Posted on 07/15/2023 8:12:53 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
My wife and my daughter went to the show in DFW. Just about all of my daughter’s teen aged friends went. Prior to going there was clothes, shoes, accessories, a party to plan going... Concert day there was food, drinks, memorabilia from the show. Parking was crazy expensive so I drove them.
Here’s the thing. It was a spectacle, an amazing concert, a great performance. Maybe a generational event that these kids will hang on to. It was worth every penny.
It reminded me of the 80’s in high school some of the concerts we attended, these two were events. I can think of so many concerts from that timeframe and later that were just something far, far beyond a group playing live. I get it.
Swift isn’t my kind of music, but I respect that she writes, plays and performs. She deserves to be called an artist, and from what I gather puts on a hell of a show.
voice wise, she wont make anybody forget Barbara Streisand or Whitney Houston, but her songs are clever little ditties. Her roots are in Country, and like almost all Country singers, she “talk-sings”...tells a short “story”. What’s astounding is she’s selling out the biggest Stadiums there is...she finishes this tour with 5 straight sellouts at SO-FI stadium in Los Angeles....man. That’s some serious draw power.....
Probably the same thing that happened to supposedly libertarian-minded director Joss Whedon in the mid-2000s, before he came out as a raging Leftist: “Nice career ya got dere! Be a shame if sumpin’ happened to it.”
There is no way the Marxists would leave someone with Swift’s level of influence over the young free to express her own opinions.
Except spending tax payers money beyond what is collect via taxes is not helping the economy much.
If it did..then its the same argument..why stop at 30+ trillion in debt...why not 100 trillion?
Outstanding post! Autotune indeed. Someday someone will release the live actual feed from her stage microphone— unfiltered horrific tone deaf pelvic pumping garbage, devoid of any real human sentiment or emotion.
Like they did to “grunt, unh, grunt,squeek “ Britney Spears— a disney act breaking out in pimples and dope.
Somewhere in the new (not the manufactured public relations hyping “talent” no, real writers and singers) music is a hidden Hoagy Carmichael (and God Bless his memory- Johnny Mercer, late rescued by Henry Mancini).
Enjoy Hoagy from To Have and To Have Not: Hong Kong Blues original straight up lyrics about a junkie—(recorded incidentally by George Harrison and many others):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLiJl2wb1NM
A huge gaggle audience of all “yins” and zero “yangs” in their lives (maybe some may realize how idiotic this is)— all contrary to Nature (they fight and deny biology).
Not a good societal outcome- a world of Amazons. Hey- here’s an idea name a company Amazon and see how that works out for the Statists.
Not woke enough-— you have it.
Listen to a lot of the top forty around her. ITS MONOTONOUS AS HELL and DELIBERATELY so. When I’m driving with my teen he puts it on. Swifts’ melodic confections would stand out like a shot tower in the Sahara to ears tuned to that literally monotonous stuff.
Right, she’s sustained it for years and years so it’s not just a flash in the pan kind of thing. Maybe she’s found a sweet spot where she’s got just enough “girl power” defiance going on but without being too much of a bad girl. Maybe that’s a formula that works with the suburban female fanbase. And the fact that her shows are seen as huge events is a self-fulfilling selling point now. IOW there’s a critical mass aspect to it. Also, I’m trying to think of who her competition would be. Beyonce? Maybe a little too urban and edgy. Mylie Cyrus? Maybe too much of a bad girl.
Taylor Swift couldn’t save S&H Green Stamps.
60s pop was far superior and more innovative than pop music today.
delayed flight out of Denver breaks out into a Taylor Swift sing along....they are possessed..
https://twitter.com/i/status/1680419022897045506
i remember this clearly...when she went from Country to more of a pop sound, the left really went after her. They actually said she looked “ARYAN” ...that she looked “Nazi” with her blue eyes, blonde hair and near perfect features...and shes been kissing their ass ever since. In 2018, she did a documentary..and it showed her father pleading with her to not get political. She was rambling on about Marsha Blackburn...tried to explain what made her mad, and was absolutely clueless about the issues. After 10 minutes of trying to explain herself, she did what all “brave” and “strong” women do...she burst into tears. Smh....
Narcissist = Taylor Swift
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