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Comment by elzbardico | Hacker News Reader

I propose we use Cardi B, Beyoncé, Justin Bieber and Taylor Swift to keep hostile aliens away from earth.

On Christmas day after dinner we were sitting around chit chatting and the subject of Taylor Swift came up. I mentioned I thought it was odd I didn't know any of her songs. I could name songs by Lana del Ray, Adele, Amy Winehouse and Billie Eilish, but drew a blank on Taylor Swift. A gay friend of the family seemed offended, but he looked on his phone and realized he couldn't name any either. No one in my large family could name a TS song.

About a week later I started seeing reports that Taylor Swift was a psyop, which I thought was hilarious given that earlier conversation, but don't believe for a minute.

This comment vaguely reminded me of this delightfully strange article on Taylor Swift that Sam Kriss published a while back: https://samkriss.substack.com/p/taylor-swift-does-not-exist

That's a fine piece of manic writing. I enjoyed it so thanks for sharing. The other weird thing for me is that I'm a huge fan of female artists starting at a young age with Joni Mitchell (I kept this to myself so the fellows didn't think I was gay) up to Aurura, Kate Bush, PJ Harvey and the other previously mentioned artists but total blank on Taylor Swift.

These are the more conspiratorial type stories I was referring to

Pentagon Rejects Fox News Conspiracy About Taylor Swift Being Recruited as an Asset

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/taylor-swift-p...

She's known for moonlighting as an InfoSec guru. /s

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SwiftOnSecurity

I'm a big fan of SwiftOnSecurity, the place previously that I heard anything about Taylor until she started dating a sports guy.

I don't listen to Taylor Swift at all, but even I've heard of "Shake it off". Is your comment about your memory or about her mindshare among non-fans?

I've never heard Shake it off. I listen mostly to YouTube, which never recommends her. Maybe she's more Apple/Spotify? I would think I'd hear a song of her around town some where. I don't know what she sounds like, so I don't know if I'd recognize her voice. At this point, I think I'll remain ignorant of Ms Swift in case she is a psyop lol

Taylor Swift is a psyop meme is the psyop. Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean that they're not out to get you :-p

I tried listening to a couple of songs of Taylor Swift. I find it is important to keep an open mind and not be a complete snob.

But I can't even remember the melodies let alone the titles. It completely goes like through a vacuum in my brain, as if my mind decided it is completely unremarkable.

That's probaby it. I don't resonate with Taylor Swift's emotional landscape so I never notice her songs when they're playing.

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