Taylor Swift's latt song You Need to Calm Down is posned as a gay anthem, but is she trivialisg LGBTQI issu and rcg the muny to a sequ-lovg stereotype?
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THE 20 GAYT TAYLOR SWIFT SONGS
Here are the gayt songs om Midnights and Midnights (3 am Edn), ranked orr of queerns. * taylor swift lgbt song *
"'Cse sha never ma anybody ls gay, " sger-songwrer sgs, showg further support for LGBTQ rights. “You jt need to take several seats and then try to rtore the peace/And ntrol your urg to scream about the people you hate/’Cse sha never ma anybody ls gay, ” she clar.
Swift’s huge ditn of “You Need to Calm Down” to the gay rights movement on the heels of a recent statement she ma support of Tennsee’s Equaly Act. If we weren't already ecstatic enough, she then dropped seven more songs at 3 am wh Midnights (3 am Edn) Swift has never formally claimed a queer inty, there are mors, and queer fans, cludg myself, have always had fun fdg gay easter eggs her mic.
Here are the gayt songs om Midnights and Midnights (3 am Edn), ranked orr of queerns.
TAYLOR SWIFT’S SONGS CAN BE AS GAY AS YOU WANT THEM TO BE
"Sha never ma anybody ls gay." * taylor swift lgbt song *
" Hontly, the whole thg feels like a giant metaphor for women who date women and the ternalized homophobia that often wh . While Swift has explicly said that "Lavenr Haze" is about havg to navigate datg the public eye and her six-year relatnship wh actor Joe Alwyn, the lyrics haven't stopped Swifti om seeg another meang, and nnectg "lavenr haze" to the anti-gay Lavenr Sre. " This is hontly the perfect answer to everyone's evable homophobic relativ, and I n't promise I won't e at the next fay gatherg.
" Talk about a queer narrative of homophobia turned to acceptance. Recently, there has been drama wh the fanbase between self-proclaimed “hetlors, ” fans who believe Swift is straight, and “gaylors, ” fans who believe that Swift is the closet and that her relatnship wh long-term boyiend Joe Alwyn is fake. Or, some s, she do know why, but is an opprsed environment where she n’t openly be wh the woman she really also lor imagery a lot- scribg a lover as brgg lor to her life, which has obv nnotatns wh gay of the songs will have a brief explanatn of s spot on the list, as well as ratgs three sl: lyrics (how much the words are about beg gay/a gay relatnship), vib (how gay they feel to me personally.
I might do a part 2 om her other now, whout further ado, here are the 20 gayt Taylor Swift Songs:#20: You Are In Love: Unfortunately, the genred language kd of mak impossible to view this one a gay way, but still really feels like scrib a gay experience: the le “one night he wak, strange look on his face, ps and says, you’re my bt iend, and you knew what was, he is love” feels like a really good scriptn of the way iendship and romance are so often nflatg gay relatnships. And the le “you unrstand now why they lost their mds and fought the wars” mak a lot of sense if you nsir this as the first gay relatnship they’ve been - ’s hard to “get” love if you’re gay before you’ve opened yourself up to the possibily of same-genr love.