Oh no she did NOT!!! Taylor Swift is featured on the cover of the new issue of Vanity Fair magazine and in her coverstory interview she goes after Golden Globes hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler who DARED to poke a little fun at Swift and her dating practices. For some reason, Taylor took their good natured ribbing super seriously and went so far as to refer to Tina and Amy as “mean girls” who belong in Hell. CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?! OK, so even Taylor Swift‘s attempt to start a celebrity feud is too saccharine to be taken seriously but still … is she really going after Tina and Amy? Like, for real? Click below to read excerpts from her VF interview and you be the judge.
In an profile in this month’s Vanity Fair, Swift said Tina Fey and Amy Poehler’s Golden Globes comedy routine making fun of her love life made them “mean girls,” in her eyes, and using a quote Katie Couric gave her, said, “There’s a special place in hell reserved for women who don’t help other women.” Whoa! Taylor, wait a minute. What exactly did Tina and Amy say? It turns out that Fey already made an apology. The Golden Globes were a while back, after all, in January. “I just feel like it was just a little joke, like two of your aunts, two of your old lady aunts teasing you at the Thanksgiving table, that’s all it was,” Fey said at the SAG Awards. Let’s examine the actual … evidence from the Golden Globes. After Lena Dunham thanked Tina Fey and Amy Poehler for “getting her through middle school,” in her acceptance speech for best comedic actress, Fey and Poehler made light of being older than Dunham, acting like they were drinking away their sorrows. Perhaps playing on the jealous of the successful younger woman trope, Fey said, “You know what Taylor Swift? You stay away from Michael J. Fox’s son,” mocking Swift’s many high-profile relationships and the confessional songs that result. That’s it. That’s all she said. Well, actually, she added, “No, she needs some me time to learn about herself.” That was the extent of the Taylor Swift mock-a-thon. What do you think? Does Taylor Swift have a right to be this upset over these comments? For someone who has been so successful at turning her private life into a major songwriting career (and yes, we love “Trouble”) it might be a good idea not to take yourself so seriously. Also, it’s hard to believe that out of all the people out there who may have made a Taylor Swift joke, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler are the ones that get called out for it.
LOL. This is just … the most absurd thing I’ve ever heard. I love the point made above, of ALL the people who have poked fun at Taylor Swift (some innocent, some malicious), she decides to go after Tina Fey and Amy Poehler? The only thing more ridiculous than going after two of the funniest AND sweetest comedians in the biz is the reason why. Their playful joking about Taylor and Michael J. Fox‘s son was barely a joke! IMHO, this is a huge misstep for Taylor Swift. She may have been making a play for sympathy or something but she sounds like an idiot, to be honest. Trust me, I totally get that Taylor has run out of interesting things to talk about in interviews but attempts to start feuds with other women just comes across as pathetic. Taylor, get a grip … seriously.
Umm…did she also just call them old ladies?????? Please………I so hate this girl. She is such a twit. Taylor, see this blog a few stories down. There is an 18 year douchebag who is perfect for you.
Threre should be a comma after Taylor! Hate it when I do that!
@Meghan — I added your comma :)
Thanks!!!!!!!!
@Meghan — “There is an 18 year douchebag who is perfect for you”
LOL
Just to clarify, Tina called herself an old lady.
Also, as an update, Amy replied with her usual wit and humour: http://www.vulture.com/2013/03/amy-poehler-responds-to-swift-aw-i-feel-bad.html?mid=twitter_vulture
I think this really gives us insight as to why Taylor has so many failed relationships. I have always said about her and her relationship problems: eventually you have to realize it is YOU, not THEM. Clearly she cannot take a joke. She wants to write songs dissing all her exes but she can’t take it when someone makes a lighthearted joke about her. If you can’t take the heat, stay out the kitchen!
Exactly!
I love the part where she insists that she is not a clingy, insane, desperate girlfriend and then backs up her claim by stating that she’s only dated “exactly two people” since 2010. I must be going to hell, too, because my evil heart nearly stopped I laughed so hard.
Good for her! If Amy and Tina are able to dish it then they should also be able to take it, which I’m sure they are. The only people pressed about this are probably their fans.
I think there’s a difference between “taking it” and telling someone they belong in hell. That is revolting. Swift needs to learn to take a joke, a very mild joke at that. She had no right to say such a horrid thing about Fey and Poehler. She has become the mean girl herself.
Taylor Swift…. Where do I even begin? Tina and Amy have done more for women than what you could do in 10 lifetimes. STOP writting songs about your pathetic love life, STOP with the “poor me” persona, START taking responsibility for your own actions, and please START behaving/acting like a young woman who has respect for herself. Oh wait? That’s right you don’t have any respect for yourself. Cause if you did, you wouldn’t have a “close source” do the speaking for you. Maybe instead of firing back at Tina and Amy, and pouting about it, You should have watched them that night, you might have learned a thing or two on how to actually be a strong woman, instead of pretending to be one.
Yeah, completely ridiculous. I’m sorry, but if you can’t handle the fact that other people have things to say about matters that you continuously handle in a very public way, THEN STOP FREAKING KEEP MILKING IT! I mean, if she’s going to do that, own it and have some accountability. There’s a reason people joke about her, and is not necessarily for the mean-spirited reasons she is implying here. (It’s because it’s darned funny. LOL!)
There’s also a quote from this interview in which she talks about how she gets a lot of flack because she is a female talking about her feelings… See, I won’t say there might be some of that as well, BUT every singer-songwriter in history has written about their feelings, female or male. This is not a concept that she created. Once again, I feel accountability is missing.
This girl has made a career out of slutting it up and then playing the poor little victim.
oh honey..2 words for you – grow up.
Wow. Her ignorance is astounding. She apparently does not grasp the context in which Tina and Amy have been working for the past couple of DECADES, the fight against actual sexism they have had to wage, how amazingly well they have waged that fight, and how they have been actively improving things for women throughout their careers. If I believed in heaven and some sort of reasonable, god-like figure, I’d say it’s certain those two are going to heaven for all the good they’ve done for women.
Moreover, Tina’s comment about Taylor needing “me time” was most likely true, and without question *fair.* It’s the same thing any of us would say to any friend of ours who seemed to be jumping from one relationship to the next without doing the requisite learning and personal growth in between. I took it exactly the way Tina intended it — as a sort of kindly admonishment from someone with more experience, like she was wanting to look out for Taylor. (And, of course, it was funny.)
I didn’t have much of an opinion about Taylor before this. I’m not into her music and don’t care about her as a celebrity. But these comments just sent me over the edge. I cannot stand what those comments represent.
I wonder if these comments are taken out of context or were said in jest or something. I can’t imagine her saying that at all, let alone about such benign comments. She’s smarter than that.
I’m curious what the actual context of these comments are in the interview. I feel like these quotes were pulled from the article just to create a stir, when Taylor was likely just joking around. I’m a pretty big Taylor Swift supporter, but if she is seriously upset about what happened at the Golden Globes, she needs a reality check and a dose of humility.
If anything, I think it’s better to be at the receiving end of a joke by those two than say Seth McFarlane or Joan Rivers. Either way you’re a public figure and since she’s been around going on 6 years she should know it comes with the territory. What they said, I don’t even remember catching it because at the end of the day everyone understood it was a joke.
I think honestly she needs to lighten up and understand that you have to be in on the joke to make it. And the thing about number of boyfriends is ridiculous.She needs to grow up.
I don’t see why this is really a feud at all but I can understand why Taylor is being sensitive as it seems everyone has opinion about her love life. She’s still a young and very successful singer/songwriter so it’s pretty much a given that she’s going to have plenty of bachelors come and go. She really shouldn’t be so offended by what Tina Fey said but the joke is a little overplayed and Taylor’s an easy target. I didn’t find her “me time” comment offending at all, Tina’s on point about that. I hope Taylor’s really over it and I hope the media gets over her love life, that’s all her choice, and it’s our choice to listen to her music or not.
How can the media get over her love life when all of her songs are about exactly that? To talk about her as a songwriter/singer, you automatically default to the topic of her songs. What else can be said about her? You can say she’s pretty and dresses nice, but she’s not a model and that isn’t her core business. She has said some pretty cutting about past loves, but as long as it is in a song, it’s ok? And, as long as you see her as the broken-hearted victim, it’s ok, too? Two sides to every story.
I don’t know if anybody here watches How I Met Your Mother, but there was that episode with Katy Perry where no one could remember her name but you couldn’t help calling her “Honeyyyy”
Here it goes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_0mSuUNVRE
Ant that’s how Taylors makes me feel.
I think someone needs to send Taylor Swift a link to Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls at the Party website so she can see what a real woman helping other women looks like. /smh
And this is why she’s got a string of break ups behind her. The girl is clearly No. Fun. If she gets her panties all in a bunch over a half-joke and feels the need to somehow extrapolate that to “women not helping other women” (OMG> facepalm >uppercrustofthefirstofthefirstworldproblems)…well she must be a real hoot as a girlfriend.
Hmmm… I agree with some of the others that are curious if this was taken out of context. I hope it was.
Go away and play on your little girl swing, Taylor.
This girl sure is harmless for Amy and Tina. But she needs to know where she stands and to be aware of the talent of both Amy and Tina and the respect they have from the industry and the fans alike.
My guess is this was taken out of context, because Taylor has always seemed to have a good sense of humor, even about herself. My guess would be that the interviewer asked her about Amy and Tina’s comment and then about people making fun of her in general. I hope she didn’t care this much about some brief comment by the queens of funny.
Just to stir the pot: Why do we lurve Adele but loathe Taylor Swift?
Adele and Taylor Swift have both written about love(s) lost and the pain that comes along with it. Does it come down to the number of men (or boys, whatever) that Taylor has dated and written about as opposed to that one love that Adele lost?
However, I do agree that her comment is harsh, and maybe she’ll retract her statement to an extent. I know that Tina and obviously Amy will make light of the situation, so I have no worries about them getting offended!
As I mention above, all singer-songwriters write about their own experiences. But I think that with Taylor it often comes off as marketable, whether it is intentional or not. Sometimes she makes deliberate choices, though. She does have some responsible as to why it comes off that way. (Example, the Grammy’s performance accent diss and stuff like that.) She does play it up, to some extent, and the fact that their exes are usually famous (or at least recognizable) people doesn’t help her either.
@apriljan: “Why do we lurve Adele but loathe Taylor Swift?”
One thing is not like the other. That’s why. :P
@rOXy: Yes, that.
All songwriters in all genres and all eras write about relationships and lost love. The simple fact of doing that is obviously not the problem. They can be differentiated in countless ways.
We love Adele because she can actually sing and Taylor can’t carry a tune to safe her life. Plus Adele isn’t a whiny little girl that wants the world to feel sorry for her. That’s Taylor Swift bread in better. Adele is a really singer and an Artist. She let’s her music speak for it self. She doesn’t need a flashy video, outfits or elaborate stages. She doesn’t write silly little song with no imagination like “We are never ever ever getting back together.” That’s a school yard song and “Rolling in the deep is an adult song.”
“bread and butter”
Adele has an amazing voice. Taylor Swift sounds like nails on a chalk-board and auto-tune. Adele’s songs about love don’t sound like the stuff I wrote in my diary as a teenager.
Adele has a sense of humor and clearly…Taylor Swift does not.
I think the biggest difference (other than singing talent) is this:
Taylor names names. Adele might write about her love life, but we are actually pretty clueless as to who specifically the songs are about. Taylor writes the names of the subject (or clues) in the liner notes of her cds. She capitalizes random letters in the lyrics for the song, and when you spell it out, you get the name or clue. That is literally selling your love life, something Adele has never come close to. Taylor didn’t do this once, she has done it on 3 or 4 albums now.
The reason there is so much focus on her love life is because SHE markets it to her fans.
Wow, Taylor Swift really does seem like a little drama queen. I’m amazed that guys still date her knowing a song will be written about them. And now this? C’mon, get over yourself. I think saying Tina and Amy deserve a place in hell is a bit meaner than what Tina and Amy said about Taylor.
Ok, T-Swizzle needs to take a seat, and not on another man’s p33n. Homegirl needs to invest in getting herself a chastity belt.
If Taylor OWNED IT then no one would have room to make fun of her. She’s dating like a normal girl in her early 20s would do, the only difference is she makes a living off of it and as a result has the whole country watching her every date. Taylor needs to just own it and stop giving people a reason to think she’s doing something wrong!
Taylor Swift is a sad pathetic spinster that would probably been like Glen Close in Fatal Attraction stalking her ex’s if she wasn’t famous. The only thing common with all her relationship is her.
For those who may be interested, this is Tina Fey’s response: “If anyone was going to get mad at us, I thought it would be James Cameron. I did not see that one coming. It was a joke, it was a lighthearted joke.”
Here is my two bits about this whole thing – Taylor Swift is going through some may-jor emotional roller coaster right now, so everything that is said or written about her will get a reaction like this. The sad part is the fact that the real joke is the life that she is leading right now. She is talented, no doubt, but she lacks one thing and that is – getting a clue.
I think its the hypocrisy that gets me. Wasnt she on snl playing/roasting Kate Gosselin?
Little girl, you cannot go up against Tina and Amy and expect anyone to back you. Get over yourself!!!!
If “there’s a special place in hell reserved for women who don’t help other women” how come she isn’t there already? Oh…wait! She is NOT a woman!
Just another reason why I dislike TS. Her whiney awful music, and now her apparently awful personality.
Taylor had every right to get mad!!!