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Heading off to college? Wondering what courses to take? Great news!!! You can now study Taylor Swift.

You Can Study Taylor Swift at These Colleges​


  • Colleges and universities are embracing the popularity of Taylor Swift and offering courses on the singer, studying her lyrics, legacy, and pop culture reign.
  • Berklee College of Music and Stanford University are among the schools offering Taylor Swift-focused classes.
  • Last year, the University of Texas at Austin and New York University offered Swift-inspired courses.
Universities are entering their "Taylor Swift Era."

While there's no degree for being a Swiftie, universities across the country have embraced the 12-time Grammy award-winning singer and started offering courses inspired by the superstar and her music catalog.

BestColleges combed through course catalogs and found classes empowering students to explicate Swift's lyrics, analyze her albums era by era, and examine the societal impact of her hits.

Here's our syllabus of colleges and classes helping students study Taylor Swift and her music, impact, and success.

 
Yeah. That's gonna get them jobs.

In ten years, we're gonna be asking, Sailor WHO?

Remember the Madonna fad? About 1986, a few colleges (no Ivy League institutions, not then) started offering courses on Madonna. The local fish-wrap (Cleveland Pain-Feeler) ran a piece in the Lifestyle section (the renamed Women's News section) basically, jabbing and mocking it.

Nobody wants to learn about Madonna and her recidivist bastardy, anymore. Old news, about an old woman in a sheet-metal brassiere and cantilevered buttocks lift.

And Madonna, when the object of university research, was quite a bit younger than Tay-Tay. Six years younger, which at that age, matters in a woman, racing, as she is, towards menopause.
 
Haven't watched a football game since the whiners started kneeling. Must be five or six years now. Don't even miss it anymore.
 
CiscoKid said:
Haven't watched a football game since the whiners started kneeling. Must be five or six years now. Don't even miss it anymore.
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Had some money in 2 pools. Didn't do too bad.
 

Taylor Swift album hits 1 billion Spotify streams in a week​

Taylor Swift continues her reign as the queen of streaming platforms with her latest album, “The Tortured Poets Department,” rewriting the record books on Spotify.

Breaking new ground, the album became the first ever to amass over one billion streams in just a single week. Yet, it needed no seven days to do so, as the “Cruel Summer” songstress’ “The Tortured Poets Department” achieved the billion-stream milestone within a mere five days, solidifying its status as the fastest LP in Spotify history to reach such heights.

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AI manipulation.

Fake sales.

Who the hell cares about that made-up former pedophile toy? Few enough...mostly, the Deep State. She's completely irrelevant when people can't put food on the table.
 
Casey Jones said:
She's completely irrelevant
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If this article is any indication, she's not irrelevant to Donnie.

Trump can’t shake off Taylor Swift talk in courting young voters​

(The Hill) — Former President Trump just can’t shake off talk of Taylor Swift.

From questioning her past support for President Biden, to commenting on her appearance, to gabbing about the mega-star during a meeting with House Republicans, for the 45th president, Swift appears to be a subject Trump knows “All Too Well.”

Last week, during a closed-door meeting with House Republicans, Trump questioned a potential Swift endorsement of Biden and her support of the president during the 2020 election, according to a lawmaker in the room. “You can tell he’s been giving it some thought,” the lawmaker said.

Trump is “absolutely fixated” on Swift, author Ramin Setoodeh said, because he views fame as “one of the most valuable currencies in life.”

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Fans splurge on resale tickets as Taylor Swift tours Europe​

June 27 (Reuters) - Some ticket resellers are looking to make a quick buck as American popstar Taylor Swift performs more than 40 shows in 18 cities across Europe this summer.

The singer's billion-dollar Eras tour has also led to price hikes in the hospitality industry as "swifties" from North America flock to Europe where tickets could cost as much as 80% less due to stricter consumer protection laws.

The high demand had thousands of fans scrambling to secure tickets, leaving many disappointed as venues were sold out within minutes.

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Why the Taylor Swift economy isn't real​

FRANKFURT, June 27 (Reuters) - Taylor Swift is taking Europe by storm, prompting some pundits to envisage an economic windfall as fans flock to dozens of sold-out shows from Dublin to Vienna and beyond.

It is hoped Swift, along with the Olympics Games in France and the Euro 2024 soccer championship in Germany will provide a shot in the arm for a continent that has just skirted recession for most of the past two years and badly lagged the United States.

But there is one problem: "Swiftonomics" is not actually real.

She may be a megastar revolutionizing the music industry, but once the excitement wears off, you will need a magnifying glass to spot the economic benefit.

Take Stockholm as a case in point. Close to 180,000 fans attended her three shows in May, with half of them coming from abroad and generating close to 850 million crowns ($81 million) in turnover for the city.

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She's a net economic cost, not a producer of wealth.

EVEN IF she were A Thing and not a CIA tool for psy-op...she's a COST, the cost of (supposed) "entertainment." She takes wealth from those who apparently think they want it, and puts it in her own purse, and the pockets of promoters, venue-owners, roadies.

No economic gain there.
 
searcher said:
The singer's billion-dollar Eras tour has also led to price hikes in the hospitality industry as "swifties" from North America flock to Europe where tickets could cost as much as 80% less due to stricter consumer protection laws.
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Is no one there smart enough to realize that the "consumer protection" laws are actually making the tickets more expensive for most of the fans?

A big part of going to a show, concert or sporting event, is to support the people/acts/shows/teams that one likes.
So why wouldn't one want their money going to them, instead of ticket scalpers who add no value themselves?

I've long thought that there shouldn't be any set price on tickets like that. They should all be sold on an auction basis.
That way it cuts out the re-sellers, and gives the max amount of money to those you are actually paying to see.
Because if one is already paying top dollar, there is no $ incentive to sell your ticket.

As it is, the scalpers make more on a ticket, than those you are presumably paying to see.
 

“It’s All Just F*cking Impossible:” The Influence of Taylor Swift on Fans’ Body Image, Disordered Eating, and Rejection of Diet Culture​

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Taylor Swift is arguably one of the most popular and influential celebrities. Of particular interest is her power as a role model for millions of fans across the world. Swift has spoken openly about different cultural issues, including her struggles with disordered eating and diet culture. Thus, the purpose of this paper was to explore whether Swift’s disclosures of her own eating and body image struggles influenced her fans. Over 200 TikTok and Reddit posts related to Swift and eating disorders or body image, as well as their associated comments, were qualitatively coded to examine relevant themes. Key themes included: 1) Swift as a role model for disordered eating recovery; 2) use of or identification with specific Swift songs to illustrate struggles with eating or body image; 3) continued objectification of Swift’s body; and 4) conflicted reaction to a scene in Swift’s video for ‘Anti-Hero’ that depicted the word ‘fat’ on a scale. Overall, Swift’s disclosures of her own eating/body image struggles positively influenced her fans’ relationships with their eating behaviors and body image. This analysis illustrates the positive influence celebrities can have while also highlighting the limitations of personal disclosures to impact understanding of systemic issues like anti-fat bias.

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Swift’s video for ‘Anti-Hero’ that depicted the word ‘fat’ on a scale.
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Has there ever been a time where she was even remotely close to what anyone (other than an anorexic) would call fat?

I've never noticed it if she was.

Seems like she's always looked good in a pair of short shorts.


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systemic issues like anti-fat bias.
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I don't buy the whole "far shaming" bs.

All it is, is people liking to see what is more attractive and healthy looking, to them.
....and lets be honest. Being way overweight is not healthy, and to the vast majority, not attractive.

There is no amount of social engineering that will ever cause most people to see grossly overweight people as even marginally attractive. They may be fine as people, but that will never be seen as the desired body type.
 
We, the culture, need to get back to a practical understanding of what is healthy.

I guess, for that to happen, we have to first have competent medical people - not DEI "doctors," not political drones working to draw government rents.

There is underweight and there is overweight. These should be commonsense, self-evident. Women have more fat than do men - and that's evolutionary. Should a woman catch pregnant just before the famine hits, all that gluteal fat goes right to the growing fetus.

As with the bright-red posterior of an orangutan, the larger fundament of a young adult woman, communicates things. It shows sexual maturity; it demonstrates good nourishment. It shows the sex of the person carrying it.

And yes, it's normal in many woman to be large back there. To the dismay of some who take their health and beauty instruction from shallow magazines or information-free social media or television.

It's ruined many a woman's life. Karen Carpenter had the genetics for a big backside. She had social problems - mostly because she was miscast as a media star, unable to fit in with the Hollywood crowd. She externalized her lack of a love life on her large, but totally-normal, backside.

And starved herself to death, slowly.

The opposite, of course, is the welfare queen whose three food groups are, McDonalds, Popeyes, and Baskin-Robbins. That, TOO, should be self-evident. When there's a beer gut to match the backside, when there's quad chins below a fat-squashed face...OVERWEIGHT.

The test should be easy. Flat stomach, normal neckline...healthy weight.
 
Joe King said:
Don't know 'bout you, but that's what I see in any of these pics of her.
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Yeah.

She's not fat. Just aging, and fast.

And she likes to (or is told to) dress like a twelve-year-old. She's what, 38? That's on the far end of MILF territory.

Leading to her REAL problem - minimal talent and less organic appeal.

The CIA Psy-Ops office...either, didn't choose well, or took too long to develop her.
 

Vance's 'childless cat ladies' comment sparks uproar from Swift fans: 'Armageddon is coming'​

JD Vance ignited uproar from a particularly vocal fanbase on the internet this week, as some Taylor Swift fans say the Republican VP nominee might "need to calm down" after a video resurfaced of him slamming childless women who own cats.

"Hell hath no fury like a certain childless cat lady who has yet to endorse a presidential candidate," one X user posted in response to Vance's prior comments, which have recirculated after he and Vice President Kamala Harris have emerged as opponents on the 2024 presidential campaign trail.

Resurrected footage, shared Monday by the editor-in-chief of MeidasTouch Network, shows Vance on Fox News' "Tucker Carlson Tonight" in 2021, criticizing multiple Democratic figures as "childless cat ladies" and saying people without children don't have a "direct stake" in America's future. Vance made the TV appearance while he was running for the Ohio senate seat he eventually won.

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Thread was moved into "Politics" because of the next post.
 

'Swifties for Kamala' ready to speak now​


Taylor Swift fans have a blank space on their ballots this year, and they're ready to write Kamala Harris' name.

Swifties for Kamala -- a grassroots group of Taylor Swift superfans working to get Harris elected -- has quickly amassed a groundswell of support.

The group got its start the same day President Joe Biden dropped out of the race, after Emerald Medrano, a 22-year-old fan from Texas, decided he and his fellow Swifties needed to jump into the action.

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Shit sandwich or giant douche. You have a choice! Vote for Kodos or Kang! Your are in prison, but you can choose your next warden. From the two warden candidates that the system has already approved.
 

BREAKING: Taylor Swift endorses Harris for president​

 
Well...she's proving she's a CIA op.

The Deep State in action.

To me, it's amazing. There is SO MUCH for an ENTERTAINER to lose...by picking ANY side. Neither can be placated. And few care what this dingbat thinks about politics.

Whichever side you pick, you lose roughly half your fan-base. If there's any genuine fan-base.

I guess the CIA is paying big bucks...
 
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mmediately following the debate, popular music star and aging spinster Taylor Swift endorsed Kamala Harris on Instagram, surprising nobody. She signed her post, “Childless Cat Lady.”



It made sense. The Democrats’ largest single voting group is unmarried women, like Swift. The only issues the billionaire pop star named in her endorsement post were “LGBTQ+ rights, IVF, and a woman's right to her own body.” So there you go.

The endorsement’s timing was not coincidental. If Democrats believed Kamala did well, they wouldn’t have rushed out the Taylor Swift endorsement so fast.
 

Taylor Swift could swing the election for Kamala Harris - these are the numbers that prove it​

Who’s afraid of little old Taylor Swift? Well, Donald Trump, it seems. For weeks, fans had been waiting to see if and when the singer would “pick a side” in the US presidential election. Rumours that she would sing at the Democratic National Convention with Beyoncé turned out to be false. A fan-run organisation called “Swifties4Kamala” failed to raise a response. Even when Trump shared AI-generated images of Swifties in MAGA T-shirts, there was no public statement. But on Tuesday evening, minutes after Kamala Harris and the former president stepped off the debate stage in Philadelphia, she pledged her support for the Democrat.

Swift wrote to her 283 million Instagram followers: “Like many of you, I watched the debate tonight. I will be casting my vote for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz in the 2024 Presidential Election. I’m voting for @kamalaharris because she fights for the rights and causes I believe need a warrior to champion them.” Swift signed the post, which was a picture of her with her cat, Benji, “Taylor Swift, Childless Cat Lady” – a dig at resurfaced comments made by Trump’s running mate, JD Vance.

Ironically, Trump also seems to have played a direct role in inspiring Swift to go public with her support for Harris. (In her own words, “look what you made me do.”) The star said the fake AI-generated images shared by Trump, “really conjured up my fears around AI, and the dangers of spreading misinformation. It brought me to the conclusion that I need to be very transparent about my actual plans for this election as a voter. The simplest way to combat misinformation is with the truth.” Trump, for his part, quickly dismissed the intervention, saying he was “not a Taylor fan” and warning the “very liberal” star would “probably pay a price in the marketplace” for her comments.

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There are so many singers and groups that I don't care for. There is so much mediocrity in the last couple decades. But the word "hate" has a special meaning. The word "hate" means concern or fear coupled with an emotional need to do something to remove a threat. As with most emotions, it has a purpose. It guides us to safety.

To use such a strong emotion toward an entertainer seems strange. Is Swift a clear and dangerous threat to anyone? I don't think so. I think a better answer would be that she is annoying, and just don't engage.
 
The term "hate" fits, IMHO. She's not only annoying and low-talent; but it appears she's being propped up by hidden forces, who hoped to use her as a propaganda tool. That she's not working out, only shows that the government operatives are a lot closer to her low-IQ fans than they are to our own mean intellect. They misunderstood her appeal - since she's their kind of entertainer to begin with.

But...yeah. I **HATE** people who game the system and live, undeserved, high on the hog on the taxpayers' dime.
 
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