Philosophers on taylor swift
by simon skeen
Plato believes that artists poets and painters are far removed imitators of the truth. Taylor's swift’s songs such as The Story Of Us cater to and fuel the emotions that girls typically feel during relationship problems. This lets the girl feel sorry for themselves instead of motivating them to get over it and do something better.
Plato believes that if you allow this to happen, mankind will never evolve to experience true virtue and happiness.
Teardrops on my guitar is one of the worst songs according to Plato. It is about how TayTay likes a guy named drew even though drew already has a girlfriend. Thus since Drew doesn’t like her she feels the need to cry on her guitar every night when she sings about how sad she is that a man who already is in a relationship doesn’t like her. This only fuels the cycle of sadness and encourages young girls to cry about similar issues.
In Nietzsche’s mind the worst taylor Swift song would probably be You Belong With Me which is about a guy who doesn’t notice TayTay. In the third stanza the lines “Dreaming about the day when you wake up and find That what you're looking for has been here the whole time.” depict that TayTAy isn’t doing anything to get that which she desires. She is perhaps scared of rejection or perhaps she is comfortable settling for mediocrity and not getting the guy she wants because stealing him from another woman could be wrong. Either answer Nietzsche would call her a member of the herd for since she is not rising above to get what she truly wants and she isn’t going to achieve virtue without rising above.
More than one philosopher would dislike or hate Taylor Swift’s popular songs about breakup. There are many other pop artists and songs that philosophers would also not approve of.
Plato believes that if you allow this to happen, mankind will never evolve to experience true virtue and happiness.
Teardrops on my guitar is one of the worst songs according to Plato. It is about how TayTay likes a guy named drew even though drew already has a girlfriend. Thus since Drew doesn’t like her she feels the need to cry on her guitar every night when she sings about how sad she is that a man who already is in a relationship doesn’t like her. This only fuels the cycle of sadness and encourages young girls to cry about similar issues.
In Nietzsche’s mind the worst taylor Swift song would probably be You Belong With Me which is about a guy who doesn’t notice TayTay. In the third stanza the lines “Dreaming about the day when you wake up and find That what you're looking for has been here the whole time.” depict that TayTAy isn’t doing anything to get that which she desires. She is perhaps scared of rejection or perhaps she is comfortable settling for mediocrity and not getting the guy she wants because stealing him from another woman could be wrong. Either answer Nietzsche would call her a member of the herd for since she is not rising above to get what she truly wants and she isn’t going to achieve virtue without rising above.
More than one philosopher would dislike or hate Taylor Swift’s popular songs about breakup. There are many other pop artists and songs that philosophers would also not approve of.