7.5/10
Swift's subjective view of herself is similar to my guess: she is rather cautious and intelligent, and has a clear understanding of her past, but she is also uneasy and confused about her future because of the impermanence of the world. Intertwined is the hesitation of being sober but confused about oneself, between certainty and anxiety, wandering outside the door of affirming the truth of one's own value.
This kind of intelligence is not a small intelligence dominated by ambition, nor is it a great wisdom that is too detached, a kind of intelligence that is very suitable for entering the world. Documentary Swift's sober understanding of herself and the record industry, she clearly knows that every singer must have a "selling point", she said that for her is her "story". A quote from the documentary is right: Swift is the modern record industry.
Lover album and ME! "The whole background of the birth is the most essential confusion in her heart after the second Grammy Award: Oh God! What now? This question is final. Yes, she is in a crisis of nihilism. Her metaphor for her situation at the time is very symbolic: to the top of the mountain. The metaphor of the top of the mountain has a long history. In ancient Greek mythology, there is a person who pushes boulders up the mountain in an eternal cycle. The cycle goes back and forth, making everything pointless.
The success of the digital major, the destruction of her value affirmation by the overparty incident, Swift, who has been dormant in "reputation", has two ways: to embrace her inner value, or to go up the mountain again.
From the perspective of her career development afterward, I personally think that she has gone up the mountain again. The beautiful carbine in "lwymmd" has made her re-appreciate the sweetness of putting value affirmation on other people in the society. But obviously, she who has seen the wind and waves and tasted such sweetness, is naturally unsatisfied when she tastes this. Then what did she do? "ME! ” is obviously a failure to presume a success; the failure of “reputation” at the Grammys is an obvious loss to her; dabbling in politics, but still writing a song in anger because there is no “make a difference” election result , and said "I can't believe it"; "you need to calm down" and "the man" are two aspects of gender issues.
In fact, let's look at these bells and whistles again. Can these things really make her get past the vma incident in 2009, brush the nightmare of the incident, and stop entering that hopeless situation of broken value? I think the answer is obvious. Even she herself is very clear, so in the ending, she is very impressed with "ME! "The expression of her creative motivation is that under the age crisis, she does not know how long the society will tolerate her success.
My summary is, "She has to hurry up and do what a female singer in her twenties can do in her twenties." The implication is: thirty-year-old female singers can no longer do in the world of the record industry; let me have a chance to please the record industry one last time; while I can succeed like this, let me succeed again. To put it badly, it is to seize the opportunity to please the market once, and let Swift's inner sense of value be satisfied once. See, she clearly understands that when she puts her value in the evaluation of society, she is playing a gamble at her own risk.
This documentary can be called "Making
And the end of all this fatal anxiety is the two crises of the world: the double crisis of capitalism and nihilism. On the one hand, it is the record industry's intolerance that the singer's career cannot fail. You can also call it "capitalism does not believe in tears"; Accept, in her own words "I want to feel good". The former is the anxiety of capitalism; the latter is the anxiety of nihilism. So I say that this is a common philosophical test encountered in the world today. Everyone needs material abundance, but everyone is craving for value satisfaction other than material things.
Her expression of the injustice in the careers of male and female singers in the documentary is very powerful. But how many people really thought about the fact that behind this gender injustice is the last sentence she emphasized: otherwise you will lose your job. This is the logic of capital operation, the result of the objective gender of men and women.
To be honest, after watching this documentary, I lost a lot about the "lover" album, because I suddenly realized that Swift's maturity is far less than I thought. (I would say, however, that she is more mature in her purely metaphysical approach to music creation.)
But I think for her, she is still lucky, and at the same time she puts herself at risk again, she can also sense the existence of the truth with her intelligence. That's Ms. Foot Smell. Because of the whole documentary, I only believe that there was one moment when she really felt value, and that was when she played and sang "call it what you want" for Zuo Aiwen. On other seemingly glossy surfaces, the footage has not been edited into the reality in the picture, and it is impossible for her to get rid of the endless emptiness like a black hole after the gloss.
Her cleverness allowed her to go outside the door of truth and knock on the echo inside it. It all sounds so clear, satisfying, powerful. But all the flashy things outside the door, Swift is still nostalgic after all. In this regard, I can only say: good luck, taylor.
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