Swift is especially good at taking a personal moment from her life, and pushing the moment into the universal experience. From her last album, on the last song, the last line reads “But the story isn't mine anymore”. She is acknowledging that part of her own phenomenon is her words moving from her own inward expression towards the collective human experience. Lyrical to Epic if you will. Her fans get a taste of the merger mythical qualities presented in her offerings, and sadly think, A transcendent experience! Finally! Because the collective human imagination is bankrupt, this growth is monstrous. Since her selected form is the pop radio hit ready song, there will be no vertical movement for the listener towards any other qualities outside of the music and words themselves. Just like Dante, if she wants to reach the vertical, she is going to have to change her form.
Swift is especially good at taking a personal moment from her life, and pushing the moment into the universal experience. From her last album, on the last song, the last line reads “But the story isn't mine anymore”. She is acknowledging that part of her own phenomenon is her words moving from her own inward expression towards the collective human experience. Lyrical to Epic if you will. Her fans get a taste of the merger mythical qualities presented in her offerings, and sadly think, A transcendent experience! Finally! Because the collective human imagination is bankrupt, this growth is monstrous. Since her selected form is the pop radio hit ready song, there will be no vertical movement for the listener towards any other qualities outside of the music and words themselves. Just like Dante, if she wants to reach the vertical, she is going to have to change her form.
So, all the talent of a great artist but not the culture or the medium?
Yes, and also all Eros and no Agape