroying the environment, who's making fun of other cultures, who's funding racists. Like this is being done on purpose. Now, for the really big parasocial fandoms like the Swifties who protect Taylor Swift at all costs, and also the Chapel Roan fans, who are absolutely the exact same, um, there is an intentional othering that is also done. You know how I just said they trigger your loneliness and these thoughts of like, oh, I'm so alone and I want to be a part of something. They very much create this false identity, this false sense of togetherness within their fandoms, which also then creates an othering. You within the group are other from anyone outside of it, and anyone outside of the group is other from you. And other is bad. You see how that is used in propaganda all the time, the way it's being used in immigration right now in the United States, right? This is not a new thing, but it is something that cult leaders do. And within that othering, within that, oh, well, you're not actually alone. You're a part of the Swifties, you're a part of our group. So that makes you a part of this family, which it's not. It's not a family at all. There's there's no place that you guys get together and really meet other than a concert, which is you spending money. It's a false sense of inclusion. And within that, it creates a warrior class who defends the problematic pop star at all costs. It turns you into mean girls yourselves to try to stay in the group so you don't feel that loneliness that has been triggered intentionally by the pop star that you're trying to defend. It's it's literally cult manipulation, it's psychological manipulation 101. Jim Jones did it. Uh, what what's his name? From Waco. Like they've all done it. This is this is cult 101. And they turn you into warriors for nothing. For nothing. It costs them very, very little. And guess what? They don't have to give you anything. There's no family. You're not a part of anything. You're a part of this ethereal nothingness that doesn't exist in an online fantasy world that also doesn't exist. There's no Taylor Swift clubhouse that you're going to. Taylor Swift's not coming in, baking you cookies. Her people aren't taking care of you. If you're homeless on the street, there's no homeless center that you can go to that's funded by Taylor Swift. This is not a community. You're not in a community. You're yelling with a lot of other people online and you're buying some plastic sweaters and you're paying obscene amounts of money to go and worship a billionaire on stage for a couple hours, but you are not in a community together. If you were in a community together, Swifties, there would be no homelessness in your community. There would be no hunger. There would be no nothing wrong in anyone's life because you guys would all be helping each other, right? It's not a community, but you are a warrior class for a very problematic person. Now, the last big thing that these pop girlies are really doing, which kind of solidifies this parasocial relationship, is they're using all this like the buzzwords, the weaponized therapy speak, which makes you feel bad for them, relate to them, and also want to defend them even further. It's yet another manipulative tactic. It's that you know what I'm talking about. Oh, my trauma, I just didn't know because my trauma, and like when I was nine, my dad once said that he was angry at me, so you know, I have to be racist now and like pay for fascism, uh, all of that kind of stuff. This this pathetic, feel sorry for me, defend me. It is intentional to make you change your behaviors and your beliefs. And they also use it anytime anything bad gets exposed about them to hide behind it. It's an accountability shield. It keeps you from stopping filling their pockets. It's highly manipulative. And what all of this comes down to is what you really need to take in from all of this. Good people don't have to use these techniques. Okay. If Taylor Swift was a good person, she wouldn't have to use relatability. She wouldn't have to weaponize your emotions against you, she wouldn't have to other you in a group, and she wouldn't encourage you by being silent to bully other people. These are not good people tactics. These are the tactics that Jim Jones used at Jonestown, right? These are cult leader manipulative tactics. And you need to start to understand that, you know, all of those narcissism articles that you've been reading about how your narcissistic family manipulated you and got you to do things you didn't want. That's the same thing that's being done to you when you engage in these mega A-list pop girl fandoms. And that's what this comes down to. You gotta stop supporting these people. Why are you paying to have your brain messed with? Why are you paying to have your manipulations messed with? Why are you paying to be triggered, to be fooled, to be bamboozled, to be coerced for people who are passing your money on to Donald Trump at all? Okay? These are not good people. You have to stop streaming them, you have to stop buying tickets to their shows, you have to stop buying their merch. You have to stop supporting them in every freaking way that matters. And I know that sounds really, really grim. You're like, but I love Taylor Swift so much. I know. I'm sorry, but you know what? There are thousands and thousands and thousands of independent artists out there who are making better music than Taylor Swift. And I'm begging you to go and find them. You don't have to, this doesn't change anything for you, okay? If you stop listening to Sabrina Carpenter and Taylor Swift and Chapel Roan tomorrow, nothing has to change. You know why? Because you get to go online and find even better music from people who are not funding bombs to blow up children. You this this doesn't have to change. I know people like this is such a downer. It's not the good music is still out there. You can still have a fandom, you can still go to shows, you can actually have real community where you actually go out and meet other real people. You can even meet these artists. Wow, isn't that amazing? And you don't have to pay 20 grand to see them either. You can still have this excitement, this thrill, this joy in your life, this connection, this relatability, and you can have it with real musicians, with real artists who are talking about real things, who are good people. It's out there. I mean, I last year I found, I think it was last year, it may have been the year before, I found a Shaney White just randomly on TikTok. Absolutely amazing. She likes mixes Nirvana, like grunge and jazz, and it's just uh so good. Shaney White, I highly recommend go and listen to her. But you can still have all of that. You can still have all of the joy that you have been brought by this pop music without the manipulation, without funding harmful things. It doesn't have to change. And I don't want you to think I'm trying to tell you all you can listen to now is Gregorian chant. No, absolutely not. You just have to redirect to people who actually deserve your attention, your time, and your money. And that's the only real goal that I want to leave you with at the end of this week. Um start small. Go out this week and find three new independent artists. Three artists who are not on some big, horrific billionaires label who are making pop music, fun stuff, stuff you've never heard before, maybe stuff you have heard before. It doesn't matter. Go and find three new independent artists. This week to listen to and try to see if you can replace that joy that you think that you found. And I I want you to really pay attention as well. Go back and look through these records of these people and look at the way the music is structured, the way it's organized, what what is being sold to you. Because if you really pay attention, the patterns are are extremely clear. You are being used to produce for bad people. And that and that's what the pop industry, the A-list pop industry has ultimately become. Thank you so much for listening today. Um I'm gonna put the clips. We'll have more clips uh and I'll put some of these like Peggy Siegel emails and all that stuff over on patreon.com. Um, where my friend Connie and I are trying to trying to grow a little something over on Patreon, and I'm definitely trying to grow this podcast, which is doing really well. We've been ranked in a few countries now, uh climbing up the charts little by little in entertainment news. So thank you so much, everybody, for that. Um, and if you'd like to help me continue doing that, please go to patreon.com slash newska. 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