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At the time, I wasn’t really envisioning a theme per se though it is readily apparent an unintentional one based on tragedy and/or angst subconsciously emerged in the tracks that were chosen.

The actual thought process at the time was trying to subversively bury a Taylor Swift track from her latest album “The Life of a Showgirl” into the set and seeing if anyone would notice it. 🙂

I won’t say I’m a full-on Swiftie but I do admire the positive changes for artists she’s pretty much single-handedly forced upon the music industry such as royalties being paid for streaming and previews as well as a greater awareness over the artist’s rights to their own music when she started re-recording Taylor’s version of her earliest albums before she was able to finally buy back the original masters.

With this target audience’s tastes tending toward much harder alternative rock and metal, you’ve got to be very careful when you deploy the T-Swizzle such as the special set she inspired when she finally liberated her original masters of the first six albums from bondage.

Fortunately, I got away with it… 🙂