Ryan Starbloak

Swiftopia Ryan Starbloak

"Don't sing along."
Set in a soon-to-be future, Taylor Swift employs hypnotic beats, subliminal messages, and catchy lyrics in favor of quality, thoughtful, mature music that had been anticipated from the aging pop star. The majority of the world's population is transformed into denizens of the woman.
After she takes over the world (now referred to as Taylearth), desperate survivors still in control of their humanity eke out their existence waiting to be hunted down by roving gangs of ravenous swifties bent on turning them into mindless zombies like them.
But when one of their own falls deeper into a life-threatening illness, a young girl named Leigh Flanagan descends from her mountainous hideaway with her group in order to save the man who may be immune to the effect of Taylor Swift's dangerous recordings.
"Swiftopia" is a dystopian satire that likens the ubiquitous state of pop music in our daily lives to a horrific zombie apocalypse.