Taylor Swift Glitchy Snake Gifs thread 2017 - Reputation

(now I really want an actual historian to collate the "should this composer be opposing the Tories???" pamphlet crud from the 1770s, I know it's out there)

"Trump is not the first famous entertainer to reach high office

indeed he is not

I searched "the ringer taylor swift" and holy shit they have like 10 million Taylor Swift articles

When I heard they killed off the old Taylor Swift, I was hoping they'd take diversity into account when casting the new version

Netflix Announces Gritty Reboot of Taylor Swift

I didn't really interpret

it is troubling when we begin to take pop stars especially seriously, not because they have demonstrated knowledge or competence but simply because they command massive audiences

as meaning that no one did this before 2017. That said, the part of the Ringer piece that I mostly agreed with was "wgaf about Taylor Swift's political positions?"

TSJ weighs in

― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Friday, September 1, 2017 8:33 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

for a brief moment, I thought the Taylor Swift Journal existed

with 33 blurbs, that's basically what it is!

It's true that none of these developments are "new" but it does feel like music criticism as a series of wokeness-assessments is having a 2016-2017 moment. And I do think that this is as much or more about writers establishing their own bona fides, which is maybe kind of why it's so irresistible: if you know that whatever you write about Taylor (or whoever) is gonna be assessed on political or cultural grounds first and foremost, it's very hard to not end up predominantly speaking to that question given the reader-response judgments are gonna be much more dramatic than just "well I like that song rather more than the writer does".

I'm pretty sure Treeship said this somewhere on ILX in the last couple months: "politics is the new taste." people define themselves and judge others based on their opinions and hot takes instead of what bands they like or what patches they have on their jacket

its a natural result of the internet rendering consumable goods immaterial now what matters is not what you consume but your motivation/skill at consuming "correctly"

Yes. Partly a consequence of music-selection based tribalism falling apart in the social media age.

There are aspects of this I don't mind.

Yesterday our office got a speaker to play music on, and the immediate narrative that developed was that I would be quietly judging people for their taste. My defence was "I won't judge what you like, but I will judge your reasons for liking something." And then it occurred to me how much of a 2017 thing that was to say.

I was saying that in 1997!

James Murphy should've written a song about me.

He was there...in Florida?

Haha no I've been saying it for years - what struck me was that it now seemed like a very normal thing to say rather than expressing some distinction from the norm.

I will also judge men's hair and the intentions behind a style.

sorry, ahistoric "THIS IS UNPRECEDENTED"ness is possibly my biggest pet peeve so the past year or two of commentary has been fun

Haha

hey katherine

http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2017/05/donald-glover-pop-culture-streak-is-unprecedented

Man, Atlanta was so good.

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau) at 2:37 1 Sep 17

its a natural result of the internet rendering consumable goods immaterial now what matters is not what you consume but your motivation/skill at consuming "correctly"

is this a reference to your posts on the Daily Show thread?

yeah whiney otm

I had missed that was Todrick Hall in the video, and he had things to say.

https://www.yahoo.com/music/todrick-hall-speaks-taylor-swift-video-backlash-134742334.html

its easier to align oneself with a political "side" than it is to describe music in a cogent way. that said i feel like if things keep progressing the way they are here in the states you're going to see the wokeness quotient plummet at a lot of outlets that need money and don't want to offend advertisers. (the widespread "pivot to video" trend is a harbinger of this - obviously a lot of these clanging pieces are very high on
chest beating and low on facts, but turning them into videos will only make that ratio worse)

this, while not great in its conclusions (the piece doesn't quite separate itself from the Mic position that "social justice" topics are synonymous with clickbait, which... would seem to be the entire reason you'd write such a thing, besides the real reason i.e. inter-media feuds) is a pretty good case study

https://theoutline.com/post/2156/mic-com-and-the-cynicism-of-modern-media

I'm taking comfort in the possibility that people are going to move on from these opinions4u so hard the second she releases a googly-eyed love song

It's kinda funny I ran across my vinyl of Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain and was thinking how crazy Pitchfork, CoS, Noisey et al would have gone about Range Life considering all the digital ink spilled over this or Arcade Fire acting like ding dongs imagine the thinking pieces

"Nature Kids DO Have a Function: Pavement's Problematic Anti Ecological Politics"

CRCR debuted in the bottom half of the billboard 200 albums chart and to this date has not even gone gold

in 1994 no clickbait economy would have wasted bandwidth on a pavement headline with everything else that was going on imo

if they could spare whitespace not already devoted to coverage of social media responses to kurt cobain's suicide there might be a graf or two about whether or not beck was guilty of cultural appropriation for doing a tropicalia album or making "where it's at"

have you seen how much these outlets cover, for example, the various scandals involving Mark Kozelik's behavior, if Pitchfork existed then they would cover Pavement like crazy

plus they were dissing 2 of the biggest bands in the world, i think it's safe to say it would be covered on indie sites

kozelek went after a writer directly, different situation

Yes. Partly a consequence of music-selection based tribalism falling apart in the social media age.

There are aspects of this I don't mind.

Imagining the 2017 Jack Black High Fidelity character judging each customer on their wokeness level[/].

http://z100.iheart.com/featured/fresh-pick-mondays/content/2017-09-02-listen-to-a-clip-of-taylor-swifts-new-song-ready-for-it/

And then D4rcie W1lder makes a disgusting, moronic tweet and then Noisey et al report on it like it's news.

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, September 1, 2017 10:05 AM (twenty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what does this mean?

― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, September 1, 2017 11:42 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

speculation that TS picked her release date because it's the 10th anniversary of donda west's death

Imagining the 2017 Jack Black High Fidelity character judging each customer on their wokeness level[

lmao ok holy shit, this is an incredible image

haha ugh

"Do you even know your daughter? There's no way she likes a band of white cishet males"

looooll

It's kinda funny I ran across my vinyl of Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain and was thinking how crazy Pitchfork, CoS, Noisey et al would have gone about Range Life considering all the digital ink spilled over this or Arcade Fire acting like ding dongs imagine the thinking pieces

"Nature Kids DO Have a Function: Pavement's Problematic Anti Ecological Politics"

― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, September 2, 2017 6:56 PM (four hours ago)

lol matt i love you

Song number two

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T62maKYX9tU

This new Taylor single flew from dubstep to trap to trop house in like a minute and I'm dizzy and drained.

— Craig Bro Dude (@CraigSJ) September 3, 2017

She had Max Martin and Shellback airlift this campaign out the trenches huh

— Craig Bro Dude (@CraigSJ) September 3, 2017

much, much better than single 1, but still horrible dead-eyed trash precision-engineered by committee to get the most replays, obv ;)

it's a shame the taylor who could write hooks died

During the tour for this album is she going to do the Mr. Rogers thing where she calls the audience her "friends," lies about recognizing them from Instagram, and brings celebrities onstage so the crowd can meet her other "friends"? Because this is what I witnessed when I was taken to a show on the 1989 tour and it was sort of sweet -- it was clear to me her youngest fans loved it and I was happy for them -- but also creepy. I'm sure there are people out there who have a phobia of Taylor Swift.

There were also video segments where Lena Dunham and Selena Gomez talked about baking cookies at Taylor Swift's apartment. It was like they were trying to convince me she was a normal human being, something I never would have questioned before attending the concert.

I had to explain to my kids the notion of a curated Instagram account.

I'm now under the impression this whole thing is her Chris Gaines album.

Despite it all though, the songs on 1989 are amazing. I really hope the new songs don't portend some moodier, more "2017" sound.

No joke, even my 10-year old girl has been complaining about Taylor Swift going all "dark" and "goth."

I mean, I will have to see the finished product. She might have a vision. But it seems kind of forced right now.