Recycled content from the days conservatives were aghast at the popularity of young Frank Sinatra.
I don’t think that’s a good comparison. Did you actually read the essay?
Did you actually read the essay?
Yeah I did. And essentially I agree with FC. However, both she and Frank can stay off my lawn….
I confess that I had not. The Federalist, and especially that guy, are so predictable that I expect I already know what they will say about any topic.
Having been caught, I went over to read it, and I was right. The Federalist, the NYT, the New Yorker, etc. are playing the Game of Clicks. The Federalist is pretending to be surprised that the NYT publishes lots of articles about a woman whose name must be one of the most searched terms in the world.
Clicking the link at the bottom of the article shows that The Federalist has been running pieces about, and mostly against, Taylor Swift since 2014.
Reading that essay makes me want to hunt down my Moody Blues CDs starting with the album containing ‘Don’t Fear the Reaper’.
And Fleetwood Mac, Jethro Tull, Pat Benatar …can’t say I have been impressed by any band since 2000.
And your comment makes me want to hunt down my Blue Oyster Cult album with their hit song,: “Knights in White Satin”
I really want to see the Moody Blues sing: “Godzilla” myself.
That was freaking hilarious.
The “woe is me, I’m a poor little rich girl” theme gets old very quickly.
God knows what it is doing to the psyches of the young girl fans.
The only Swiftie I know is one of the most cheerful and optimistic people I have ever met.
Swift transit gloria mundi.
That’s a nice anecdote.
What are their thoughts on “rap”?
Rap is societal cancer.
Her zeitgeist reminds me of my own stardom as a commercial space pioneer speaker par excellence, complete (and replete) with star-struck groupies. But I see why Greg Gutfeld dumped her. I might have, as well….
She’s an attractive blonde chick, so naturally HER popularity must be what’s wrong with the culture. 🙄
Madonna Louise Ciccone Penn ++ to the white courtesy phone… Britney Spears paging Madonna…
“I love you, yeah, yeah, yeah” on the other hand is of transcendent, sublime and immortal significance.
Is that the only song you think the Beatles wrote?
Really?
Pop is pop, some better, some worse, an infinitesimal proportion that matters for more than weeks, if they’re lucky. Almost all is and always has been trivial and mostly interchangeable. I’d be surprised if one in a thousand will recognize her name in 60-70 years anymore than we recognize the names of more than a few performers from the Beatles era, mostly just names that sound familiar.
No more a sign of societal collapse than the fact that I can name exactly two performers and composers from the 1910’s out of all the thousands that there were.
A tour doesn’t have anything to do with music anyway. If it was about music, they could carry on with a lot less pyro and 50 fewer semis.
There are few if any recordings of any music from the 1910s.
Well Irving Berlin did write “God Bless America” in 1918 during WWI, and it so concerned Woody Guthrie that he recorded “This Land is Your Land” in 1944 to criticize the notion that “God Bless[ed] America”.
I agree with MCS, “Almost all is and always has been trivial and mostly interchangeable”, which is why many would sing “God Bless America” and “This Land is Your Land” just as patriotically without noting the political context of either. Most people watch Looney Tunes and never know any of the political context of the bits. Taylor Swift is no more a cultural decline as Elvis thrusting his hips. Sam Smith is no more edgier than the Rolling Stones, as Iowahawk once noted.
There are enthusiasts for everything, so there are more recordings from that era than you’d expect along with bales of sheet music and lots of piano rolls on the web. Piano rolls, being essentially digital and at the height of that technology, allow very good reproduction. There were special, high resolution recorder pianos that allowed notable performers like Rachmaninoff to pass down the nearest to actual performances that would be possible for many years and a lot of electronic development.
…anymore than we recognize the names of more than a few performers from the Beatles era, mostly just names that sound familiar.
Country Joe and the Fish and Grand Funk Railroad forever!
Recycled content from the days conservatives were aghast at the popularity of young Frank Sinatra.
I don’t think that’s a good comparison. Did you actually read the essay?
Did you actually read the essay?
Yeah I did. And essentially I agree with FC. However, both she and Frank can stay off my lawn….
I confess that I had not. The Federalist, and especially that guy, are so predictable that I expect I already know what they will say about any topic.
Having been caught, I went over to read it, and I was right. The Federalist, the NYT, the New Yorker, etc. are playing the Game of Clicks. The Federalist is pretending to be surprised that the NYT publishes lots of articles about a woman whose name must be one of the most searched terms in the world.
Clicking the link at the bottom of the article shows that The Federalist has been running pieces about, and mostly against, Taylor Swift since 2014.
Reading that essay makes me want to hunt down my Moody Blues CDs starting with the album containing ‘Don’t Fear the Reaper’.
And Fleetwood Mac, Jethro Tull, Pat Benatar …can’t say I have been impressed by any band since 2000.
And your comment makes me want to hunt down my Blue Oyster Cult album with their hit song,: “Knights in White Satin”
I really want to see the Moody Blues sing: “Godzilla” myself.
That was freaking hilarious.
The “woe is me, I’m a poor little rich girl” theme gets old very quickly.
God knows what it is doing to the psyches of the young girl fans.
The only Swiftie I know is one of the most cheerful and optimistic people I have ever met.
Swift transit gloria mundi.
That’s a nice anecdote.
What are their thoughts on “rap”?
Rap is societal cancer.
Her zeitgeist reminds me of my own stardom as a commercial space pioneer speaker par excellence, complete (and replete) with star-struck groupies. But I see why Greg Gutfeld dumped her. I might have, as well….
She’s an attractive blonde chick, so naturally HER popularity must be what’s wrong with the culture. 🙄
Madonna Louise Ciccone Penn ++ to the white courtesy phone… Britney Spears paging Madonna…
“I love you, yeah, yeah, yeah” on the other hand is of transcendent, sublime and immortal significance.
Is that the only song you think the Beatles wrote?
Really?
Pop is pop, some better, some worse, an infinitesimal proportion that matters for more than weeks, if they’re lucky. Almost all is and always has been trivial and mostly interchangeable. I’d be surprised if one in a thousand will recognize her name in 60-70 years anymore than we recognize the names of more than a few performers from the Beatles era, mostly just names that sound familiar.
No more a sign of societal collapse than the fact that I can name exactly two performers and composers from the 1910’s out of all the thousands that there were.
A tour doesn’t have anything to do with music anyway. If it was about music, they could carry on with a lot less pyro and 50 fewer semis.
There are few if any recordings of any music from the 1910s.
Well Irving Berlin did write “God Bless America” in 1918 during WWI, and it so concerned Woody Guthrie that he recorded “This Land is Your Land” in 1944 to criticize the notion that “God Bless[ed] America”.
I agree with MCS, “Almost all is and always has been trivial and mostly interchangeable”, which is why many would sing “God Bless America” and “This Land is Your Land” just as patriotically without noting the political context of either. Most people watch Looney Tunes and never know any of the political context of the bits. Taylor Swift is no more a cultural decline as Elvis thrusting his hips. Sam Smith is no more edgier than the Rolling Stones, as Iowahawk once noted.
There are enthusiasts for everything, so there are more recordings from that era than you’d expect along with bales of sheet music and lots of piano rolls on the web. Piano rolls, being essentially digital and at the height of that technology, allow very good reproduction. There were special, high resolution recorder pianos that allowed notable performers like Rachmaninoff to pass down the nearest to actual performances that would be possible for many years and a lot of electronic development.
…anymore than we recognize the names of more than a few performers from the Beatles era, mostly just names that sound familiar.
Country Joe and the Fish and Grand Funk Railroad forever!