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ALLISON

So, what type of music are you into, James? 

JAMES

Oh, you know, you’ve probably never heard of them before. I like the more underground artists. I don’t like all that meaningless pop music.

(James fiddles with a spork)

Allison

(Pointlessly melodramatically)

MEANINGLESS????? WHA-WHAT ABOUT TAYLOR SWIFT!?

JAMES

She’s an industry plant just like every other basic pop girl. Just another pointless industrialized excuse for an art form. 

ALLISON 

POINTLESS INDUSTRIALIZED ART?  SHE’S ONE OF THE GREATEST LYRICISTS OF OUR TIME!

JAMES

This spork could write better lyrics than her. Now that I think about it. She’s pretty similar to this useless invention. Over-industrialized, that’s what it is. Trying to solve a problem that never even existed in the first place. You know what I think? I think the government has industrialized our music to control our narrative. They put the same tacky, cheesy, useless, four-chorded, brain-dead melodies to dumb down our society. It’s like a fork and a spoon combined. Who needs it? Nobody. 

ALLISON 

Who needs it? Plenty of people enjoy and rely on music such as that to make their terrible, boring, lonesome drives home from long days in the office more bearable. They use them to explore what love is. What love can be. It’s romantic, not uselessly industrialized. It’s personal. It’s art.

James

How can it be personal if everyone relates to it? Maybe it serves some purpose, but no more than this basement’s water heater. 

(James points to a corner of the basement with the spork)

It does something that makes people happy, but it’s shoved into the basement because it’s ugly and no one actually wants to see it. Taylor Swift’s music only belongs over the speakers in a grocery store maybe. In other words- an industrialized location. Ha! See? Industrialized. 

ALLISON 

What do you know? You’re just a dumb college student. You’re literally part of the most industrialized system to exist in all of history.

JAMES

The education system may be industrialized but it’s not art. Art shouldn’t be manufactured. Plus- you’re also a college student.

ALLISON 

Or am I? You see, not everything is how it seems. 

(Allison removes a mask and reveals that she is actually Taylor Swift)

JAMES:

WHAT! TAYLOR SWIFT? IT WAS YOU THE ENTIRE TIME? 

“ALLISON:”

You see, the government has been watching you James. Your little theory on how we’ve industrialized society cannot prevail. How else will we distract people from the serious issues in life? Countless years have been spent developing the most powerful form of hypnosis known to man within my music, and you think we will let you stop us? Join us, James, shake your silly theory off. Become a part of the greatest American Dynasty to exist, or be destroyed.

JAMES

NEVERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

“ALLISON”

Have it your way James. 

JAMES

I will never be industrialized like you!!!

“ALLISON” 

Oh you will James!!

(Allison stabs James to death with the spork)

THE END