[Kopipaste] taylor swift review

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*Taylor Swift1989"Track 3,"* 2014

Reviewed by *Don DeLillo*

It is possible to be homesick for a place even when you are there. "Track
3," the latest release from Taylor Swift's 1989, explores the dropped pin,
uniting the past and present--the now, the then--with the sharp pangs of its
own absence. White noise. Black hole. The gravitational pull of
nothingness. The silence's soft ecosystem, nourished by Apples and Cokes
and plotted upon plastic products whose names begin with i. On the
Internet, it is always spring. It is every season. It is any season. It is
the time of year, the time of day, for a small insistent sadness to pass
into the texture of things. Dusk, silence, iron chill. Something lonely in
the bone.

In the silence, there is solitude. In the solitude, there is silence. This
is the whole point of technology. It creates an appetite for immortality on
the one hand. It threatens universal extinction on the other. Technology is
lust removed from nature. It is purity. It is clarity. It is bravery. The
world is full of abandoned meanings. In the commonplace I find unexpected
themes and intensities.

The noise evolves. It succumbs to the inertia of music, of industry, of
reality. All plots tend to move deathward. This is the nature of plots.

Fear is unnatural. Lightning and thunder are unnatural. Pain, death,
reality, these are all unnatural. We can't bear these things as they are.
We know too much. So we resort to repression, compromise and disguise. This
is how we survive the universe. This is the natural language of the
species. This is the language of waves and radiation, or how the dead speak
to the living. And this is where we wait together, regardless of our age,
our carts stocked with brightly colored goods. A slowly moving line,
satisfying, giving us time to glance at the tabloids in the racks.
Everything we need that is not food or love is here in the tabloid racks.
The tales of the supernatural and the extraterrestrial. The miracle
vitamins, the cures for cancer, the remedies for obesity. The cults of the
famous and the dead.

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