The video of her standing awkwardly in silence when the sound didn't work and she had to do it acapella. Karma, I tell you.
Scream. It's what she deserves!
*Hugs* I don’t know what else to say really but you summed it up perfectly. The MSNBC article you mentioned in case anyone hasn’t read it themselves:I have a lot of feelings and I just need to put them somewhere because I feel like my head is going to explode dd, so don't mind me
I thought it would be easier to process this? I thought I did most of my processing in 2020 when the Twitter likes mess happened, and it felt like such a gut punch back then... but it turns out there are levels to this, and it feels a million times worse this time around. I thought I'd just be like "fuck her" and keep it moving but I'm actually so much sadder about it than I realized.
I read a chilling article (well, chilling to me nn) on MSNBC about her "MAGA makeover" that kinda made me feel worse because it just spelled everything out for me, how Love Wins was her first single to miss the Top 10 on the country charts (even though it says/stands for literally nothing) and she's been floundering since, but her Jason Aldean duet took her back to #1 and her Cody Johnson duet is about to hit the Top 10. I didn't even know who Cody was but he supported Jason's MAGA single from a few years ago so... it's really just all there in black and white and it makes me feel a bit sick, that she's basically surrounded herself with these people now. Especially knowing she could actually be headed for her biggest single in years whenever new music comes out, because I kind of just don't want to ever hear from her again.
For nearly 15 years (including very pivotal formative years) I would've put her in my Top 5 artists of all time, and it's only hitting me now with such force that so many songs and albums that once would've soundtracked my entire life are just gone. I just can't listen to her again. And my mind has been playing tricks on me because her songs keep popping into my head even though I've barely listened to her since 2020. I just keep thinking of how much I adore Some Hearts, how exciting the Blown Away era was, her god-tier performance of How Great Thou Art... it's all just tainted and ruined and gone for me now, and I hate her so much for it.
I don't know. I can't just delete songs and memories from my mind so I'm stuck in this position of waiting for these feelings to pass. And they will, and I'll move on, and it'll all be fine. But wow it's just been a lot. Some of my faves have been stupid and annoying, but I've never had to deal with anything like this in terms of an artist I loved so deeply just outing herself so proudly to be a bigoted, fascism-supporting asshole and cutting off the connection I had to her forever.