Many of the people who love Taylor Swift, and there are really so many of them, will love her even more after her wedding on Friday night. It was sweet to see the Swifties out in the heat, hoping for a glimpse, their hearts on their sleeves.
Those who don’t think of her at all will continue to not do so; her haters will continue to be mostly jerks if sometimes pretty funny. (Folks who like football will continue to have opinions on her husband Travis Kelce and the dodgy knee and big contract of Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes.)
But for all of those on the cusp, for whom Taylor Swift is either a fascinating celebrity or just one more canny billionaire with a private jet addiction, this weekend put her on a tricky knife’s edge of opinion. It was a “Kim, there’s people that are dying” moment, as Madison Square Garden hosted a shindig for a thousand of her family, closest friends and business contacts even as hundreds of thousands of people across New York City had their power reduced or turned off.
As the grid struggled in the heatwave, a power failure took out a major wastewater treatment facility on the Hudson river. If you walked just a few blocks from the wedding, you could see all the tall ships standing proud for America’s 250th, but what you couldn’t see is that they were being subjected to a flood of unfiltered human waste. Happy birthday, America!
