Brian Lear on WNYC and for the end of the show and the end of this week, something very

different from public banking. We're coming with one more round of open phones for Taylor

Swift fans, part two of two. So why Taylor Swift again? Well, yesterday if you were listening

around this time, we discussed her impact on the music industry. And today we'll ask what

impact does her music have on you in your emotional or psychological life?

Text or call us now at 212433 WNYC 2124339692. Most of you are asking how her songs have

helped you through tough times. Text or call 212433WNYC. And here's the inspiration. Maybe

some of you saw the op-ed in the New York Times. Psychiatrists Suzanne Garfinkel Crowell wrote

that so many of the young women and adolescent girls in her practice were bringing in specific

Taylor Swift references that she joked that half her practice was now Taylor Swift based.

A key paragraph in that article went like this. When I was growing up she wrote, I had the

end-of-go girls, Tori Amos and Andy DeFranco, singers for whom the troubled inside matched

a raw edgy outside. But there was nobody who held forth on righteous anger from the inside

of a sparkly bodysuit who suffered as I did but whose confident prowl could make me walk

a bit taller. She continues, my singers would sit outside the party and complain with you.

But when you got your courage up, they weren't going to go inside ready for it. Miss Swift

doesn't force you to choose because she is both the lucky one you want to be and every

bit the anti-hero that you are inside. So that from that article in the Times and apparently

whatever you're upset about, the poet laureate of this generation has got a song somewhere

in her mega-urve describing that precise feeling. She's not going to solve whatever problem

you're having maybe, but she's going to sit with you in it until the passage of time

does it work? Does it work? Or maybe help you solve it. So listeners, there's the question.

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