44yo dad responds to Taylor Swift single

MARC BRUSH
Aug 25, 2017 · 2 min read

Now featuring important snake update

  • Tilted stage? That’s either a lyrical whiff, or a reference to something I’m missing entirely as a 44yo dad.
  • Perfect crime? I doubt you’ve committed any grievance sufficient to such a statement. Like the murder of Jimmy Hoffa. Or the unwitting theft of an election by Slavic teenagers with Squarespace accounts.
  • Right Said Fred! Take it from a 44yo dad — they knew how to build a killer groove.
  • Kingdom keys? Taylor! Like keys to the kingdom? I’ve heard that, of course, ‘keys to the kingdom,’ but I really don’t think common parlance — at least among 44yo dads — would allow that kind of weird inverted compression.
  • Threw a feast. So Shakespearean! I used to hold season tickets to the Folger Theatre in Washington, DC back in the ’90s, so now you’re talking my language.
  • Oh. Wait. I get it. This is for Kanye. (Nice. I’m still culturally relevant.) And that’s the snake motif too, right? I’m afraid that Kanye might be suffering from chronic inflammation, so pls try to maintain the high ground here.
  • Did Kanye ever perform on a tilted stage? Seems imprudent.
  • Taylor, the old Taylor is not dead, we live one continuous life in which we (hopefully) grow into new styles & forms of comportment & expression. There’s nothing objectionable about a ‘New Taylor,’ per se, even to a 44yo dad, but remember that a life is really nothing but the ongoing presentation of a slithering composite, a composite borne of every moment lived, every offense suffered, every goal accomplished, every squad assembled & lost, every chance to do good either seized or squandered. Or, karma.
  • I like it. Keep it sleazy. Good song!

UPDATE 09/14/2017 11:02

So I’m less culturally relevant than presumed above. I get it. The snake motif is much bigger for Taylor than just Kanye. The song is more about haterz plural than one single hater. Okay. I mean, I think it’d be better focused on one snake villain, but I’m not really listening to the song anymore anyway. Still thumbs up though!


This is the first installment of 44yo dad. Probably more here.

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MARC BRUSH

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44yo dad. Noted food pundit.

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