Taylor's body

Nitsuh writes: "One reason I wouldn't want to be a film critic......is that they're working in an area where it's a legitimate part of the job to describe and comment on people's appearances, and how we might feel about looking at them." (Etc.)

Tom replies: "Is it not a legitimate part of a pop critic's job?" (Etc.)

I am so inarticulate when it comes to visuals that I'm not the man to do this well, plus the ilX scum who called me a p43do just for writing about teenpop certainly had a chilling effect, and not just on me, but I did try to write appearances in one of my Taylor Swift pieces ("Dresses Are My Weakness, Seriously"), writing not about her body so much as her apparel, but I made note of the body that the apparel adorned. (I'm even more inarticulate when it comes to clothing, possibly the least qualified person in the world to talk about it, but no one else was talking about it, and it jumped out as critically important.)

( Fetching in her glam-trash blue dress )