Taylor Swift’s jets (well, it’s just one jet now) (“just”) are a big online talking point. I want to stress online here. If you hang out on Twitter or on subreddits or Substacks dedicated to celebrity gossip or pop music you are going to hear a lot about the jets and how she uses them wastefully and frivolously. However, if you bring this up to somebody in real life who does not pay attention to this stuff, I can almost guarantee you that they will probably say something like “well, she can’t fly commercial” and then forget they ever had this conversation. But online it’s everywhere.
Now one thing I want to make pretty clear here is that I do not play Taylor defense squad. I’m a Taylor partisan, I think that’s pretty clear, but defense squad, no. This is not a post the point of which is something like stop picking on Taylor. She is fine. She is out there playing concerts, breaking records, teasing her new album, meeting kangaroos, and having the time of her life. I do not think she sho…
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