Taylor Swift is, for the current moment, the biggest pop cultural phenomenon of the decade.  Her Eras tour has grossed billions, with tickets selling out almost immediately.  Indeed, the tour has a lottery-based system that grants the opportunity to purchase tickets—which still sell out instantly.  She’s singlehandedly gotten women interested in professional football, not because they care about the games, but because Taylor Swift is dating a player, Travis Kelce.

Swift is the embodiment of what every basic white girl wants to be:  famous, admired, talented, wealthy, attractive.  Her fans (Swifties) grew up with her, and now have the earning power to spend those aforementioned billions on concert tickets, tour merch, t-shirts, friendship bracelets, and everything else that goes with a major tour.

To say that Swift has a rabidly loyal fanbase is an understatement.  Girls get vicious when it comes to talk of Taylor Swift.  Believe me, I know—I teach teenage girls everyday, and the ones that love Swift love her.  Mention Swift’s string of failed relationships (and the songs that come from them), and they’ll leap to her defense.  Suggest she’s dating Kelce for the exposure, and they’ll claim (not incorrectly) that she gave the exposure to him.  Believe me, they get very defensive of “Taylor” (to be clear, I don’t go around challenging teenage girls about their interest in pop music, but I hear their conversations with other students all the time).

I have a begrudging respect for Swift’s songwriting prowess—she wrote one song in 5/4 time, which is impressive for pop music—but otherwise I suspect her power over her fans is terrifying.  It is an immense source of power.  Women are herd-like and aggressively social in their behavior, and are far more likely to follow a directive from Taylor Swift (or Oprah, or Beyoncé), than to think critically about what their queen/goddess/self-insert wish fulfilment diva thinks.

I’ve even conceived of a short story concept in which a Taylor Swift-style pop star suddenly encourages her fans to become traditional wives—and that is what breaks the starlet’s spell over her fans, who no longer worship someone who encourages sacrifice and giving up an empty, solipsistic existence.

The concern—as Ponty touches on here—is that Swift, a vocal Democrat, will start plumping for The Usurper Biden (or whoever the candidate will be).  Then, her legions of unthinking fans will vote for the party of excess, debauchery, and death.

It is perhaps a tad unfavorable to Swift’s fans to imagine them as occult worshippers of a tall, skinny babe with a microphone, but the slavish devotion with which they dedicate themselves to their icon is startling.  Of course, we’re just living with the consequences of the Nineteenth Amendment.

I’ll let Ponty take it from here.  Here is his discussion of the BBC’s obsession with Taylor Swift:

Have you ever heard of Taylor Swift? Aside from an episode of Supernatural, where Dean Winchester is returned to the body of a teenager and says he ‘kinda liked’ one of her songs, that was pretty much my limit. I knew she was a singer but it wasn’t until the last month that I realised she was much much more. According to the BBC anyway.

Click on the below link and you’ll find no less than 22 articles written about or featuring St Taylor of Swift in the last 7 days, with many more coming before that.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/search?q=Taylor+Swift&d=SPORT_PS&seqId=f39632f0-c98e-11ee-87ef-634e07e314c0&page=1

The BBC have always had their obsessions – they are fascinated by American sportswomen Simeone Biles (gymnastics) and Coco Gauff (tennis), with the latter getting as much coverage on their site as many of our own British girls – but this Swift fixation has hit warp speed, with pieces popping up in sport and the news daily for the last month or so. Today, after Kansas beat the 49ers, a BBC article incredulously asks ‘How Taylor Swift ‘supersized’ the history-making Kelce brothers’ whilst another asks ‘How did pop star’s attendance influence the big game?’ You think I’m joking?!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/american-football/68270784

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/american-football/68204790

I guess Swift’s mere presence in a stadium can make players feel lighter, stronger, quicker, able to think more intelligently about plays… it would not surprise me if after the game, she was able to make them float into the air, the Kansas captain collecting the Super Bowl trophy under the stars.

But sport isn’t her only talent. It seems she can also reshape elections, with a BBC podcast asking ‘Could Taylor Swift swing the US election?’

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0hb3n7c

In fact, a very quick Google search will reveal that other ‘news’ outlets have the same idea, that Swift could in fact use her influence to sway the American public into voting for the Democrats. Now, while you process how bizarre and ridiculous that sounds – that a celebrity, a singer no less, could make American adults vote a certain way on her say so – here are a few things that crossed my mind when I read it.

First off, I’m interested in how much involvement Swift has in all this. Is she playing up to all this coverage or does she find this obsequious behaviour as nauseating as we do? If she finds a nice quiet place in the Virginian countryside and goes into hiding soon, I guess it’ll be to shield herself from all the obsessive reporting on her every move. But I don’t think so. I think the media has propped her up on a giant stage for all the world to see and she’s loving it. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if she used the influence she has to direct her many millions of followers into voting Democrat this year. Frankly, I find that mindblowing. Not that she would do that but that grown adults would vote a certain way because their favourite celebrity tells them to.

America is suffering similar problems to many Western countries who enforced pointless lockdowns, especially ours (UK). The businesses that remained open are struggling to stabilise after being financially hit during the dark years of Covid, oil prices remain woefully high as well as the standard cost of living, high immigration is a problem that isn’t going away at any point soon and our towns and cities are less safe, serious crime rocketing as leftist politicians look the other way. In fact, many are looking at that expensive elephant in the room, Net Zero, which will cripple our economies in rapid time if globalisation continues at the rate it’s going.

Unless Swift’s fans have the luxuries she has, how are their lives going to improve by voting for the politicians who are making them less safe, poorer, potentially embroiled in foreign wars it has no business in? How is Swift herself affected by politics in the US? Well, she isn’t. If the proverbial sh!t hit the fan, she could leave at any time. She has her private jet on standby, she could go to any safe part of the world and sit it out whilst her fans deal with the struggles a normal life will bring.

If Swift does use her popularity to influence her fans in this way, I’d find that deeply irresponsible. She’s never going to find herself budgeting to make ends meet and she’s never going to feel the pressure that real people feel under the policies of idiotic politicians.

For the sake of her followers and her head, which is growing larger each day, she should use the election period to take some well earned rest and relaxation, sit it out and let’s see if her fans can weigh up the pros and cons themselves before they march to the polls to inevitably place their vote next to their Democrat candidate. After all, voting means something and has real world consequences. Maybe they won’t vote Democrat at all and left to their own devices may actually think about what their decision will mean in their own lives. I think they can be trusted to do that. Right?