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Taylor Swift’s Latest Reinvention Is Both Coarse and Conservative
The New York Times ^ | 22 Oct. 2025 | Ross Doughtat

Posted on 10/22/2025 6:15:04 PM PDT by JOHN ADAMS

The latest exercise in Swiftiana combines bawdiness with a certain impulse toward conservatism, as the singer embraces suburban dreams of marriage and white-picket fences while rhapsodizing about her fiancé’s reproductive organ. In that sense it’s an appropriate text for the Trump era, when coarseness and right-wing politics have been married in a distinctive way

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It's important (and for now, highly enjoyable) to read what the enemy is saying. Worthwhile to take the above URL and put it into archive.is to get the full explication of how our intellectual betters think about us and the worlds we inhabit.
1 posted on 10/22/2025 6:15:04 PM PDT by JOHN ADAMS
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To: JOHN ADAMS

Don’t get in the way.


2 posted on 10/22/2025 6:22:44 PM PDT by waterhill (Nobody cares, work harder!)
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To: JOHN ADAMS

NY Times: Trump is responsible for Taylor Swift’s potty-mouth. Got it?


3 posted on 10/22/2025 6:22:55 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: PGR88

I have no use for either Taylor Swift or the NYT, so...


4 posted on 10/22/2025 6:26:15 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: JOHN ADAMS

The rat looking spoiled brat is not worth the time of day—much less your time reading about her. Her music sucks, just shows how people are easily fooled.


5 posted on 10/22/2025 6:29:25 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: JOHN ADAMS

Taylor is very American. And very Trumpian to boot and always has been.

She is a titan of industry with an empire of not only music, but real estate, private plane, the whole 9 yards — and yet like Trump, she too connects to “real America” but in a sensitive/artistic way. (And more down to earth.)

She’s always been feminine and traditional. Her only left-leaning credentials are the politicians she’s endorsed.

My favorite song on her new album is “Father Figure,” which has a very mobster family type vibe to it.

https://youtu.be/98SmlWOKuME?si=eKZrj2HhK8IZnfNL


6 posted on 10/22/2025 6:31:40 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

George Michael already did that one.


7 posted on 10/22/2025 6:33:07 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: crusty old prospector

She asked his estate’s for permission to use the title and spin the song. It’s pretty different.


8 posted on 10/22/2025 6:36:37 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: JOHN ADAMS

The left worrying about coarseness. This is today’s daily projection.


9 posted on 10/22/2025 6:36:43 PM PDT by xp38
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To: JOHN ADAMS
In that sense it’s an appropriate text for the Trump era, when coarseness and right-wing politics have been married in a distinctive way

Ah, yes, as always the arbiter of all that is wise and good, "The New York Times".

10 posted on 10/22/2025 6:36:47 PM PDT by Robwin ( )
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George Michael’s Father Figure was 100% creepy pedo-promotion. Taylor Swift’s is different, daydreaming that she’s a black male rapper pushing violence and bragging about her penis.


11 posted on 10/22/2025 6:37:10 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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(And more down to earth.)

I take that back. Trump is also down to earth.

12 posted on 10/22/2025 6:39:28 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: Tell It Right

Worth noting there is a “clean” version of the sing and the lyrics arguably work better.

Swift says she wrote the song after watching a closing scene in the show “Succession.”


13 posted on 10/22/2025 6:40:40 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: Tell It Right

Fo real?


14 posted on 10/22/2025 6:40:57 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: Tell It Right

“daydreaming that she’s a black male rapper pushing violence and bragging about her penis.”

I am proud to say I’ve never heard TS sing and you convinced me to not change that.


15 posted on 10/22/2025 6:41:49 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ProtectOurFreedom; crusty old prospector

https://youtu.be/b3hW8c9mmLQ?si=fLw7KZyvtnLmnY3D


16 posted on 10/22/2025 6:44:54 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: ProtectOurFreedom; crusty old prospector

oops sorry this is the one with the lyrics

https://youtu.be/98SmlWOKuME?si=eKZrj2HhK8IZnfNL


17 posted on 10/22/2025 6:46:16 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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Her only left-leaning credentials are the politicians she’s endorsed.

She did that to pander to her fan base so that she could accumulate $9 billion.

18 posted on 10/22/2025 6:52:17 PM PDT by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump )
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To: Jamestown1630

I’m with you on this one.


19 posted on 10/22/2025 6:57:56 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: Fungi

Exactly.


20 posted on 10/22/2025 6:58:09 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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