Well the really Kontextmaschine thing to say would be that she\u2019s as good or better than I am at listening in on the tune America\u2019s humming to itself and singing it back in response, she canonically browses tumblr and has long been rumored to lurk 4chan (which is not absolutely ridiculous - she\u2019s our generation too and Lorde, who\u2019s in her extended clique, workshopped Royals on /mu/) and God knows what else she gets up to on those days when she\u2019s not in the mood to be a media object so she doesn\u2019t leave her house.
That she too noticed that the worm turned somewhere in the last few months, and that she maneuvered this intentionally in full knowledge where it would go, that she knows that \u201ca black girl tried to spin what was essentially personal jealousy as a race thing, in the process rudely rebuffing my attempts to seek unity on the grounds of Correct go-(white-)girl feminism, and then mean online media and Black Twitter picked on me over it\u201d is actually going to be a good place to be when the backlash will be kicking in during her next album/tour cycle, that it\u2019ll align herself with where her audience of white-girls-not-like-Coachella-white-girls-I-mean-but-not-NOT-like-Coachella-white-girls will be at by then.
(That all this is on purpose delicate and tangential enough to be disclaimable if it\u2019s obsoleted by the next cultural turn, like how she went from doing a feather-touch War on Christmas song in 2007 to in 2014 having a throwoff line about vicariously enjoying the existence of gayness as a sign of cosmopolitanism in her growing-up-and-moving-to-the-big-city song.)
That if media try to force this meme and take on Taylor fucking Swift not only does that revalidate the picked-on pose she\u2019s so good at but gets increasingly ridiculous as she settles in at the apex of pop culture, but it might even be the overreach that breaks the fever, like McCarthy taking on the U.S. Army, and having her name stamped on a major cultural turn (for which a nontrivial constituency will be grateful) is a good step on the way to becoming Queen of America.
Seriously, how fucking Kontextmaschine a response is that?
I don\u2019t actually believe it though.
(Though in the course of even mooting the theory I\u2019ve started to convince myself.)
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