In one of the most Swift-crazy countries in the world, Taylor Sheesh has become an unlikely, unstoppable star.
Taylor Sheesh performs "Long Live" on July 8 at a mall in Taguig City, Philippines. TAGUIG CITY, Philippines — On a recent Saturday, 5,000 Taylor Swift fans filed into a mall just outside the Philippine capital, Manila, prepared for worship.
Every phone in the crowd pointed at her. She looked left and right, arching her painted eyebrow in that exactly Swift-ian way. Fans crushed forward, jumping as they chantedname: Taylor Sheesh. In one corner, a group of teenage boys wearing glittery eye shadow clasped their hands in prayer and asked, earnestly, to be taken to church.
Coronel said he became a Swiftie in high school when he listened to “Fifteen,” an early Swift single about first dates and heartbreak. He had a crush on a classmate at the time, and the song was a balm to that oppressively private feeling. As he came of age, he said, Swift continued releasing music that spoke to what he was going through: falling in love, breaking up, finding friends who felt like family.
Coronel’s imitation of Swift is uncanny, said Libid, the event volunteer. But his performances are also laced with a subversiveness that makes them sparkle, Libid continued. They’re glamorous and funny, exaggerated and real all at once. Like much of drag,
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