I'm not a Taylor Swift person, like at all, but oddly enough, she's still the mental image I have of a character in my novel of a semi-post-apocalyptic America, for a lot of the reasons you lay out here. She's a woman of fantasy. As in literally, she's everyone's fantasy of what they want to see, because she's the embodiment of a likeable, inoffensive white woman. Which is also the role the character plays in my story- a cult of personality and functional government built largely around her seemingly genuine obliviousness as to her importance.
In the unlikely event anyone ever made this story into a movie I doubt Swift would be interested. Not because of the genre (Hunger Games is pretty close) or the character being secretly evil (entirely sincere, actually). No, the real issue is just that she's too big for any movie at this point. Being any character aside from herself is beneath her.
"She's the embodiment of a likeable, inoffensive white woman" - I find that a really interesting comment, because I think you're right, but I think she's also positioned as somehow anti-establishment, or "an underdog", when she isn't... she's potentially the most powerful person in the music industry.
As a thought experiment, do you reckon she'd be in your movie adaptation if you let her direct it, too? I think ultimately the dealbreaker for her might be a writing credit, letting her insert herself into the film in a way that still gelled with the image.
I'm not a Taylor Swift person, like at all, but oddly enough, she's still the mental image I have of a character in my novel of a semi-post-apocalyptic America, for a lot of the reasons you lay out here. She's a woman of fantasy. As in literally, she's everyone's fantasy of what they want to see, because she's the embodiment of a likeable, inoffensive white woman. Which is also the role the character plays in my story- a cult of personality and functional government built largely around her seemingly genuine obliviousness as to her importance.
In the unlikely event anyone ever made this story into a movie I doubt Swift would be interested. Not because of the genre (Hunger Games is pretty close) or the character being secretly evil (entirely sincere, actually). No, the real issue is just that she's too big for any movie at this point. Being any character aside from herself is beneath her.
"She's the embodiment of a likeable, inoffensive white woman" - I find that a really interesting comment, because I think you're right, but I think she's also positioned as somehow anti-establishment, or "an underdog", when she isn't... she's potentially the most powerful person in the music industry.
As a thought experiment, do you reckon she'd be in your movie adaptation if you let her direct it, too? I think ultimately the dealbreaker for her might be a writing credit, letting her insert herself into the film in a way that still gelled with the image.