OK, is this the worst piece of music writing ever?

he wishes

Negative partisanship is making me a fan of Taytay

let's anticipate

Pondering a column about Taylor Swift and American conservatism, pray for me.

— Ross Douthat (@DouthatNYT) September 26, 2023

i've been so ponderin with a column every day tay won't say that we've fallen

People say Swift is a good songwriter but have you considered The Beatles?

This might be the most absurd claim I've ever seen, no one ever wrote songs about how their ex was bad until Taylor!

To that end, she has almost wholly pioneered a new genre of what an acquaintance of mine calls the “bellyaching about a boyfriend” song.

yeah weird that Swift came out of Country Music where that kind of song is never written

there is obviously space for thoughtful countering of taytay's cultural supremacy. feel like this guy might not quite bring that

maybe the experience of seeing grown adults fantasising about her swinging the next US election to the Dems was the real critique all along

they'll be begging her to run next!

you laugh, but she's having a real impact as far as I can tell

I for one welcome a future in which our leaders are determined by pop stars

Guy needs to hear "Here, My Dear" by Marvin Gaye

Pop stars >>> reality TV stars

I for one welcome a future in which our leaders are determined by pop stars

yes, this is a worrying turn away from the high-minded debate that normally decides the electoral process

maybe she can help flip Kansas

or missouri. or both!

I am hearing that women are dumping somewhat conservative men at accelerated rates so that they can better relate to Taylor Swift songs

iirc Taylor Swift dates guys with Fuck the Patriarchy keychains

jfc
https://x.com/perpetua/status/1727145778072948985?s=20

Not a piece of music writing really

And it's a fairly standard "I'm noticing something you guys aren't" thing. Which is annoying, but then again I don't know who Tate McRae is.

no not a piece of writing per se, but it is a kind of superficial analysis that sends me over the edge.

he's saying we're being suffocated by something that is invisible to us?

Which Gen Z artists is he talking about?

Taylor Swift, I assume

We cannot know because we are too old

sorry, mis-read that. He mentions Troye Slivin or whatever

He mentions____________or whatever

huh??

These artists make music in frequencies that can't be heard if you're over 25.

and also they're SUFFOCATING me

Like, Billie Eilish and Olivia Rodrigo come immediately to mind as “massively successful” Gen Z artists who are surely invisible to no one…

old people don’t know who the musicians are that young people are listening to? shocking!

Can’t we just ignore him?

It worked on here

sadly no longer an option due to the theory of Perpetua motion

inside out, outside in

Not writing but I don’t think we have a worst music-related podcast thread.

Dissect from Ringer - the episode on “Nosetalgia” starts out by explaining ‘nose - which you use to snort cocaine’ and nostalgia, followed quickly by ‘Johnson and Johnson makes baby powder, used to cut cocaine.’

I had to bail at that point.

I mean, what did you honestly expect from a 56 minute podcast about one Pusha T song

wait so there's a Pusha T song about coke?

Bandsplain and 60 Songs That Explain The '90s aren't bad, I expected more of that than 7th grade essay.

Why does 60 Songs That Explain the 90s have 111 episodes?

the '90s never ended

There's 52 episodes about the "girls who Abercrombie and Fitch" song

Similarly I had the “Switched on Pop” podcast recommended to me after the dudes treated some basic double entendres in a Weeknd song like rich and evocative symbolism

“And I dropped it after I heard the dudes” I mean

lol Halfway

woof: https://www.spin.com/2023/12/album-of-the-year-killer-mike-michael/

Layers upon layers of stink in there.

Michael is for Killer Mike's given name

whoa