That loud noise you heard yesterday afternoon was the entire Internet coming to a screeching halt upon finding out that Taylor Swift had some less-than-kind things to say about Amy Poehler and Tina Fey. Specifically, in case you live under a rock or have a healthy, active social life, she said this:
“You know, Katie Couric is one of my favorite people,” Taylor Swift tells Vanity Fair contributing editor Nancy Jo Sales on the subject of mean girls in general and in response to an incident at the Golden Globes, where Amy Poehler and Tina Fey mocked her scrutinized love life. “Because she said to me she had heard a quote that she loved, that said, ‘There’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.’” [Vanity Fair]
A lot of people had a lot of things to say about this statement, but it should come as no surprise that the two most reasonable, level-headed reactions came from Poehler and Fey themselves.
First, Amy Poehler responded to The Hollywood Reporter…
“Aw, I feel bad if she was upset. I am a feminist, and she is a young and talented girl. That being said, I do agree I am going to hell. But for other reasons. Mostly boring tax stuff.”
… and later Fey said this to Entertainment Tonight:
“If anyone was going to get mad at us, I thought it would be James Cameron. I did not see that one coming. It was a joke. It was a lighthearted joke.”
Of the two responses, Tina Fey’s does a better job of putting this all in the proper perspective. The joke itself was pretty tame, even for an award show monologue, and Swift’s reaction probably had more to do with her being a young star who isn’t accustomed to jokes at her expense than it did with the joke being anywhere near below the belt. Hopefully Taylor learned an important lesson here about picking her battles, because she showed up to this fight with a plastic soup spoon as a weapon.
But the real story here, as always, is that Amy Poehler is the best.
(H/T Buzzfeed)
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A lot of the coverage is because Taylor Swift fans are strange, ravenous girls with nothing better to do then rack up cell phone bills tweeting and Facebooking their outrage. It seems that Tina and Amy are normal so they have responded accordingly in my book.
No different from Beiber and GaGa fans, it’s such a weird phenomenon.
It’s not really a weird phenomenon. No different than the insane 13-year old Beatles fans of 50 years ago, except that now we have Twitter.
And the Beatles were the goddamn Beatles.
I didn’t know Amy was a CM Punk fan.
Meanwhile, Taylor Swift angrily flips her ponytail and continues talking about THIS BUSINESS.
How many letters do I need to write NBC to have CM Punk do a guest spot as Ann’s new love interest that everyone loves but Leslie?
Get started now so we can find out!
This is glorious.
Taylor Swift views criticisms of herself as blasphemy. That bitch gone.
Cray Cray? Or Gone Fishing?
I’m picturing the black guy’s death scene from The Condemned. “Aw, the bitch did it again!”
Tina and Amy saved the world from Taylor writing a song called “Outfoxed” because Michael J. Fox’s son would have inevitably dumped her ass. And you just know the song would have plagiarized Huey Lewis and The News’ “Power of Love”.
So the immature brat continues to confirm her public persona while two of comedy’s greatest women every continue to have everyone love them.
Sky is blue. Water is wet.
Why did Judas grab the Romans while Jesus slept?
Digital has decided to keep it real. WU-TANG!
Digital gets a +1 for channeling the GHOST-FACE-KILLAAAAAAAH…no one could get ILL-AAAAAH
I think it was “rat to Romans” but Digital wins the internet today.
It’s becoming apparent that Taylor Swift really does believe that she’s this awkward, unpopular 15-year-old nerd that gets bullied every day instead of the attractive (to some of us, not me), insanely wealthy and critically respected (again, some, not me) 23-year-old.
In other words—grow the fuck up.
Pretty much, I wonder how it feels for people like her to live in a bubble. Like is everything they do normal to them?
I think a lot of them just never hear “No, we can’t do that” and the people around them are so afraid of getting cut off or fired that they never bust their balls. So when something like this comes around, they have no context for it and assume it’s just the meanest thing in the world.
But it’s that very sensitivity that makes TayTay such a fine songwriter and the voice of a generation.
I would assume.
I keep thinking. Maybe Swift was trying to respond funny to the comedians? Make a funny comeback? I keep thinking no one could really be that skin thinned about such a minor comment, right?
And then I realized it’s Taylor Swift and I DON’T FUCKING CARE.
I wish Amy and Tina would have taken the low road and called her a cunt.
This.
Imagine how loud the crowd’s *GASPS* would have been. Priceless.
So much pearl-clutching. It would’ve been brilliant.
OMG that would have been THE GREATEST.
I guess we’ll have to rely on Louis CK to say it instead.
Where are The Onion writers WHEN YOU REALLY NEED THEM?!?!
A kid with no knowledge of the world except for what filters down through her yes-men/women had an overreaction? You know the worst thing anyone of her entourage has ever said to her is that they were out of diet pepsi. And she probably cried and had them fired for being so cruel.
She then probably wrote 14 songs about having to overcome this huge obstacle life threw her way.
Gah, plastic soup spoons are the worst. That being said, “Tay Tay” needs to just drop the whole “I’m just your typical, innocent girl next door who can’t stop getting her heart broken” and just accept her correct title as “MANEATER.” I calls em like I sees em.
Yeah, Taylor Swift couldn’t even produce the right person for that quote. It’s Madeline Albright’s not Katie Couric.
I can’t believe I’m actually saying this, but in fairness she didn’t say the quote was from Katie Couric, she said Katie Couric told her the quote.
And to get myself back on the right side: She’s still a self obsessed harpy who will fuck anything with a penis and a PR team.
Crispy, my theory is that because she has the mind of a 14 year old, she’s NOT giving it up to these guys and they’re like, ‘Peace’
Amy Poehler has been killing it for the past 434 days…
ISWYDT. Bravo.
That awesome bitch doesn’t even take a break every twenty-eight, mista!
There’s a special place in Hell for people who say bad things about Amy Poehler.
1000x this. As Tay Tay will learn at some point in the future.
Hopefully this is a wake-up call to Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, and other comedians as well. They are talking about human beings and should take that into account with their jokes.
You are on quite the troll streak good sir.
Damn I was hoping to lure some new ones in before the old salts called out the trap. Good attempt though, low-rolling it a little. I’ll have to wait a few months to bring out the trolling rod again.
I think your avatar my be a hinting give-away.
I’m 100% behind Poehler and Fey in this, but I’m not on the Poehler is the best planet I seem to see so often on this site.
Another good quote that TayTay should keep in mind-
“If you can’t laugh at yourself, then who can you laugh at?”
Stolen from another post at another site: “She will never, ever, ever, get her shit together”.
I liked it enough to share it.
‘There’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.’”
Hmm, so women should only help people IF they are another women, is that what you’re trying to say Taylor Swift? This, along with all the songs bashing ex-boyfriends, has convinced me that you ma’am are a misandrist.
That doesn’t follow from what she said, fwiw.
Yeah, that Bigelow/Cameron joke was pretty brutal; the Swift one was nothing. But I guess Cameron must have a sense of humor or something.
To be fair, it was actually Katie Couric that condemned them to hell with Taylor ratifying it. That said, Taylor is worth almost double Amy and Tina combined. Lighten up, Francis, and let them make their stupid jokes.
every time I see Amy in the news, regardless of whatever the story is (because of course she is always being charming/cheeky/winning at life), all I can think is…WHAT. THE HELL. WAS WILL ARNETT THINKING IN DIVORCING HER.
He probably just watched some weekend updates when she was one of the anchors.
Maybe in the bedroom she’s like Joan Cusack’s character on “Shameless”.
Where’s that Buzzfeed article about Taylor Swift hating women when I need it? Oh, here it is: [www.buzzfeed.com] As for Tina and Amy going to hell, if they’re going to be there, can I be their roommate? Seriously, though, Taylor needs to grow up. If she doesn’t have thick skin after being in the business this long, she needs to get out of the business. They didn’t say anything to be mean, nor did they say anything that wasn’t true. I guess it’s okay for her to write songs about guys breaking up with her as long as no one makes a simple joke about her.
“Ugh! Why does everyone keep talking and making jokes about my love life?!?”
/writes 20 more songs about break ups and puts them on the radio
Do I think what Taylor Swift said was stupid and thin-skinned? I do. But she’s 23 and I know I was stupid and thin-skinned at 23. I think Fey and Pohler handled it wonderfully. Hopefully Taylor becomes more self-aware.
Still; would bang.