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We Are an Unserious Nation
War. Famine. Death. Taylor Swift.
On the plus side…
She’s actually crazy successful in a market that has been mostly demolished, as it’s been left without a viable business model for a while.
(Not that I can name a single Taylor Swift song…)
I wonder if that’s because more people are willing to buy her music rather than just steal it, or if it’s more about the live shows? Kinda hard to pirate being in an audience.
Has TIME changed the definition? I thought it was the person that, for better or for worse, most influenced the news. So many others have influenced the new this year.
I mean, TS as “entertainer of the year?” Sure, why not?
I disagree with this being a sign of an unserious nation. But it is a sign of TIME being an unserious newsweekly.
Nothing is more modern America than hearing someone who paid $1,500 for a Taylor Swift ticket whine about their student loans.
Yeah, that “most influence the news” always struck me as thin cover for just doing whatever they wanted anyway. I guess TMZ is short for Time MagaZine.
Ever since I was named Time’s person of the year in 2006, it is impossible to take them seriously.
In spite of this, I still put it on my resume.
Ha! You should try dealing with that whole “Sexiest Man Alive” thing from People.
Let’s yell at clouds some more!
And that is a sign of an unserious (and decadent) nation.
Actually, that’s kind of hilarious. We were updating some of Max’s moderator code.
This should be fixed now. Document will show; [REDACTED] will not.
Hey! We are serious! And don’t call us “[redacted]”.
Time has gone from being the most influential news magazine in the country to being a clickbait website dreaming of former glory. They need buzz.
Looks like they’ve found some, and all it cost them is a dollop of their shrinking self-respect.
I’m kind of surprised Disney hasn’t fired Kathleen Kennedy and appointed Taylor Swift to head LucasFilm.
I do find this troubling. She’s a white, heterosexual cis-gendered woman. She’s even dating a football player who has to be full of toxic masculinity. It feels like we’re taking a step back here.
I’ve been named it twice and so has my wife, although only once in the same year.
“Don’t Trust The B**** In Apartment 23” had a very funny episode about that.
I’ve little respect for Time in general or their ‘Person of the Year’ choices in particular.
That said, Taylor Swift – love her, hate her, or towering indifference her – is Elvis-big and has a lot more influence on culture, with a wider demographic.
And she’s not nearly as political as the bulk of entertainers. Nor slutty.
They could – and have – done worse.
And she won my heart when, in response to someone claiming they were going to leak her nude photos, she said, ‘good luck on the photoshopping because I’ve never had nude photos taken’.
Considering how many young girls follow her on TwiXter, that alone qualifies her for Person of the Year.
My objection to Taylor Swift as person of the year is that she represents the unending feminization and feeling-supremacism of everything.
I have no problem with a pop singer singing about feminine feelings. I fact I find it delightfully old-fashioned that a an actual female is feminine.
But it seems like the superficial estrogen is starting to suffocate the serious and the masculine.
It proves a few things, the fatuous nature of this country, the complete decline of a once relevant news magazine, and just how much Biden’s choices in his cabinet and staff has made everything unserious. We really need a reset!
She’s being prepped for a political run. You can smell it. It’s been percolating all year. Like the carefully crafted supposedly candid video showing how she bravely and tearfully stood up to her family, making them join her and support her in her deranged hatred of Trump.
100% politics.
No, Time is just an unserious magazine.
Don’t read too much into it.
… and you’re making a main feed post about Time Magazine’s person of the year?
Really.
And TS is an unserious person. Don’t read too much into either.
Speaking of Four Horsemen, these four guys in the photo are far better than Famine, Pestilence, Destruction, Death and Taylor Swift
My first problem with Time man of the year choice was in 1979. I happened to be living in Cairo, Egypt. Downtown. There was no television there was only newspapers and magazines and coffee. The news stands displayed the picture of ayatollah Khomeini as man of the year. To the ordinary Egyptians who have a basic grasp of English it was not a good message.
They claimed the accolade was for impact on the world. Then they chose Rudy Giuliani over Osama Bin Laden – a choice they probably regret. At the time they were interested in downplaying Bush and creating an alternate hero.
Fast forward two other ridiculous manifestations of this poorly defined award.
Whistleblowers! Remember ? You! They have no base or standard.
The people who chose Ms. Swift have probably been to one of her recent concerts with their daughters.
Hell, I didn’t read them when they were an actual magazine.
And are still hypnotized by all the flashing lights etc.
That seems to be a real problem at least in some cases.
Taylor Swift is a singer?
My first problem with Time man of the year choice was in 1979. I happen to be living in Cairo Egypt. There was no television there was only newspapers and magazines and coffee. The news stands displayed the picture of ayatollah Khomeini as man of the year. To the ordinary Egyptians who have a basic grasp of English it was not a good message.
They claimed the accolade was for impact on the world.
Fast forward two other ridiculous manifestations of this poorly defined award.
another TiME related post :
Taylor who?