international review. events of the week. chronicle, facts, comments. joe biden has dropped out of the presidential race. kamalukharets for the kingdom, a laughing woman from a professorial family. taylor swift effect. how modern pop culture influences politics. materials of our program. paris is hosting the olympics, what will happen to the olympic movement? plot from the scene. nothing can stand in the way of saving our democracy. personal ambitions included, and i decided that the best way to move on was to pass the torch to a new generation. during the olympic season, everyone has their own torch. joseph biden marathon. the forty-sixth

president of the united states decided not to fight for re-election and pass the baton, although a week ago, he himself and his inner circle angrily rejected such a possibility, they say that the party aristocracy and donors raised the issue point blank, here is kamala haris, they were just whispering about her, which is good biden would have had another running mate for a second term, and now a giant of thought and the father, that is, the mother, of american democracy. pragmatic and moderate is the opinion of the new york times. radical - says fox news. and vile but the most liberal person in the senate, a characteristic from donald trump. all this is fifty-nine-year-old kamola harris. she was born into a wealthy family. she was taken to school on a separate bus, because they lived in berkeley, california, where the family settled.

almost all of them are white. in one of the interviews , haris spoke about herself and her sister maya. because they were black, the neighborhood kids weren't allowed to play with us. her mother, an upper-caste indian, was involved in breast cancer research. she herself died of cancer in 2009, in aged 70 years. kamle's father, originally from jamaica, became the first black professor of economics at stanford university. during her student years, in addition to her studies, she fought against apartheid and participated in sit-ins. after graduating from howard university, this is not harvard, she was admitted to the bar in california and then became an assistant district attorney. haris's career quickly took off and in 2003 she took the position of district attorney, becoming the first black woman in this position. number of convictions for serious crimes and...

the number 108 is sacred, but the activities of prosecutor general kharis are assessed ambiguously ; what she cannot be blamed for is the lack of taste; the vice president combines strict fitted jackets and trouser suits with sneakers and , of course, a string of white or black pearls. the most powerful woman in the world according to forbes for 2021, married at 49 to a jewish new york-born entertainment lawyer.

in her stories, for example, she repeatedly said that she was a descendant of slaves from jamaica, but she published it from the wikileaks website a document according to which her father traces his ancestry to the governor of jamaica, the major slave owner hamilton brown, or they recall the famous interview in which the vice president simply appropriated martin luther king's story about himself. today, the most popular search on youtube related to...

this laugh became a political meme in the united states, and donald trump called her crazy. because, quote: a normal person cannot laugh like that, and the vice president himself does not plan to limit himself. a week ago, after the assassination attempt on trump, it seemed that fortune finally on his side. after biden's abdication, there was an explosion of enthusiasm among democrats and some confusion among republicans. with such intensity and dynamism, it’s scary to think about. what else will happen in the 3 months remaining before the elections, there is now zero sense in forecasts. the current campaign is very instructive for understanding the nature of modern politics. the dispute is substantial; opponents have different understandings of us interests. trump and his like-minded people

can be simply called soil-based nationalists, the democratic elite internationalists, missionaries. both there and there are a lot of nuances, but the nature is different. what's wrong with you young people, do you think you fell from a coconut tree? you exist in the context of everything that surrounds you, of what came before you. one of the most popular, as they say now, viral excerpts from kamala harris, her last year’s speech

about youth, if trump tried to hint about a coconut tree, that’s it, a racist for all time, and a black politician can afford this. the idea is expressed a bit strangely, but the problem is captured accurately. modern consciousness is not interested in context, everything is fragmentary. the irony is that kamala haris is now being promoted for those who have fallen from the coconut. stylish, fashionable, youthful, the company is in lime color, like the cover of the album of the brother of the british singer, i must say. after biden’s statement, she wrote on the networks: the performer did not disappoint, the next day kamala is a brother, the russian-speaking

commentator immediately wants to practice the play on words, but no, the meaning is different, he is not our brother, a word that generally has quite a lot. meanings in american british in slang, these meanings are usually not the most positive, but that is, if you remember , maybe juanna stingray means our such friend of russian rockers, before she came to russia, she also released it as a girl, she wanted to make her career in america, she released her debut album and it was called beverly hills brad, and that is... that is , such an upstart, insolent guy from such a prestigious area of ​​​​beverly hills at that time, this meant exactly that in college, this means, well, major an arrogant person, and then the meanings

changed a little, basically this is the kind of person who gets what he wants , an arrogant person can, so to speak, push people through , but i looked in here. and that means that some meanings have already been added and from - forgive me bdsm culture, which also means some kind of brawler who provokes conflicts, but then, it means that somehow a scandal breaks out, let’s say, and then he is put under pressure and he very pleased, this seems to me, something reminiscent of what happened at one time with the word - punk, uh, which also did not mean nothing good there, i don’t know, in the sixties, there’s some kind of trash there, some kind of scoundrel, that’s...

who likes parties and she’s also so arrogant and maybe she doesn’t speak in papat, she smokes something like that, but the main thing the fact that she is herself, yes, that is, this is it...

in addition to the party bosses, like cheats, the machine immediately worked to its fullest, the clintons, cheats obama and nancy pilosi, kamala has already been supported by stars of the first magnitude, beyoncé, billie alish and, most importantly, taylor swift, last year's person magazine. now, if she decided to run for

president, there would definitely be no obstacles for her. inflation had barely dropped in europe in the spring when a new problem appeared. taylor swift. the grandiose world eres tour, which started from the usa back in 2023, reached europe. economists seriously fear that fans' expenses on... tickets, restaurants, travel and hotels could trigger a price jump. in may, a surge was noted in spain and portugal. the statistics office acknowledged that demand for hotel services in lisbon played a major role amid large-scale cultural event. if taylor swift were an economy, it would be larger than 50 countries in the world. if it were a corporation, according to the consumer loyalty index, it would be...

a little over a billion dollars, for comparison, this is about as much as the uk government managed to save last year, reducing the budget deficit by approximately the same amount. just in case, the bank of england decided to postpone the reduction in the discount rate until the pop star's concerts took place. the term came into use "swiftflation", which refers to the sharp increase in costs associated with the performances of a musical diva, whose name itself... is much more popular than the name of the payment transfer system swift. the singer appears in

the latest us federal reserve report in the philadelphia section. here, despite the lull in the industry as a whole, her concerts attracted a record influx of tourists at the beginning of the pandemic. the american travel association compared the impact of tailar swift on the economy to a superball that attracts enormous attention. in it. japan, and the kisses of lovers were dubbed the most expensive in history. but that’s not all, because we are talking not only about money, but also about artificial natural changes. during the set, fans and singers dancing at the concert caused seismic activity comparable to an earthquake of magnitude 2.5. these

data were recorded by scientists from the western washington institute. there is no arguing about tastes, but i confess, your humble servant, i am generally unable to understand the reasons for the wild popularity of taylor swift around the world, apparently too i’m already too tired to appreciate the sparkle in modern times, it represents such a long-awaited normality in the long-awaited, i would say actually desired, normality in pop culture, which... is loaded with freaks of all stripes, even the charlie xx mentioned today, she doesn’t seem to be a freak, but it ’s still some kind of aggressive, arrogant presentation, it’s some kind of outlandish everything else, here people got simple normal people , they got a model with whom they can associate themselves, that is, a girl who, well

, isn’t arrogant, doesn’t interfere, she doesn't have it there contact lenses, there are snakes there i don’t know, the tongue is not cut into two parts there, there is no scary piercing there, that is, it’s normal, and apparently the demand for this normality is still so great that it’s mm uh fell straight into it, she didn’t do it all the first time either, she started out as a pop-country singer, and as in her time - the now living and god bless him such country singer willie nelson, he in the seventies - connected, he succeeded connect two seemingly hostile... uh each other uh cultural lines, these are the lines of hippies and rock music, and the country line, where the rednecks dominated and such a rather conservative aggressive approach, so he made it so that these two audiences somehow just connected and began to be friends on the platform of his music, and also taylor swift - she was able to do this, she brought a little bit

of this conservative country-pop spirit, and at the same time she still means so - and a feminist, but a feminist is not aggressive, but again, so to speak, like such a worthy woman getting out of difficult situations, for in these crazy times, it’s very successful, that is, they don’t go too far in any areas. a standard of moderation and accuracy in a completely despondent world, the niche is truly advantageous, the flickering tires, but is this really enough for such a phenomenal takeoff. our guest today is alina, hello, hello, how did it happen that taylor swift, no matter what her musical merits, has turned into a global socio-economic phenomenon? well, in

fact, it’s just her work provoked this very socio-economic takeoff, which means...

she could get more favorable conditions for herself, according to which the rights now completely belong to her, that is, this is such a struggle for the rights of workers that turned out, in fact, yes, in this, including her and provoked interest among... other colleagues in the workshop, since she became in fact the first person who really paid attention to this and gave it public attention, usually performers either

agree that they do not have rights belong to them, leave everything as is, and some simply buy them back, that is, for example, when there were discussions about the potential buyout of all these albums, the amount was called 300 million dollars, on the one hand, for the performers. who are faced with this problem already at some fairly high position, this is not such a significant amount, but by the time taylor swift faced this problem, her total, let’s say, financial security was a little more than 300 million dollars, then in fact, she was offered to sell everything that she had she has it in order, including property, in order to buy out the rights to her album, well...

accordingly, the amounts are not so significant and

it’s difficult to talk about some kind of truly swiftonomics, but the very fact that she makes phenomenal profits on this tour, it really exists, this is the first tour that has crossed the billion us dollar mark, before that the record holder was elton john, but he also has a tour... social networks, it probably already works somehow differently, it works from one side differently, because first turn, of course,

social networks become a source of promotion and it was taylor swift who focused on them in the first place, all her steps, all her interactions with anyone, starting again from labels, ending with, let’s say. my social networks mainly, whether her personal life is always covered, her fans also follow her very closely, but perhaps her phenomenon lies in the fact that she provokes the so-called fear of being left behind, as they call it in english fear of missing out, that is when a gigantic flow of information floods over you...

due to your creativity, creativity develops and promotes everywhere, from streaming platforms to radio, if

there were no radio, naturally, she would not have such... in the end , again, not all people are so dependent on social networks, but when you see, for example, on the cover of the same there the time that taylor swift was proclaimed person of the year, the only person who became, received this title from.. . let's say, from the creative industry already the impression begins to creep in that it seems that something is passing by you, something large- scale, you need to understand, and accordingly, this provokes an even greater flow of demand for it, it thereby generates this same funnel, then once a person

gets into it, he starts... she didn’t support biden, somehow, although she seems to be for the democrats, now, as soon as the candidacy changed, she immediately supported kamala haris, this is also a funnel for me affects me, or really now - the word of pop stars plays a greater role in politics than before, perhaps because instead of ideology came this funnel-shaped life, its public.

that any awkward political statement can really cost you some part of the audience, and this is not in her interests, of course, at the same time, it should be noted, she still supports the democrats, at that time she supported in the first place kamala harrison and joe biden, but again, it’s probably this female solidarity that’s already playing here...

its agenda is closer to its leaders, but there are also supporters of the republicans, the most forgotten, rapper kanyu west, he himself even ran for president in the last election, his colleague in the 50 cens genre, gene simons from the group keys, and the legendary rock guitarist ted newjand, a truly fierce conservative with a rifle. it is interesting, however, that the depth of the current split in society will shock even seasoned

rockers. during this company, just in families, among friends, among my colleagues, and what i say, even here he is for a while he said that i don’t want political statements at all, although you all know there that i am a republican, but i don’t want to talk about it simply for the sake of preserving some kind of social stability, so that there is no impression that it’s only america that has confused the pope with politics, let us recall another amazing phenomenon, the boundless glory of...