O M G!!! The commenters here. Unbelievable! Lighten up!! Geez. This is a very well written, enjoyable to read article about a phenomenon! The power of music. The strength of good. The healing of fun. The love that unites us all. All coming through one person. Celebrate!! Taylor has been around a long time. Something beyond all of us and …
O M G!!! The commenters here. Unbelievable! Lighten up!! Geez. This is a very well written, enjoyable to read article about a phenomenon! The power of music. The strength of good. The healing of fun. The love that unites us all. All coming through one person. Celebrate!! Taylor has been around a long time. Something beyond all of us and through all of us is gifting the world with her and through her. Appreciate!
We've never been able to afford tickets at that level. When we went to see Rush's R40 tour in St. Louis, it was an anniversary trip, so we spent most of our money on a nice hotel room. Nosebleed seats were in the $60 range, and that was good enough for us.
The commenters here are generally an older crowd and I usually agree with them but this morning there is a lot of "get off my lawn" energy here.
If Taylor is making people happy in our increasingly-negative world, I'm all for it. I''m mostly a hard rock fan but her songs are just fun, catchy pop songs and that's okay.
The point is not so much about Taylor. She is the vehicle. It’s about the power of music, the frequency of the power that unites us all. It’s spiritual!! Embrace the spirituality of the creative force shining it’s divine light no matter who it comes through. Resonate. Get out of your heads and into your hearts.
It matters very much who the spiritual comes through. Listening to pop music should not be a spiritual experience, that is creepy. Unifying around a pop artist with this much “devotion” is unhealthy. It’s more like an addiction and an obsession, neither are good. I’ve listened to the lyrics of her music and they aren’t innocent. Feelings lead people astray. Music is powerful, which is why we should be careful with what we listen to and allow into our minds. I see idol worship here and it never leads anywhere good.
No, it doesn’t matter who it comes through. It comes through us all. And it is certainly not creepy. And, we are also not talking about a devotion to any one person. That is the smallness of the human mind and it’s ability to distort. It is the resonance of the frequency that all are feeling and participating. That frequency is divine and cannot be distorted. It speaks for itself.
We in the “older crowd” have seen this before. I was just a young kid when the Beatles caused an earthquake in America. My mom, an opera fanatic, bought their albums and me and my five siblings played them often. We saw the footage of women screaming at the top of their lungs in the throes of hysteria at their live performances. I remember thinking at that young age that those people appeared to be unhinged.
At some point I learned the Beatles performed live only briefly and wondered why. I read later that the incessant screaming was so loud the band members couldn’t hear themselves or their monitors which made it difficult to play. So they said screw it. To this day I still don’t understand why anyone would pay to see a band or performer whose music they liked and spend the length of the show screaming to the point of drowning out the music they came to hear much to the chagrin of the thousands of others in the audience. This tells me there is much more than the love of the music going on there. I don’t think Taylor Swift enthusiasm rises to Beatles hysteria level but there is something similar on a much smaller level at play.
And all of the comments about her being a uniting force...c’mon. Of course at her concerts everyone is swinging and swaying to the music, singing along and caught up in the shared experience of unity and togetherness. This happens at almost every concert no matter who the artist.
She’s been at this for a long time, so while she is in no way causing any division let’s not pretend that outside the venues where she performs she has any more of a profound impact on healing divisions in our country or anywhere else than Elvis or the Beatles did in their time.
Estonia, which had endured foreign occupation for centuries, joined its fellow Baltic Republics of Latvia and Lithuania in a nonviolent movement that enabled them to become independent from the Soviet Union in 1991. Beginning in the mid-1980s, Estonians began taking advantage of their unique and rich cultural tradition, particularly in choral music, to encourage a national reawakening. Estonians gathered in the thousands and eventually hundreds of thousands to celebrate their heritage in song, in what became known as “The Singing Revolution.”
Seriously! I don't "get" Swifties, but there are things I am just as enthusiastic about. I'm part of the Supernatural TV series fandom--the one that can find a quote meme for literally ANY situation. So I get fandom, even if I'm not in a particular fandom.
I loved the energy and enthusiasm of this essay, even though I'm highly unlikely to add Swift to my (largely 70s and 80s) playlist.
No worries... just an old Jensen Ackles movie that I can't decide if I like or not. It has John Doe of X so that is good, but in a role someone from X should never play. Also features Danneel when she was still "Harris", so presumably Jensen met her on that set.
O M G!!! The commenters here. Unbelievable! Lighten up!! Geez. This is a very well written, enjoyable to read article about a phenomenon! The power of music. The strength of good. The healing of fun. The love that unites us all. All coming through one person. Celebrate!! Taylor has been around a long time. Something beyond all of us and through all of us is gifting the world with her and through her. Appreciate!
Well said. But I have to stop short of worshipping at the altar of any one. Spending that kind of money on show tickets is obscene.
We've never been able to afford tickets at that level. When we went to see Rush's R40 tour in St. Louis, it was an anniversary trip, so we spent most of our money on a nice hotel room. Nosebleed seats were in the $60 range, and that was good enough for us.
The commenters here are generally an older crowd and I usually agree with them but this morning there is a lot of "get off my lawn" energy here.
If Taylor is making people happy in our increasingly-negative world, I'm all for it. I''m mostly a hard rock fan but her songs are just fun, catchy pop songs and that's okay.
The point is not so much about Taylor. She is the vehicle. It’s about the power of music, the frequency of the power that unites us all. It’s spiritual!! Embrace the spirituality of the creative force shining it’s divine light no matter who it comes through. Resonate. Get out of your heads and into your hearts.
It matters very much who the spiritual comes through. Listening to pop music should not be a spiritual experience, that is creepy. Unifying around a pop artist with this much “devotion” is unhealthy. It’s more like an addiction and an obsession, neither are good. I’ve listened to the lyrics of her music and they aren’t innocent. Feelings lead people astray. Music is powerful, which is why we should be careful with what we listen to and allow into our minds. I see idol worship here and it never leads anywhere good.
No, it doesn’t matter who it comes through. It comes through us all. And it is certainly not creepy. And, we are also not talking about a devotion to any one person. That is the smallness of the human mind and it’s ability to distort. It is the resonance of the frequency that all are feeling and participating. That frequency is divine and cannot be distorted. It speaks for itself.
We in the “older crowd” have seen this before. I was just a young kid when the Beatles caused an earthquake in America. My mom, an opera fanatic, bought their albums and me and my five siblings played them often. We saw the footage of women screaming at the top of their lungs in the throes of hysteria at their live performances. I remember thinking at that young age that those people appeared to be unhinged.
At some point I learned the Beatles performed live only briefly and wondered why. I read later that the incessant screaming was so loud the band members couldn’t hear themselves or their monitors which made it difficult to play. So they said screw it. To this day I still don’t understand why anyone would pay to see a band or performer whose music they liked and spend the length of the show screaming to the point of drowning out the music they came to hear much to the chagrin of the thousands of others in the audience. This tells me there is much more than the love of the music going on there. I don’t think Taylor Swift enthusiasm rises to Beatles hysteria level but there is something similar on a much smaller level at play.
And all of the comments about her being a uniting force...c’mon. Of course at her concerts everyone is swinging and swaying to the music, singing along and caught up in the shared experience of unity and togetherness. This happens at almost every concert no matter who the artist.
She’s been at this for a long time, so while she is in no way causing any division let’s not pretend that outside the venues where she performs she has any more of a profound impact on healing divisions in our country or anywhere else than Elvis or the Beatles did in their time.
Have you heard of the singing revolution in Estonia?
https://youtu.be/4njksFKyycY
Estonia, which had endured foreign occupation for centuries, joined its fellow Baltic Republics of Latvia and Lithuania in a nonviolent movement that enabled them to become independent from the Soviet Union in 1991. Beginning in the mid-1980s, Estonians began taking advantage of their unique and rich cultural tradition, particularly in choral music, to encourage a national reawakening. Estonians gathered in the thousands and eventually hundreds of thousands to celebrate their heritage in song, in what became known as “The Singing Revolution.”
https://www.nonviolent-conflict.org/estonias-singing-revolution-1986-1991/
https://www.ricksteves.com/watch-read-listen/read/articles/estonia-singing-revolution
Seriously! I don't "get" Swifties, but there are things I am just as enthusiastic about. I'm part of the Supernatural TV series fandom--the one that can find a quote meme for literally ANY situation. So I get fandom, even if I'm not in a particular fandom.
I loved the energy and enthusiasm of this essay, even though I'm highly unlikely to add Swift to my (largely 70s and 80s) playlist.
Have you watched Ten Inch Hero?
I've never heard of it.
No worries... just an old Jensen Ackles movie that I can't decide if I like or not. It has John Doe of X so that is good, but in a role someone from X should never play. Also features Danneel when she was still "Harris", so presumably Jensen met her on that set.
I’m with you all the way, sista!