by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
I really like Sabrina Carpenter’s music, it’s just, there’s something to be said for metaphor and all this business about getting “wet” in her latest songs makes me blanch.
It’s not the graphic nature of the songs that bothers me — I love dirty songs — it’s that there’s no metaphor. It’s just blunt dirty talk for the sake of being provocative (I think.)
So, in that sense, her songs are no better than country music songs that are absolutely literal and, also, have no metaphor.
All of this gets me thinking about what the fuck has happened to the center-Left. The economic message of the center-Left is really popular. It’s the cultural stuff that gets us in trouble.
I hate to break it to Leftist, but getting so worked up about “trans kids” just isn’t popular. And there really aren’t in real terms, that many “trans kids” to “protect.” But the way the two sides fight over this niche issue, you’d think hundreds of thousands of 8-year-olds wanted “gender affirming care.”
Whatever. I still hate MAGA with a fucking passion. I just wish the center-Left took into consideration real politics and not the politics found on BlueSky.
