Posted on 12/06/2023 6:39:34 AM PST by Stravinsky
Taylor Swift is telling me a story, and when Taylor Swift tells you a story, you listen, because you know it’s going to be good—not only because she’s had an extraordinary life, but because she’s an extraordinary storyteller. This one is about a time she got her heart broken, although not in the way you might expect. She was 17, she says, and she had booked the biggest opportunity of her life so far—a highly coveted slot opening for country superstar Kenny Chesney on tour. “This was going to change my career,” she remembers. “I was so excited.” But a couple weeks later, Swift arrived home to find her mother Andrea sitting on the front steps of their house. “She was weeping,” Swift says. “Her head was in her hands as if there had been a family emergency.” Through sobs, Andrea told her daughter that Chesney’s tour had been sponsored by a beer company. Taylor was too young to join. “I was devastated,” Swift says. But some months later, at Swift’s 18th birthday party, she saw Chesney’s promoter. He handed her a card from Chesney that read, as Swift recalls, “I’m sorry that you couldn’t come on the tour, so I wanted to make it up to you.” With the note was a check. “It was for more money than I’d ever seen in my life,” Swift says. “I was able to pay my band bonuses. I was able to pay for my tour buses. I was able to fuel my dreams.” Photograph by Inez and Vinoodh for TIME Listening to Swift share this, on a clear fall afternoon in her New York City apartment, I’m struck by how satisfying the story is.
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Atleast with the KFC Hillary special the thighs were huge.
She plugs Biden at every appearance. Bought & paid for.
Any evidence of this?
As far as I can tell, the last time she mentioned Biden by name was prior to the 2020 election when she endorsed him (as she knew she had to. She was called a "closet Trump supporter" for not endorsing Hillary Clinton in 2016 and threatened with cancellation).
She publicly blasted George Soros for putting up the funds to buy her music catalog out from under her.
Hamas would be a good choice. They pulled off a 9/11 attack in Israel.
But the problem is that we wouldn't want to glorify terrorism.
Every city she played in saw a measurable economic boom when she arrived.
And she isn't Taylor Swift. She's Taylor Swift Inc. She employs hundreds of people and pays them generously.
I'm only surprised Fani Willis didn't get the Person of the Year. I'm sure Time wanted to.
Adolf Hitler and Yassar Arafat were also on the cover and they could not sing either.... 😆😆
Yes. But the publication was limited to the West, I believe.
Due to social media, it's easy to manipulate anything into propaganda.
No money spent in response to Swift coming to town was invested in creating actually productivity. It was just concentrating a portion of consumer spending.
I’ve read numerous accounts of her promoting Biden in her current concerts. You can choose to believe that or not.
Everything Taylor Swift says on stage is filmed by countless cell phones and posted on-line. I haven't seen any evidence that she promotes Biden during her concerts.
Now, she publicly endorsed Biden in 2020 and publicly celebrated his win following the election. This is true. And she will likely endorse him again.
Biden returned the favor last Thanksgiving when he pardoned the turkey by mixing Swift with Britney Spears in typical Biden dementia.
To give that award to a big music star, is for magazines like “People” and Rolling Stone” to do. Time has always been a serious news magazine, and has only given it to serious political or cultural people or things. No pop star, no matter how big, is worthy of the award
An American Charles Martel, or Jan Sobieski
Time has always been a serious news magazine“
Actually that has not been true for years. They are a leftist propaganda rag. They shredded any prestige they had left many years ago.
She’s a corporate production.
She’ll be leaving soon, IIRC. Didn’t she promise to leave the U.S. if Trump is elected again?
Really, was that recently? Funny if true because she was singing his praise a few years ago.
When was Swift ever singing the praises of George Soros?
Honestly, I doubt she even knew who he was before he coughed up the cash to buy all of her music.
She was singing his tune when she had some problems and he came to her aid. She did an interview saying how grateful she was to him for helping her. It figures he was just using her to get after her music. Hopefully she wakes the hell up about the true nature of the left.
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