"Trans/ohm" by Tommy Archuleta
I've spent most of the day with this poem, and the only parallel I can find is "Only the Young" from the Miss Americana documentary. To my knowledge, it's one of the only truly political songs Taylor has ever written (though you could make a case for "Miss Americana and the Heartbreak Prince"), and this is definitely a political poem.
I believe the message of both the poem and the song are the same. From the poem, "They know how to depress every button / The one percent quietly installed. You there - / Meet the mic inside the other shoe about to drop." And from the song, "We gotta do it ourselves / They think that it's over / But it's just begun."
No comments:
Post a Comment