Kelsey McKinney saying what we were all thinking:

I think the answer is simpler: Greed will always destroy art, and Swift’s desire for profit—her need to sell product when she already has far more money than any one person could possibly require—has destroyed her ability to create anything of value. “Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of the active, efficient and practical man,” Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote in The Idiot. That’s what art becomes when its primary goal is to make money: unoriginal, boring, palatable.

If you're willing to compromise everything—to have no public morals or beliefs, to make your work palatable to everyone—there is so, so much money to be made. Of course, that compromise is going to be the version of art that corporations want made. An artist is supposed to fight against that, to try to make something good even if it doesn't make them a billion dollars. Greed will always destroy good work, because money and art have drastically different priorities. On The Life of a Showgirl, it's undeniable which path Taylor Swift has decided to value more.