Taylor Swift knocks out an unbalanced album that doesn’t really celebrate her fans. And now?
What kind of fever dream was that? I open Instagram on Friday, October 3, and suddenly Jörg Pilawa is on the official post of the Federal President on the Day of German Unity. Of course not alone, but embedded between the Prime Minister of the Saarland (where the ceremony took place this year, funnily far from the former German-German borders), Federal President (and Ms.), Federal Chancellor (and woman), Federal Constitutional Court President (and woman) and his new partner, Julia Klöckner, Bundestag president-or as the star named a few weeks before: Parliamentary princess.
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At the beginning of July, Klöckner and Pilawa are said to have met, coupled by friend: inside at the summer festival at her brother’s winery. Isn’t it romantic? In mid-August, boulevard and gossip press already knew and published paparazzi photos (that there is still!). And a month and a half later he is already on a highly official government photo.
Calls me bourgeois, jammed or conservative, but somehow I find it very strange. This is about as if you were taking your brand new situation hip directly to a family wedding – and then put it on every family photo. So directly experienced that I have some wedding photos of close relatives with random short -term partners: inside of cousins and cousins, whose names nobody remembers, not even those who brought them as a date.
Situation hips on government photos?
I don’t care whether Klöckner and Pilawa data, comments like “I wouldn’t have thought of that of Pilawa!” I found it badly irritating, and I can well imagine that some of their fans will surely think the same thing, with reversed signs: “I would not have thought that they dated a compulsory fee moderator!” After all, parasocial relationships are everywhere. Because of my sake, the two can also disappear in Berlin clubs in the darkroom, nothing human would be strange to me. But after two or three months dating are posted by the Federal President, so I’m a bit too bourgeois.
Also and above all, because with it there were more situation hips and more quiz showmaster in the official photo than people from East Germany. Nobody could be found. Sure, you can find that unfair now: Saarland was on this time with the celebration of the day of German unity because the federal state is also the chair of the Federal Council, and in the four most important positions in the country, nobody is represented with an east biography. But that’s exactly where the problem lies: 35 years after the turn, after sixteen years with a Chancellor who born in Hamburg, but grew up in the GDR, we seem to be completely at the beginning again. And at a time when the AfD seems to scratch the absolute majority in several federal states and ex-FDP Kemmerich works with Frauke Petry to enable governments with a new AfD party. In such a situation, nobody seems to worry in the whole apparatus that it may not be quite suitable to celebrate the unity of east and west with a photo with exclusively West German rulers: inside and a quiz show face.
More quizmaster than East German
Because if it even stands out to me as a turbowessi, how should people feel like an Eastern biography? A look at the comment column reveals it: little enthusiastic. And there are even constructive suggestions: If not one could not have taken the government’s east representative, Elisabeth Kaiser (SPD)? Or other top politicians from the east? But no, as far as angry comment gapsers who are paid for for it have not been able to think.
But maybe it just doesn’t matter, because that seems to be the Vibe at the moment: Julia Klöckner seems to be what the public is of its hard way of leading the Bundestag and political stickers, pride deflections and everything that seems too progressive to prohibit her, it may not seem to be quite appropriate to put a situation hip on an official photo, it seems to the government and presidential office It doesn’t matter that the east exists. Everything doesn’t matter.
By Taylor Swift: No new “shake it off”?
I also had a similar feeling when I heard the new Taylor Swift album on the same day: everything doesn’t matter. Concept, sound and texts do not go together, and the woman, who was actually known for cleverly written texts, now sings contemptuously about the uncertainties of her former companion Charli XCX, about the genitals of her fiance and the need to get as many children with him that the whole neighborhood looks like the two. Sidney Sweeneey’s jeans campaign greets. And that of course money and success are worth nothing. Which sounds pretty absurd when it says the most successful, because it also says the most determined, pop artist ever. It honestly sounds as if a few half -bodied sketches that were left of the last album last year or scribbled the Swift on tour into a Kladde were quickly set to music. Not even Max Martin really seemed to be in the mood, because a new “blank space” or “shake it off” is just as much looking for artistic development.
Fans are disappointed and wonder why they now have five Deluxe variants of an album at home that they don’t even like. But: it doesn’t matter. Because the Taylor Swift team knew that the fans will of course pre-order all deluxe variants of the album. That it will still break streaming and sales records. It doesn’t matter because the audience out there will accept it. Julia Klöckner and Taylor Swift in their “I don’t care” -Aera, they would understand each other well.