Here's a nice press review of the discourses surrounding the Ryan Adams/Taylor Swift operation. I've also included a few articles from the past past, mainly Taylor Swift profiles from mainstream magazines like The New Yorker and New York Magazine. Make sure you all read the Tavi Gevinson article linked to at the bottom of the post in .pdf format. Also included is a recent article from The Atlantic about authorship in pop music and the strategies used by record companies to downplay the 'outsourcing' of pop hit manufacturing. Enjoy.
Ryan Adams’s 1989 and the Vindication of Taylor Swift
Ryan Adams’s 1989 and the mansplaining of Taylor Swift
No Blank Space, Baby: Taylor Swift Is The Soul Of Ryan Adams
Tavi Gevinson started the style Rookie blog when she was 12. Rookie Mag (which ended publishing new material in 2018) is a treasure of 'readings' of Tween/Teen culture from a non mainstream perspective --with all of its exhilaration and limitations. The classic Tavi Gevinson article on Taylor Swift below.
The tweet below is from Maynard Keenan of hard rock band Tool who had their big come back after many years in 2019. The image is self-explanatory but it's a proud retweet of the mighty power of rock identified with Thanatos from The Avengers causing Taylor Swift to disintegrate like The Avengers, signifying Tool replacing Swift's Reputation at #1 on the Billboard Charts. The order of the universe reestablished.
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