Story I heard about Taylor Swift: she spotted two ultimate frisbee players tossing in a field and stopped the tour bus to ask...
Anonymous asked: Story I heard about Taylor Swift: she spotted two ultimate frisbee players tossing in a field and stopped the tour bus to ask them to teach her. She ends up taking one of them on tour for a bit (it was summer vacation) -- granted, it's about a friend of a friend, but seems possible, and could be an example of assertive female sexuality (leveraging "teach me" as an opener)
The “took him on tour” bit raises my eyebrows but the “stopped the bus and asked to be taught” thing I would absolutely believe – her songs repeatedly use the verb “know” as the highest compliment you can pay and the way to relate to a lover, to so completely internalize something that you carry a working model of it within you. And I think she is trying to “know” as much of American culture as she can, in that sense.
You wouldn’t think it from 4 notes, but after the “the Cold War was America discarding Soviet allies and adopting German to win World War 2”, the Taylor Swift knowledge-as-love thing is the kontextmaschine take I’ve seen spread furthest.