The Musical Talmud: Economic Themes in “Mine” by Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift on social mobility, private property, and rebellion of maintaining the status quo.
Taylor Swift on Overthinking It
Blonde Luck: Statements Through Hairstyle
Two Blondes, One Pop.
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Taylor Swift: Passive-Aggressive Stalker?
Taylor Swift is actually kind of creepy in “You Belong With Me”.
Open Thread for December 4, 2009
Tiger Woods, the Grammies, the NBC/Comcast deal and more.
Open Thread for November 13, 2009
We deal with housekeeping and announcements.
I’m Going To Let You Finish
But MTV has generated one of the best media frenzies of all time! One of the best frenzies of all time!
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Episode 63: Osama Bin Laden Loves Taylor Swift
The Overthinkers take on the music industry: The VMAs, Lady GaGa, and Rock Band.
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Textalyzing Albums: Word Frequency in the Lyrics of Born To Run, Straight Outta Compton, and Taylor Swift
We now have a new tool to help us decipher pop music lyrics: totally unnecessary quantitative analysis.
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