And then I think we also need to think about Tom Swift

I'm just sayin'...

She'd rather sing about her personal life than talk about it

Is satire TOO mean?




"Satire uses laughter as a weapon and against a butt that exists outside the work itself" M.H. Abrams A Glossary of Literary Terms



But as Swift points out in his own ironic "Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift" 1739:


Yet malice never was his aim;
He lashed the vice, but spared the name...
His satire points at no defect,
But what all morals may correct...

These lines offer guidance and a direction for 'reading' Taylor Swift who clearly influences me. I'd better get to work on that!