Writes Rikki Schlott, in "Is Taylor Swift’s album really full of white supremacy and homophobia, or has everyone lost their minds?" (NY Post).
I don't really care, but I still felt engaged enough to listen to one of the songs, and isn't that the point? But how dumb it is to listen to songs and occupy your mind with the question whether the artist might be right wing. I'll just say what I said back in 2005: "To be a great artist is inherently right wing."
The song I listened to from the new album was "Cancelled!," which some listeners say is MAGA propaganda. Lyrics here, at Genius. Key words: "I like my friends cancelled.... At least you know exactly who your friends are/They're the ones with matching scars." Cancelled people make better friends. That could be a right-wing or a left-wing idea... at least if you get your left-wing ideas from half a century ago.
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Independent as in diversity of individuals, minority of one.
If you endorsed Kamala Harris you are right wing.
You are going to watch the left eat itself as they lose political power. Without access to tax payer money they produce nothing themselves. They are parasites.
I seem to remember a lot of jokes in 2020 about Swift making a career writing songs about picking a guy who turned out to be a disappointment when she endorsed Joe Biden. Looks like this album is more the same.
She the one what endorsed their candidate. Now they’re just lashing out and anything moving- sombreros, swift…
…by ‘everyone’ if you mean every leftie you come into contact with yes. Everyone has lost their minds…
But what about the 'art'? Cant we just ignore all the politics and enjoy the music/film/TV show/novel? Guess not. Unless the politics are leftwing.
Great artist = right wing? Do you mean: great art keeps re-discovering things in human nature that were probably "always there," so this is always contrary to utopian hopes?
I like my friends pre-cancelled. It makes them rational and fearless. And witty.
Way too many of you are insane, and I dont even like T.Swift.
Are you conservative? No, I'm cancelled. So, you admit it! You are conservative.
Play it backwards, Taylor says "John is dead"
Now listen to "Wood" and tell us what you think.
"tcrosse said...
Play it backwards, Taylor says "John is dead"
Doggone it, beat me to it...
tcrosse said...
“Play it backwards, Taylor says ‘John is dead’.”
In another part she says ‘Turn me on, Chiefs man’.
’In another part she says ‘Turn me on, Chiefs man’.’
Love it!
Um... the latter, obviously.
Apart from her idiotic endorsement of lefties, I am a huge fan. Having worked for decades in the entertainment industry, I've seen very few talent in such masterful control of her own business(es). While she has top tier counsel and advisors, she has made remarkably complex and successful decisions. Particularly for a hot gurl.
- Krumhorn
It has a "pre-chorus".
“Play it backwards, Taylor says ‘John is dead’.”
In another part she says ‘Turn me on, Chiefs man’.
The Walrus was Travis.
Another fan-turned-critic pointed out, “She is free to put out a song about wanting a husband and children and a basketball hoop and a house and a cul-de-sac, [but] she has to accept the context that, if she puts that out right now, it’s going to feel like propaganda.”
The anti-husband, children, basketball hoop, house, and cul-de-sac people are not going to stand for this.
Sysco onion ring manufactured controversy?
Part of me wants to believe that this is conservative agitprop aimed at making lefty influencers look so damned stupid/delusional that anyone half-way sane will roll their eyes and say, "I am so done with this woke b.s."
I read that article before finding it here. As someone else said, "Everyone is right wing about what they do best."
If there are dog whistles in the album, only certain silly sumbitches can either find or hear them. I'm definitely not in the demographic that follows Ms. Swift and her music breathlessly. But I've got a granddaughter who does.
Swiftly she is Jousted, Kneed, and Rolled. Is it the first or second rule of social liberal club that orders a consensus and confession?
If Gore had been elected, and got his, and Tippers, way, music with secret messages would not be allowed. Not to mention WetAssPussy songs
George Orwell:
“It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers-out of unorthodoxy."
I've heard a few reviews of the new album from Swift fans. They are not loving it. That said, I think sometimes albums need a few listens to sink in.
I was so-so on the New Lord Huron album - but now I love it.
That leftists are trashing her? Yeah - it's your team, honey.
It’s right wing to want a house and family? Swift is many things, but she’s pretty middle of the road politically - generally pretty liberal on cultural issues but, like any self made person, wants to enjoy the fruits of her labor and not have large chunks of it taken by the government.
Most rap/hip hop is right wing as it celebrates the individual, freedom, and self determination.
Have read a bit of coverage on this album, haven't seen this wackadoodle take.
NY Post ... ah, now it makes sense .
She's more libertarian than liberal.
Esteban said...
It’s right wing to want a house and family? Swift is many things, but she’s pretty middle of the road politically - generally pretty liberal on cultural issues but, like any self made person, wants to enjoy the fruits of her labor and not have large chunks of it taken by the government.
Was she knowingly supporting a Regime that censored it's political opponents or was she stupid?
Anyone who supported Kamala Harris is not middle of the road. You knowingly supported a Regime that persecuted and spied on their political opponents and pursued an explicitly racist agenda. You also explicitly supported open borders and defunding the police.
Just being who she is makes Swift a white supremacist in some people's eyes.
The "secret message/dog whistle" shit reminds me of hard-core, evangelical Christians who see "the devil" everywhere or think "Jesus is speaking to them through (fill in the blank). Politics = Secular Religion.
Ok, more liberal than libertarian. A liberal with regrets? Maybe, baby. She seems to have stopped progressing.
Homophobia is a projected condition of fear or hate thdt transgenderism will never be considered normal, let alone celebrated in parades nir in albinophobic banners and rhetoric. Political congruence ("=") was a bad choice.
"I was so-so on the New Lord Huron album - but now I love it."
The Cosmic Selector? I was floored the first time I heard it. Still trying to grasp exactly what it reminds me of.
NY Post ... ah, now it makes sense .
I see. So the problem isn't a bunch of insane leftists shrieking about phantom meanings in song lyrics.
The problem is the New York Post pointing out a bunch of insane leftists shrieking about phantom meanings in song lyrics.
Those far leftist wouldn't know a white supremacist if a bunch crowed up around them... for you see the far left 'thinks' they are not prejudiced themselves... and yet they are worse than any so-called 'white supremacist'.. they don't realize they are just as fascist... for there are fascist even among communist . See they want control right? Control by a small group who run everything... and that is what a fascist wants to. I.E. DICTATORSHIP... and real one...
And thinking Taylor Swift is a racist white supremacist is ridiculous... she hires lots of black backup vocalist and sings with Spanish singers... next thing you know these leftist nuts will say if you play her records backwards you will hear Satan's voice...
In the end all fluffy pop music is mixed with a great business sense.
Jim, stories about what bots post is not news as it lacks facts.
But you do you and pay attention to the wildest hot takes, whether representative of real people or not.
from the link:
"Another fan-turned-critic pointed out, “She is free to put out a song about wanting a husband and children and a basketball hoop and a house and a cul-de-sac, [but] she has to accept the context that, if she puts that out right now, it’s going to feel like propaganda.”
Since when is having a family a provocative political statement? "
LOL leftists are so awful.
more:
She continued, “Considering how much Taylor has benefitted [from] and marketed on that parasocial relationship with her fans, it would have been nice to get some acknowledgement of the problems that most of us are struggling with right now.”
For these overly analytical individuals, everything is personal, and nothing can be taken at face value. But most of these adult critics sound like teenage keyboard warriors who never grew up.
Like, yeah. Everyone is, like, a little, like, bitchy AOC.
But you do you and pay attention to the wildest hot takes, whether representative of real people or not.
So you're denying any of this is even happening. Got it.
Esteban: "Most rap/hip hop is right wing as it celebrates the individual, freedom, and self determination."
Good point - not a lot of socialist rap.
Beginnin of da monf - my EBT card full up
But then ya tell me I can't buy Reese's peanut butta cups!
What da hell man, donchaknow I pay taxes?
Oh actually I don't, but do you really wanna axe us
To live dis way, on pennies a day,
Den your surprised when I blow some sucka away
For lookin at me wrong, or not likin my song,
Dat's all I got left, respeck an mah dong!
If ya keep me on da dole, just make it a livin wage,
An maybe I'll have a chance to die of old age!
You may tink your spendin' too much on welfare,
But tink of all da peeps no longa breavin' air!
It'll cost ya less in ambulance an police
If ya just have a little more handout release!
Dat's right, just tink of it as social insurance
For you, not for me, cuz you gotta endure us.
Word. CC, JSM
Once upon a time Swift tried to remain very apolitical, then she took a turn to the left and championed some of their talking points. Now they are savaging her like they do everybody. The left tries to make you think they are all for goodness until you step out of line. I wonder if Swift is going to be red pilled.
“Considering how much Taylor has benefitted [from] and marketed on that parasocial relationship with her fans, it would have been nice to get some acknowledgement of the problems that most of us are struggling with right now.”
I know I have so much trouble with my giant group of fans, I struggle with it daily.
Was she knowingly supporting a Regime that censored it's political opponents or was she stupid?
Or was she in the middle of her tour and needed to not alienate her fan base which was moving strongly left?
JSM@606: pure genius.
“Play it backwards, Taylor says ‘John is dead’.
In another part she says ‘Turn me on, Chiefs man’.
The Walrus was Travis.”
Andy Reid’s been “The Walrus” since his days in Philly.
’Jim, stories about what bots post is not news as it lacks facts.’
I eagerly await your proof that these are only bots posting.
Yeah, JSM, that is brilliant. It's definitely Laslo level (though in an entirely different genre)
Eh, sometimes an album about her boyfriend's dick is just an album about her boyfriend's dick.
Right wing ideas are left wing ideas from fifty years ago. Or in more recent years, ten or twelve years ago.
New lyrics from Taylor Swift.
"Forgive me, it sounds cocky
He (ah!) matized me
And opened my eyes
Redwood tree
It ain't hard to see
His love was the key
That opened my thighs."
Wondering what Jim Comey thinks of the lyrics from Taylor Swift’s new song.
Also wondering if Comey will be listening to Taylor Swift when he’s in the slammer.
Finally, wondering if Taylor Swift will do like Johnny Cash and do a show in prison.
More $$$ IN THE BANK. Listened to 4 of new tunes, great orchestration ,catchy tunes, SWIFTIES will flock to the billionairess(thats a word) shows,Hey Magas we know want KID ROCK and VILLAGE PEOPLE and LARA TRUMP this is out of their league. Love SWIFT the BILLIONAIRESS! Like it was stated its all about the $$$$(great business)
I thought the hooplah was about her singing about Kelces cock.
"Open your thighs to me, Tay Tay
I hold the cock and you hold the key
Open your thighs to me, why not?
You'll get redwood if you, you turn the key"
H/t "Open Your Heart", Madonna
Her problem is not latent normalcy. It’s that her lyrics are so vapid that crazy people can read anything into them, anything at all.
It's not that she's right wing. She is not. It's that she is not sufficiently left wing.
AKA 100% down with the leftist position of that instant.
Huh?
"Forgive me, it sounds cocky
He ah-matized me and opened my eyes
Redwood tree, it ain't hard to see
His love was the key that opened my thighs
Forgive me, it sounds cocky
He ah-matized me and opened my eyes
Redwood tree, it ain't hard to see
His love was the key that opened my thighs"
I heard the whistle. It was autotuned.
There's a fun theory, with a decent bit of support, that Swift used to post on 4Chan back in the day. Being anonymous must have felt nice for someone that famous.
Regarding your earlier comment on "To be a great artist is inherently right wing" there's a current article on PJM describing why that is so: https://pjmedia.com/jamie-wilson/2025/10/06/the-death-of-discovery-when-art-begins-with-an-answer-n4944517. I hope people find it interesting.
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