Ashmeet Saluja, a self-proclaimed ‘Swiftie’, began organising fan events in 2022. Since then, the community, called ‘Blondie Mata Ka Jagrata’, has grown exponentially and now has over 750 people.
This year’s festivities were revamped to be part awards show & part fundraiser for people affected by the wildfires, after killing 29 people & displacing thousands including many musicians.
Maroon 5, Green Day, Dua Lipa, Coldplay fueling trend. Multiplier effect reflected across industries such as food and beverages, hotels, merchandise etc, says Bank of Baroda report.
She’s perhaps the only artist that one still has to offer a ‘reason’ for liking. No one bats an eye if you like Harry Styles or Beyonce. But god forbid you express your love for Swift publicly.
On Sunday, Trump called on Swift to not endorse US President Biden. Meanwhile, Trump’s supporters have been trying to paint her as a ‘psychological operation’ to reelect Biden.
Just like her songs, there is a ‘Taylor’s version’ for everything that happens in the world. Maybe we should listen to her when she says—“It’s me, hi, I’m the problem, it’s me”.
There is something about the idea of classes on Taylor Swift as literature that catches the popular imagination. Her name is sometimes juxtaposed with another one: Shakespeare.
There doesn’t appear to be a single countercultural bone in her body. She doesn’t have even a modicum of that detachedness, that aloofness, which is conflated with coolness.
In tactical terms, the shirtless protest was worse than a self-goal. Suddenly, the fiascos of the AI Summit were forgotten, and the Youth Congress’s disruption became the issue.
IAF is fine with accepting the aircraft with 'must-haves', even if some other steps remain pending, which may take at least another year, it is learnt.
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