{"id":177556,"date":"2018-10-11T04:55:51","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T04:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=177556"},"modified":"2018-10-14T05:21:36","modified_gmt":"2018-10-14T05:21:36","slug":"taylor-swift-queen-of-the-2018-american-music-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=177556","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift, Queen of the 2018 American Music Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Vigilant Citizen &#8212; Oct 10, 2018<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_177557\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/American-Music-awards-2018.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-177557\" class=\"wp-image-177557\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/American-Music-awards-2018.jpg\" alt=\"American Music Awards, 2018. Click to enlarge\" width=\"540\" height=\"324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/American-Music-awards-2018.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/American-Music-awards-2018-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-177557\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">American Music Awards, 2018. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<h5>Most of my articles about award shows stress one important fact: They\u2019re often carefully orchestrated pieces of ritual drama involving a limited number of characters. Take a look at my <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><a style=\"color: #ffff00;\" href=\"https:\/\/vigilantcitizen.com\/tag\/award-shows\/\">previous articles about past award shows<\/a><\/span> and you\u2019ll quickly see a clear pattern forming.<\/h5>\n<h5>The 2018 AMAs obviously fit in this unmistakable pattern. The entire show was orchestrated to convey to convey a clear message: \u201cAll Hail Taylor Swift\u201d. And, in an era\u00a0where everything must be politicized\u00a0to an extreme level, Swift made her political \u201ccoming-out\u201d at the most strategic moment possible.<\/h5>\n<div id=\"attachment_177558\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Taylor-Swift-handsign.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-177558\" class=\"wp-image-177558\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Taylor-Swift-handsign.jpg\" alt=\"When Taylor sings the line \u201cHe had it coming\u201d, she swirls around a devil\u2019s horn hand sign. Everything about this performance was tightly choreographed and this was clearly intentional. Click to enlarge\" width=\"540\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Taylor-Swift-handsign.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Taylor-Swift-handsign-300x164.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-177558\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">When Taylor sings the line \u201cHe had it coming\u201d, she swirls around a devil\u2019s horn hand sign. Everything about this performance was tightly choreographed and this was clearly intentional. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">The Coming Out<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vigilantcitizen.com\/musicbusiness\/taylor-swift-queen-of-the-2018-american-music-awards\/\">Continues &#8230; <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2018 American Music Awards seemed to celebrate Taylor Swift. Vigilant Citizen asks: was this in reward for her recent political &#8220;coming out&#8221;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,57,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-the_satanic_salute","category-The_Media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=177556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177559,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177556\/revisions\/177559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=177556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=177556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=177556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}