Miss Americana is a documentary about Taylor Swift, released on January 31 on Netflix and some theaters in the US. The film’s name is inspired by the female singer’s song Miss Americana & The Heartbreak Prince .

Taylor Swift’s music is rich in narrative and literary qualities, so Miss Americana is also such a film. The film not only tells about the life of the female singer but is also a fierce living statement of a “typical American lady” in this era.

Failure and loss

Miss Americana has no shortage of glorious, even flashy, moments in the career of Taylor Swift, America’s top music superstar of the 2010s. But what torments the audience the most are Swift’s thoughts. about failure and loss.

Taylor Swift, one of the outstanding artists of the American and world music industry in the 2010s – Photo: GETTY IMAGES

Right at the beginning of the film, the female singer answered the phone and was informed that she “did not receive any major Grammy nominations” in 2018. She replied: “It’s okay, I’m okay. I have to work it out.” just a better record”. But her eyes were empty, and she hung her head after hanging up the phone.

Reputation , the album that marks an important transformation in Swift’s image and musical quality, and is also the best-selling album of 2018, was only nominated in the small category Best Pop Album at the 2018 Grammys.

The album was “kicked” out of every important category: Album of the Year, Record of the Year or Song of the Year. This was described by the media as a “slap” by Grammy to the female artist who had been honored by them for many years.

Taylor Swift was disappointed when her album Reputation missed nominations for many important categories at the 2018 Grammys – Photo: NETFLIX

Then Miss Americana recalled a previous glorious moment for Taylor Swift, when she received the Album of the Year award at the 2016 Grammys for 1989 . This is the moment she considers the “peak” of her life, when she won everything she ever wanted.

But her thoughts in that moment were: “I have no one to talk to and sympathize with who I am. Shouldn’t I have someone to call at this time?”.

Grammy 2016 and Grammy 2018 are like two contrasting milestones in Taylor Swift’s career. One side honors to the extreme, the other side forgets and abandons. They are only 2 years apart and seem to generalize the life of every artist.

Taylor Swift’s life did not hit rock bottom because of being abandoned by Grammy, but clearly, it was still a great hurt and loss that is difficult to compensate for.

“Fake bitch” was once America’s most hated

In 2016 and 2017, Taylor Swift fell into a severe reputation crisis. She is considered a villain by the American media and public, “liking to play the victim, calculating and pretending”. “Taylor Swift is a fake bitch” is a tweet reminiscent of that terrible time.

There was a period when Taylor Swift was “the most hated star in America” based on negative headlines – Photo: NETFLIX

The story started at the 2009 Video Music Awards, when Taylor Swift had her microphone snatched away by Kanye West while giving her acceptance speech and declared she did not deserve it. Public opinion is on Swift’s side. The singer is said to have taken full advantage of this support to play the role of West’s victim in the years of her career that followed.

From 2009 to 2015, West apologized many times. Two artists have a moment of reconciliation on a stage. But in 2016, West released the song Famous with the rap line: “Me and Taylor can still have sex, because I helped that bitch famous”. Swift condemned these lyrics. But Kim Kardashian, West’s wife, revealed that the singer lied when she agreed with those lyrics.

Taylor Swift’s image was seriously affected after the incident. Combined with many of her other behaviors, public opinion concluded that she was “fake”. The statement “Taylor Swift is a snake” was also trending on Twitter for a long time.

The female singer took a year to rest due to injuries after her reputation crisis in 2017 – Photo: NETFLIX

Heavy headlines about the female singer were recreated on the screen by Miss Americana : “Taylor Swift acted like a victim for the past decade and built a career because of it”, “Why America turned its back with Taylor Swift?”, “Taylor Swift is the worst thing that ever happened to American music”…

Recalling this, the female singer spoke in a choked voice as she confided to her parents: “My whole life revolves around that. We all have low self-esteem. We live for applause, live to be loved by others. I’ve lived like this for the past 15 years, I’m so tired.” She decided to “disappear” for a year to heal her spirit.

The soul of an American girl in her 30s

With such honest sharing, Miss Americana is not just a self-promotion documentary for a star. The film is jam-packed with material and full of statements and strong messages about the life of a young American woman, of which Taylor Swift is a typical representative.

In 2018, in a confidence with her partner, Taylor Swift said about herself: “I’m about to turn 29 years old. There is a part of me that is 57 years old, but there is also a part of me that is never ready to have children, never ready to have children. ready for adulthood”.

Taylor Swift nestles on her boyfriend Joe Alwyn’s lap in a scene from the movie Miss Americana – Photo: NETFLIX

That’s why her compositions always reflect the souls of young women in America and on other continents: they are a mixture of childhood and maturity, of fragility and toughness. Taylor Swift weaves melody into every little thought in her mind and turns them into nostalgic, literary lyrics.

“I was 16 years old, lost in a movie scene. The queens waved. The marching band. I was lost in the lights. America’s glory faded from my eyes” are the lyrics of Miss Americana & The Heartbreak Prince , the song that inspired this documentary.

Some images in Miss Americana:

The main promotional image of the film, taken by Taylor Swift while attending the America Music Awards, an award that always gives her great favor, in 2018 – Photo: NETFLIX

Before going on stage. Taylor Swift confesses that the stage and hundreds of thousands of cheering audiences are still a wonderful experience – Photo: NETFLIX

Taylor Swift shares the pressure on weight and body of young women: “There will always be beauty standards that you cannot meet” – Photo: NETFLIX

She has many moments with a bare face in the movie – Photo: NETFLIX

Passionate moments when Swift composes and immerses herself in music – Photo: NETFLIX

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