"I love mysticism - it's such fun"
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Jerry Hall’s line lands like a champagne toast to the vaguely spiritual: breezy, flirtatious, and just a little bit weaponized. “I love mysticism” sounds like a confession of depth, but the dash and the punchline - “it’s such fun” - yanks it back into the realm of play. The intent isn’t to outline a belief system; it’s to declare a taste. Mysticism becomes an accessory, less monastery than mood board.
That’s the subtext that makes it work. Hall treats the occult not as a solemn portal to truth but as an aesthetic experience, something you can enjoy the way you enjoy fashion: trying on identities, sampling atmospheres, collecting stories. The phrase “such fun” functions as both permission and deflection. Permission to dabble without committing; deflection from anyone who might demand seriousness, orthodoxy, or proof. It’s a neat bit of social insulation: if it’s “fun,” you can’t really be wrong, just entertained.
Context matters: a model speaking in the late-20th-century celebrity ecosystem, where glamour is currency and mystery is branding. Mysticism, in that world, is shorthand for allure - the promise that there’s more behind the image, even if the “more” is intentionally fuzzy. Hall’s quote also anticipates today’s soft-spiritual marketplace (tarot apps, manifesting, “witchy” aesthetics): belief as lifestyle, transcendence as a lighthearted flex. The cynicism isn’t harsh; it’s pragmatic. Mystery sells best when it doesn’t ask too much of you.
That’s the subtext that makes it work. Hall treats the occult not as a solemn portal to truth but as an aesthetic experience, something you can enjoy the way you enjoy fashion: trying on identities, sampling atmospheres, collecting stories. The phrase “such fun” functions as both permission and deflection. Permission to dabble without committing; deflection from anyone who might demand seriousness, orthodoxy, or proof. It’s a neat bit of social insulation: if it’s “fun,” you can’t really be wrong, just entertained.
Context matters: a model speaking in the late-20th-century celebrity ecosystem, where glamour is currency and mystery is branding. Mysticism, in that world, is shorthand for allure - the promise that there’s more behind the image, even if the “more” is intentionally fuzzy. Hall’s quote also anticipates today’s soft-spiritual marketplace (tarot apps, manifesting, “witchy” aesthetics): belief as lifestyle, transcendence as a lighthearted flex. The cynicism isn’t harsh; it’s pragmatic. Mystery sells best when it doesn’t ask too much of you.
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| Topic | Faith |
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