When there's nothing to report, the tabloid gossip columns are always there to make something up. Now, they are fabricating a feud between Taylor Swift and Carrie Underwood. What could they possibly be fighting about? Who can be the blandest blonde woman in the music industry?
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When the news is slow, gossip columns just start making up any old nonsense. If there is a vague glimmer of an idea, they'll latch onto it. The Taylor Swift and Carrie Underwood beef is a wild construction they have managed to whip up. Some of their reasoning is hilariously desperate.
Changes In Direction
Carrie Underwood and Taylor Swift have quite different audiences, with the former being more in the country genre and the latter being solidly pop. However, somehow, the tabloids have managed to turn that into a feud.
Rather than the two of them being on their own path, they have pitted them against each other. Using the age-old trick of 'A source close to Underwood', the Daily Mail, an outlet known for being reputable, even released a quote on their relationship.
"Carrie feels that Taylor truly sold out going from country to pop. She's held onto some jealousy about it," they stated from the unnamed source. In fact, the only quote they actually have with any credibility is nothing but familiar professional commentary.
"I'm a little bit older than she is and I feel like our music is completely different, and if anyone tries to make any comparisons, they really haven't listened to either one of us," Underwood said about Taylor Swift.
Politics Where Politics Doesn't Exist
Both Taylor Swift and Carrie Underwood have managed to stay politically neutral in a country that demands polarisation. Swift did briefly lend her support to Harris, and Underwood did sing at the inauguration, but on the whole, they're not overly vocal about politics.
Nor should they be. The two of them make music for pop crowds. They're not raving revolutionaries or political activists. But, somehow the gossip columns have managed to manufacture a political rivalry between the two.
The media's attempt to turn two of the most vanilla pop stars into an exciting war is failing and makes them look very desperate. Neither has anything to do with one another, and they certainly don't have the tenacity to publicly feud.
