Taylor Swift needs your approval. She always has. As an artist and a woman, she’s been conditioned to do the right thing since she was a child. To live for applause. To measure her worth in pats on the head. “My entire moral code is a need to be thought of as ‘good,’” the mega-famous musician confesses at the beginning of Lana Wilson’s “Miss Americana,” a safe but sincere and enormously winsome documentary about Swift’s long road to self-acceptance. And yet, for someone who’s “built their whole belief system on getting people to clap for you,” a single murmur in the crowd can be enough to tilt their world off its axis.

Absurd as it might sound to plebes like…

“The whole school is rolling fake dice / You play stupid games, you win stupid prizes.”

As somebody known among my friends as the “indie” girl: the girl who thinks listening to The Smiths is some kind of accomplishment, and reading Sylvia Plath deserves a reward, Taylor Swift seems like a difficult person to slot into my persona, despite her being my favourite musician for the last six years. To the audience of the uncomprehending, she’s the girl who’s dated every boy-band singer under the sun, who performs her spoilt romances in a Tennesse lilt that’s almost jarring for English ears. It takes a fan to see her for who she really is. This is why this documentary is an…

Since I only just now remembered to actually write a review for this:

Taylor Swift has always sought after our approval. That much is made clear in Miss Americana, a fascinating portrait of one of pop culture's most compelling and, yes, controversial figures.

Full disclosure: I am die hard Swiftie. But even I was a bit nervous, even skeptical before watching this doc; would it skirt the more controversial aspects of Taylor's career? Would it be too morally simplistic in its worldview? Well. Yes and no.

It's obvious that Taylor herself played a heavy hand in the making of this documentary; she is our protagonist and we are meant to empathize with her. But it's the way the documentary goes…

Isso aqui parece mais um vídeo publicitário que qualquer outra coisa. Acho que o que mais me irrita é o fato das coisas serem totalmente ilustrativas, tem um ou outro momento interessante cinematograficamente. A Wilson faz uma dinâmica maneira na cena da criação do clipe e tem toda uma lógica por trás de filmar a Taylor pela visão dos paparazzis e depois pelo olhar dela que é bem interessante. Realmente pensei que fosse me surpreender, a diretora parecia que tava desenvolvendo algo bem massa nessa representação da visão da artista pela indústria e pela artista. Mas de forma geral as coisas são genéricas.

Por mais que tenha uma mensagem bonitinha sobre fama e política, acho que os temas são desenvolvidos…