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[#155] ESOTAYLORCISM (SJ’s Version), Part One: Taylor Swift and the Religion of Young Women w/ Christina
Added 2023-07-07 05:10:14 +0000 UTCDimitri and Khalid are joined by Public Swiftie intellectual Christina (@stidrill) to explore and critically uphold the parasocial cult of personality, esoteric symbolism, and Eagles-tier Song Power of Ms. Taylor Alison Swift, including:
The Eras Tour parking lot experience, recent comparisons with the Grateful Dead, mass amnesia/dissociative episodes at her concerts, Taylor-as-Sufi mystic/spiritual leader, getting Swiftiepilled when it wasn’t “cool” in the late 2000s, Taylor becoming the Bob Dylan of the millennials, the low-key emo character of “Fearless” and “Speak Now”, Taylor’s high finance parents and her carefully managed musical upbringing in Nashville, the Gaylor theories, Hetlers, Karlie Kloss, the Kushners, and David Geffen, similarities to the Ayatollah Khomeini, the deep cultural ramifications of Kanye interrupting Taylor at the 2009 VMAs, the Olivia Rodrigo interpolation controversy, Ryan Adams’ pre-cancellation “1989” cover record, leaning into snake symbolism on “Reputation”, Joe Alwyn’s ambiguous writing credits on “Folklore” and “Evermore”…
The sordid saga of Scooter Braun, the Carlyle Group, and the Soros/Disney families stealing the masters of Taylor’s first six albums, Taylor’s ingenious decision to outfox the Silk Toppers by rerecording all her early records, the sus career moves of (son of a 1956 Hungarian emigré dentist) Scott “Scooter” Braun, gr**ming Justin Bieber for superstardom, noticing the social and business interlocks between Matty Healy, Peter Thiel, and certain prominent dirtbag podcasters who despise Taylor and hiss like snakes from the shadows as they root for her downfall, Matty Healy the Interscope COINTELPRO chaos agent, the unbearable midness of The 1975, Scott Swift’s double-dealing with Scooter over Taylor’s masters, Scott Borchetta’s betrayal, big Saul Zaentz vibes, Taylor getting ermed by NYT journalists for making “…….a choice” to call out Soros by name, getting caught in the middle of the Hungarian Yankee-Cowboy Soros v. Orban shadow war, more political/apolitical parallels between Taylor and Khomeini, the fuzzy folklore of Taylor’s MIB computer repairman guitar teacher in Nashville, and the carefully premeditated tactical media aspects of Taylor’s rise to superstardom.
Part 1 of 2.
Follow Christina on Twitter: @stidrill
Comments
A coworker’s kids played in a band and opened for her
NYCM&AHole
2023-07-16 16:31:12 +0000 UTCLol this makes me feel old because you guys were in college
NYCM&AHole
2023-07-16 16:25:26 +0000 UTCAh man Jack Antonoff, he used to be my hero. I was big into his earlier band Steel Train, saw them half a dozen times probably. I still love the self titled and Trampoline is half good songs. The trajectory of Fun was really bizarre, I think it was mostly just a new project for Nate Ruess after The Format and the difference in tone between the two albums is huge (and Aim and Ignite is certainly the better album). No one including the band I think expected them to get big, I had tickets for a show that had to change venue after We Are Young blew up. The weird sort of hip hop production failed more often than it succeeded I think. Anyway I think Jack sort of hit the pinnacle of his slightly outsider New Jersey quasi Springsteen 80s thing with the last Steel Train album and instead of moving on, kept grinding at it with those Bleachers albums and since then has gone mostly to production and maybe writing. Some of his production is nice and has some character, I like a couple Lana del Rey songs he worked on, but some is so atrocious it feels like a betrayal. I do absolutely hand it to him though for the insane reverb drenching he did during Steel Train. Semi hollow guitar plugged into two consecutive Holy Grails both turned to 100% wet, absolutely massive sounding, love it
Shoe Manghorn
2023-07-11 21:31:51 +0000 UTC
