People I’ve written about over the years – actors, directors, producers – have told me how newspaper articles ruined their lives, destroyed relationships or put them in uncomfortable situations. Sometimes they told me they lied in interviews because they were afraid or because they wanted to mislead journalists.
Not a single person I interviewed ever seemed to understand why the public cares so much about them. They were just waiting to defend themselves, to be asked a sneaky question, or to wonder how the journalists inside could reinterpret an innocent statement.
The loss is not on the stars, but on us
So it’s not the stars’ loss, it’s ours – or maybe it’s mine. For me, there is no better way to understand the culture, and when you understand the culture, you understand the world – by learning about the people we choose to be our stars, you learn about yourself.
What I want to say is: When you are involved with Taylor – the theories, the codes, the meanings – if you allow yourself to think about your life in the periods of time, you can’t help but become his own. to find Taylor Swift. a song.
Far Below Us, Taylor Swift sings about an affair. “Look at this idiotic fool you made me”, the text says, as I scream along with him, but my voice fails and I realize I’m crying again. I stand up so that a woman dressed like the fabled scarf that Taylor Swift probably left at Jake Gyllenhaal’s house during his “Red” era can pass me.
There are no transitions between eras
If this place looks a bit like a comic convention, that’s because there are no transitions between eras. Eras end decisively and violently. They come while you’re trying to do your job and live your life, and one day you’re sitting in Sector 301 and you realize that the transition happened without you even noticing.
Shortly after 11:30 pm that evening, the honorary mayor declared that his term of office was over. The stage darkens, she sends the moon home, and the sovereign state of Sector 301 dissolves Swiftie Clara into diaspora. During her term in office, the mayor has donated money to a local food bank to support the 500,000 people she serves each month – she does this in every city.
She increased tourist spending by an average of $3 million per night she was there. She made a significant contribution to Santa Clara’s economy by selling out hotel rooms and sharing travel apps.
It added $30 million to the local economy
Its presence is estimated to have contributed more than $30 million to the local economy. The wristband-swapping usher goes home and asks why footballers can’t have fun just like Swifties, why they have to get drunk and fight.
Men with leaf blowers tried to clear away what the wind had left of the glittering splendor to return the stadium to its football era. The police are arresting people again. And the Sacramento student has put Taylor back in his Spotify rotation, at the top of the list.
And the husbands go home and work on their back muscles, and Ezra and I go home too, but I’m still wearing a beaded bracelet that a woman gave me that says “Fame” on it, and when I look at it, I’m still wearing a beaded bracelet. Think of Me: As the lights of the kingdom shine for me and you alone.
The next show on Swift’s tour was in Los Angeles. She performed the first of six shows on August 3 – which, as everyone knows by now, is Karlie Kloss’s birthday; and which song that is not part of the regular Eras set list did she perform as a surprise? She sang “Maroon”! She played a song we believe is about Karlie Kloss on Karlie Kloss’s birthday.
And then, at his last show in Los Angeles, two crazy things happened. On the one hand, she announced that as a teenager – I’ll say 19 – she always wanted to have her own music. And now, on this day in August (the eighth month of the year), on the ninth day of this month, she would release “1989,” which was re-recorded last October.
Karlie! Hear! Personal! Yes! Picked up!
You understand: 19 (age) 8 (month) 9 (day). And if that’s not enough, I want to tell you something else that happened: Karlie! Hear! Personal! Yes! Picked up!
Yes, Karlie Kloss, who was not in Swift’s romantic entanglement but could definitely be described as the love of her life, like any of our best friends, came to the stadium and danced in the stands. And in the meantime I saw on Tiktok that @nikkiking23 solved the question 112 and I declare that the answer is not indisputable. (She releases albums in 112 day cycles because 112 is the number of songs sold to Scooter Braun without her permission!!!)
And I’m sitting at home trying my best to get back to the feelings I had in the stadium. I sit on the floor in the bathroom and go through the Tiktoks that talk about the concert every evening.
In my “folklore” era.
I am now in my “folklore” era, questioning my life, thinking. In the morning I waited until everyone was out of the house and sang songs from “Fame” – dirty but also silly. I haven’t done that in years.
And somewhere in Northern California, the newly hired woman from Sector 301 opens the closet door in her bedroom and touches the purple dress she wore the night he asked for her hand in marriage, but it was really the night she was at a Taylor Swift concert. was.
She puts on the dress, takes her hairbrush and puts on “Love Story”, and sings the song that was playing when she got caught, the song that was taken away from her that day when he became his head at the same time. became a significant part of its own history. But even as she sings, even as she finds the old joy in the song, she remembers her time on the Sector 301 balcony.