All posts tagged: Taylor Swift

Romanticising Colonial Rule? Psssh, in your Wildest Dreams!

A few days ago a good friend of mine posted an article onto my Facebook page that accused Taylor Swift of romanticising African colonial rule in her most recent music video, “Wildest Dreams”. Her video was set against the backdrop of a non-specified African country in the 1920’s era and whilst it featured some dubiously photo-shopped prominent members of the African wildlife family, the big outcry with the whole video (according to the article) was that it didn’t feature one African person in it. *gasps & clutches at my non-existent-pearl necklace*

36 Questions to Fall In Love: #1

A psychologist by the name of Arthur Aron did a study that explored “whether intimacy between two strangers can be accelerated by having them ask each other a specific series of personal questions.”* In total he came up with 36 questions, divided into 3 sets that get increasingly probing.