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SIGNED (**WITH HEART!**) TAYLOR SWIFT TTPD CD GIVEAWAY TO SUPPORT FAMILIES IN PALESTINE

Greetings, Swifties! My name is Jen, and I'd really like to do something to support the people of Palestine that need our help desperately right now. I have organized a giveaway featuring a SIGNED TAYLOR SWIFT TTPD CD including the famous and infamous heart!

As you all know, the people of Palestine are in dire need of assistance and support right now in any way that we can provide it. In order to enter to win this CD, you must either provide PROOF of a monetary donation to a VETTED GoFundMe or Family in need of help or reblog this post to spread the word and hopefully raise more money. More information below the cut:

One reblog = One entry to win

One donation of $1 (one US Dollar) or more = 3 entries to win

Please send a screenshot/receipt or other proof of donation to myself or one of my lovely helpers, @shortnsweetbf and @whydoifeelthisquiet and you will be granted 3 entries to win the CD

Open internationally to anyone

Must be comfortable providing an address for me to send the signed CD to

You can find places to donate on the page of the lovely @isitcasualnow (love you Kelly) as well as by sending me a DM so I can send something or scrolling through my blog - i will be posting asks with links to donate.

If you have any questions or concerns please do not hesitate to reach out, I am here to help. I really hope we're able to make a difference with this!

Thank you in advance to everyone who takes part. love you all so much. Love, Jen xo

**If you wish to signal boost without entering just let me know in the tags**

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A Crash Course to Kendrick's Super Bowl Performance, from a Black Woman

Note: this does NOT go in depth into all of the song's lyrics. I don't have time to recount two decades of his discography. This is just a summary of the performance itself.

Let's start with the first visual we get:

UNCLE SAM - most notably recognized from WWII American wartime propaganda, Uncle Sam is the personification of American patriotism and freedom. The term "uncle" is also evocative of Uncle Tom from Uncle Tom's Cabin, an abolitionist book that aided in inciting the Civil War. Uncle is also a very common term (both endearment and derogatory) towards Black men (eg. "unc"). Samuel L Jackson was fantastic.

Uncle Sam also resembles a circus ringleader, notable for my next point:

THE GREAT AMERICAN GAME - no, not Super Bowl. The GAG is us the people being pitted against each other: through late-stage capitalism, through the culture war, through class warfare, through being built of the backs of slaves. We are all players in the GAG because none of us on this site were the oligarchs seated at the inauguration.

This is also seen as Kendrick's stage was a Play Station controller. Not only did it remind of circus rings visually, but it was a game battle stage. The Great American Game is a battle royale of the commoners for the amusement of the rich whites.

Remember the foods / Them color was tin and brown / But now they 100 and blue - For this I'll just say, look what the last election said about lowering the price of eggs... and look at the prices now.

The revolution about to be televised / You picked the right time / But the wrong guy - Election 2024 once more.

THE FLAG DANCERS - yes, the dancers formed the US flag... off of the backs of Black people. Not a single white person in sight, and that's true of the cotton pickers in the fields. Plantations are part of how the US came to economic prominence after being a "backwater" colony. Remember tobacco? Cotton? Our bloodlines do.

The red and blue dancers are also notable for representing the Crips and Bloods, two infamous street gangs. The dance in Not Like Us is the Crip Walk. I recommend researching more on your own time about them, but just know they are a large part of the stereotype of Black people being "ghetto."

TOO LOUD, TOO RECKLESS, TOO GHETTO. Do you really know how to play the game? - This is exactly what Black people, especially Black men, get told all the time. It's why we change our names on resumes if they sound "too Black." It's why we codeswitch in non-Black company. This is especially rich considering how non-Black people love our culture and love to make money off of us, as the latter part of the quote points to. And it's even more profound during the Super Bowl-- the NFL is majority Black players.

STREET LIGHT A CAPELLA -- "thug" stereotype dancers to counteract the a capella connotations, with Uncle Sam then saying that Kendrick figured out "bringing other street guys around being a culture cheat code." Yes, this is a direct hit at Drake (listen to "Not Like Us") but also politically. Look up "model minority". Notably I would point to Candace Owens, or the Miami Venezuelan political group that's been in the news recently, especially as this directly led to Kendrick being surrounded by...

DANCERS IN WHITE -- it's white America. That's... that's the allegory.

NOT LIKE US TEASER -- Kendrick says "Not Like Us" is "their favorite song." -> he means white people specifically here. It comes after he's surrounded by all white dancers, the women around him who are his call and response are also in white (my opinion, they represent the industry). He's saying "Not Like Us" is the favorite of yts because it is about BLACK MEN FIGHTING. This again is reflected in the video game stage and ringleader Uncle Sam.

SZA -- instead of giving what they want, we see SZA. She's one of Drake's exes and Kendrick has always supported her.

ALL THE STARS -- This was in the first Black Panther movie, which I recommend you watch. Rest in Power Chadwick. Notably, this movie was incredibly mainstream as a major Marvel movie, and then we have Uncle Sam say...

"THAT'S WHAT AMERICA WANTS: NICE AND CALM. DON'T MESS THIS UP" -- translation: Marvel (the industry, America, etc.) wanted a safe, semi-pop song because white American likes safe pop songs, not Kendrick's usual heavy rap style about his life as a Black man! Don't mess up what you've got going mainstream for having this "Black rap feud" with Drake, who is an R&B model minority to white people because he's safe.

So what does Kendrick say?

IT'S A CULTURAL DIVIDE / IMMA GET IT ON THE FLOOR -- He was warned not to be political or apologetically Black for this Super Bowl performance, but he is using this big stage opportunity to speak out.

40 ACRES AND A MULE / THIS IS BIGGER THAN THE MUSIC -- 40 acres and a mule are what the freed slaves were promised. Instead, this land went to white sharecroppers. Research Jim Crow laws.

THEY TRIED TO RIG THE GAME / BUT YOU CAN'T FAKE INFLUENCE -- rig the election, rig the industry like with model minority Drake, rig the Great American Game with culture war to distract from active class warfare.

NOT LIKE US -- the only thing I'll mention because it made me holler is Serena Williams crip walking on Drake's metaphorical grave. She's another one of his exes.

TURN THE TV OFF -- exactly like he said! The TV is a distraction, the Super Bowl is a distraction, the mainstream news is often a distraction. Turn it off and get with your people!

GAME OVER — could not see this on my stream but at the end of the performance, the lights in the stadium spelled this out. The world is watching, America…

In conclusion, Kendrick Lamar is a visionary and thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

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DRAKE KILL YOURSELF NEOW

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Kendrick Lamar performing at the Super Bowl 2025 Halftime show

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new and improved "Women and Femmes"

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THE ERAS (art nouveau version) I plan to draw the next eras

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Beyoncé becomes the first black woman to win Album of the Year at the GRAMMYs since Lauryn Hill in 1999.

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my girl nervous as hell, brought her journal on stage, hat fell off, put down her grammy and talked abt how badly her label fucked her over when they signed her as a minor and dropped her over covid instead of sucking up to the grammys I LOVE CHAPPELL ROAN ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

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THE ENTIRE AUDIENCE SINGING A MINOOOOOORRRRRRRRRR

I AM LOSING MY SHIT

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"And I'm trying my best to stand up for you in every way I can." 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

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January 31, 2025 - OLIVIA RODRIGO in new photos.

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Thanks to @hymen-restoration-project for her visionary posting and for the interview!!

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Hey friendly reminder to love and cherish Green Day

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killatrav: I'm the number one swiftie

my dash: 🤨 do you even know the words to thug story 🤨

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Fall Out Boy: What if we had a figure of speech... but changed it slightly

Me: Oh yeah that's the good shit

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