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You cant control your reputation.
Hucksters are on a powerful tear.
No one buys anyone elses story anymore.
Come up too quickly, and you get called a grifter or an industry plant.
Advocate too hard, and youre pawned off as a social-justice warrior out to rack up woke points.
Play it too nice, and people look for cracks.
Anyone who seems too perfect must be faking it.Mary Sueis powerful, but she adheres to an unrealistic standard.
Much of it is jarringly tasteless.
You come away understanding how pressure like that could convince a gifted, chipper songwriter to go heel.
Her entire career, she explains, has been a quest for public approval.
Its the sound of the audience booing, she thought, for her.
She takes hard hits, and she hits back harder.
Like the artist herself,Americanais a little inviting and a little guarded.
It lets you into intimate spaces like apartments and private jets and strategy meetings.
The hardest questions remain unanswered.
Its possible to lose yourself trying to hey everyone else.
After all that, shes not afraid to catch smoke from the sitting president.
Shesnot afraid to write a song urging fans to fight fascism.
(Did you ever think you would live to hear Taylor Swift utter the word fascism?)
The through line of the film is that music is Taylor Swifts refuge as much as her occupation.
Watching lyrics and melodies jump out of her mouth is exhilarating.
The studio recording and video shoot for ME!
Miss Americanapeels away some of Taylor Swifts complexities to reveal even more complexities.
Its an enjoyable document for fans looking to get a peek inside their favorite artists brain.
There are aspects of Swifts private life and family life that, understandably, dont come up much.
The end result is flattering.
