[#156] ESOTAYLORCISM (SJ’s Version), Part Two: The Parasocial Witchcraft of Taylor Swift
🕑 Added 2023-07-11 19:22:41 +0000 UTCAfter bidding farewell to Christina, Dimitri and Khalid keep on chooglin’ through a few more hours of Taylor discourse, including:
The (somewhat triggering) comparisons between Taylor and the Grateful Dead, the Right Wing Straussianism of Lana Del Rey, Taylor’s opera singing grandmother Marjorie Finlay, her grandfather Robert Finlay’s work in 1950s Havana before fleeing due to “political unrest”, Raymond Construction Company, Scott Borchetta and RCA/MCA, Scooter Braun’s Make-A-Wish connections, Taylor-as-ARG, Zersetzung Taylor always watching, Matty Healy’s irrepressible parasocial desire to riff with the Cum Boys, Khalid wondering whether there could even be a Subliminal Jihad episode about Taylor Swift, escaping the teenage jail of Gen X music hipsterdom, why it’s okay to respect quality and craft, more similarities with the Eagles, Khomeini, and Qassem Suleimani, going in on Joe with “You’re Losing Me”, wisely turning down a FTX sponsorship in 2020, and whether or not Taylor has ever taken psychedelics.
Track IDs:
Taylor x Aphex Twin - Starlight/Windowlicker
Taylor ft. Lana Del Rey - Snow on the Beach (More Lana)
Taylor - Marjorie
Taylor - New Year's Day
Taylor - You're Losing Me
Taylor - Would've, Could've, Should've (haqq)
Taylor - All Too Well (10 Minute Version) (Taylor's Version)
Comments
Ashay Guevara
Ngl, I dove into her catalog from both Subliminal Jihad's take on Taylor's music, and the surprising Fandom from some fellow Comrades. It's fantastic
hannah mihulka
This has been fun as hell