RESONATING MUSIC
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Taylor Swift Records
Based on "Health Matters"
by Angela Haupt, Editor, Health and Wellness, Time, May 13,
2024
Taylor Swift released her new album
The Tortured Poets Department on April 19, 2024.
The April
23 Variety headlined their article ‘Tortured Poets
Department’ Breaks Record for Weekly Vinyl Sales in Just Three Days...
It feels potentially
unlucky to talk about “breaking records” when the subject is actual
LPs, but there’s no way around combining these terms when we’re
talking Taylor Swift, the modern queen of vinyl. She has broken
her own record for the most sales of a vinyl album in a week, and
did it in just three days, with 700,000 LP copies sold of “The Tortured
Poets Department” over the weekend. Variety, by Chris Willman,
April 23, 2024.
A few weeks later Time magazine's
"Health Matter's" article by Angela Haupt asked the question
(based on the phenomenal anticipation and response to Swift's new
album) "what is about Taylor Swift's music, in particular,
that resonates so deeply?"
She noted that nueroscience research
suggested that music "activates the brain's reward system,
triggering the release of the nuero-transmitter dopamine."
Haupt then asked "a few psychologists
who moonlight as Swifties" what they thought were the sources
for that deep resonation.
Four explanations, with examples,
were presented.
She sings about things we all
experience.
She's vulnerable -- so are we
too.
She makes girls and women feel
seen.
She helps us feel connected.
Recorded music, of course, is the
basis for the mass distribution of recorded sound which makes personal
and repeated 'resonation' possible, anytime and anywhere.
Thomas Edison's Phonograph was the
first device to record and play back the human voice and Taylor
Swift's LPs are a continuum of that revolution of recorded sound.
See Time
magazine, May 13, 2024 "Health Matters" for the full
article.
Also, see below for related Swift
vinyl record albums and the article's illustrated phonograph connection
by Sol Cotti.
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Illustration by Sol Cotti for Time.
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Taylor Swift's "The
Tortured Poets Department," 2 LPs on ghosted white vinyl - also
in Ink Black and Charcoal in limited editions, 1st pressings, signed
editions, photos signed with a heart, 'original lyrics', etc.
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Taylor Swift's "The Tortured Poets
Department," Republic Records, 2 LPs with 24-page book-bound
jacket.
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Taylor Swift's "The Tortured Poets
Department - The Manuscript," Republic Records, 2 LPs
Updated May 15, 2024
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Phonographia
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