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Taylor Swift's 'You Need to Calm Down' Misses the Point of Being an LGBTQ Ally
Taylor Swift's cotton candy assault on 2019 continued Friday as she released the second available from her newly announced album, Lover. "You Depend on to Calm Down" sounds like a refreshing callback to her 1989 era. There are synth beats and chant-able refrains, which are hallmarks that typically spell out a Taylor Swift Mega Hit. But as the synth beats soften between verses one and two, something happens. Swift gets political. Kinda.
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To be clear, the gesture is nice. Swift came under quite an online firestorm by staying practically silent during the 2016 election. Since, she has taken somewhat more overt stances, particularly in regard to LGBTQ rights and the 2018 election. And in a first, the second single from her newest album serves as a partial anthem for the LGBTQ people. But in the less than three minutes of "You Need to Serene Down," Swift stumbles in her lyrical execution. Seemingly unable to decide if this should be an anthem for the Homosexual community or a personal anecdote about incessant online trolls, she chooses both with neither quite taking hol
Lyrical meaning & subtext in YNTCD
It’s been a MINUTE since Taylor has given us lyrics rife with layers of meaning to interpret, and I’m so excited to get IN! TO! IT! with the lyrics of “You Need to Calm Down.” I’m sure the MV will provide us more visual clues to play with, but before we get there, I want to indicate out a few lines that are worth a second (or third) listen:
Verse 1:
You’re takin’ shots at me like it’s Patrón
This might be my favorite lyric in the tune. This verse can undergo naval-gazing and petty, fancy Taylor is venting her frustrations about being an ultra-rich celebrity who draws ire online. But this lyric speaks to something more systemic: the addictive, anesthetizing rush of Getting Angry Online, as toxic, violent, and numbing as substance abuse. This is a big idea to cram into an 8-word turn of phrase; for me, it’s elegant, flawless, vintage, Swift.
Snakes and stones never broke my bones
There’s the easy wordplay here (snakes, KKW, got it), but I’m more interested in the “stones” part of the lyric. This takes me back to “New Romantics”: I could build a castle out of all the bricks you threw at me. And then we found out what happened
“Swift is helping to take narratives of uncensored and unapologetic queerness into the international spotlight”
BY RACHEL BADHAM. IMAGE YOUTUBE
After dropping her ultra queer music video for new single, You Need To Calm Down, pop icon Taylor Swift has received mixed responses…
Some have praised her for showing support for the LGBTQI community during Pride month, however – she’s also received a great volume of backlash, with fans accusing her of exploiting queer tradition and using the lgbtq+ community for personal acquire and profit.
Swift identifies as heterosexual and is a self-proclaimed ally. The video to You Necessitate To Calm Down features dozens of Swift’s lgbtq+, celebrity friends, from Ellen DeGeneres to Hayley Kiyoko to a smorgasbord of Drag Race stars.
A number of people have claimed that the song, which states, “Shade never made anyone less gay,” and the rainbow-drenched video are just tactical, commercial moves to generate profit, and that Swift is just hopping on board the “queer bandwagon” to obtain attention.
However, in a month where solidarity is more important than ever, it’s essential that we connect hands
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Taylor has a good show. Being angry at someone doesn't make them discontinue what they're doing. I mean, whenever my mom used to yell at me for not doing the dishes, it made me want to not do the dishes, even more aggressively.
Because you can't change somebody by yelling at them. It doesn't work like that. Like Taylor said, shade and sly comments and hatred does not construct somebody less of what they are, regardless of how much you loathe it.
And I've been thinking about it a lot. Why do people gain so mad about other people's actions? I reflect a better way to phrase my question is, when did it grow okay to condemn people for their sins?
Never once, in any religious message I have ever study, did God say it was okay to determine others. In fact, I can think of several instances from the Bible where the judgment of others was rebuked.
One of my favorite scripture stories is in John, chapter eight. A lady was found to be an adulteress and was taken to Jesus to ask what they should do with her. According to their law at the time, she should have been stoned to death.
Then Jesus, in a complete power shift, says, “He that is without si
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