Are Amanda Seyfried and Taylor Swift Right for the ‘Les Miserables’ Movie?
According to Collider, the wide-eyed Amanda Seyfried and tween country songstress Taylor Swift have been offered the roles of Cosette and Eponine in Tom Hooper‘s movie adaptation of the French revolution musical extravaganza known as Les Miserables. It seems like Hooper already exhausted all the other options for these roles (Lea Michele, Scarlett Johansson, and...
Geist Infection: Hair, Hair, Hair
In this new segment on The Finer Dandy, we will explore what has been infecting the pop cultural zeitgeist. (In this particular blog post title, “geist” is pronounced like “yeast.”) There has been an enormous amount of news about hair in the zeitgeist. It is quite geist-y. From the hair on top of our head...
The Infectious Taylor Swift Zeitgeist
As I continue to feed my reluctant obsession with Taylor Swift, I continue to stumble upon things that add kindling to the fire of sugarcoated country pop – and some friends help me along the way. Within the past couple of months, I have seen her take a crack at comedy on Saturday Night Live,...
Workout song of the week: ‘Love Story’ by Taylor Swift
For the past couple of weeks, I get really hype when I am running in the mornings and “You Belong With Me” by Taylor Swift funnels its way through my iPod shuffle and courses through my veins. Now, I have found that her modern day Romeo and Juliet pop country tune “Love Story” gives me...
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A Finer week for Taylor Swift, pop up shops and vegan footwear
+ Taylor Swift dons the cover of T Magazine and she looks kinda trashy – in a good way of course + One of the coolest books of the year just so happens to be from one of my fave websites, Fashematics + Stella McCartney and Morrissey collaborate for a vegan footwear collection. Yea –...
‘You Belong With Me’ = stalker anthem?
Over the Thanksgiving break (Happy belated Thanksgiving by the way), I was learning to play Taylor Swift’s “You Belong With Me” on the guitar (I am getting good at it if I do say so myself). And as I learned to strum this country tween song, I started to pay close attention to the lyrics:...
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A Finer Week for 60-year-old editrixes, the Yankees and Ted Danson
- Anna Wintour turns 60 and the fashion world sucks up to her even more. - Mad Men on Sunday nights gives me reason to live. - …that and Ted Danson as the stoned and delusional editor George Christopher in Bored to Death. - …perhaps Danson was stoned in real-life when he signed up for...
