Posted on 08/24/2019 9:41:45 AM PDT by rktman
Country and pop singer superstar Taylor Swift vowed to become more political earlier this year, which left many "Swifties," as her fans are called, wondering how she would go about doing that. It turns out, being more political simply means kowtowing to the leftist mob and being anti-Trump and showing support for abortion.
Ahead of her newly released album, Lover, Swift sat down with The Guardian to discuss her newfound political agenda. In short, she said she has become disillusioned with America and its values. This s particularly due to President Donald J. Trump and Republicans, she said.
She claimed Trump won the election because "all the dirtiest tricks in the book were used and it worked."She also lamented current political discourse, saying that Trump supporters are really "gaslighting the American public into being like, 'If you hate the president, you hate America.'"
"We’re a democracy – at least, we’re supposed to be......
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Tay, don't sell your soul to Hollywood for a movie career, they are NOT worth it and they WILL betray you.
I think the Kid Rock tweet says all that needs to be said with regard to Taylor Swift.
I beg to differ. 1989 is one of the greatest pop albums of all time, deserved of a place next to Thriller, Joshua Tree, Purple Rain, Bridge Over Troubled Water, Pet Sounds, Like a Virgin and the rest.
It is Taylor Swift's crowning musical achievement. There is not a bad note on the album and even the throwaways which only made the extended cut are dynamite.
LoL 🎈
From a musical taste perspective, from an artistic perspective... EVEN from a ‘feminist’ perspective! Exactly! Camille Paglia puts it best:
“Her themes are mainly complaints about boyfriends, faceless louts who blur in her mind as well as ours. Swift’s meandering, snippy songs make 16-year-old Lesley Gore’s 1963 hit ‘It’s My Party (And I’ll Cry if I Want to)’ seem like a towering masterpiece of social commentary, psychological drama and shapely concision.”
Given the professional stakes, girl squads must not slide into a cozy, cliquish retreat from romantic fiascoes or communication problems with men, whom feminist rhetoric too often rashly stereotypes as oafish pigs...Women need to study the immensely productive dynamic of male bonding in history. With their results-oriented teamwork, men largely have escaped the sexual jealousy, emotionalism and spiteful turf wars that sometimes dog women.
If women in Hollywood seek a broad audience, they must aim higher and transcend a narrow gender factionalism that thrives on grievance.
- Camille Paglia
The Hollywood Reporter
Prefer Lana Del Rey..,
Exactly. 24 hours ago this ignorant little strumpet had never heard of the word ‘’autocrat’’ and had no idea what it meant.
These young kids are all tards. An entire generation lost to idiocracy.
Swift started as County/Pop. This began a long time ago: The Dixie Chicks.
New Wave, Punk, Rap, and Hip Hop killed Country Rock and Folk Rock.
Country became popified, and filled the void. It was inevitable:
With the mainstreaming of Country, along came the Hollywood anti-values.
The 1989 Tour was Unforgettable when she came to Kansas City
I even like her song Coachella - Woodstock In My Mind
Taylor Swift. Now there is a genius I should listen to.
5.56mm
Would’ve
long on legs; short on brains.
To each his own. I would never listen to the 1989 songs or anything else by her again.
It’s “funny” how suddenly TS has decided to go full SJW. She smells like an opportunist.
I am a classically-trained musician with catholic (small-c) tastes: The Beach Boys to Jean-Michel Jarre to Suzy Bogguss to The Alan Parsons Project to Antonio Vivaldi.
I have two Taylor Swift albums: her first (Country/Pop), and 1989. I do consider 1989 consistently very well-done Pop - although I would not put it in the same class as Pet Sounds (easily my favorite all-time).
Safe & Sound, Taylor Swift’s contribution to The Hunger Games soundtrack - in collaboration with The Civil Wars, before she went full Pop - was quite good. T-Bone Burnett did an exceptional job on that whole album.
As for Madonna - cited liberally in this thread - I consider Ray of Light her peak production, all aspects considered.
I do not believe in guilty pleasures: I like what I like, and I choose not to care what others think. Camille Paglia is intelligent; so am I: IQ 150-170 (depending upon the test). Paglia is also quite flawed in her personal philosophy. She is entitled to think whatever she likes, and so am I.
P.S.
The distaff member of The Civil Wars, Joy Williams, was yet another one who left CCM [Christian Contemporary Music] to enter Indie Pop, just as Taylor Swift left Country Pop to go mainstream Pop.
P.P.S.
AcclaimedMusic.net is a website devoted to correlating critical reviews worldwide to rank both albums and songs through the decades. Henrik Franzon, of Stockholm, Sweden, wrote a sophisticated program that takes into account where an entry places in each critic’s list, not just if it places.
His site lists top albums and songs by year and decade, but also all-time: Top 3,000 Albums; Top 10,000 Songs. Consistently, year to year, the album that ranks Number One All Time is: Pet Sounds [1966], by The Beach Boys. (It is not a personal favorite of his; he lets his algorithm do the choosing.)
Curious to see how this album will do after all this.
“Great song. Here is one of my favorites of hers:
Madonna- “Oh, Father”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qvVvN0QvzTk
I’ve always wondered if that song was autobiographical. It’s well known that her mother died when Madonna was very young and that she had a tumultuous relationship with her father.”
I love that song. It is rather sad and heavy subject matter, which is why I don’t listen to it on repeat. But that instrumental bit between 2:20 till 3:00 in is one of my favorite pieces of music from any of her songs. Thanks for the reminder. Very underrated. And the original music video was directed by David Fincher who went onto become quite successful in films.
“Ray of Light” is quality no female pop star since has achieved.
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