NOTD: Taylor Swift Amnesia
Many Swifties are experiencing a post-concert “blank space.” Fans of international pop star Taylor Swift have reported a lack of memory after attending Eras Tour concerts, with some saying they’re even forgetting chunks of her performance. Experts at Hackensack Meridian Health in New Jersey researched why concertgoers are experiencing blackouts after their big night out. Dr. Nathan Carroll, associate chief resident psychiatrist at Hackensack Meridian Jersey Shore University Medical Center, linked the memory loss after concerts to a neurological condition called transient global amnesia (TGA).
“TGA is a rare phenomenon impacting memory,” the researcher told Fox News Digital. “Individuals who experience TGA will attend an event, like a concert, wedding or festival and, later, report undeniable gaps in their memory,” he said. “This type of memory loss is different from normal forgetfulness,” Carroll said. “For example, during the event, it may look like you’re acting normally and answering questions but, later, you may not recall some of your conversations,” he said. “Unlike other amnesias, memory loss is very limited, only lasting about a day and, people don’t forget [autobiographical] information.” TGA can develop due to elevated blood pressure, strenuous physical activity and emotional excitement, which Carroll said are all “theorized to temporarily impair the functioning of the memory center of our brain, the hippocampus.” “What’s interesting is that the concertgoers are only recognizing the memory loss post-event,” he said. “They actually experience TGA during the event but don’t realize it at the time.”
What Is Taylor Swift Amnesia?
Angelica Stabile
Fox News
October 7, 2023
So, concertgoers are experiencing undeniable gaps in their memories. Poor Taylor. All that work to entertain and no one remembers seeing her perform. It brings a tear to me eye. ~Vic
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October 7, 2023 at 8:29 PM
Was it live, or was it Memorex?
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October 7, 2023 at 10:48 PM
Blip in the matrix?
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October 7, 2023 at 10:59 PM
With a bit of a mind flip
You’re into the time slip
And nothing can ever be the same
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October 8, 2023 at 11:17 AM
Excellent!
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October 7, 2023 at 8:48 PM
I suppose the brain can be a funny animal. One minute it can make you all excited, the other minute it can make you swiftly forget what excited you!
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October 7, 2023 at 10:48 PM
Swift brings on crazy brain chemistry? IDK. This is for sure a head scratcher, even with the “explanation.”
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October 7, 2023 at 9:24 PM
The concert was so good that they blanked out…? I guess that’s good publicity…??
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October 7, 2023 at 10:45 PM
You got me on that one. Too many drugs while she performs?
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October 7, 2023 at 11:01 PM
I was gonna ask, “was there a purple haze in the air?”
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October 8, 2023 at 11:14 AM
Quite possibly…
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October 7, 2023 at 11:09 PM
” forgetting chunks of her performance.” and that’s a bad thing?
She has a bit of blank space between her ears.
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October 8, 2023 at 11:13 AM
LOL! Yeah. I don’t get the attraction with her followers. I remember when she came on the scene as a country singer. I was still living in Texas. She was an “OK” country singer but, nothing outstanding. Then, she moved into “pop”, much like Leann Rimes, Faith Hill & Shania. She gets by on her looks, more-so than her talent. The fact that she leaves her adoring fans with blank minds is hilarious to me. At least she isn’t as weird as Lady Gaga.
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October 8, 2023 at 11:34 AM
If she was hot…I would say ok for some….but she is not to me anyway.
Yes leaving them with what she has….a blank mind.
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October 8, 2023 at 11:40 AM
LOL! She is cute, tho…
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October 8, 2023 at 11:46 AM
But not the end all…plus her songs to me sound like a 15 year wrote them. I just dont’ see it. I mean at least GaGa has a good voice…I don’t like her music but she does have a strong one. The strongest one I think is Pink.
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October 8, 2023 at 11:51 AM
Oh, no. I was just remarking that she is pretty. She would do well in modeling. And, yes…the lyrics are “child-like.” Maybe that is why her followers are “going blank.” LOL!
Gaga does have a good voice but, the weirdness throws me off. I own ONE of her songs.
Pink doesn’t really sing much, anymore but, she had some good stuff. Christina Aguilera had a hell of a voice, too. She disappeared. Thank god Miley & Britney shut up.
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October 8, 2023 at 11:59 AM
Now Britney was cute…she really was…and still is in a crazy lady kinda of way. Most of them except Britney and Miley have good voices.
Mariah Carey has a great voice as well…but it’s what you do with it.
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October 8, 2023 at 12:17 PM
Britney was cute, when she came on the scene. She & Miley are trainwrecks, now.
Carey & Houston wore me out with the constant melisma. Celine Dion, too. Just…STOP IT. Melisma is the main reason I don’t like operas. Running chords with vocal manipulation annoys the hell out of me.
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October 8, 2023 at 12:23 PM
Britney and Miley didn’t have good voices either.
Oh I’m wore out by all of them but they did have great voices! That is why I didn’t like Whitney Houston…vocal gymnastics that pretty much said “look at me”…it wasn’t for the song.
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October 8, 2023 at 12:27 PM
Good points! Britney always sounded like she was on helium and Miley sounded like a chain-smoker.
I COMPLETELY agree…vocal gymnastics for the “attention.”
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October 8, 2023 at 12:31 PM
It goes back to Ringo…lol…you know how my mind works. He drums for the song period…he isn’t flash like many were….that is why if you were in a rock band…he would be the one you would want.
Not sing a difficult part or drum a difficult part just to do it…but do what makes the song sound better…not yourself.
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October 8, 2023 at 1:32 PM
Ringo is a natural. His drumming is one of the reasons why I liked early Beatles.
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October 8, 2023 at 2:02 PM
Yes he is…but again…for the song not for shattering glasses like Houston did.
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October 8, 2023 at 2:36 PM
Amen.
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October 17, 2023 at 5:36 PM
I get the sane feeling having watched my team try to play football
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October 17, 2023 at 8:38 PM
OMG! LOL! Football amnesia? Who do you pull for?
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October 8, 2023 at 11:43 AM
Read Phil’s comment, above…
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October 8, 2023 at 11:38 AM
I read that girls that worship at her stage alter will never age past 13 years-old. Gotta be something hidden in her songs that jacks up their pituitary gland. Plus she only knows three chords on her guitar.
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October 8, 2023 at 11:46 AM
“For-ever young…” ~Rod Stewart
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Chords_and_the_Truth
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October 8, 2023 at 11:47 AM
Phil….I couldn’t agree more
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October 11, 2023 at 9:58 AM
Thanks, Max.
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