25 Facts About Miss Americana

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Miss Americana is a 2020 American documentary film that follows singer-songwriter Taylor Swift and her life over the course of several years of her career.

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Premiering at the opening night of 2020 Sundance Film Festival on January 23,2020, Miss Americana collected critical acclaim centering on its emotion, intimacy, and vulnerable topics.

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Miss Americana was selected by the National Board of Review as one of the five best documentaries of 2020.

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Miss Americana follows Swift during a transitional phase in her career, as she wraps up her 2018 Reputation Stadium Tour and began creating her 2019 album Lover, while covering several years of her life through a biographical compilation of interviews, flashbacks, studio footage, home videos, cellphone videos and concert recordings.

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Miss Americana was provided with a list of potential directors, of which Wilson was one.

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Miss Americana added that the documentary does not mention Braun, Borchetta, or Big Machine.

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Miss Americana has been described as an intimate, genuine, funny and empowering film, documenting "her humble beginnings as a country-music star to her position as an influential figure in pop culture".

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Miss Americana described it as "glossy, conventional, flicking between past and present with a warm intimacy" as Swift "bares her soul in this intimate, earnest docu-portrait".

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Atlantic's Spencer Kornhaber wrote that Miss Americana portrays "a pop star facing a daunting challenge—redefining success", acting as "a container for the dictates of supposedly meritocratic capitalist patriarchy".

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Miss Americana added that the film does not depict a drastic change but rather "a tough, somewhat deflating process of self-recognition".

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Steve Pond of TheWrap pointed out that "the heart of Miss Americana is Taylor Swift telling us what she stands for on gay rights and women's rights, and what she's learned about the fate of being a woman in the public eye".

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Miss Americana defies her advisors and gets political — breaking her silence and following in the footsteps of the Dixie Chicks – with thankfully less damaging consequences.

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Miss Americana begins using her voice for what she cares about – like LGBTQ rights – and stops caring if Twitter thinks she's over – if the industry doesn't think she's 'likeable'.

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Miss Americana concluded that "it's truly enough to make you feel like an asshole for ever thinking that Swift was some kind of Aryan crypto-fascist, and not just a mega-famous young woman who didn't yet love herself enough to be hated for her convictions".

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Miss Americana has won three industry awards and received four other nominations.

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Miss Americana explained that Swift's leadership is commercially savvy, but shows how celebrities "can now speak directly to fans, doing tremendous good in the process", and concluded that the singer is sending a powerful message—"one that is likely to save lives in myriad ways".

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Miss Americana said girls are often taught to value empathy over "masculine traits" such as strength and assertiveness, and hence they "feel the need to cushion their actions with an apology".

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Miss Americana further prompted many of Swift's past critics to respond to the documentary.

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Miss Americana further added that "if you're familiar with my 'work' at all, you know I talk openly about battling some kind of eating disorder for the past 17 years, I was probably 'feeling fat' that day and was jealous".

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Miss Americana explained that the article was intended to "deconstruct the pettiness of the celebrity–industrial complex" and expressed his regret that the headline appeared to be "overly critical" of Swift.

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Miss Americana concluded that he has "learned so much from Taylor's artistry over the years, and remain[s] a huge fan".

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IndieWire credited Miss Americana for paving a way for singers to utilize major streaming platforms to eventize tour footages into intimate, candid films, to complement their careers.

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In Miss Americana, Swift criticized Marsha Blackburn, a Republican senator from Tennessee, for her policies and voting record at the US Congress.

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Miss Americana won by being a female applying to the kind of female males want us to be in a horrendous 1950s world.

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Miss Americana believes businesses have a right to refuse service to gay couples.

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