The “Cult” of Taylor Swift Is an Illusion Some Want to Use
Music icons have more problems than security personnel these days, as those with political ambitions horn in on the action.
Singers don’t usually attract a following of swooning, crying, and screaming fans who willingly join something politicians are labeling a “cult,” do they? Frank Sinatra was probably the first to have young female fans paid to faint at his performances, and Elvis Presley received more tossed undergarments on the stage than anyone has ever counted.
And then, of course, there are the “Deadheads” who never gave up. But who has had the incredible continuing success of Taylor Swift, the young singer who glided so easily from country to today’s chart-busting albums and billion-dollar tours? No one, and that’s why she’s a target.
The fans don’t seem to mind that she’s now being viewed, wrongly, as some kind of election-grabbing tool of the opposition. Her fans, many of whom are too young to vote in any election except for the class president, don’t seem to give any thought to the dust-up by the political parties (or is it “party?) and continue to attend her concerts and buy her albums.
And there’s something new they can buy — special friendship bracelets. Swift is a young woman who many people look up to, and her willingness to file a lawsuit against…
