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Like God Herself, I love a trier. It is a thrillg and still somewhat new experience to be part of the textual narrative pop mic, and I am lighted for the young queer kid who’s hearg the song and feelg seen, supported and nourished for the first time. It’s important! And the song has already lodged self my ontal lobe and kicked both of those new Bon Iver songs out of their seats. Between “Calm Down,” Katy Perry's “Never Really Over,” and the whole new Carly Rae Jepsen album, the 2019 pop sound palette seems to be “<a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="the Fletch soundtrack" class="body-lk css-umdwtv et3p2gv0">the Fletch soundtrack</a>,” and I am all the way here for . I will hear “Calm Down” at pool parti this summer, and I will sg along. It is nice. </p><div supprsHydratnWarng data-no-id="3" data-embed="edorial-lk" class="embed css-0 e9hzx6g0"><style data-emotn="css 1643r8a">{borr:none;marg-top:1.875rem;marg-bottom:1.875rem;paddg:0rem;}</style><asi class="css-1643r8a e6pr2lz5"><style data-emotn="css m4kh8l">{display:le-block;font-weight:normal;marg:0rem;borr-top:0.25rem solid #15263D;paddg-right:1.1rem;paddg-top:0.4375rem;text-transform:lowerse;font-fay:Lsanne,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:0.875rem;le-height:1.3;}</style><h6 class="css-m4kh8l e6pr2lz3"><style data-emotn="css 156fvc1">{borr-bottom:0.4375rem solid #FF3A30;borr-right:0.4375rem solid transparent;ntent:'';display:le-block;height:0;marg-right:0.5rem;width:0;}</style><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-156fvc1 eagam8p0"></span><style data-emotn="css 8lle59">{max-width:lc(100% - 120px - .625rem);}</style><span class="css-8lle59 e6pr2lz1">Related Story</span><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-0 eagam8p1"></span></h6><style data-emotn="css c4s2gi">{paddg:0rem;marg:0rem;list-style:none;}</style><ul class="css-c4s2gi e6pr2lz4"><style data-emotn="css uoc2ww">{font-fay:Lsanne,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:1rem;le-height:2rem;paddg-top:0.625rem;}@media(max-width: 48rem){{font-size:0.9375rem;le-height:1.3;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{le-height:1.4;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{le-height:1.4;}} a{-webk-text-ratn:none;text-ratn:none;lor:her;-webk-transn:all 0.3s ease--out;transn:all 0.3s ease--out;} a:hover{lor:#595959;}</style><li class="css-uoc2ww e6pr2lz2"><style data-emotn="css 1bn7a5e">{-webk-text-ratn:none;text-ratn:none;display:-webk-box;display:-webk-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;-webk-box-flex-wrap:wrap;-webk-flex-wrap:wrap;-ms-flex-wrap:wrap;flex-wrap:wrap;-webk-flex-directn:row;-ms-flex-directn:row;flex-directn:row;-webk-box-pack:start;-ms-flex-pack:start;-webk-jtify-ntent:flex-start;jtify-ntent:flex-start;-webk-align-ems:center;-webk-box-align:center;-ms-flex-align:center;align-ems:center;}</style><a href="/entertament/mic/a28034262/taylor-swift-you-need-to-lm-down-lgbtq-lyrics/" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Taylor Swift Miss the Pot of Beg an Ally" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Edorial Lks" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" class="css-1bn7a5e e1c1bym14"><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-0 eagam8p0"></span><style data-emotn="css 1l0u1">{marg-right:0.625rem;height:to;}</style><img src="" alt="Performance, Entertament, Stage, Performg arts, Performance art, Dancer, Event, Public event, Fashn, Concert, " tle="Performance, Entertament, Stage, Performg arts, Performance art, Dancer, Event, Public event, Fashn, Concert, " width="120" height="100%" dg="async" loadg="lazy" image-align="left" class="css-1l0u1 e6pr2lz0" /><span class="css-8lle59 e6pr2lz1">Taylor Swift Miss the Pot of Beg an Ally</span><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-0 eagam8p1"></span></a></li></ul></asi></div><p data-no-id="4" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">But attemptg to wre a gay anthem 2019 reeks of sweat and substandard self-awarens. 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The homophobia that is at the root of our culture ti young queers up knots that take s to untie. If “you will spend eterny Hell for your sexual orientatn,” or “God hat fags,” or even “don’t behave that way, son, you’re embarrassg me,” are exampl of sha, jt like a well-timed zger about a pair of pumps that don’t match a drs, sha has actually ma a lot of people a lot ls <em>alive</em>. It serv a more thoughtful analysis than a throwaway le your song about people beg mean to you on Twter, five sends before the le where you image me a gown. </p><p data-no-id="10" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">(Also, and now I’m jt beg npicky but I’m on a roll, “take <em>several</em> seats,” like “take wh a <em>huge</em> gra of salt,” explicly ntradicts the meang of the exprsn attempts to tensify. The are creepg to our vernacular unexamed, and mt stop here.)</p><style data-emotn="css 1u2hsbb">{posn:relative;paddg-bottom:56.25%;} .e1c5ygqq0{posn:absolute;top:0rem;left:0rem;width:100%;height:100%;}</style><div data-embed="iame" data-no-id="11" class="embed align-center css-1u2hsbb e1c5ygqq1"><div data-ad-exclu class="css-8c6v ehha8ut0">This ntent is imported om Third party. 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But we are still at the dawn of a cultural era which queer people are able to tell their own stori. We only got Troye Sivan’s “Bloom,” our first mastream pop song about bottomg (unls you unt Toni Basil’s “Mickey”), ls than a year ago! It is an excg new time; let’s see what velops om for a moment before we shoehorn some self-servg allyship to a song about the pa of snake emojis a billnaire’s Twter mentns. </p><p data-no-id="18" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">I am aware that I am beg both a queen <em>and</em> a drag. Also, I am wrg this on a ferry to Provcetown where I am stg across om a du a GAYS FOR TRUMP t-shirt, so I know there are bigger fish to y. 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11p0k8m">{lor:#515150;font-fay:Lsanne,Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:normal;marg-bottom:0.625rem;}@media(max-width: 48rem){{font-size:1.0625rem;le-height:1.2;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{font-size:1.3125rem;le-height:1.2;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{font-size:1.3125rem;le-height:1.3;}} a{-webk-text-ratn:unrle;text-ratn:unrle;text-ratn-thickns:0.0625rem;text-ratn-lor:#FF3A30;text-unrle-offset:0.25rem;lor:#000000;-webk-transn:all 0.3s ease--out;transn:all 0.3s ease--out;} a:hover{lor:#595959;text-ratn-lor:borr-lk-body-hover;}</style><div class="css-11p0k8m exadjwu8"><p>Thanks Taylor Swift, but ... like, n you jt not?</p></div><style data-emotn="css b23776">{lor:#161616;font-fay:Lsanne,Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacg:0.02rem;marg-bottom:0.625rem;paddg-right:0.3125rem;text-transform:upperse;}@media(max-width: 48rem){{font-size:0.70003rem;le-height:1.4;}}@media(m-width: 40.625rem){{font-size:0.70003rem;le-height:1.3;}} 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article-body standard-body-ntent css-z6i669 ewisyje7"><style data-emotn="css 1pffubx">{font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-size:1.1875rem;le-height:1.6;}{float:left;text-transform:upperse;font-weight:bold;marg-right:0.9375rem;marg-bottom:-0.625rem;marg-top:0;}{font-fay:Glanz,Tim,Serif;font-size:6.25rem;font-weight:normal;le-height:0.75;marg-right:0;paddg:0.6rem 0.75rem 0 0;}@-moz-document url-prefix(){{marg-top:0.625rem;}}@media(max-width: 48rem){{marg-right:0.3125rem;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{le-height:0.75;}} em{font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-style:alic;} strong{font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-weight:bold;}</style><p data-no-id="0" class="body-dropp css-1pffubx et3p2gv0">Last night, <style data-emotn="css umdwtv">{-webk-text-ratn:unrle;text-ratn:unrle;text-ratn-thickns:.0625rem;text-ratn-lor:#FF3A30;text-unrle-offset:0.25rem;lor:her;-webk-transn:background 0.4s;transn:background 0.4s;background:lear-gradient(#ffffff, #ffffff 50%, #d5dbe3 50%, #d5dbe3);-webk-background-size:100% 200%;background-size:100% 200%;}{lor:#000000;text-ratn-lor:borr-lk-body-hover;-webk-background-posn:100% 100%;background-posn:100% 100%;}</style><a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Taylor Swift gave a gift to her queer fan base" class="body-lk css-umdwtv et3p2gv0">Taylor Swift gave a gift to her queer fan base</a> the form of a summertime gay anthem lled “You Need To Calm Down,” and on behalf of a grateful muny, I mt say: <em>thank you, Taylor!</em> </p><style data-emotn="css 18vfmjb">{font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-size:1.1875rem;le-height:1.6;} em{font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-style:alic;} strong{font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-weight:bold;}</style><p data-no-id="1" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Also: <em>is there any chance you kept a receipt?</em> </p><p data-no-id="2" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Please unrstand: I appreciate the effort. Like God Herself, I love a trier. It is a thrillg and still somewhat new experience to be part of the textual narrative pop mic, and I am lighted for the young queer kid who’s hearg the song and feelg seen, supported and nourished for the first time. It’s important! And the song has already lodged self my ontal lobe and kicked both of those new Bon Iver songs out of their seats. Between “Calm Down,” Katy Perry's “Never Really Over,” and the whole new Carly Rae Jepsen album, the 2019 pop sound palette seems to be “<a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="the Fletch soundtrack" class="body-lk css-umdwtv et3p2gv0">the Fletch soundtrack</a>,” and I am all the way here for . I will hear “Calm Down” at pool parti this summer, and I will sg along. It is nice. </p><div supprsHydratnWarng data-no-id="3" data-embed="edorial-lk" class="embed css-0 e9hzx6g0"><style data-emotn="css 1643r8a">{borr:none;marg-top:1.875rem;marg-bottom:1.875rem;paddg:0rem;}</style><asi class="css-1643r8a e6pr2lz5"><style data-emotn="css m4kh8l">{display:le-block;font-weight:normal;marg:0rem;borr-top:0.25rem solid #15263D;paddg-right:1.1rem;paddg-top:0.4375rem;text-transform:lowerse;font-fay:Lsanne,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:0.875rem;le-height:1.3;}</style><h6 class="css-m4kh8l e6pr2lz3"><style data-emotn="css 156fvc1">{borr-bottom:0.4375rem solid #FF3A30;borr-right:0.4375rem solid transparent;ntent:'';display:le-block;height:0;marg-right:0.5rem;width:0;}</style><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-156fvc1 eagam8p0"></span><style data-emotn="css 8lle59">{max-width:lc(100% - 120px - .625rem);}</style><span class="css-8lle59 e6pr2lz1">Related Story</span><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-0 eagam8p1"></span></h6><style data-emotn="css c4s2gi">{paddg:0rem;marg:0rem;list-style:none;}</style><ul class="css-c4s2gi e6pr2lz4"><style data-emotn="css uoc2ww">{font-fay:Lsanne,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:1rem;le-height:2rem;paddg-top:0.625rem;}@media(max-width: 48rem){{font-size:0.9375rem;le-height:1.3;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{le-height:1.4;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{le-height:1.4;}} a{-webk-text-ratn:none;text-ratn:none;lor:her;-webk-transn:all 0.3s ease--out;transn:all 0.3s ease--out;} a:hover{lor:#595959;}</style><li class="css-uoc2ww e6pr2lz2"><style data-emotn="css 1bn7a5e">{-webk-text-ratn:none;text-ratn:none;display:-webk-box;display:-webk-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;-webk-box-flex-wrap:wrap;-webk-flex-wrap:wrap;-ms-flex-wrap:wrap;flex-wrap:wrap;-webk-flex-directn:row;-ms-flex-directn:row;flex-directn:row;-webk-box-pack:start;-ms-flex-pack:start;-webk-jtify-ntent:flex-start;jtify-ntent:flex-start;-webk-align-ems:center;-webk-box-align:center;-ms-flex-align:center;align-ems:center;}</style><a href="/entertament/mic/a28034262/taylor-swift-you-need-to-lm-down-lgbtq-lyrics/" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Taylor Swift Miss the Pot of Beg an Ally" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Edorial Lks" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" class="css-1bn7a5e e1c1bym14"><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-0 eagam8p0"></span><style data-emotn="css 1l0u1">{marg-right:0.625rem;height:to;}</style><img src="" alt="Performance, Entertament, Stage, Performg arts, Performance art, Dancer, Event, Public event, Fashn, Concert, " tle="Performance, Entertament, Stage, Performg arts, Performance art, Dancer, Event, Public event, Fashn, Concert, " width="120" height="100%" dg="async" loadg="lazy" image-align="left" class="css-1l0u1 e6pr2lz0" /><span class="css-8lle59 e6pr2lz1">Taylor Swift Miss the Pot of Beg an Ally</span><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-0 eagam8p1"></span></a></li></ul></asi></div><p data-no-id="4" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">But attemptg to wre a gay anthem 2019 reeks of sweat and substandard self-awarens. 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The homophobia that is at the root of our culture ti young queers up knots that take s to untie. If “you will spend eterny Hell for your sexual orientatn,” or “God hat fags,” or even “don’t behave that way, son, you’re embarrassg me,” are exampl of sha, jt like a well-timed zger about a pair of pumps that don’t match a drs, sha has actually ma a lot of people a lot ls <em>alive</em>. It serv a more thoughtful analysis than a throwaway le your song about people beg mean to you on Twter, five sends before the le where you image me a gown. </p><p data-no-id="10" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">(Also, and now I’m jt beg npicky but I’m on a roll, “take <em>several</em> seats,” like “take wh a <em>huge</em> gra of salt,” explicly ntradicts the meang of the exprsn attempts to tensify. The are creepg to our vernacular unexamed, and mt stop here.)</p><style data-emotn="css 1u2hsbb">{posn:relative;paddg-bottom:56.25%;} .e1c5ygqq0{posn:absolute;top:0rem;left:0rem;width:100%;height:100%;}</style><div data-embed="iame" data-no-id="11" class="embed align-center css-1u2hsbb e1c5ygqq1"><div data-ad-exclu class="css-8c6v ehha8ut0">This ntent is imported om Third party. 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In , young pop sensatn ChaseDreams releas a song celebratg his brother’s homosexualy a way that is scere, supportive, and terrifygly unterproductive: “The way that he acts, the way that he talks, the way that he lghs and the way that he walks,” ChaseDreams sgs, and then jt when you (and his brother Cary, still so poorly self-actualized he’s settlg for blowg his straight roommate) are ready for him to stop, he ntu: “the way that he ns, how he mov his hands, he’s gay even when he jt ss or he stands.” Any gay person who spent their adolcence policg every word, step, giggle and gticulatn—which is every gay person—felt the burn. The very thgs you’re still stgglg to love about yourself, packaged and sold as a marketg gimmick for a straight person. Many a tth has been told jt. </p><div data-ad-exclu class="css-8c6v ehha8ut0">This ntent is imported om youTube. 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Brandi Carlile dropped on last year, and is suffed wh the ache of a lifetime of beg told you are a ltle b shameful at bt, and doomed at the worst. “You’re feelg nervo, aren’t you, boy? Wh your quiet voice and impecble style…I see you tuggg on your shirt, tryg to hi si of , hi how much hurts.” There is triumph the chos (“Let ‘em lgh while they n…I have been to the movi, and I see how ends: the joke’s on them”) and bee the vers lay out wh vastatg clary jt how much ls gay—and happy, and proud—sha mak a person, the triumph is earned. Can’t we jt do one good remix of “The Joke” and ll a day? </p><p data-no-id="15" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">A gay anthem is absolutely still possible, but now that gay people are dog for themselv, whout direct reprentatn or d language, maybe the role of an ally is to take a seat (aga, <em>jt the one!</em>) and let them.</p><div data-ad-exclu class="css-8c6v ehha8ut0">This ntent is imported om youTube. 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