If Josef Winkler had his way, Taylor Swift should speak out against the violent US regime.
Just a moment, I’ll quickly turn the radio down. Phew. So, I think you could at least think about introducing a waiting period with a publication ban for young women who suddenly feel within themselves that they can write songs and express a lot in music and who then become singer-songwriters until they have overcome their very tough Taylor Swift phase and can reflect: Do I really want that? And can I pull this off if I don’t want to rely on just making Taylor Swift music? There is already so much Taylor Swift music in the world, not least – and in my opinion completely sufficient – by Taylor Swift.
I don’t know, am I the only one who always gets it all together when she comes on in this new song with her “opened thighs” and the guy with his “magic wand”? So a little naughty, all of a sudden, look here… Oh heavens. Like when my uncle tells me about his erogenous zones. I get the bird on the radio morning. This is not a boomer, this is not a millennial, this is not a Gen Z, this is the cringe for all generations, I would say, and my wish would be that the good woman, instead of annoying people here with her “sexuality”, would, for example, make a statement in the real world against the fascist violent regime in her home as the queen of hearts and a superstar you can touch.
But then Joan Baez has to do it again. And Bruce and Neil, the old fighters, are doing it again! And it’s a shame that Country Joe McDonald is never alive and Pete Seeger – they would have given tinder to the MAGA Fools! They would mobilize the resistance against the Trumpists! They were always so committed, there. At that time.
Oh man. And here, half the nation has been chattering, podcasting and commenting on each other for weeks because a video “surfaced” in which a politician said 8 years ago that a young girl had “doe-brown eyes” – which, by the way, is semantically/content-wise quite different from “doe-brown eyes” – and while this politician’s party is cutting social welfare across the country and allowing children with doe-brown eyes to slide into poverty, the “migration policy is new thinks” and delivers the parents of children with doe-brown eyes to the Taliban, and gives about 99 other reasons why you shouldn’t vote for them, it’s all spinning what a pervert this cheesy Swabian is. And the “wokeness debate” is once again shooting itself in the foot, and the right-wingers and the libertarian honks on all floors are happy about it.
But you know what’s also bad? Just for fun, I had to google whether Country Joe McDonald was still alive or not, and lo and behold, the date of death is on Wikipedia: That was a week ago! Man Meier, Country Joe. We just missed each other after all these years. Open up the Pearly Gates! RIP, old fish skin.
