Taylor Swift is this generation's Elvis. Or if you are younger, she's this generation's Beatles. Or if you are even younger than that, Michael Jackson.
Yes, you don't get her music. I don't either. Just like your parents didn't get your love of Elvis or Rolling Stones. Shitting on Taylor Swift is an automatic turn-off for the 7 to 20 year-old crowd. You've got to be an absolute dum-dum to antagonize these future voters over something so utterly insignificant.
Klara and her friends LOVE Taylor Swift. There are Taylor Swift birthday parties. The kids write out the entirety of Taylor Swift's lyrics. By hand. Our house is littered with stacks of paper with these handwritten lyrics. The kids know all of the lyrics by heart. This is a good thing because it's memory practice plus handwriting practice.
Waging war on Taylor Swift, what are you, mentally impaired? And then there will be decades of moaning. Why don't kids have any interest in our conservative ideas? Because you shat on their childhood idol and were old and uncool, you irredeemable loser.
Look at Mattel, elegantly disarming feminists and turning a feminist bête noire into a feminist icon. That's marketing brilliance right there. If you can't market like that, just shut the ef up and let the people without the oldster mentality do it. I'm not converting students to conservatism by giving boring speeches about how their interests suck. I'm doing it by being cool and fun and unusual. When I say in class, "and now let's listen to my music", I turn on Rammstein or Tupac and their eyes pop because they don't expect it from a lady in color-matching outfits and with designer handbags.
Young people like things that annoy the oldsters because that's how they become their own person. It's their nature to be transgressive. We need to show them that conservatism is the biggest actual transgression these days.
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