Taylor Lewis . . . "By endorsing Democrats, Swift joins the long and stupid tradition of celebrities opining on political affairs. It was, at least for her, a risk-less move. Few if any Swift fans will refuse to buy her songs off iTunes because she isn't a Donald Trump fan. Meanwhile, liberal listeners have been begging for Swift to denounce the president for some time. The Bredesen-Cooper nod will placate them temporarily, until, that is, another injustice requires a Swiftian reproof.
"The whole business is as uninspiring as the canned melodies and prosy romantic themes that constitute the "Shake It Off" singer's radio-friendly oeuvre. Swift is a political naïf. Her first foray into advocacy is as unimaginative as you can get. It's chock-full of the platitudinous pap that once filled Hillary Clinton's website. Trite phrases like "the fight for LGBTQ rights" and "systemic racism" fill the sanctimonious jeremiad, which, most unsurprisingly, reads like a college freshman essay composed after a blithe browsing of a Jacques Derrida Tumblr fan page.
"It's silly to expect any better. The entertainment industry as a whole is cursed with a simplistic view of politics. For singers, songwriters, musicians, actors, comedians, showrunners, producers, directors, models, reality TV stars, social media personalities, agents, and other Hollywood Hills notables, politics is a daft struggle between good and evil; in more Swiftian pop-culture patois, it is the liberal, caring "love wins" wizards and witches versus the reactionary, intolerant followers of Lord Voldemort.
"This moral assuredness leads to many horribly trite opinions and the occasional combustion of righteous pretense." . . . Read more...
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