The 2020 documentary about Taylor Swift, Miss Americana, is both beguiling and carefully stage-managed: vérité on the surface, yet revealing only as much as Swift wants you to see. But then there comes a moment where she faces the camera and speaks devastating truth. “We do exist in this society where women in entertainment are discarded in an elephant graveyard… Everyone’s a shiny new toy for like two years. The female artists that I know have reinvented themselves 20 times more than the male artists. You have to. Or else you’re out of a job.” She described the exhausting terms of female stardom: “Constantly having to reinvent. Constantly finding new facets of ourselves that people find to be shiny: be new to us. Be young to us. But only in a new way and only in the way we want. And reinvent yourself but only in a way that we find comforting but also equally challenging for you.”
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