As recently as August, she turned the tables on a lawsuit filed against her by a Denver radio host who claimed he was unfairly dismissed from his job after she complained that he had groped her during a post-concert meet-and-greet. She filed a countersuit in which she asked for, and won, a token $1 jury award after she took to the witness stand to speak out not only in her own defense, but on behalf of other sexual harassment victims.
Yet bloggers galore still seem determined to take her down for any number of issues, lately many of them revolving around the way she has set the stage for today's release of "Reputation."
A plan to create an incentive that would give priority for buying concert tickets to fans who most enthusiastically click away to watch her latest videos or place advance orders for the album was blasted as exploitative.
She’s also come under fire for not being vocal enough about alt-right demonstrators who have attempted to co-opt her music into endorsements of their positions, reminiscent of Charles Manson’s bizarre misinterpretation nearly 50 years ago of the Beatles’ “Helter Skelter,” which he insisted was a coded message to him to start a race war.
Then there was the much publicized dissing of her last year from Kanye West in his song "Famous"in which he rapped that she owed him sex because he made her famous by snatching the spotlight from her at the infamous MTV Video Music Awards in 2009 — despite the fact she had scored multiple hit singles and sold millions of albums well before that incident.
She kept a relatively low profile last year when West and his wife, Kim Kardashian, spoke and tweeted ad infinitum that she had given him her consent about the way he portrayed her in "Famous," offering only a terse denial that that had been the case.
When she released "Look What You Made Me Do" as the leadoff single from "Reputation," she took flak in many quarters for a perceived belated response and for keeping a feud going long past its natural shelf life.
就在八月份,丹佛广播电台主持人对她提起的一起诉讼,表明了自己被不公平地从工作中解雇的事,因为她在音乐会后的见面会上摸索到了她。她递交了一份反诉服,她在证人席上不仅出于自己的辩护,而且还代表其他性骚扰受害人,要求获得一个令人信服的1美元的陪审团裁决。然而,博客大腕似乎仍然决心让她失望,最近许多人围绕着她为今日发布“声誉”而设置舞台的方式。一个计划,将优先购买演唱会门票,鼓励最热心地点击观看她的最新视频或提前订购专辑的粉丝的激励措施被视为剥削。对于那些试图将她的音乐加入到自己的立场的代言人来说,她也没有足够的声音,这让人联想起Charles Manson在50年前披头士乐队的“Helter Skelter”他坚持是一个编码的信息给他开始一场比赛战争。之后去年Kanye West在他的歌曲“Famous”中发表了很多的公开声明,他在音乐会上斥责了她欠他的性爱,因为他在2009年臭名昭着的MTV音乐录影带大奖中夺走了她的名气,尽管在事件发生之前她已经获得了多首热门单曲,并且卖出了数百万张专辑。去年,西方和他的妻子金·卡戴珊(Kim Kardashian)在她的“无名之徒”(“Famous”)中表达了自己对她的描述,案件。当她发布“看你做我做什么”作为“声望”中的领先单曲时,她在很多方面都遭受了低调的反应,并且在一天之内保持了长久的争斗。