Harvard offering course in Taylor Swift studies

[Unkotare]

No. I am telling you that you have no idea what a course description entails. ...

Oh, I have a lot of experience with course descriptions. Even ones from Harvard.

 

[citygator]

Dude, not sure what the connection is with your Harvard studies, but you really ought to ask your folks to throw away their films of your childhood now.

But at least now we don't need to ask why you never made it into the Majors.

You guys crack me up. “They” have you shunning the best ticket into the shrinking middle class, a college education, and “they” have you voting to cut the taxes of the wealthy which are dominated by college grads, and “they” have you cheering the tariffs that are raising taxes from the working class at the register.

Only a college educated right wing elite could have orchestrated that shit. But since you are supporting my tax cut.. .I thank you sir.

 

[toobfreak]

You guys crack me up.

Not half as hard as the laughs I got trying to watch you hit that ball--- WHOOSH! WHOOSH!

 

[citygator]

Oh, I have a lot of experience with course descriptions. Even ones from Harvard.

Here you go then:

Inside Harvard’s Taylor Swift Course | Harvard Magazine

An English course pairs the music with Willa Cather, William Wordsworth, and Dolly Parton.

www.harvardmagazine.com

Some of this criticism, Burt says, stems from a misunderstanding of what the course is. The semester is not solely devoted to analyzing Swift’s discography: “It’s ‘Taylor and,’” she says, “rather than ‘Taylor instead of.’” The syllabus includes novels by Willa Cather and James Weldon Johnson, poetry by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, songs by Prince and Dolly Parton, and music theory and criticism.

Pairing Swift’s music with these sources is about more than mixing candy with vitamins. Comparisons between different works with similar themes can help clarify the formal choices authors make to explore those themes, Burt argues. She returns to “Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot” to make her point, this time comparing it to “Nothing New,” another Swift song about facing public criticism. “Here are two ways,” Burt says, “to emotionally embody and share in words possible reactions to being unjustly accused.”

 

[maj]

Taylor...is a very skilled songwriter and there is real value in analyzing her songs if you are into literary critique, poetry, songwriting or writing in general.

lol I listened to her songs on country radio. The audience is teen girls with angst who are developing their self-concept. And even then the words are vapid.

 

[citygator]

lol I listened to her songs on country radio. The audience is teen girls with angst who are developing their self-concept. And even then the words are vapid.

What I love about Taylor Swift is how much the women and girls in my life love Taylor Swift. The joy they get and the community the have over it is quite beautiful.

It’s their version of NFL football.

 

[maj]

What I love about Taylor Swift is how much the women and girls in my life love Taylor Swift. The joy they get and the community the have over it is quite beautiful.

It’s their version of NFL football.

"She wears short skirts
I wear t-shirts
She's cheer captain
And I'm in the bleachers"
-Taylor song


So the girls in your life are cheerleaders you eye at the high school football game?

 

[Polishprince]

Well, that will surely help in preparing for their career.

It will certainly be helpful however, if there is an emergency in a public venue, and they call out "Is there Taylor Swift expert in the house!?"

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

lol I listened to her songs on country radio. The audience is teen girls with angst who are developing their self-concept. And even then the words are vapid.

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I keep my car radio on a classic country station and they have an ad that says the smartest thing I've ever heard said about Swift.

"If you like Taylor Swift, you're on the wrong station".

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[Frankeneinstein]

But since you are supporting my tax cut.. .I thank you sir.

You have no need to thank him or anyone else for that matter, after all it's your money, if you really wanted the government to have it you could always just mail it to them.

 

[Unkotare]

Seems like somebody is on a list.

 

[Unkotare]

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I keep my car radio on a classic country station and they have an ad that says the smartest thing I've ever heard said about Swift.

"If you like Taylor Swift, you're on the wrong station".

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And not old enough to drive.

 

[toobfreak]

WHOOSH!

What I love about Taylor Swift is how much the women and girls in my life love Taylor Swift.

Artists in pop music are just after the fame, money and attention, and music just happens to be the medium they get it with. So, being a fan of a pop artist is no right of passage to music appreciation.

It’s their version of NFL football.

But music is not football. Has nothing to do with it. So, they are into neither good music nor actual sport, just some slut who wiggles and dances for money, adorned by indigent teens.

WHOOSH.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Harvard university MAY experience a fairly rough road ahead for them.

It will go well with Harvard's course on Beyonce.

You Can Take a Class at Harvard Inspired by Beyoncé's 'Black Is King'

The course uses songs from the visual album to explore the high status of women in an ancient African society.

www.lofficielusa.com

 

[egp320i]

It doesn’t really matter if the subject is Taylor Swift, Shakespeare, or baseball statistics—the value of a class like this is in the skills it builds. Students are practicing how to form a thesis, support it with evidence, structure an argument clearly, and persuade a reader. The subject matter is simply the lens—it’s the critical thinking, writing, and communication skills that are the real takeaway. You are welcome.

what skill is that? singing about boys dumping you? the subject matter? again, when she was doing country her songs were aimed at teen girls crying over a boy

she's not a bad writer per say, and her skills to make girls who are crying they got dumped feel better?

I think your stretching it a bit thin......this sounds more like women studies

 

[egp320i]

Taylor Swift does not only write about "guys she dumped". She is a very skilled songwriter and there is real value in analyzing her songs if you are into literary critique, poetry, songwriting or writing in general.

You are just envious of her success and hate her for not liking your political party.

Snowflake behavior.

her politics I can care less, sure she is popular and worth over a billion.....I am not and neither are you

and what in her mind makes her skilled exactly? her more recent pop stuff if just fluff like everybody else

I suppose you think shake it off is empowering.......aww, bad dad or bad luck, yeah just shake it off, right?

 

[SweetSue92]

When I was a young man, Harvard used to be a serious institution of learning.

Today, they are reduced to teaching their pupils about Taylor Swift, the course being taught by a cross-dressing she-male, Steve Burt.

I know that President Trump is seeking to defund Harvard because of their rabid antisemitism.

But even if they weren't discriminatory, is this really "higher education"?

I have nothing against Taylor Swift. She really knows how to be a celebrity, and she is certainly presentable. Does sound like my favorite female voice- Yoko Ono- but to each their own.

The real question is whether this is a proper course of study that should be supported by the taxpayers.

Inside Harvard’s Taylor Swift Course | Harvard Magazine

An English course pairs the music with Willa Cather, William Wordsworth, and Dolly Parton.

www.harvardmagazine.com

Well she's a masterful songwriter. Yeah, she wrote Shake it Off. She also wrote Ivy. Lyrics here

Taylor Swift – ivy

“ivy,” the tenth track from evermore, tells the story of a married woman falling in love with a person who is not her husband, leading to an affair. Swift has sung about

genius.com

 

[citygator]

WHOOSH!


Artists in pop music are just after the fame, money and attention, and music just happens to be the medium they get it with. So, being a fan of a pop artist is no right of passage to music appreciation.


But music is not football. Has nothing to do with it. So, they are into neither good music nor actual sport, just some slut who wiggles and dances for money, adorned by indigent teens.

WHOOSH.

Mr. Bitter. Party of one your table is ready.

Good music sells. That’s a fact. I think country music sucks but people love it. It’s just preferences. The fact you descend to name calling filth is a you issue. I’m guessing INCEL.

 

[Trickster]

Well she's a masterful songwriter. Yeah, she wrote Shake it Off. She also wrote Ivy. Lyrics here

Taylor Swift – ivy

“ivy,” the tenth track from evermore, tells the story of a married woman falling in love with a person who is not her husband, leading to an affair. Swift has sung about

genius.com

'Shake It Off' is actually good too. It is important to judge a song for what it is and the song is supposed to be a "just for fin " pop song and as such it is great - simple, fun and catchy.

Also, when considering the meaning behind it ("hush to the critics") the fun and carefree tone of it helps to add a idgaf type of feel to it.

 

[Unkotare]

'Shake It Off' is actually good too. It is important to judge a song for what it is and the song is supposed to be a "just for fin " pop song and as such it is great - simple, fun and catchy.

Also, when considering the meaning behind it ("hush to the critics") the fun and carefree tone of it helps to add a idgaf type of feel to it.