Great video Wisecrack! George Carlin once said "You don't need a formal conspiracy when interests converge."
@coolbrotherf1276 ай бұрын
I can't escape the cancer that is betterhelp. When will these channels realize how unethical that company is?
@lymnjuice6 ай бұрын
PREACH! Really does not look good for a progressive channel to be promoting such shitty company. Undermines their credibility.
@jojox33216 ай бұрын
They are not unethical at all. Any prove?
@vanessamaldonado58776 ай бұрын
@@jojox3321 Owned by an Israeli who worked in the IDF not only as he was required to but made a career in the surveillance department, and we know what the state of ISrael is doing to the remaining Palestinian population in Gaza, so, yes, is unethical.
@jnb220196 ай бұрын
@@vanessamaldonado5877wtf, that's not proof.
@agentzapdos49606 ай бұрын
When their money stops being the same in function as everyone else's money.
@Arkantolas6 ай бұрын
so everyone just... forgot about betterhelp and the shit they do? great.
@kf81136 ай бұрын
It wouldn't hurt to give us all a reminder of why...
@alphamorion43146 ай бұрын
What do they do?
@FirestormX96 ай бұрын
@@alphamorion4314 Tbh, it isn't that scandalous. Back in 2018, it was discovered that the user data collected from their app is being accessed by big pharma. And big pharma used that to market specific products to these individuals. The only thing that Betterhelp did not do was notify the people that this is going happen, they thought it would be implicit. Every single bad experience that an average citizen may have had with big pharma can also be had with Betterhelp. Is that truly surprising?
@FirestormX96 ай бұрын
@@alphamorion4314 can I even comment here.. Jesus... They didn't notify people that their collected data could be accessed by big pharm. It should be implicit but allegedly not. People got upset about something that they are casually practicing elsewhere anyway.
@daudimasinde62806 ай бұрын
@@alphamorion4314 They were caught selling confidential patient information to other companies.
@Fun_GPT6 ай бұрын
Betterhelp: The Uber of Psychology
@lephtovermeet6 ай бұрын
It's a great service that totally didn't violate HIPAA laws... Psych!
It’s the only mental health services available to me because of where i live in the Middle East. It’s not perfect but I’m so glad i have it.
@lyricbot85136 ай бұрын
I can't believe youtubers are promoting it after the backlash only 2 years ago
@brendanmcculloch24066 ай бұрын
@@EmmaDoerrieryou would be better off without THAT service. they actively do far more harm than good
@Raziel3126 ай бұрын
Because I'm old, I remember music artists in the 90s were preoccupied to no small extent with questions of authenticity, and when someone could be considered a "sellout". Now? Artists look forward to when their music will be used in a car commercial. They put that in their career plan.
@ftftyffghfvghfcht67016 ай бұрын
good example of that attitude in the modern day is coldplay. i think they only recently agreed for the first time ever to use their music in DHL and BMW ads but both were in exchange for fancy climate change carbon footprint reducing tech for their tour
@_leivo6 ай бұрын
Sadly musicians had other ways to make money back then
@neuroisis856 ай бұрын
Yea a lot of Rock, Metal and Punk bands were that way. Pop artists have always been the definition of “sellout”.
@jamesmorgan36236 ай бұрын
I feel you're overlooking Moby.
@catkin-z8g6 ай бұрын
Travis Kelce did a commercial for 2 in 1. A car commercial would be legit in comparison.
@Raziel3126 ай бұрын
"The future is products. I'm a product. You're a product. The end of the world.. is a product!"
@schtuff.82076 ай бұрын
And we got a Fallout clip in this :) chilling
@Bojoschannel6 ай бұрын
That's commodity fetishism for you
@coolioso8086 ай бұрын
Brought to you by Capitalism! We are in Late Stage Capitalism, and it's ugly! Anybody want system change? This capitalist game sucks. I'd prefer a Library Economy or one based on Ubuntu Contributionism.
@fatcole11526 ай бұрын
Taylor Swift, like many performing artists is a separate fictional character divorced from their real persona. Just as Freddie Mercury was really Farrokh Bulsara, there is a video of him on KZbin in which he explains this during an interview. The person people think they know as Taylor Swift is just an onstage persona and it has to be that way otherwise she would have lost her mind trying to maintain a marketable character a long time ago. Which is why this talk of intimacy and diaries with relation to Swift's onstage persona is so incredibly cringeworthy. Swift's marketing abilities are on a psychopathic level.
@dinglesworld6 ай бұрын
Yeah…I have the strange suspicion you and “swifties” have been on the internet just a little much. 👀💀
@ONETEE.HENDRIX6 ай бұрын
@@dinglesworldbruh what
@superonion37366 ай бұрын
Yessss, i love how fucking psycho her marketing is, is nuts how the world works and her marketing just comes on top of it all using Our disgusting society as it’s motor force
@ExterminatorElite6 ай бұрын
This nails what feels so weird about the parasocial pull of Swift. Swift is a brand, a persona as you say. This isn't at all exceptional for entertainers. But brands don't have diaries, they don't have inner lives. A persona is played by a person, but a persona isn't a person. The intimacy is an act, and apparently a very compelling one for some. For me, it's hitting the uncanny valley.
@ONETEE.HENDRIX6 ай бұрын
@@ExterminatorElite totally agree.. and you can see the effect its had on the youth! its p crazy
@NerdStuffGaming6 ай бұрын
No such thing as an ethical billionaire
@calebsmith71796 ай бұрын
I am of the same mind. Being a billionaire is immoral. But J.K. Rowling did show us that one can become a billionaire through ethical means, as in, she didn't exploit anyone to become a billionaire. After becoming a billionaire, she gave so much of it away that she lost her billionaire status. Even though I lost respect for her because of her views on transgender people; I still admire her for how she handled being a billionaire. Will Taylor Swift follow in her footsteps? (as in purposely lose her billionaire status) I suppose only time will tell.
@brendanmcculloch24066 ай бұрын
@@calebsmith7179your premise is wrong.
@calebsmith71796 ай бұрын
@brendanmcculloch2406 and I disagree with you. Glad we could have this conversation.
@brendanmcculloch24066 ай бұрын
@@calebsmith7179 the fact that you believe that she became a billionaire ethically shows how little value there is in what you think
@calebsmith71796 ай бұрын
@@brendanmcculloch2406 if only I cared what you thought of me.
@Moravia90s6 ай бұрын
Helen is back!!!! 🎉🎉🎉
@cjmedson6 ай бұрын
Wait for her final words though!
@themasstermwahahahah6 ай бұрын
+
@intellectually_lazy5 ай бұрын
from troy?
@darejohnson22516 ай бұрын
Loved this breakdown of how the commoditification of art makes the product easily malleable to propaganda
@Sirmenonottwo6 ай бұрын
I don't think art needs to be commodified in order to be used by the government or government affiliated agencies as propaganda. It's also probably the individuals right to commodify their art one would think.
@9000ck6 ай бұрын
I don't really have much sympathy for any billionaire. Even one that is personally inoffensive. I would love it if she read Mark Fisher and Byung-Chul Han though and went through a burnout. The thing is, being a billionaire means that being burntout doesn't carry the risk of homelessness.
@coolioso8086 ай бұрын
Billionaires shouldn't exist and I don't mean people who are billionaires should cease to exist, I'm saying the capitalist system which creates billionaires, at the same time, massive numbers of people in poverty, debt and war-torn areas is part of the same extreme problem. It is unhealthy for society to have billionaires as much as it is to have millions in poverty. The problem is capitalism. And we can't solve that problem unless we build a better system from the bottom-up. It's going to take time, but if we start small, locally and collaboratively, we can change the world. See One Small Town is Changing The World, Michael Tellinger and crew are out of the starting blocks. Check out Zeitgeist: Requiem trailer, the film is soon to release and will be followed by an "Integral" new system change plan for people and communities who want to move beyond bloody capitalism.
@lesslycarthan9566 ай бұрын
Taylor Swift comes from a wealthy family she can talk a good middle class game but like any business you need seed money and I know I had an inde label from 1987-2006 I used credit cards to promote my first 2 CDs and lucked up with freaknic and the Olympics in Atlanta from 94-97 if it wasn't for that I was already working 60 hrs a week to pay studio copies promotion lawyer retainer rent and bills.when you come from wealthy 🤑 all you need to do is show your pretty little self up and perform ❤
@stickynorth6 ай бұрын
Just like Beyonce who's dad was a Xerox exec I believe... Gee I wonder if having CEO or least Corporate Board parents helped them get ahead and master the music game? Especially when both were known to work for their daughters on the business end... So in other words? Like Jamie Spears, Britney is/was basically there to make an old man rich as much as anyone else... As was Joe Simpson in the case of Ashley and Jessica too... And even Kylie Minogue I believe...
@rodylermglez6 ай бұрын
Honestly it's less of a "Swift issue" or a particular celebrity issue, or even a singular corporative brand issue, but more of a consumerist systemic one just like Adorno predicted. It just happens to be that, to the credit of Swifties who prop her, Taylor is VERY good at navigating and playing the neoliberal capitalist game, but ultimately everyone plays it because if you don't you are apparently threatened to be inexorably out of a livelihood. Thusly, everyone gives in to collectively make the world a worse place by bowing to the capitalist and consumerist urge. Even this channel does it. Yeah, by getting sponsored by betterhelp which is notoriously a corporation that cares zero about the mental health of their workers and clients (they are not even patients) and cares only for profiting on desperate people to consume their "product" (which is absolutely not an online mental health help service, mhm). But I get it; Wisecrack also needs to eat. It's not like there are other more ethical sponsors out there, but, too bad that they don't pay as well, right? They just play the game better, right? 😉😉😉
@superonion37366 ай бұрын
This, Swift it’s a true mastermind of this disgusting game!!!
@GeteMachine6 ай бұрын
It helps that she had a wealthy, banker father and all the connections to get with every other marketing team that floods the market with her.
@GeteMachine6 ай бұрын
Sounds like a whataboutism rant.
@TheTm90906 ай бұрын
Truth.
@Me-vn3gz6 ай бұрын
EXACTLY
@gamingblob22156 ай бұрын
So we’re back to promoting betterhelp, huh.
@D33pEndR3cords6 ай бұрын
😅 mmmmmm maybe
@rickyspanish47926 ай бұрын
betterhelp is scammy.
@aeoligarlic40246 ай бұрын
I've seen a video talking about this! Somehow palpatine (better help) returned, and people just massively forgot how terrible they are. I know making a buck in youtube is challenging, but if a sponsor is this bad people really should stop..
@PeterSchmuttermaier6 ай бұрын
I am asking honestly: What makes BetterHelp so terrible? I would like to know, because I am using their service and it's working well for me. Do I need to feel bad?
@YourCapyFrenBigly_3DPipes19996 ай бұрын
Unfortunately.....
@UCjNrKLyRJI-abFA8qiNo92Q6 ай бұрын
Better Help is ilegal in my country, you need a medical license emitted by the public health care system to give any psychological advise. how are these ads allowed inside of google's, so weird
@dentistrider38746 ай бұрын
"The Culture Industry"... what a disgusting idea.
@19ars926 ай бұрын
I would say mostly in the US Culture it’s relevant only IF you can make profit out of it.
@dentistrider38746 ай бұрын
@@19ars92 The problem is we not only manufacture culture as a commodity on the market, we also export it to the rest of the world. And unfortunately, they buy it up...
@19ars926 ай бұрын
@@dentistrider3874 Right, if you can’t consume it, is culture worth it? if you think about it, many countries around the world know about other countries through the perspective of the US, a simple example is how most of the world makes American style Pizza and not the Italian way, perhaps because for Italians is a cultural traditional cuisine but for American corporations simply fast food.
@ReclaimedDasein6 ай бұрын
A really good and informative video. You forgot to mention that Taylor Swift's father bought her a music studio with his millions gained through working at Merrill Lynch... but all and all, great job.
@selmaferdjioui6 ай бұрын
buying a music studio doesn’t guarantee you success. sure she had some financial help from her parents at the beginning but she became famous bc people enjoyed her music, that’s all.
@ReclaimedDasein6 ай бұрын
@@selmaferdjioui Sure. There are thousands of better artists with better music and better voices. Why does she so popular? Because Daddy bought her a music label. Look, people can like whatever music they want. I like Rise Against which is shitty pop political punk. It's NOT good music. It IS music I like. That's an ENTIRELY SEPARATE from the issue that the ONLY REASON YOU KNOW WHO TAYLOR SWIFT IS IS BECAUSE HER RICH DADDY BOUGHT HER INTO FAME. It's the same deal with Paris Hilton. Do you remember her? She was rich. She decided to be famous. She stopped like being famous when she didn't want to do it any more. There's FUNDAMENTALLY no difference between Paris Hilton and T-Swift except T-Swift is marginally more skilled due to effort. That's it.
@thing_under_the_stairs6 ай бұрын
@@selmaferdjioui Y'know what? Two of my favourite artists owned their own studios too. Queen and David Bowie. They bought those studios *after* they'd worked their way to they top with talent, innovation, and long years of hard work. Their daddies had nothing to do with their success. I miss the days when music was made as something other than a commodity, and artists considered their work to be art, rather than a product.
@lysanamcmillan79726 ай бұрын
@@selmaferdjioui Also? He did no such thing. The studio already existed. He owned maybe 3%. Even Wikipedia knows this. The gossip? NSM.
@lysanamcmillan79726 ай бұрын
@@ReclaimedDasein WRONG. A fledgling studio Swift's father never owned heard her perform and it went from there. Also? Paris Hilton remained famous if you were one of the people who go to Ibiza clubs and heard her DJ. She vanished from American media because who gives a damn about rich people vacationing in Spain, am I right?
@ExterminatorElite6 ай бұрын
Swift must be an acquired (and apparently somewhat addictive) taste. In all clips here I get that distinct feeling of someone who's "on", really on. Skill and savviness isn't to be discouraged (much less in women), and she clearly is savvy, but there's also something uncanny about her. I'm watching someone who is so clearly a living brand attempt, apparently successfully, to pass off as authentic, to cultivate parasocial closeness en masse. I don't think she's cooperating in some covert government operation, but obviously she is her own self-promoting operation.
@Bungadood6 ай бұрын
oh no, wisecrack posted an objective analysis about taylor swift. i hope they bought swifty insurance for their company.
@KateKuehl6 ай бұрын
Nothing is objective. Question reality.
@Azarath_Metrion_Zinthos6 ай бұрын
U r naive if you think ur opinion about someone else is objective...💀 This so called "analysis" is also an opinion of someone..that doesn't make it objective...you don't know Taylor Swift in person to know for sure she's everything you have portrayed her to be.
@intellectually_lazy5 ай бұрын
@@Azarath_Metrion_Zinthos reowww
@GeteMachine6 ай бұрын
She is the modern embodiment of mass consumerism, and how to flood the market. Wish people would call her out more. She is wasteful, very for-profit motivated, and her people actually try to crackdown on press that doesn't outwardly praise her at all times.
@brandonmaddox48626 ай бұрын
Flooding the market often leads to consumer exhaustion and a watering down of quality, but as long as her followers, because fans don’t act like hers do, she’s basically a brand that pumps out middle of the road pop and as long as magazines and you tube bloggers keep propping her up as some modern day icon (which makes me sick to think of) she’ll be around
@sageholla6 ай бұрын
I’m a huge swiftie and I support every word of this video - some of us contain layers… you’re right to be afraid tho. 😅
@intellectually_lazy5 ай бұрын
ok, dunky
@rafresendenrafresenden.16446 ай бұрын
Probably the most capitalist artist I know.
@FirestormX96 ай бұрын
then you hardly really 'know' artists. Because Banksy takes the cake for this title.
@Leahcimmichael6 ай бұрын
Peak white feminism artist too
@ONETEE.HENDRIX6 ай бұрын
@@FirestormX9because they’re price gouging the rich??
@culture-jamming-rhizome6 ай бұрын
@@FirestormX9 Do you know the anonymous person called Banksy? Banksy is probably living comfortably off some pieces sold by the pest control office which could be argued as hypocrisy. However a lot of the work is on walls (some are torn out of walls for sale by others) which makes no money and the visible disgust with consumerism, the anti-war and anti-capitalist messages portrayed (and being anonymous) puts my view of Banksy far from the "most capitalist artist I know". So far I see Andy Warhols representing consumerism with no critique as much more deserving of the title although I don't personally know any major artists. This can all be said to be subjective but I just don't see any value in Warhols art.
@ziiclmn6 ай бұрын
truthfully. i thought this essay would go a different way.
@eiondonnelly92896 ай бұрын
Is this why Michael is able to capitalize on the plight of the bald and blur the line of consumer and creator during Wisecrack Live stream?
@drewsimon532Ай бұрын
I've been sharing for a few years the idea that Americans feel like we lack a cultural identity because it's constantly replaced with new products. Loved the way you dove into the ideas of culture as commodities.
@simplethings37306 ай бұрын
I think forming political opinions based on popular culture puts a glaring spotlight on the intelligence of the average voter.
@pavelandreev47276 ай бұрын
What intelligence?
@intellectually_lazy5 ай бұрын
don't break your arm off
@Tittelintuure04Ай бұрын
😂@@pavelandreev4727
@johnstanczyk40306 ай бұрын
Sergeant York is a true story. Yes, a movie about a different subject could have been made, but the very religious Alvin York really did fight in the Argonne and do some crazy stunts while taking Hill 223. He was like the prototype version of Audie Murphy.
@RogerKlots6 ай бұрын
I love how the barbie movie properly shows the degradation of our language by falsely calling people fascists.
@celiacresswell69096 ай бұрын
There are two kinds of fascists: fascists and anti fascists
@taxirob22486 ай бұрын
When "I know what you are, but what am I?" becomes an acceptable debate tactic we are really greasing the rails toward complete collapse. Fascists are fascists, and fascists calling everyone else fascists are still fascists.
@intellectually_lazy5 ай бұрын
there's enough real fascists
@taxirob22485 ай бұрын
@@intellectually_lazy what should we call them if "fascist" is a useless term?
@intellectually_lazy5 ай бұрын
@@taxirob2248 who said fascist is a useless term? not me. i know what a fascist is, trump followers, for instance, bolsinaro, mohdi, marie lapenn, netenyahu. refer to umberto eco's checklist, please
@RodrigoBarbosaBR6 ай бұрын
This video reminded me so much of Louis Althusser's book "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses"
@danielsantiagourtado34306 ай бұрын
Helen! Welcome back! Love your videos as a host🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
@PhilospherDjPsychologist2420 күн бұрын
Something about Swift. in these clips make s me think of a quote from Buffy that Cordelia said. "Sometimes people are so busy agreeing with me that they aren't listening to a thing I say"
@Alaryicjude6 ай бұрын
I TRULY hate TS and now you've given me more concrete reasons as to why I've always instinctively hated her. The more of her I see the more intense my instincts.
@wendypierce56216 ай бұрын
Actually, M&M’s rejected ET and Reeses Pieces took the opportunity to jump into the candy stratosphere.
@Journric6 ай бұрын
Thought I was going crazy for a second. Reese's Pieces have no chocolate.
@yourfriendlyinternetmeatshield6 ай бұрын
@@Journricoh it does have a small coating of chocolate within the candy coating. Noooooooope. I fact checked myself and apparently that another mandella effect relating to me. I'm in this section of the multiverse, that didn't properly reeces the pieces... Sigh ... Wheeeee. That was literally one of my favorite candies as a kid. I know they had chocolate where I'm from, but that's not here. Lame.
@intellectually_lazy5 ай бұрын
@@Journric i didn't think i was crazy. i thought they were stupid. i still do. that's not what she said or why
@spacewad87456 ай бұрын
idk capitalism leads to some weird results
@vanessamaldonado58776 ай бұрын
Only if you dont know how capitalism works and who it benefits, we literally had hundreds of years of capitalist history to know where it always lead, so maybe pick up a history book?
@aeoligarlic40246 ай бұрын
It leads to mid non-groundbreaking art tbh. Just look at those corporate stock illustration and stock music
@aeoligarlic40246 ай бұрын
@@vanessamaldonado5877 dang, chill... spacewad is just having an epiphany
@nalday25346 ай бұрын
@@vanessamaldonado5877 aren't you the person who believes that human being are inherently greedy and it's in their nature to screw each other over?
@demeterontheinternet6 ай бұрын
Tbf the hitting “I know nothing” is Socrates vibes - it’s like when you think it can’t get worse it gets worse. We need an exit plan for this capitalism business
@haroldoftherock89736 ай бұрын
Her fans were foolish enough to buy the same albums twice wow...
@lordfreerealestate83024 ай бұрын
Actually, many bought them multiple times. Taylor released variants and special editions on vinyl, and many fans bought multiple editions. Another carbon-producing product they don't need to make a billionaire richer.
@stickynorth6 ай бұрын
T-Swift is the most calculated pop entertainer in history and I do mean that as both an compliment and a slam... I've never seen an artist who is so viciously pro-business, especially her own and while that's admirable from a personal power standpoint it's also sickening when it leads to an eerie Cult of Personality that rivals T-Rump at this point... People paying thousands to see her in stadium with 70,000 people to me seems insane. As much as I love music I can't think of an artist dead or alive worth that kind of cash especially one so meh... $100? Sure why not... $1000? AYFKM?
@GeteMachine6 ай бұрын
People pretending she is a self-made girlboss, when her father is a banker and grew up already wealthy, and has people who plant her in the media all the time now. And of course liberals are in-love with her, as they all are in the media. They love her for the exact reasons why people think shes fake and her fans will defend anything she does to gouge them of cash, and they will by her re-re-reeleases to boost her sales, then brag about her sales.
@Petch856 ай бұрын
Lets hope this get big for the Swifties, I thought it was a good video and it might help people understand the world they are living in.
@timothyjohnson82476 ай бұрын
Can you guys stop being sponsored by Better Help?
@EricGranata6 ай бұрын
Maybe if enough of us join their Patreon for as little as $1/month.
@DeathCrunch6 ай бұрын
This channel is nearly dead and complete dogwater anyway. Oh wow another diverse podcast of fat black lesbians talking about what Jackie Chan movie is most problematic. That theyre actively commiting fraud and damaging peoples mental health is zero suprise to me.
@rickyspanish47926 ай бұрын
@@EricGranata chicken-egg.. I'm not going to donate to a company that supports betterhelp.
@compfycloud98776 ай бұрын
Don't hate the player. hate the game. You get +1 patron. Here I come! who's with me? But to be fair, you guys aren't wrong. I thought better help was cool, until I talked to someone that had experience with better help on the work end of it. Said it doesn't give people the real help they need.
@EricGranata6 ай бұрын
@@compfycloud9877 🫡
@T_Dot946 ай бұрын
Her answers to those question were just ugh. Capitalism and this entrepreneurial mindset has infected her personality.
@stickynorth6 ай бұрын
She was born into it... Rich executive parents. As if they were going to let their daughter not be a billionaire from her talent. If anyone could commodify pain and misery it would be the children of corporate raider types...
@agnishom6 ай бұрын
Re Betterhelp: “Capital has the ability to subsume all critiques into itself,” it reads. “Even those who would critique capital end up reinforcing it instead”
@comicbrandon6 ай бұрын
Michael, your hair is back!
@globalrevolution5 ай бұрын
"They rewrote Animal Farm to make it anticommunist?" Did you read the original?
@lukheynen27183 ай бұрын
this
@matthewdavenport40306 ай бұрын
"I open up my diary and share it with you" bet you won't open up that wallet though
@selmaferdjioui6 ай бұрын
@@aspecificafricanyamdish5271she does :)
@matthewdavenport40306 ай бұрын
@@aspecificafricanyamdish5271 most of the obscenely rich donate to charities, and I assure you it's not rooted in benevolence lol Public image, tax savings, all kinds of gains for donating to charities.
@lysanamcmillan79726 ай бұрын
@@aspecificafricanyamdish5271 Food pantries in the cities she tours through get fat checks. It may be she does other things privately, but of course, no way of knowing. If anyone sassed George Michael for being rich and not helping, they ate crow by the barrel when his real dealings came out after he died. I do not know if Taylor is that charitable. I won't guess, but she was raised rich so there's a coin flip. "Grateful to have so share with those who don't" or "I earned it, it's mine, I do enough to cut my taxes."
@matthewdavenport40306 ай бұрын
@@aspecificafricanyamdish5271 Rich folks have plenty of reasons to donate to charities other than benevolence. Tax write offs, public image boost, etc.
@Bryan3on6 ай бұрын
There are dozens of celebrities does this too yet you never complain aboout them.
@Catthepunk6 ай бұрын
This is why i am trying to work on decomercialising art, and making being an artist a viable thing without people having to sell their art.
@kaleidokai116 ай бұрын
what an incredibly brave video to post
@yourfriendlyinternetmeatshield6 ай бұрын
I hope they contacted Miss Swift behind the scenes so the drama that results wont get out of hand and be on the up and up lol But seriously don't she like mess brands and people up?
@SpaceTimeTurtle6 ай бұрын
I've tried to listen to TS's music several times. And I've always found it to be painfully average and surface level catchy. I think TS plays the game(s) better than anyone else, and thus is paid handsomely for it: well done.
@GeteMachine6 ай бұрын
One of the wealthiest mediocre artists who made it work. Unfortunately. She just knows how to compensate it with money and the business.
@pavelandreev47276 ай бұрын
Same here, a few years ago I gave it a try as I kept hearing how great she is but couldn't see it. It sounds like any other song that would play on a pop radio or in store, nothing remotely remarkable, a few catchy lines and that's it. I don't mind people liking the music or the singer, I just don't get how they get so crazy about her. Videos like this help me understand though.
@jacobturnerart6 ай бұрын
It doesn't matter how mediocre Swift is because the PR machine has told us that she's a genius.
@brandonmaddox48626 ай бұрын
@@jacobturnerartI’m Tired of being told that she’s some modern day icon
@taxirob22486 ай бұрын
@@jacobturnerart her twelve songwriting collaborators are geniuses, they've hitched their wagon to the right horse
@comedienne_historian6 ай бұрын
anyone remember that old Casper the Friendly Ghost cartoon where they sung “a-haunting we will go”?
@theTeleforce6 ай бұрын
...Huh. It's not like the CIA needed to buy the rights to Animal Farm to make sure it was anti-Soviet, unless the producers were going to significantly alter the story.
@danielsantiagourtado34306 ай бұрын
Algorithm bump for engagement!
@FirestormX96 ай бұрын
This channel kinda needs it and you know what, it's not a total sell out type of a video. They still keep their standards.
@intellectually_lazy5 ай бұрын
@@FirestormX9 tf you talking about? they have over 3million subscribers
@FirestormX95 ай бұрын
@@intellectually_lazy tf are YOU talking about? Do you even know the monthly view count channels need? Do you even know how many views they get at the time of posting that vastly uninformed comment?
@TheThagenesis6 ай бұрын
I've never seen this through a neoliberal lens! this is Wisecrack at its best. providing a nudge in a new direction and food for thought!
@thestrangeone59216 ай бұрын
On the bright side, wisecrack is getting a lot of engagement on this video lmao
@intellectually_lazy5 ай бұрын
so?
@Malcadon6 ай бұрын
While I understand her appeal with her fans, I never related to her as she feels too old to sing about middle-school drama. As for those people who think she is a psyops, those people are so desperate for the touch of grass, that to them, EVERYTHING is a psyops... I mean: EVERYTHING!!
@GeteMachine6 ай бұрын
I honestly think she's mentally stuck in junior high-school. Her songs sound like she never got over a lot.
@stevecinneide81835 ай бұрын
I can't imagine any straight, normal guy being attracted to her physically or musically.
@alejandroramirez82336 ай бұрын
Glad to see Helen back
@KevinVeroneau3 ай бұрын
After watching this, I am now more tempted than ever to start listening to some more of Taylor Swift's modern songs. I think the brainwashing is working.
@kevinmcqueenie74206 ай бұрын
Rewriting Animal Farm to be anti-communist? Um, have you read the original book?
@lysanamcmillan79726 ай бұрын
You haven't. Orwell pointed out how Lenin's goals and intentions were re-written by his successors with malicious intent. Snowball's manifesto was closer to Marx and Engels. The pigs who usurped him twisted it into what is frankly a neo-fascist wet dream.
@cockatooinsunglasses74924 ай бұрын
It is both anti communism and anti capitalism. Under the communist system "some people were more equal than others" due to their ties with the communist party and being able to escape justice. Under capitalism, "some people are more equal than others" with money being able to buy them out of accountability and justice with the right lawyers.
@ZyozyoPadilla6 ай бұрын
There's a line of dialogue in a Ukrainian-Russia videogame (based on a novel) that puts it nicely: "It's just like old Hollywood movies depicting Soviet Union!"
@shybard6 ай бұрын
It's capitalism all the way down.
@yourfriendlyinternetmeatshield6 ай бұрын
Late stage, terminal, all American, unsustainable and with literally zero concern for the world they leave for tomorrow to inherit, greed is good and capital is god, rearranging deck chairs and polishing brass on the Titanic, good old fashion, toxic, viral, and cancerous: capitalism, fellow bashful minstrel. panem et circenses, e pluribus unum, in cash we trust. "AMERICAAAAAA F*** YEEEEEEEEAH!"
@sleepysteev27355 ай бұрын
7:31 Correction: Reese's Pieces do not contain chocolate
@The_Broke_Gamer6 ай бұрын
Swift's celebrity is so powerful that her fans will happily do whatever it takes to please her.
@Garbimba19006 ай бұрын
Hi Helen!!! So happy to see you again!
@RubeusArchos6 ай бұрын
My answer to this is Reality is what we take to be true. What we take to be true is what we believe. What we believe is based upon our perceptions. And our perceptions are influenced by various things. Known and unknown to us.
@crystalynn135 ай бұрын
Betterhelp? Really? Thats disappointing from y'all
@RaySquirrel5 ай бұрын
There is a point where Helen uses the phrase “lived-experience.” “Lived-experience” as opposed to what? “Unlived-experience?” If you’ve had an experience it is implied that you lived through it.
@somerszaule6 ай бұрын
How did she get away with trademarking "players gonna play" 😭
@yourfriendlyinternetmeatshield6 ай бұрын
I believe, she may or may not have accidentally unintentionally allegedly stolen that long along with others from the hook or chorus from a not where Swifty level fame and finances. I think he was from Houston maybe? He sued, she countersued and money wins. The end. "what is your advice to someone wanting to become a songwriter?" "Get a good lawyer."
@stickynorth6 ай бұрын
A good lawyer like she said... Very gross... As much as Paris Hilton's unsuccessful bid for "That's Hot"...
@GeteMachine6 ай бұрын
If she copyrights shake-it off next....
@GeteMachine6 ай бұрын
Only Taylor Swift can copyright something she never came up with. 💀💀Now everyone has to pay her people to just use a phrase.
@selmaferdjioui6 ай бұрын
@@GeteMachinei’m pretty sure she already has 😂
@danielsantiagourtado34306 ай бұрын
3:08 me too! Charlie chaplin is classic! Which is your favorite film of him? Mine is the circus!
@TheDevilsbard6 ай бұрын
Whoa whoa whoa. Reese’s pieces are not chocolate.
@yourfriendlyinternetmeatshield6 ай бұрын
Not in this multiverse
@stickynorth6 ай бұрын
Candy at best, nighmare-ish ultra processed food stuff that should be banned or at least contain a carcinogen warning on it at its worst...
@fairycat236 ай бұрын
This video gets _my_ Swiftie stamp of approval. Well, except for the BetterHelp sponsorship.
@adamiotime5 ай бұрын
At first i was rolling my eyes at the premise of this episode... And then I ended up fully convinced.
@Stake26 ай бұрын
The logic behind (U.S.) emotionalist productions is akin to Fascism.
@Taycatte6 ай бұрын
Can you explain more?
@Stake26 ай бұрын
In Fascism, what counts are emotions and morals, but mainly emotions. It's an antithesis to modernism because it has little faith in Enlightenment values such as reason. Instead, it's like no emotions barred in rhetoric and practice. When we consider Swift, the focus is all on what she is, what she does, and how. It's not so much on her music, structures, and mainly on an individual and their "pure" feelings. In art history, this impulse can be considered antimodernist in that it defocuses on structures (abstract representing) and reinvigorates and celebrates the individual and their emotions and morals. Walter Benjamin mentions that this yearning aligns with a thirst for something genuine and real that are impeded by modernism. That's why in a Fascist mindset according to him there's an experience of aura surrounding these phenomena that are thereby destructured.
@WhenIsItUs6 ай бұрын
When someone shoots somebody, we don't throw the gun in jail. We look at the person wielding it. Who is wiedling these media tools? Who are the ones with the money? I dont really listen to her music so I know nothing about her. I'll leave that to the people who feel influenced by her to decide.
@ocumstweezers6 ай бұрын
Taylor could, but hasn't commoditized her fans. Every dollar they have spent on her products, merchandise, performance or media she has more than earned. I'm a socialist, but she is the only billionaire that I truly feel can't have too much money. As long as she continues to earn it by being an ethical entrepreneur.
@yourfriendlyinternetmeatshield6 ай бұрын
Bad gun! 😂 Although to be pedantic the gun is locked up... In evidence.
@themasstermwahahahah6 ай бұрын
Glad to see helen back!
@leoalcaraz61533 ай бұрын
I have to say you hit it on the head when you said Taylor swifts music constantly reminds women of their teens because that’s something that would never appeal to men were not as nostalgic for teenage melodrama we are constantly looking to the future
@AnirudhTammireddy6 ай бұрын
"Breathing brand TayTay, We can't just leave those POORS market segment untapped for profits." tHe ErAs ToUr Genius! She's literally my favourite company. 100% Genuine product!
@kylenerd18936 ай бұрын
Literally the message of Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly
@nishidohellhillsruler67316 ай бұрын
Ha! I told you all there was something weird about "Animal Farm"! Who's crazy now, eh?
@stickynorth6 ай бұрын
Bingo! Want an example of real propaganda in modern times? Top Gun 2... That movie was absolute garbage but damn near cleared $1B so at least the government recruitment team got their money back and then some with that project...
@simplethings37306 ай бұрын
I read the book. I didn't watch the movie. A good general rule of life. Read books. Skip movies.
@danielschaeffer12946 ай бұрын
@@simplethings3730This is especially true of “1984,” which ought to be on every high school reading list.
@rashadb9545 ай бұрын
Swift out here putting on a master class of how to be an effective businesswoman and artist
@Uriel2386 ай бұрын
Sponsors remind us we can't have nice things without something terrible supporting it behind the scenes.
@WeHadEro6 ай бұрын
Love the vid! It's so difficult to tell about propaganda to people... Its reinvigorating seen some good work about the theme.... Love Helen!
@alittlewasted38696 ай бұрын
Is anything propaganda if everything is propaganda?
@rozatl6 ай бұрын
Helen, I absolutely adorno you... lol silly joke. I apreciate so much your commitment to analize the Taylor Swift fenomenon. Thank you. Because I have always felt something suspicious of the way she presents herself, and now I know why. There is nothing wrong with wanting to be the most rich person in the planet, we all need money to live in this society, I perfectly understand the Betterhelp situation, but I'm more of an ars gratia artis kind of girl. I love when artists do their thing and don't give a fuck about sales or pleasing the public. Because then you can express all of your feelings and emotions without restiction, from the most beautiflu ones to the most disgusting and sinful ones. And I do love some darkness and sin. I think those extreme artistic explorations can help society in the long run than plain, simple heartbreak and "you do you girl" kind of art. Honestly, sometimes I'm overwhelmed with all this love for Taylor Swift. I went to a party where someone put the obligatory Taylor Swift hour and was impressed to hear a girl wearing an Iron Maiden hoodie saying "There is a Taylor Swift song for any occasion" and it really made me feel out of place. But, now I understand why absolutely everybody (but my husband and I) really like Taylor Swift. Thank you for making me understand more this crazy world we live in. Love from Mexico City.
@Lonesurvivor2566 ай бұрын
Just here to tell you I giggled at your adorno joke. 😂
@Nothingness00000-o6 ай бұрын
0:32 How many people know this toad is Hypnotoad from Futurama? Or does everyone think it's just a generic 'mindcontrol meme'?
@cheesenutpea6 ай бұрын
Great video, though I think the language used is a missmatch for the desired audience, Swifties.
@warpdrivefueledbyinsomnia81656 ай бұрын
3:44 And here on the right, we see Larry David's first acting role. He's old here, too.
@notkimpine6 ай бұрын
i got brainwashed by the fans of taylor swift because i don't like new taylor's songs anymore because i'm just fucking sick of it
@DanielKingMusic016 ай бұрын
I was about to watch and then I saw the better help ad.
@BradsPitts.6 ай бұрын
You know what’s actually propaganda? BetterHelp sponsorships
@yourfriendlyinternetmeatshield6 ай бұрын
*Does the dance Tyler Durden does not attracting attention in the hallway with Marla Singer, and one of his many crazy laughs*
@ShizaruBloodrayneАй бұрын
I just hate the radio in general at this point. There's sooooooooo many good bands and musicians out there....meanwhile literally every single mall, grocery store, gas station, retail store, fast food, etc. all play the same 30 songs over and over and over all in 4/4 for the past 10 years straight.....like make it stop please.....I'm just glad the place I currently work at, I can get away with using headphones, but the music overhead does not stop, we have absolutely no say on making it stop, and it bleeds into my own thoughts more often than I'm able to think my own thoughts...suburbanism feels like a mental prison.
@pif50236 ай бұрын
I wanted to trust Taylor Swift, I like her art but I cannot deny I deeply dislike a few things about her. She paints herself as a feminist but there is little equality in her songs, she presents herself as a love warlord. It may be as a man I am not used to the feminine perspective but I can’t see a lot of empathy in her songs, not the one I expect in an artist, and the culture around her wants me by consequence to be a “man afraid of losing power”. I deeply disliked her song “The Man” because it portrays an extremely unlikeable man as the man that all men look up to (and again I am part of the problem if I believe that according to the culture around her). But these are in the end things I could forego but the theme of power in her art is impossible to ignore and that is what scares me. I don’t like the world she portrays, made of drastic snap decisions based on feelings. In her world feelings are above reason and understanding, unless you are in some game of power in which everything is allowed. And that is reflected also in how she lives. She is truly a queen, the medieval kind. I see her as a nostalgic pull towards the Middle Ages that I am not too pleased about. She flaunts moral causes to make you forget she likes to centralize power in her own manicured hands, you just need a Man to knock down.
@scuttlebum6 ай бұрын
Why tf would you want to trust her? Because she's popular and you like her music? The extreme example is like saying you want to trust Kanye
@dinglesworld6 ай бұрын
If you want to believe her fans are gullible, dumb people go ahead, but I’m not cynical enough to think the average person even knows or cares much to listen to her music or that they would be “brainwashed” by songs like The Man 💀🤣
@pif50236 ай бұрын
I find her art to be actual art. I do believe her voice is true and deep, the romantic world she portrays captures my imagination. The issue is that she seems to accept that at face value without questioning it too much (questioning that I expect in an actual feminist). To my sensitivity she never grew past the teenage years. Under this perspective Kanye is not that different. They both reveal aspects of the human experience.
@catkin-z8g6 ай бұрын
@@markahern9642 calling her art music is a stretch.
@Brownyman6 ай бұрын
The only important part about culture is the first syllable.
@larrym24346 ай бұрын
cul?
@ilovemesomme6 ай бұрын
Our culture is the most dominant in human history. We’re all truly living in Amerika, and it’s Wonder Bra.
@alexbarriga9836 ай бұрын
Coca-cola, sometimes war
@dredeth6 ай бұрын
@@alexbarriga983 coca-cola sometimes, war is kinda always (I know it's Rammstein).
@Bob-b7x6v6 ай бұрын
I love Rammstein
@thing_under_the_stairs6 ай бұрын
@@Bob-b7x6v SO much better that Taylor Swift!
@1cynicalsaint6 ай бұрын
It's really disappointing to see you guys still doing spots for Better Help
@darkagerush30986 ай бұрын
Stop doing better help sponsorship
@DC-wk7yo6 ай бұрын
Does anyone have source for that Hays quote? I cannot find it
@tastyjerry4 ай бұрын
watching the clips of what i think is like a house tour makes her even more of a head scratcher because she sounds so annoyed and the way she acts and talks just makes her seem so incredibly unpleasant to be around
@avppr34516 ай бұрын
Sorry for being late, but hey Helen is back!! :)
@Kitchwamon6 ай бұрын
Where are you Micheaaal. Where you hiiidiiing. The swifties won't hurt yah 😈
@yourfriendlyinternetmeatshield6 ай бұрын
I think Michael is right to fear the swifties.....
@cabthegreat876 ай бұрын
Didn't expect to see an old Malaysian McD ad in today's video.
@FearHimself666Ай бұрын
She gives me the creeps. Theres no such thing as ethical billionaires and after hearing about all the weird shit shes let slide in her personal life and knowing how perfectly she tunes everything about her image it just makes me feel like shes got a touch of psychopathy. That and hearing my wife, whos her target demographic go on about how boring her music is just makes me utterly confused at how shes built a cult. Like i know the video lays a lot of it out...but its fucking weird.
@eliasniinisto39766 ай бұрын
Fascinating. Even if I personally am not familiar with Swift or Barbie, Im sure the same forces mentioned in this video have affected me.
@demeterontheinternet6 ай бұрын
There’s been too many bad choices at this point. I can’t with her anymore.