Was Steven Demetriou invited to Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding?
metro.co.uk

cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/49053959

Fans of Taylor Swift have been shocked after it emerged that a contractor for the controversial Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) was in attendance at her wedding.

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It appears that Steven J. Demetriou, the Executive Chair of a company called Amentum Services was also among the crowd gathered to see the happy couple say ‘I do.’

Amentum Services is currently the sole contractor for ICE’s Camp East Montana, a detention centre in El Paso.

The artist has faced swift backlash for her choice of guests, including online commenters who have shared their dismay on social media.

  • ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 days ago

    I don’t listen to a lot of her music, but the stuff I have heard was good enough.

    Yeah, that’s about where I am with it as well. After the umpteenth time someone was like, “No! It’s genius! You haven’t given it a chance!” I listened to a handful of what they said were her top picks. And yeah, it’s not bad. In fact there’s a lot to like about it: incredibly good production, use of all the things that make a song interesting (varied tempo and use of speeds, chord changes, dynamic volume, etc) but beyond that I found it kind of meh, maybe even just a tiny bit formulaic, and they started to blend on me.

    And they all sound like Taylor Swift, which is objectively NOT a bad thing for an artist to create, but compare and contrast artists and bands that evolve so much they constantly have songs and albums that don’t sound like themselves, not just over time but from one album to the next. This is my own preference and taste, and I think I got it from listening to a lot of jazz and/or jazz-inspired music created by musicians that take every limit and push it just a hair farther or in a different direction than expected.

    No shade to Taylor fans at all, and I mean no disrespect. It’s NOT bad music. I’m even a tiny bit jealous they have the fan community that they do because it sounds like a lot of fun. But the music just doesn’t appeal much to me.