bananahkim's dtiys altered my brain chemistry
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Taylor's 2011 interview with The New Yorker is so interesting in the context of Clara Bow...
"Swift is sometimes called a twenty-one-year-old 2.0—the girl next door, but with a superior talent set. She has an Oprah-like gift for emotional expressiveness. While many young stars have a programmed, slightly robotic affect, she radiates unjaded sincerity no matter how contrived the situation—press junkets, awards shows, meet and greets." ("Flesh and blood amongst war machines.")
"Swift has the pretty, but not aggressively sexy, look of a nineteen-thirties movie siren. She is tall and gangly, with porcelain skin, long butterscotch hair that seems crimped, as if from a time before curling irons, and smallish eyes that often look as if they were squinting. She loves to wear makeup, but it tends to resemble stage makeup: red lipstick, thick mascara. . . . She is in the midst of her second world tour, and every show begins with a moment in which she stands silently at the lip of the stage and listens to her fans scream. She tilts her head from side to side and appears to blink back tears—the expression, which is projected onto a pair of Jumbotron screens, is part Bambi, part Baby June." ("You look like Clara Bow.")
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On the set of Dead Poets Society (1989).
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Ya know, it bothers me that one of the first reactions to the announcement of The Tortured Poets Department was to say that Taylor couldn't be tortured because she's rich. I understand that Taylor is a very privileged person. She's a billionaire and there are plenty of ways she couldn't be tortured due to that. But being a billionaire doesn't save you from mental health issues. One of my first reactions to the title was that this album would be at least in part about her mental health struggles, which she's definitely spoken/sung of in the past, and in my interpretation of the album that's what we got. Especially now that the album's been out for a bit, it's sad that Taylor can literally allude to suicidal ideation but somehow she can't really be tortured because she has money. I feel like there's some empathy, sympathy, or compassion missing from some people. I feel like not understanding that money can't magically buy away mental health issues, only treatment, is a special kind of being disconnected.
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I love to think about the fact that DPS nearly passed the bechdel test if they only included that one scene where ginny and chris talk about ginny joining the play. I think that would qualify, despite knox's presence??? right????? IDK I JUST WISH WE GOT LESBIANS!!!!!!
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