Taylor Swift shilling for the PTB?

Russians have also seen far more dysfunction in government, societies, corruption and wars and tend to be more cynical and aware that the cloud may have a silver lining but it’s still mostly a big cloud. These experiences carry right up through glasnost to Afghanistan and beyond, so their experience is also much fresher and more recent. Also read more books. Instantly suspicious and skeptical of any sales job. That’s my general impression. Could be wrong.

Big diff between Huck Finn and War and Peace. So TS probably comes across as a sugar coated bon bon with no substance except for a little arsenic.
 
I really think you’ve stumbled upon a larger truth at work. The juxtaposition of the Russian mentality is a very real and core factor in the depth of the Russian heart and culture. TS may be a trivial entertainer in the bigger picture, but she’s also a call sign for how truly vapid the western culture has become.

Well, it's important to note that there are plenty of creators/singers who have pretty primitive materials/lyrics/melody. So it's not like Russia in general is more "enlightened" in this respect. Apparently Russia is also not the only country that doesn't listen to TS that much.

Take a look at "Taylor Swift’s global heatmap". Russia is on 67th place, while UK is even lower, on the 84th place. Even more surprising to see what contries are at the top.

But there are definitely more indications that it has to do with her lyrics. Here's a quote from a recent article.

She's known for leaving cryptic messages in her songs, but Taylor Swift didn't mince her words when issuing her bombshell statement endorsing Kamala Harris in the 2024 election - reportedly pushed by Donald Trump's 'frightening' diatribe.

The megastar, 34, had noticeably not endorsed a candidate, with a source telling the DailyMail.com that the Blank Space singer had been going 'back and forth' for weeks about whether or not to speak publicly about the upcoming election.

'She had toyed with making a statement after the debate, but wasn't 100 per cent,' the source explained.

However, after watching the primetime debate - which saw Trump, 78, accusing migrants of eating pets and claiming Democrats want to 'execute babies' in the ninth month of pregnancy - the songstress knew she 'had to speak out and pick sides for the safety of herself, her family, friends and fans.'

'She found his diatribe to be downright frightening,' they said.

The wording in this statement is also telling. :rolleyes:

I also search for what kind of "cryptic messages" she has in her songs and found this article from Military.com.

Swift is known for leaving cryptic messages, Easter eggs and layered meanings in her lyrics for her fans to find, argue over and decode. And while we're pretty sure that her lyrics aren't intentionally describing the military spouse experience -- although she did pen "Epiphany" in 2020 as a tribute to her grandfather, who served in the Pacific during World War II -- we found quite a few that speak to some universal (or nearly universal) truths about military life.

Also this:

Rather than address news headlines or relationships head-on, she embeds messages in lyrics and liner notes, music video imagery and outfits — all winking references to her devoted followers. By doing so, Swift creates a community among fans, who put their thinking caps on to figure out what exactly is happening next for the 11-time Grammy winner.

Thanks to the advent of social media (especially TikTok), theories proliferate even faster than Swift's own cryptic clues. Essentially, being a Swift fan sometimes feels like a scavenger hunt — combined with a dash of imaginative thinking.

This made me think about all kind of NLP techniques that can work in a "passive mode" while listening to music, and even work better or influence deeper if a persons spends a bunch of time analyzing the text.

Here's an article as an example that shows NLP writing techniques and how text can influence the brain.

I guess TS's lyrics take you on a verbal trip, similar to what was described in the recent session:

(Andromeda) You're thinking about Derren Brown who does the programming, pre-programming, and then can guess what you're going to come up with based on...?

(L) Yeah, yeah. Derren Brown. Watching that video is amazing. I mean, if you get exposed to certain things, he took prompts, basically, he took these people, put 'em in a car and drove them to an office along a certain route where there were certain things along the side of the road on their way there. And then, once they got there, asked them to create an advertising program, you know, for whatever it was. And both of them used almost identical elements from the things that they had seen along their route, you know? I mean, it had like a gate to a graveyard and a bear and an angel. I mean, it was bizarre. But the funny thing was that I was noticing the things that were along the route too, as we were going along. I didn't realize what was going on.
 
Well, it's important to note that there are plenty of creators/singers who have pretty primitive materials/lyrics/melody. So it's not like Russia in general is more "enlightened" in this respect. Apparently Russia is also not the only country that doesn't listen to TS that muc
I enjoyed the whole of your post and the reference to the recent session. Altogether I agree with what you’re saying. The only thing is that I was really just making a more general observation of popular Russian music, and how I’ve found that it indicative of the spirit of the public. “You are what you listen to “. Russian music tends to be more sentimental overall than western music. Which is not to say that western music lacks sentiment, but as the post I was quoting to begin with said, “Russian people tend to prefer sadder music.” I apologize if I wasn’t clear about that.
 
Well, this fellow shows that she uses the same chord progression over and over again. That could be part of the plan, basically have the same music with different lyrics to strengthen the effect. We know that part of the power of propaganda is repetition. We all saw that during covid. Same message given a thousand different ways.

 
Another interview with Mike Benz:

 
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In her song, "The Best Day," Taylor mentions her father, saying "I have an excellent father; his strength is making me stronger."
Scott is extremely proud of his daughter's achievements. In the blog entry, McCain says:
"Introducing himself as also named “Scott,” he asked me to come down the hall to his office for a quick conversation. As we entered, I noted the platinum album on his wall from Taylor Swift, the teenager with the #1 selling album on the planet right now. He beamed – “That’s my daughter!” [3]
McCain goes on to comment on Taylor Swift, noting a similarity between Scott and Taylor's personalities:
"Scott Swift not only had me believing it…his daughter has done the same. Taylor Swift – unlike a Britany or Christina or Beyonce – writes pretty much all of her own material. She’s a huge star, who somehow remains accessible and down to earth. She has been a true role model for others her age, and younger. (And, I would argue that she’s a great one for anyone of any age.) While raking in millions, she still lives at home and seeks the most normal existence possible for someone in her position. She has changed the world. But, where does her execution of the old Casey Kasem philosophy (“Keep your feet on the ground, and keep reaching for the stars!”) come from? The obvious answer is: her parents. Scott Swift, though, seeks to contradict that point. “Don’t forget,” he said, “the same two people who gave us Jimmy Carter, also were the ones who parented Billy Carter.” And, while he’s right…there is also no doubt that his dynamic daughter is someone who has executed on the principles inspired in her by an extraordinary mentor and father. In the coming New Year, I’m keeping Scott Swift’s note with me constantly. My commitment is to change the world in the way that I can. I hope that Scott knows he has done the same…and we both want you know that you can, too."[3]

Taylor tweeted about how much she loved her dad on Father's Day in 2013.
 
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But is that not because of the decline of marriage and the fact that more boys now don’t have a strong father figure in their lives?
I know this is an old post. But still wanted to respond because this is an observation I often see which I strongly disagree with. Women have had to face extreme misogyny and varying level of sexism + a lot of setback due to the fact that they're often the most involved in childcare and housekeeping, yet many still managed to make something out of themselves. Even in this day and age, the reality is that no matter how much a woman makes and what her position is, she's always going to be the main person involved in child rearing and anything involving the home, yet many manage to do it all. Also, talk to any women who have had to be a stay at home parent at some point or the other, the vast majority will tell you that it was way harder (and often soul-sucking) than working and having to deal with their kids because they were with their kids 24h a day with no breaks.

So saying that if many men are floundering/ don't know what to do with themselves is because of the decline of marriage and lack of strong father figure is a massive cop out and a slap to the face of many women imo.

The issue with men these days is lack of responsibility combined with a lot of entitlement. In the past, society expected men to have a job and provide in one way or the other. But that's no longer the case. Expectations are different, but I think that men really need that external motivator to be able to do something of themselves. Because instead of rising up to the challenges of the modern world, many are coasting and that's because there's a lot of coddling (from parents but also often from spouse too) and there's less consequences to bad decisions. At the same time, while most women work and more and more out earn men these days, there's still very much archaic notions that women should be looking after domestic matters while men provide and protect (something that it seems to me was always more myth than reality).

To come back to marriage and strong father figure, when people talk about those two things it seems as if in the past we had some sort of golden age. But it wasn't really the case. Yes, people didn't divorce as much, but there were many, many terrible issues that scarred the children, and there was never that strong father figure archetype that people talk about. I do think that a two-parent home is better due to income and the logistic of caring for kids but I also think that divorce is better than staying in a marriage that's not working/ full of dysfunction.
 
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In her song, "The Best Day," Taylor mentions her father, saying "I have an excellent father; his strength is making me stronger."
Scott is extremely proud of his daughter's achievements. In the blog entry, McCain says:

McCain goes on to comment on Taylor Swift, noting a similarity between Scott and Taylor's personalities:


Taylor tweeted about how much she loved her dad on Father's Day in 2013.
TS was heavily marketed as a country pumpkin who grew up on a farm when she first came out, so that's probably why the fact that she was born into the 1% probably isn't known.
 
Yes, and also the constant promotion of "diversity" (aka anti-white-men) is grating psychologically especially on the younger generation. Even if you can get the job, why bother if you know you'll have women as bosses who may or may not have earned the position, and your career is essentially blocked? Plus, where you can't even crack a joke with the other guys at work because it's not politically correct? Where you have to use gendered language etc.? No wonder men are bailing, especially those with some smarts. Tragically, they often end up playing video games or some such.

To go a bit on a tangent here, in terms of music it seems they are also messing with female and male energy, as seems to be the trend. To simplify and cliché-ify a bit, female singers can manifest almost absolute beauty - the kind of angelic voices that are so mesmerizing and seem to bring a piece of heaven directly to earth, thanks to the (arguably) greater and more direct closeness to the realm of beauty and harmony women have, at least in potential. Whereas the male artistic energy is more edgy, more life-changing, daring, conquering: in a sense, men need to create grand, epoch-defining things in their quest for spiritual connection, whereas women, in a sense, are already there. (This is a thought I have read elsewhere which I found kind of interesting.) This might be one reason why there isn't much "great art" (and science, philosophy etc.) by women throughout history - not that they can't create stunningly beautiful things (they can, perhaps even better than men), but they don't go on these grand, epoch-defining quests, this borderline-insane nerddom that men often exhibit, for better or worse.

Now in music, they flipped this script, so that suddenly women are the "trailblazers" and conquerors and epoch-definers; but since it's a mismatch of energy, you end up with Madonna and all the much worse female singers of the last 2 decades. Compare that to, say, Freddie Mercury or David Bowie, who also shifted boundaries, played with questionable androgyny etc., but like them or not, they had a certain depth, an artistic vision. Or earlier John Lennon with his weird artsy performances. With the female stars of recent years, instead of focusing on manifesting pure beauty, they hijacked this male energy, but all you end up with is vulgarism and prostitute-like stuff. Or, with Taylor Swift, the lighter version of it with screams to end the patriarchy and such. Then again, one reason why she is so popular might be that she's at least closer to the female archetype of manifesting beauty without nonsense than many of the other female stars of our day.

Do you work in a office-setting? Because it's really not like what you're portraying. No one is blocking young men or men in general, in their career, especially not if they're white. Actually if you look at most companies/ organisations, you will see that management is mainly white and generally very male (just like it's always been). There isn't a mass promotion of women and minority because of gender or race. As for political correctness, on one hand yes, it can get too far, but on the other end, in the past I've seen too many people saying things that were flat out racist or sexist and think that just because they say "i'm joking" it makes it ok.

Cases of racism against white man isn't impossible, but it's extremely, extremely, extremely rare and not at all like you would think from social media. There's a lot of noise and posturing, but the reality does not fit what's portrayed in the media.

In my experience, any boy/ men who's serious about career/ their future isn't going to turn into an irresponsible gamer or lazy bum just because society push diversity/ inclusivity. Why would they? They're busy thinking about their future and trying to accomplish their goals. And the push for diversity/ inclusivity rarely has an impact on them tbh. The one who do become lazy gamers are those that didn't particularly want to work in the first place but instead of being honest with themselves some will say anything to justify behaviour (eg. call it depression, not being loved enough, being too stressed...etc).
 
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