T Swizzle means Taylor Swift. Mom and Sarah and I went to the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles earlier, and they had a number of exhibits, including a special Taylor Swift Experience exhibit.           Fan art is a great way for supporters and fans of artists to show their appreciation and love for the music and media to which they’re exposed through their idols.      I’m betting none if you know this so let me explain. This is a lovely painting done by a fan of one of Taylor Swift’s cats. This cat is named Olivia Benson after the Law & Order character portrayed by Mariska Hargitay. Taylor is an avid fan of the show and even had Mariska in her music video for her song Bad Blood off her recent smash hit album 1989.      They had a series of videos running showing some of the most iconic performances and acceptances by famous artists and performers. Naturally, Lady Gaga was one of them, and here we have her accepting  her Grammy for The Fame Monster.   As part of another set of exhibits, they had panels on all of the major genres of music. Madonna headlined pop. Madonna is another favorite of mine, and her recent album Rebel Heart is really great.    This is Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett at the most recent 57th Grammy awards, where they received an award for their jazz album Cheek to Cheek. […]

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You may wonder how these three are intertwined via the wonders of road trips and WordPress. Well, aside from all three being multi-media international superstars with hits spanning from 1983 to 2015 and iconography beyond compare, they also have a great deal to do with the last week. Starting with Katy Perry (Katherine Elizabeth Hudson), we went to Las Vegas, which is name dropped more than a few times in her hit song ‘Waking Up in Vegas’. Despite its questionable content (give it a listen), I’ve loved this song since it dropped way back when in 2008 with her debut album (under the name Katy Perry that is, for she had a Christian rock album under her actual name that came out a few years before). Vegas was glamorous, dazzling, ostentatious, modern-yet-classic, but, ultimately, just gross. The shiny facades and bright lights are alluring in their own right, but the blatant sexism, disrespect, and wastefulness put to excess ruined it entirely. I would love to return as an adult, because I’m sure there’s lots of reasonable, morally sound fun to be had, but seeing the city at 12 am really put things into perspective (this is a subtle way of saying I saw several hookers, and the weirdest thing I saw the whole night was a guy with his bros getting a selfie with one of the girls). I mean no disrespect to the women working in this industry, but […]

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