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Taylor Swift Promises to Get ‘Political’ in Upcoming Music
www.breitbart.com ^ | 05-28-2019 | Josh Kaplan

Posted on 05/28/2019 9:42:06 AM PDT by Red Badger

Pop megastar Taylor Swift revealed in a recent interview that she has no plans to give up her political activism mere months after her failed effort to help elect former Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen (D) to the U.S. Senate.

“I definitely think there are political undertones in the new music I made,” Taylor Swift told the German publication RTL. “I’m not planning to stop encouraging young people to vote and to try to get them to talk about what’s going on in our country. I think that’s one of the most important things I could do.”

In October 2018, Swift shocked the entertainment world by breaking her long-held silence on politics with an endorsement of Bredesen for U.S. Senate and Democrat Jim Cooper for U.S. House of Representatives, citing their record on LGBT issues.

“As much as I have in the past and would like to continue voting for women in office, I cannot support Marsha Blackburn,” Shake It Off singer wrote. “Her voting record in Congress appalls and terrifies me. She voted against equal pay for women. She voted against the Reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, which attempts to protect women from domestic violence, stalking, and date rape. She believes businesses have a right to refuse service to gay couples. She also believes they should not have the right to marry. These are not MY Tennessee values.”

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TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Music/Entertainment; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: music; swift; tay; taylor; taylorswift; taylorswiftfanclub; taytay
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To: Red Badger
Long story short, and I was planning to write a whole story about it, but a friend of my daughter's was at our house yesterday (Memorial Day); I haven't seen her in many months (my daughter is at college, her friend is just finishing her junior year in high school).

The friend wants to do art, and I pretty much figured her as lost to liberalism, like her older sister.

To my shock and surprise, she's turned into a huge conservative, like my daughter! I've known her since she was three or four years old; she's two years younger than my daughter. We spent the whole afternoon talking about conservative/liberal stuff.

So I asked her "can you remember how you first found out about conservatism, about the liberal/conservative divide?"

She answered immediately, and with one word: "Pewdiepie!"

I know about Pewdiepie from my daughter, who's been a huge fan of his since she was in middle school, or before.

For those of you who don't have young daughters, Pewdiepie is this gigantic YouTube phenomenon. He was the subject of some controversy a few years ago; the WSJ had an article in which he was disparaged as a proto-Nazi.

Apparently, Pewdiepie has Ben Shapiro on his show as a guest, and that's the route by which my daughter's friend found out about Shapiro, and about conservatism.

I asked her "so what was it about Ben Shapiro that you liked, that made you think about becoming a conservative?" and she immediately said "because he wins every argument!"

This girl was born in 2002; my daughter was born in 2000.

21 posted on 05/28/2019 9:52:56 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: BadLands59

she sings about her chronic poor decision making, from what I hear


22 posted on 05/28/2019 9:53:12 AM PDT by thoughtomator (The Clinton Coup attempt was a worse attack on the USA than was 9/11)
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To: chief lee runamok

If she fell on the beach, she wouldn’t leave an impression.................


23 posted on 05/28/2019 9:55:04 AM PDT by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: Wilderness Conservative
At this point she can afford to alienate everyone.

It's called "FU Money".

24 posted on 05/28/2019 9:55:08 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Blue Jays

"...will have to YouTube her music..."


Well that was an entirely unremarkable experience.
Her tunes sound like every other forgettable pop song.


25 posted on 05/28/2019 9:55:11 AM PDT by Blue Jays ( Rock hard ~ Ride free)
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To: Red Badger

I don’t think I’ve ever heard one of her songs if that matters.


26 posted on 05/28/2019 9:56:08 AM PDT by McGruff
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To: Red Badger

The more trained seals like this tart throw their personal politics in my face the less and less they matter in real life. I have never listened to any of her music and when I hear her name my ears close and I walk away.


27 posted on 05/28/2019 9:57:54 AM PDT by Pilated (.)
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To: BadLands59
Who knew communist rock n roll was a seller.

Dean Reed, anyone?

28 posted on 05/28/2019 9:57:57 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: McGruff

"...wouldn’t know her songs..."


I just explored YouTube for a few of her songs.
She has utterly forgettable tunes.
It is not like Led Zeppelin or the Rolling Stones with an unmistakable sound.


29 posted on 05/28/2019 10:00:10 AM PDT by Blue Jays ( Rock hard ~ Ride free)
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To: Red Badger

Do the Dixie Chicks really need company?


30 posted on 05/28/2019 10:01:52 AM PDT by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: Red Badger

Her supply of ex-boyfriends must have run out.


31 posted on 05/28/2019 10:02:01 AM PDT by mumblypeg (I've seen the future, brother. It is murder. --L. Cohen)
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To: McGruff

As Quincey Jones remarked about her ‘music’, it’s just hooks.............


32 posted on 05/28/2019 10:02:36 AM PDT by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: Red Badger

Now I can see why all those men dumped her, at least per her songs.


33 posted on 05/28/2019 10:03:20 AM PDT by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart - I just don't tell anyone.)
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To: BobL

If it weren’t for them, she’d have no ‘material’.....................


34 posted on 05/28/2019 10:03:54 AM PDT by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: jerod

The more the merrier...................


35 posted on 05/28/2019 10:05:45 AM PDT by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: Red Badger

My unintentional boycott is suddenly intentional!


36 posted on 05/28/2019 10:07:10 AM PDT by dead (Our next president is going to be sooooo boring.)
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To: Red Badger

Her endorsement of Phil Bredesen in the U.S. Senate race in Tennessee fell flat on its face when it was revealed that she’s actually registered to vote in NEW YORK, not Tennessee.


37 posted on 05/28/2019 10:08:42 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Out on the road today I saw a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac.")
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To: Red Badger

She does nothing important.


38 posted on 05/28/2019 10:10:37 AM PDT by beethovenfan (Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
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To: Red Badger

Great, another high school dropout know-it-all entertainer is going to tell everyone else how to think. Unbelievable.


39 posted on 05/28/2019 10:11:20 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: dead

I never boycotted her, I just don’t like adolescent teeny-bopper oriented music...................


40 posted on 05/28/2019 10:12:23 AM PDT by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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