I'm Brooke Gladstone and this is on the media's midweek podcast.

Last Tuesday as audience members and press were still milling around the presidential

debate stage in Philadelphia after the spotlights dimmed the real bombshell of the night dropped.

Taylor Swift with 283 million followers on her Instagram account within the last five minutes

has just publicly come out in favor of

Kamala Harris and Tim Wall saying that she will be voting for them.

Tim Wall's at a rally in Superior Wisconsin on Saturday.

Here's my life pack for all of you.

All the guys out there, whatever, here's my life hack.

Surround yourself with smart women and listen to them

and you'll do just fine.

That includes my fellow cattle and her Taylor Swift too by the way.

And this week pop star Billy Eilish and her brother Finneas took to Instagram.

We are voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walls because they are fighting to protect our

reproductive freedom, our planet, and our democracy. We can't let extremists control our lives,

our freedoms, and our future.

Swift and Eilish stand amid a sea of pop stars, including among others,

Beyonce, Charlie XCX and Cardi B, who have cheered on the Harris campaign, which has felt more like a weeks long

rave than the usual pre-election slog.

The cool AFDJ Cassidy provided the soundtrack for the Democratic Convention, while the

RNC featured a slew of performances by Kid Rock and bands like Six Wire.

Politics and Music, this year especially, seem inextricable.

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