In summary, I think it’s okay to admit that you hate Taylor Swift for entirely non-political reasons instead of constructing an elaborate fiction wherein you’re a brave leftist warrior for thinking her lyrics are corny and not getting the hype.
you can’t replicate the power structures of asoiaf within American politics so it just has to all be based on vibes. Cersei Lannister (R-CA) problematic house backbencher oversight vice chair who is doing crazy watergate shit on committee to get her evil senate majority leader dad to notice her. Tyrion former youngest ever Orange County commissioner turns down a very promising gubernatorial campaign to go be the chief of staff at the White House because his dad asked him to and it fucking sucks so bad. Stannis (I-MI) is a libertarian but caucuses with Democrats in the Senate because he’s mad Robert made Renly Jack Schlossberg AG despite him being like 25. They find gold bars in littlefinger’s closet but insider trading is just a hobby. The starks are moderate Minnesotans except for jonsnow who might pivot and become an ecoterrorist. Rhaegar did Chappaquiddick. Jaime plays for the Los Angeles Lakers until an otherwise career ending injury forces him to play for the Wizards.
Bloodraven (D-VA) was a dixiecrat but historians often downplay this part of his early senatorial career to emphasize his controversial and prolific foreign policy record as Secretary of State and later return to the senate for the last thirty years of his life as an inexplicably woke langley environmentalist technocrat. His presence on the Maekar tapes validating and participating in all of Maekar’s delusional and paranoid batshit governing decisions is a matter or significant debate. Baelor Breakspear dies in a plane crash shortly after receiving the Dem nomination for president, leaving many to speculate about a family curse. Bittersteel is a part of the other Byrd organization and goes down with the ship. Danelle Lothston runs a Charles Manson cult out of West Virginia.
I think the only true conclusion one could ever draw about Sabrina carpenter from her music is that she has a kinda weird relationship with gender, where she can never truly decide if being a woman is a good & powerful thing or a bad & weakening thing, and she can never decide if that’s her own fault or the fault of the male society in which she lives. this is not a criticism to be clear: that seems like a very normal way to engage with the world to me. it’s just funny to me that the seemingly most personally revealing aspect of her music is the way she seems to have no idea how to live as a straight woman. I can’t relate to this at all because I am not a straight woman, but man does it seem accurate to the experiences of straight women that I know. Straight women sound off. If you’re out there. Straight women can you hear me? Is it that me espresso?
girl are you trapped in there?! girl get out!! girl scream if you need help!!! this is not very that me espresso girl!!
yeah i mean i’ve been saying this for months (sorry OP to jump on your post, it just aligns with something i’ve been trying to get across for a while now) but the overt, on-purpose heteropessimism of her music in combination with her vintage drag queen aesthetic and mid-century movie inspired concert visuals are all actually working together to create really interesting commentary on the current state of heterosexual womanhood. she’s a lot smarter than most people give her credit for and this is all on purpose. i think a lot of people tend to assume that female artists arrive at a place of satirical or otherwise layered social commentary by accident and it’s just something they’re reading into it because they’re smarter than the actual artist, not that it’s ever something they put into the art while they were making it… but like, if you pay attention to everything she’s doing and the way she presents herself when she’s off-duty as opposed to in performance mode, she isn’t Doing Hyperfemininity 24/7. her stage presentation is one of exaggerated hyperfeminine aesthetic performance because it’s part of her commentary on how the experience of straight womanhood is basically doing 200% for men who give maybe 15% at best. she’s got a whole song basically lamenting the fact that she is unfortunately a straight woman who craves dick in a world where men are fucking terrible with no real motivation to change!
