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Home Front: Politix
Blonde for grandpa. Taylor Swift forced to work for Biden
2024-02-01
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Malek Dudakov

[REGNUM] Pop star Taylor Swift suddenly finds herself at the center of political battles. The latest world concert tour of the 34-year-old singer, who has long captured the hearts of Americans, even influenced the growth of the US economy. And now Joe Biden intends to take advantage of her popularity, hoping to be re-elected for a second term thanks to such support.

A native of Tennessee, a Republican outback in the American South, Taylor Swift began her pop career back in 2006. Three years later, rapper Kanye West added to her fame during a sensational episode at the MTV Music Awards. He refused to award Swift and wanted to give the award to his wife Kim Kardashian.

From that moment on, the two stars began to feud. And now mutual hostility is moving to the political plane, because West supported Donald Trump.

Swift released several very successful albums and by the mid-2010s she became perhaps the most recognizable American singer. If not the most popular. At the same time, she tried in every possible way to disguise her political views. Only at the very beginning of her career did Taylor Swift hint about supporting George W. Bush and the Republicans. It was due to the fact that she was raised in a conservative southern state.

But a long career in American show business began to bear fruit.

Therefore, although Swift did not declare her views, she began to actively promote the agenda of feminism and LGBT (a movement banned in the Russian Federation) in her songs. Moreover, supporters of both parties - Republicans and Democrats - tried to find some secret meanings in musical compositions.

Even Trump fans were sure for a couple of years that Swift was actually on their side, but was simply afraid to talk about it openly.

Online trolls have also become more active, especially on the far right. They created a whole cult of Taylor Swift, with endless memes where her image was equipped with Nazi symbols. The blue-eyed blonde Swift was quite suitable for such posters.

The singer tried to ignore it for a long time. But the consequence was that among the liberal public the singer was increasingly called a “secret Trumpist” and the personification of “white privilege.”

At one point, Taylor Swift found herself under real partisan pressure from the progressive public: she was furiously demanded to openly support the Democrats. The pressure campaign had an effect, and in 2018, Swift accused Trump of authoritarianism and called for voting for Democrats in the congressional elections, which they eventually won.

Swift took a similar position two years later, during the 2020 presidential campaign. She even posed with gingerbread cookies baked in Democratic colors and campaigned for Biden.

Taylor Swift is indeed very popular among American youth, especially girls. And her calls have led to a surge in voter registrations in several states.

The singer's support could really help Biden in 2020. After all, his lead over Trump in the key swing states of Arizona, Georgia and Wisconsin was only a matter of tens of thousands of voters. And Swift has a multimillion-dollar army of supporters, many of whom are apolitical and could well follow her call to vote for Democrats.

From that moment on, the singer’s popularity has only grown.

She has more than 300 million subscribers on social networks at the beginning of 2024. Swift has collectively sold more than 120 million of her songs and officially became a dollar billionaire after her international tour. These tours themselves were not only very successful for Swift, but also contributed to the growth of American GDP in the third quarter of 2023.

American states are actively fighting to host her concerts. After all, they bring in hundreds of millions of dollars, attracting tourists and fans. The total effect for the United States from Swift's tour reached $5 billion. Other states are now joining this successful process.

True, against the backdrop of creative success, political scandals once again raged around Swift.

She created a whole saga around her music label, trying to reduce her dependence on producers. One of the owners of Swift's compositions turned out to be the Soros Foundation and its current head and heir to a large empire, Alex Soros. Swift accused him of “shameless greed,” which caused a very positive reaction from the American right, who themselves are at war with the “Soros.”

But then Swift herself received an answer, and from an unexpected direction.

A conspiracy theory has emerged that views Swift's successful career as some kind of psychological operation by the Pentagon and the US "deep state". It’s just that at one of the Pentagon’s online lectures on conducting “psyops” (psychological operations. - Ed.), it was discussed how it would be good to use someone popular like Swift to formulate the necessary public agenda.

The Pentagon itself rushed to refute this, but a residue remained.

And now it has also become known about the White House’s plans to force Taylor Swift to support Biden again. After all, his ratings are now very low - and in the latest polls, the current president is 4-5 points behind Trump. It seems that there are no other ways to somehow save Biden in the elections - all that remains is to introduce a popular singer into circulation.

Social networks are flooded with various conspiracy theories.

There is a version that soon the team for which the singer’s current boyfriend plays will win the final game for the title of American football champion - the Super Bowl. And she will seize the moment to join him and the team of champions in supporting Biden.

This can really give some results.

After all, the Super Bowl is the highest-rated broadcast on American television. In 2023, the American football finals were watched by 115 million television viewers. This is a huge audience, which is ten times larger than those who want to watch television debates or political talk shows. And publicly campaigning for Biden, especially from the winning team and the most popular singer in the United States in front of such an audience, could be a winning story.

It's a way for Biden to restart his campaign, which is clearly in crisis.

Well, Taylor Swift may simply have no choice. If she refuses, streams of compromising material will continue to pour on her, like that story with “connections with the Pentagon.” It could well have been some kind of warning shot. They say that even the most successful singer can be “cancelled” and her reputation destroyed if necessary.

Another thing is that Biden has too many problems - both within the country, with the conflict around Texas, and outside. And the support of Taylor Swift alone is unlikely to ensure his victory. Although she is clearly more popular than anyone else among the Democrats or in the presidential office.

But this situation personifies the cultural crisis of today's America and the strongest division of the country. When even a clearly apolitical singer can no longer help but take a certain position. And she is literally being asked to follow the Democratic Party line in the hope that such a semi-sincere position will somehow change the preferences of Americans.
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Posted by:badanov

#5  DM Article
Posted by: swksvolFF   2024-02-01 16:42  

#4  How it will be possible for Taylor Swift to have her concert in Japan, and make it to Vegas in time for Super Bowl

You understand that Tokyo is on the other side of the dateline. What we call December 7th happened on December 8th Tokyo time.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2024-02-01 15:32  

#3  Couple Pop Culture Control levers:

Daily Mail, in short:

How it will be possible for Taylor Swift to have her concert in Japan, and make it to Vegas in time for Super Bowl
-Remember this next time they scold you for anything having to do with traveling: carbon, travel jab, DIE employees, etc.

Phizer: Travis Kelce says, "Get the Jab!"
Bayer: Take an aspirin before the game for potential heart attack
-LOL
Posted by: swksvolFF   2024-02-01 13:00  

#2  way over the hill for elites !
Posted by: Cholutle Thrans9751   2024-02-01 11:47  

#1  A jester who's body of work consists of setting her complaining about past choices in men to music is expected to have, somehow, bettered her selection processes?
Posted by: Anomalous Sources   2024-02-01 10:36  

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