Literally, just ten seconds before your post!

I watched her Eras tour movie but enjoyed her documentary more.

tay tay night at mo’s. anyone wanna come?

ugh, not for me

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if not, maybe i’ll do a couple shots. these days i feel like i need to know some of the songs just to get the jokes. colbert last night did a bit that i knew was all her lyrics, and funny in it’s own right, but….
i’m trying to keep up here before i end up yelling at clouds.

I had no expectations and I really enjoyed it.

I watched it last night---She's smart and driven! I am now a Swiftie at the age of 65!

Will definitely check it out!

this one

https://www.billboard.com/lists/best-taylor-swift-songs/

which is from March of last year but covers 100 of her best songs with some info (and lyrics) with each.

An early Eras tour setlist and an article late last year on surprise songs:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2023/03/18/taylor-swift-set-list-eras-tour/11499422002/

https://people.com/taylor-swift-eras-tour-surprise-songs-7509877

The setlist for the Eras tour movie:

https://www.thewrap.com/taylor-swift-eras-tour-movie-setlist-all-the-songs-list/

Here's one from the 1989 Tour (I think that was the one before last year's tour).

now i have to figure out how else to drop her a little change. lol. maybe i need a tshirt.

Maybe not leap to conclusions about posters?

Nods to Springsteen and Depeche Mode.

The Weekend, Mick Jagger, Alison Krauss, Wiz Khalifa ... wow, it's great!

One of the ERAS trailers

but she seems like a good person. Perhaps she’ll use her fame in a truly transformative way.

she performs? Millions to charities? Shining a spotlight in the magats? What else does she need to do to meet your "transformative" standard?

...started when these racist morons went after Taylor Swift and the NFL. She's insanely popular for good reasons. Kelse is the epitome of the macho gentleman for sports fans. Keep flying down that hate fueled rabbit hole magats. You're sure to gain supporters with every new conspiracy theory.

from venue to venue 55 million dollars.

Each truck driver got $100,000. For a bonus

I bet she has people waiting in line to work her gig!

She’s incredibly generous.

When exactly did popular music 'fall'?

What decade do you think saw the rise of 'celebrity culture'?

"In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes" - misattributed to Andy Warhol, circa 1968.

Which movie?

I'm going to check out some of her material too at some point. Not really into pop or country music.

I don't understand why the media is forcing all the right wing conspiracy theories on us.

no kidding. seismographs picked up a couple of the concerts. and the fed reported on it as a bump in the gdp.
i’m usually pretty good at filtering out this pop nonsense. but i dont know how u managed. she’s bloody everywhere.

You really mean no kidding? There's something endearing about this seismographic bump in the gdp.

i’m a huge believer in the power of the power of jokes in the face of fascism.

My husband and I watched the Eras tour movie. It rents for $20. I kinda knew what we would be watching but he did not. At the end of it, he said he was impressed. She’s incredibly entertaining and charismatic. It’s really fun to watch.

As much as I respect her for being vocal about the dangers TFG represents, music kind of died for me when Zep split and Lennon was murdered. As a musician, I find most pop music poison to my ears. My parents felt the same way about my music. I am happy for her and all of her fans yet art and beauty are indeed in the eye of the beholder. Her music is just not for me. I am cool with that.

and like they said about dylan- it’s poetry, too.

i’m also a rank amateur singer, and not my cup there, either.
irish, showtunes, some country rock. stuff i grew up on, like u. i got a feeling 1 of them might just stick in my head, tho. i mean, i sorta feel like there’s a whole community out there full of ppl i’d like who arent tay tay. all i gotta do is learn a song.

inspired me to go back and reread a lot of TS Eliot. Much of what you get out of poetry is influenced by what you bring to it. Whatever else may be said about Miss Swift, I think it's fair to say she's pretty damned genuine and authentic.

I don't have to worry about any of it becoming an ear-bug.

HOWEVER if she puts a burr up Republican asses, then I am all for it.
And she does seem to be doing that.

I will now return to my Richard Thompson, Joni Mitchell, and Mark Knopfler channels.

there’s a couple lines that caught my ear, tho.

Taylor Swift - All Too Well (Grammy Awards 2014) You Tube! This is the one that did it for me!

what pipes! what perfect delivery.
and dang if that aint pretty much where i am at the moment. ‘could have been a masterpiece, but u tore it all up.’ yeah, that’s gonna stick in my head.

Swifts’s lyrics are quite poetic.

https://english.fas.harvard.edu/english-183ts-taylor-swift-and-her-world

.....when I saw this about 7 years ago or so. I was always into the Brit imports from the '60s,'70s and '80s ('90s Cranberries). By the end of this song, I damn fell in love!!!

Sorry. Just how old I am.
But if she irritates Republicans, all the better.

like hemingway said- writing is easy. you just sit at a typewriter and bleed.

I wished I could could leave and watch the rest later. I was born in 1962.

Still a 🐶 puppy...

"not a fan"
"don't know who she is"
"don't like her music"

lol
lol
lol

call a press conference, line up the 1st and 2nd families, and whoever else wants to come, and declare themselves swifties. issue a proclamation. hell, give her a medal.

Here it is. This is from about 4 years ago, just after Jan 6. Listen to the first thing she says

She cleverly writes about the double standard that she and all women are judged by and yet somehow is joyful in doing so.

Elvis was going to destroy society.

The Beatles were going to destroy society.

Punk was going to destroy society.

Disco was going to destroy society.

Grunge etc etc

Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring caused riots.

Every cultural change especially music is going to destroy society.

Society is still here.

Thanks for pointing out my omission.👍

I knew I forgot something. Getting old sucks.

She is so spot on with lyrics. She really is brilliant

good 1.

Thanks everyone

I love her song The Man! Every time I watch it, I think to myself, I feel you Taylor, and I'm old! Not much has changed about attitudes toward women since I was her age.

so incredibly fucking true. good lord, can u imagine? she’d b elon musk’s good twin.

She is a talented song writer also.

You don't have to sit through a bunch of music. It's more about her and the things she went through. It's easy to watch.