Taylor Swift course set to be offered at UP

A course on Taylor Swift is set to be offered at the University of the Philippines.

According to a report by PhilSTAR L!fe, it will be an elective course that will tackle "the conception, construction, and the performance of Taylor Swift as a celebrity and how she can be used to explain our and, of course, media’s relationship with class, politics, gender, race, and fantasies of success and mobility."

The said elective will be taught under the BA Broadcast Media Arts and Studies by Cherish Aileen Brillon of the UP College of Mass Communication in the second semester of UP's 2023 to 2024 academic year.

Cherish aims to highlight "how Filipinos have appropriated Swift not only as transnational icon but also as a signifier of an emerging type of local fandom activism."

She added: "I think it’s time for us here in the Philippines to look at her in an in-depth manner."

Numerous universities last year announced that they would be offering a course on Taylor Swift including Harvard University.

In 2023, Taylor Swift was the Philippines' Top Artist of the Year on Spotify. She was also crowned as Spotify's Global Top Artist 2023.

READ: Taylor Swift named TIME’s 2023 Person of the Year

The singer kicked off her gigantic "The Eras Tour" in March 2023 which she will be bringing to Asia this year. It has become the biggest concert tour of all time. Guinness confirmed, as reported by Pollstar, that the concert tour has earned over $1.04 billion to date.

She also released The Eras Tour concert film last year which was screened in the Philippines. Variety reported that the concert film has become the highest-grossing concert film of all time, earning $261.6 million at the global box office.

TIME Magazine also named Taylor Swift as 2023's Person of the Year.

In the said interview, Taylor described this phase of her career as a breakthrough.

"It feels like the breakthrough moment of my career, happening at 33. And for the first time in my life, I was mentally tough enough to take what comes with that," she said.