November 30, 2023 • 6 mins
Spotify just released it's "Wrapped" list for it's users and of course T. Swift came out on top. This led nicely into an article from Joe about how Harvard is offering a class on Taylor Swift...
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Special time of the year.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
When Spotify takes all the data they've been mining from
us and publishes it to increase engagement using proprietary secret
algorithms that track our every musical moment. It's what the
holiday season is all about now, and they call it
rapped somehow, these these Spotify year end wrap ups are
somehow more embarrassing than your.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Porn search history.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
They also added all the listening up from all of us,
and who is the top streaming artist on Spotify for
the year twenty twenty three?
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Is it a Taylor Swift? That's it. It's Taylor Swift.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
I'll dig some some more of that up. It's actually
pretty interesting. Spotify puts out their year end listening and
by region and age and all this different sort of stuff.
My main Spotify thing isn't I subscribe to Spotify. I'm
the biggest subscription sucker in America. You want me to
subscribe to something, I will subscribe to it. You just
give me a slight sales pitch. I subscribe to them all.
But the Spotify now added audiobooks, so it come with
(01:00):
your package. I think you get one or two books
a month or something like that with the listening to
music which I enjoyed.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Did they have their own audiobook singing?
Speaker 4 (01:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Is it a name brand? It's her own thingy.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
But I'm already on Audible and got way more credits
than I could ever use in my lifetime, So I
don't know.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, don't remind me. It gives me feelings
of guilt and angst. So cavalcated stories to bring it
very quickly, and then we'll get to the main event.
But speaking of a tea swizzle, who Jack is obsessed
with Taylor Swift College courses to be offered at Harvard,
UC Berkeley, and the University of Florida, among others.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
All right, what do they mean by that?
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Harvard professor in Diehard Swifty, Stephanie Albert, will be teaching
a new course called Taylor Swift in Her World, set
to debut at Harvard in the English Department.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
I mean, in this class, Yes, if it's just a
name to attract attention, but it's actually about you know,
business or the entertainment world, or a variety of other
things that could actually be something you could learn.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Doesn't seem to be okay, okay?
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Quote, in this class, students will learn college credit for
their deep dives into Swift's lyrics, music, and influence. Dissecting
her catalog and reading a host of authors Bert finds
relevant to understanding Swift's artistry.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Now a deep dive into the lyrics of songs aimed
at sophomore girls who have a crush, I'm not thinking
that should be a Harvard course.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Bert added that she plans to explore the cruel Summer
singer's shift from the country genre to pop, which coincided
with her.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Move from Nashville to Manhattan. Are you kidding with this stuff?
Speaker 4 (02:43):
Hey? I didn't.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
I'd forgotten this. So I was talking to Darren, one
of our sales guys here the other day, and I
missed this. He said, do you remember when she came
through when she's seventeen, through the radio station. I said, no,
I don't remember that. So she was like an up
and coming country artist at the time, and this happened
with like up and coming artists. They come through radio stations,
and she has travel in the country, and she came
through and she played in the lunch room just hearn
(03:06):
her guitar and sang some songs, and so few people
showed up that the sales manager at the time went
through the cubicles and said, hey, could you come. We
need a few more people in there so this doesn't
look embarrassing. They're like, all right, I got other stuff
to do. And people went in there and watched a
seventeen year old Taylor Swift sing a couple of songs,
and then she signed stuff and took pictures with everybody, which,
(03:30):
by today's standards would be a really big deal.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Yeah, yeah, that's crazy. I have no memory of that one,
mean neither.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
I'm sure I thought whatever and didn't go. I might
have even wandered by and listened to a song or two.
I have a number of times for that sort of thing,
But yeah, I couldn't name any of the plucky folks. Anyway,
getting back, here's where I annoy you, if I haven't already.
Getting back to that Harvard course, she says, Taylor Swift
is a good way to think about what it's like
(03:57):
to have a lot of eyes on you and to
wonder what you do with your privilege. Sorry, my whole breakfast.
That's last night's dessert. Oh he went deep. Wow everything.
I think there was some Thanksgiving in there.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Ew.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Now this may be a little more to your taste
as you're describing it meanlime while at U see berserkly,
students will be offered a four credit course called Artistry
and Entrepreneurship Taylor's version in the spring. According to the
La Times, uh the teachers.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Privilege O there he goes. It gives clearly some stuffing
in there. I can't handle the modern world. I gotta.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
I gotta like I was gonna say, shave my head
and become a monk. I've already done half of it.
I need to move to a cave. I can't handle this,
let's see.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
So the teacher at Berkeley seeks to address the stereotypical
critiques of Swift as well as the pop stars ever
increasing popularity and influence. Quote. I had the most fun
dreaming up the unit on persona's perceptions and personalities. There's
so much to unpack in terms of the relationship between
Taylor as an individual and an image in the media,
and how she constantly reinvents her music and style.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Like so, has this always been going on?
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Because I feel like we used to if there was
like you know, the Archies or the Partridge family or
some other like you know, music group way back in
the day was popular among young people. He didn't feel
like it had to have some greater meaning and teach
a college class about it.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
It was just, you know, the popular fluff.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Of the day for young people, right right, Yeah, And well,
you know what, I was going to move on, but
I can't resist.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
What the Frisbee means about capitalism, you know, or something what.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
Similarly, the University of Florida will be offering a course
on Swift called Musical Storytelling with Taylor Swift and other
iconic female artists. The instructor we'll oversee quote thirteen gorgeous
weeks of discussing Taylor Swift's discography with a focus on
her evergreen songwriting. You know, one of the reasons I'm
dismissive of this is I took a class called rock
(06:09):
and roll music in college, and I thought, well, that'll
be cool and fun, and it was. You know, it
was kind of cool in front at the time, as
like a twenty one year old, but in retrospect and
even at the time, there's nothing to that.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
There's nothing here that's the least bit important, not the
least I could have read a Rolling Stone article at
some point if I was interested.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
In it as a hobby.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
But it's just there was nothing that needed to be
discussed at the college level.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
Boy, if any college or university listening would like an
instructor to teach a waste of time snowflake easy class
for their overpriced, woke undergrads to take, I'd be happy
to do it. I could do it like a ring
and a bell, but that would be a waste of
everybody's time and money.
Special time of the year.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
When Spotify takes all the data they've been mining from
us and publishes it to increase engagement using proprietary secret
algorithms that track our every musical moment. It's what the
holiday season is all about now, and they call it
rapped somehow, these these Spotify year end wrap ups are
somehow more embarrassing than your.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Porn search history.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
They also added all the listening up from all of us,
and who is the top streaming artist on Spotify for
the year twenty twenty three?
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Is it a Taylor Swift? That's it. It's Taylor Swift.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
I'll dig some some more of that up. It's actually
pretty interesting. Spotify puts out their year end listening and
by region and age and all this different sort of stuff.
My main Spotify thing isn't I subscribe to Spotify. I'm
the biggest subscription sucker in America. You want me to
subscribe to something, I will subscribe to it. You just
give me a slight sales pitch. I subscribe to them all.
But the Spotify now added audiobooks, so it come with
(01:00):
your package. I think you get one or two books
a month or something like that with the listening to
music which I enjoyed.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Did they have their own audiobook singing?
Speaker 4 (01:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Is it a name brand? It's her own thingy.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
But I'm already on Audible and got way more credits
than I could ever use in my lifetime, So I
don't know.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, don't remind me. It gives me feelings
of guilt and angst. So cavalcated stories to bring it
very quickly, and then we'll get to the main event.
But speaking of a tea swizzle, who Jack is obsessed
with Taylor Swift College courses to be offered at Harvard,
UC Berkeley, and the University of Florida, among others.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
All right, what do they mean by that?
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Harvard professor in Diehard Swifty, Stephanie Albert, will be teaching
a new course called Taylor Swift in Her World, set
to debut at Harvard in the English Department.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
I mean, in this class, Yes, if it's just a
name to attract attention, but it's actually about you know,
business or the entertainment world, or a variety of other
things that could actually be something you could learn.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Doesn't seem to be okay, okay?
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Quote, in this class, students will learn college credit for
their deep dives into Swift's lyrics, music, and influence. Dissecting
her catalog and reading a host of authors Bert finds
relevant to understanding Swift's artistry.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Now a deep dive into the lyrics of songs aimed
at sophomore girls who have a crush, I'm not thinking
that should be a Harvard course.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Bert added that she plans to explore the cruel Summer
singer's shift from the country genre to pop, which coincided
with her.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Move from Nashville to Manhattan. Are you kidding with this stuff?
Speaker 4 (02:43):
Hey? I didn't.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
I'd forgotten this. So I was talking to Darren, one
of our sales guys here the other day, and I
missed this. He said, do you remember when she came
through when she's seventeen, through the radio station. I said, no,
I don't remember that. So she was like an up
and coming country artist at the time, and this happened
with like up and coming artists. They come through radio stations,
and she has travel in the country, and she came
through and she played in the lunch room just hearn
(03:06):
her guitar and sang some songs, and so few people
showed up that the sales manager at the time went
through the cubicles and said, hey, could you come. We
need a few more people in there so this doesn't
look embarrassing. They're like, all right, I got other stuff
to do. And people went in there and watched a
seventeen year old Taylor Swift sing a couple of songs,
and then she signed stuff and took pictures with everybody, which,
(03:30):
by today's standards would be a really big deal.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Yeah, yeah, that's crazy. I have no memory of that one,
mean neither.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
I'm sure I thought whatever and didn't go. I might
have even wandered by and listened to a song or two.
I have a number of times for that sort of thing,
But yeah, I couldn't name any of the plucky folks. Anyway,
getting back, here's where I annoy you, if I haven't already.
Getting back to that Harvard course, she says, Taylor Swift
is a good way to think about what it's like
(03:57):
to have a lot of eyes on you and to
wonder what you do with your privilege. Sorry, my whole breakfast.
That's last night's dessert. Oh he went deep. Wow everything.
I think there was some Thanksgiving in there.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Ew.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Now this may be a little more to your taste
as you're describing it meanlime while at U see berserkly,
students will be offered a four credit course called Artistry
and Entrepreneurship Taylor's version in the spring. According to the
La Times, uh the teachers.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Privilege O there he goes. It gives clearly some stuffing
in there. I can't handle the modern world. I gotta.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
I gotta like I was gonna say, shave my head
and become a monk. I've already done half of it.
I need to move to a cave. I can't handle this,
let's see.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
So the teacher at Berkeley seeks to address the stereotypical
critiques of Swift as well as the pop stars ever
increasing popularity and influence. Quote. I had the most fun
dreaming up the unit on persona's perceptions and personalities. There's
so much to unpack in terms of the relationship between
Taylor as an individual and an image in the media,
and how she constantly reinvents her music and style.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Like so, has this always been going on?
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Because I feel like we used to if there was
like you know, the Archies or the Partridge family or
some other like you know, music group way back in
the day was popular among young people. He didn't feel
like it had to have some greater meaning and teach
a college class about it.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
It was just, you know, the popular fluff.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Of the day for young people, right right, Yeah, And well,
you know what, I was going to move on, but
I can't resist.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
What the Frisbee means about capitalism, you know, or something what.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
Similarly, the University of Florida will be offering a course
on Swift called Musical Storytelling with Taylor Swift and other
iconic female artists. The instructor we'll oversee quote thirteen gorgeous
weeks of discussing Taylor Swift's discography with a focus on
her evergreen songwriting. You know, one of the reasons I'm
dismissive of this is I took a class called rock
(06:09):
and roll music in college, and I thought, well, that'll
be cool and fun, and it was. You know, it
was kind of cool in front at the time, as
like a twenty one year old, but in retrospect and
even at the time, there's nothing to that.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
There's nothing here that's the least bit important, not the
least I could have read a Rolling Stone article at
some point if I was interested.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
In it as a hobby.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
But it's just there was nothing that needed to be
discussed at the college level.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
Boy, if any college or university listening would like an
instructor to teach a waste of time snowflake easy class
for their overpriced, woke undergrads to take, I'd be happy
to do it. I could do it like a ring
and a bell, but that would be a waste of
everybody's time and money.
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