An author is coming under fire online after sensationally calling Taylor Swift a “billionaire racist” and “Nazi Barbie” while complaining that none of the 31 “vapid and rotten” songs on her new album, The Tortured Poets Department, It was about Palestine.
The Cruel Summer singer, 34, left her longtime fans ecstatic when she released her latest LP, The Tortured Poets Department, on Friday, announcing two hours later that it was actually a double album and would include 16 songs. additional.
But one woman, a writer named Vanessa Angélica Villarreal, from Texas, was not happy with the singer’s new work and took to X, formerly Twitter, to criticize her.
Vanessa criticized Taylor for using the word “torture” in her album title during “a genocide” and for failing to mention the ongoing conflict in Palestine.
An author is coming under fire online after she called Taylor Swift a “billionaire racist” and a “Nazi Barbie” while complaining that none of the songs on her new album were about Palestine.
The Cruel Summer singer, 34, left her longtime fans ecstatic when she released her latest LP, The Tortured Poets Department, on Friday.
But one woman, the writer named Vanessa Angélica Villarreal, from Texas, was not happy with the singer’s new work and took to X, formerly Twitter, to criticize her.
Vanessa criticized Taylor for using the word “torture” in her album title during “a genocide” and for failing to mention the ongoing conflict in Palestine.
He also described the LP as “31 vapid, rotten songs about a racist guy”, apparently referring to Matty Healy, who previously dated the musician and is said to be the muse for many of the new songs.
He also described the LP as “31 vapid, rotten songs about a racist guy”, apparently referring to Matty Healy, who previously dated the musician and is said to be the muse for many of the new songs.
“If you like Taylor Swift, we have nothing in common,” Vanessa wrote. ‘She is a billionaire racist who uses the word “torture” as a metaphor during a genocide.
31 tasteless, rotten songs about a racist guy, nothing about Palestine. As we watch real torture, Nazi Barbie wants to live in the 1830s. Goodbye.’
In January 2023, 1975 singer Matty was accused of being “racist” after making controversial comments about Ice Spice’s ethnicity.
He called the rapper, of Nigerian and Dominican descent, a “spice Inuit girl” and a “chubby Chinese lady.”
Vanessa’s comments were met with fierce criticism from Taylor’s fans, with one person calling it a “pathetic attempt to gain clout” and a “baseless, slanderous rant.”
‘Why the hell would I write about Palestine? And how is he supposedly racist? I hope he sues you for defamatory and unfounded rants,” they wrote. “What a pathetic attempt to hold on to influence.”
But Vanessa responded and said she wasn’t “asking Taylor to write songs about Palestine.”
Vanessa’s comments were met with fierce criticism from Taylor’s fans, with one person calling them a “pathetic attempt at clout” and a “baseless, slanderous rant.”
Vanessa added in another tweet: “Not adamantly and unequivocally rejecting and denouncing that complicity, even simply ignoring it, is implicitly consenting to commit it.”
In further posts, Vanessa claimed that it was “apparent Taylor doesn’t even read,” while criticizing her for referring to herself as a “tortured poet” throughout the album.
“Oh I don’t hate Taylor, I hate everything she stands for and benefits from,” he insisted in another tweet. “I hate how low the bar is for art and artistic integrity”
“I’m saying he’s going to put all this energy into writing songs about a racist guy recorded on his huge platform, but he’s not going to say anything about genocide,” he said.
He also said that he was very passionate about the topic because his own father was a “legendary Mexican musician” who “ran in talent circles around Taylor” but that “no one knows his name.” Her father appears in the photo.
“We are all living a genocide right now, and we are living it as complicit aggressors,” Vanessa added in another tweet.
“Not to reject and denounce this complicity outright and unequivocally, even simply to ignore it, is to implicitly consent to committing it. You are excusing the apology for genocide.
In further posts, Vanessa claimed that it was “apparent Taylor doesn’t even read,” while criticizing her for referring to herself as a “tortured poet” throughout the album.
“Oh I don’t hate Taylor, I hate everything she stands for and benefits from,” he insisted in another tweet, before criticizing the singer for not publicly expressing her support for a particular presidential candidate or political party.
“I hate that her sellout art and apolitical good-girl silence are seen as radical when she’s a status quo billionaire. I hate how low the bar is for art and artistic integrity.
Thousands of dedicated Swifties flooded Vanessa with angry messages in response to her nasty comments.
“Her book will sell a total of six copies exclusively to the family,” another user responded, referring to Vanessa’s upcoming tome, Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders (viewed), which will be published soon. next month
He also said that he was very passionate about the topic because his own father was a “legendary Mexican musician” who “ran in talent circles around Taylor” but that “no one knows his name.”
Thousands of dedicated Swifties flooded Vanessa with angry messages in response to her nasty comments.
‘Girl, shut up, you’re so dramatic. Relax,” one wrote. Another said: “Still angry and miserable.”
‘Instead of typing this essay, what have YOU done to help Palestine? Hmm?’ someone else asked.
‘And why do you look to celebrities instead of politicians to do something? Do you want me to sing to denounce the genocide or what?
“Seriously, unplug and grow up,” read a fourth scathing tweet. A fifth said: “You sound absolutely miserable and pathetic.”
“Her book will sell a total of six copies exclusively to the family,” another user responded, referring to Vanessa’s upcoming tome, Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders, which will be released next month.
“I like Taylor Swift, I’m a poet, I’m half-Palestinian, and I’m very active in political activism within my community to fight for my people,” someone else shared.
Writer, poet, and essayist Vanessa has won numerous awards for her work, including the 2021 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship and the 2019 Whiting Prize.
She currently lives in Los Angeles and is pursuing her doctorate in English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Southern California.
‘So we actually have a lot in common. I hope you can let go of this hatred and this miserable view of the world, I really do.’
Writer, poet, and essayist Vanessa has won numerous awards for her work, including the 2021 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship and the 2019 Whiting Prize.
She currently lives in Los Angeles and is pursuing her doctorate in English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Southern California.
A single mother of one, Vanessa published her first book, Beast Meridia, in 2017.
Her upcoming tome is described as a “brilliant, singular collection of essays that examines music, fantasy, and pop culture, from Beyoncé to Game of Thrones, to excavate and reimagine what has been disappeared by migration and colonialism.”