Kontextmaschine

8th October 2018

Question reblogged from Kontextmaschine with 25 notes

Anonymous asked: Taylor Swift just endorsed Tennessee Democrats Phil Bredesen and Rep. Jim Cooper on her Instagram. What does THIS mean, kontextmaschine?????!!!???

kontextmaschine:

I keep saying, she performs of-her-generation white middle-class American girl/womanhood, that’s her thing, in her songs, in her celebrity persona. You can really trace the generation’s progression in her album sequence.
And “enthusiasm for electing Democrats” is very much something urban millennial 20something women are into right now

Honestly, the fact that she still maintains Tennessee residency (after she’s better known for swanning about NYC/LA) is what interests me most. I suppose it’s probably a tax thing

…actually I remember hearing she uses the Nashville property as a home base during tours, flying back regularly. That plus maintaining NY and CA residences would be a pretty clever way to live a blue state coastal life while paying red state taxes

(recall that her backstory of growing up on a farm was a Christmas tree farm - i.e. agricultural tax exemptions but only a narrow yearly period when it actually functions as a job site - bought by her Merrill Lynch trader dad)

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