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jp Aug 11, 2025

Taylor Swift’s “Cardigan” a brutal clash between sentimental rebellion and capitalist coldness. Vintage tees meet grocery lines, love turns transactional, and creepy sweaters become haunting metaphors.
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Creepy Sweaters and Grocery Lines: Realism and Romanticism in ‘Cardigan’

In “Cardigan” (2020) Taylor Swift embraces sentimentalism, finding absurd value in everything. That’s an improvement over cynics who know the price of everything and the value of nothing — or, as A…

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