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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- TAYLOR SWIFT'S NEW VIO SLAMS ANTI-LGBT CHRISTIAN 'HATE' PROTTERS; EX-GAY CHRISTIANS RPOND
- IS TAYLOR SWIFT’S NEW LGBT ANTHEM AN EXAMPLE OF ALLYSHIP OR APPROPRIATN?NO SHADETHE ONCE POLICS-SHY SGER IS NOW OUT AND PROUD AS A LGBTQ ALLY, AS EVINCED HER LATT SONG AND VIO—BUT SOME ARE QUTNG HER SCERY.JORDAN JULIANPUBLISHED JUN. 20, 2019 5:06AM EDT VIA YOUTUBEON MONDAY MORNG, TAYLOR SWIFT RELEASED THE MIC VIO FOR “YOU NEED TO CALM DOWN,” THE SEND SGLE OFF HER UPG ALBUM LOVER. THE SONG IS A CLASSIC T. SWIFT FUCK-THE-HATERS ANTHEM, WH A PRI MONTH TWIST. IN SE YOU MISSED HER IMPROMPTU PERFORMANCE AT STONEWALL INN LAST WEEKEND, SWIFT IS A VOL ALLY NOW, STANDG UP FOR ALL OF HER LGBTQ IENDS AGAST THE HATERS “’ AT THEM LIKE A MISSILE.” THE MEDIA RPONSE TO THE VIO WAS SWIFT (PUN TEND) AND IMPASSNED, WH PEOPLE DIVID ON HOW TO FEEL ABOUT THE POP STAR’S NEW POLICIZED IMAGE. WHILE SOME PROMENT QUEER MEDIA CRICS ARE SKEPTIL OF SWIFT’S EMBRACE OF THE LGBTQ MUNY, OTHERS APPRECIATE THAT SHE IS FALLY G HER STAGGERG FLUENCE FOR GOOD. SCE THE VIO DROPPED, THE TER HAS EPTED TO A BATE OVER THE LE BETWEEN ALLYSHIP AND APPROPRIATN. THE SONG’S NFG, ALBE WELL-MEANG, MSAGE LEFT CRICS PERPLEXED WHEN DROPPED LATE LAST WEEK. ONE LYRIC, “WHY BE MAD, WHEN YOU N BE GLAAD,” REFERENC THE LGBTQ MEDIA MONORG ANIZATN, THOUGH YOU’D BE FIVEN FOR THKG STEAD OF THE GLAD GARBAGE BAG MERCIALS. SHE ALSO BORROWS QUEER BLACK SLANG, SGG, “YOU JT NEED TO TAKE SEVERAL SEATS” AND “SHA NEVER MA ANYBODY LS GAY,” ATTEMPTS AT BEG WOKE THAT READ MORE LIKE THE RAMBLGS OF A CRGEY RELATIVE WHO’S WATCHED ONE EPISO OF DRAG RACE. THE STAR-STUDD MIC VIO, WHICH HAS RACKED UP NEARLY 35 LN VIEWS, OPENS WH SWIFT WAKG UP A TRAILER PARK. THE UNIVERSE OF THE VIO FEATUR TRAILERS PATED EVERY LOR OF THE RABOW, ABOVE-GROUND SWIMMG POOLS, PLASTIC FLAMGOS, AND IMPECBLY-DRSED DRAG QUEENS. THERE ARE DRAG QUEENS IMPERSONATG FAMO FEMALE DIVAS, OM ARIANA GRAN TO CARDI B. CIARA OFFICIAT JSE TYLER FERGON AND JT MIKA’S WEDDG. THE ST OF QUEER EYE HOSTS A TEA PARTY THAT WOULD MAKE THE MAD HATTER JEALO. ADAM LAMBERT GIV ELLEN DEGENER A TATTOO. IT’S FLORIDA PANHANDLE MEETS GAY WONRLAND. THERE IS EVEN A CHER REFERENCE, BEE WHEN TAYLOR SWIFT MS TO SOMETHG, SHE REALLY MS. AND THEN THERE ARE THE MORE NTROVERSIAL MOMENTS. THE BULLI SWIFT IS IMPLORG TO LM DOWN ARE ANTI-LGBTQ PROTTERS, STEREOTYPED AS ANGRY, WBOY-HAT-WEARG HILLBILLI WHO N’T SPELL. THE VIO CLOS WH A RENCILIATN BETWEEN SWIFT AND LONGTIME RIVAL KATY PERRY—TWO STRAIGHT WOMEN—TRACTG OM THE PRO-GAY-RIGHTS THEME. STILL, SWIFT GETS POTS FOR ENDG WH A LL TO ACTN ENURAGG VIEWERS TO “SIGN MY PETN FOR SENATE SUPPORT OF THE EQUALY ACT ON ” THE PETN NOW HAS MORE THAN 300,000 SIGNATUR AND UNTG. THE SHIFT TO SUCH OVERT POLIL MSAGG FEELS LIKE A PLETE 180 FOR SWIFT, WHO MA HEADL THE PAST FOR HER RETICENCE ON SOCIAL ISSU AND WAS SPECTED OF VOTG FOR TMP UNTIL SHE PUBLICLY ENDORSED DEMOCRATIC NDIDAT THE 2018 MIDTERM ELECTNS. HER 2006 BREAK-UP SONG “PICTURE TO BURN,” EVEN FEATUR THE HOMOPHOBIC LYRICS, “SO GO AHEAD AND TELL YOUR IENDS THAT I’M OBSSIVE AND CRAZY, THAT’S FE! I’LL TELL ME YOU’RE GAY,” BEGGG THE QUTN OF SCERY. HAS SWIFT TLY HAD A CIVIC AWAKENG? IS SHE, AS LEGNS OF QUEER FANS HAVE BEEN SPECULATG FOR YEARS, PREPARG TO E OUT AS BISEXUAL? OR IS THIS ALL JT AN OVER-THE-TOP, ILL-ADVISED PROMOTNAL TACTIC? THERE’S A REASON THE DAILY BEAST’S AMY ZIMMERMAN ONCE DUBBED SWIFT “OUR NATN’S MOST OPPORTUNISTIC CELEBRY.” IN AN ARTICLE FOR ESQUIRE TLED “NO SHA, BUT THERE’S A WRONG WAY TO MAKE A GAY ANTHEM,” DAVE HOLM CRIQU THE TONE-AF LYRICS OF “YOU NEED TO CALM DOWN,” WHILE MATAG THAT HE APPRECIAT SWIFT’S EFFORT AND HER RECENT FANCIAL AND POLIL SUPPORT. “THE DAYS, LGBTQ WOKENS IS A BOX TO CHECK OFF A MARKETG PLAN,” HOLM WR, “AND WHEN THERE ARE PERFECTLY PABLE QUEER ARTISTS OUT THERE, STG DOWN AS A STRAIGHT PERSON AND SETTG OUT TO WRE A GAY ANTHEM IS VERY MUCH LIKE TRYG TO GIVE YOURSELF A NICKNAME.” OTHERS BELIEVE THAT SWIFT, WHO HAS A WHOLE TALOGUE OF SONGS VOTED TO NMNG HER CRICS AND HATERS, IS G “YOU NEED TO CALM DOWN” TO NFLATE HER EXPERIENC OF BEG BULLIED ONLE WH THE OPPRSN OF THE LGBTQ MUNY. REBEC JENNGS, A REPORTER AT VOX, WR, “I HAVE NO DOUBT THAT CRICISM HURTS HER FEELGS, BUT IS NOT THE SAME THG AS THE SYSTEMIC HATE FACED BY LGBTQ PEOPLE OR ANYONE ELSE WHOSE INTI AMERIN CULTURE DISDAS.” ON TWTER, MENTATORS ARE TAKG MORE LIGHTHEARTED JABS AT THE 30-YEAR-OLD SGER. KEV T. PORTER, ONE OF THE MASTERMDS BEHD THE GILMORE GUYS PODST, TWEETED, “TAYLOR SWIFT BEG AN LGBT+ ALLY FEELS LIKE MY MOM GETTG AN INSTAGRAM.” SHANNON KEATG, WHO WROTE AN ARTICLE FOR BUZZFEED NEWS APRIL ABOUT #GAYLOR NSPIRACI AND QUEERBAG, RPOND TO THE VIO BY TWEETG “SO THANKFUL TO TAYLOR FOR VENTG GAY PEOPLE.” COMEDIAN MATT ROGERS HAS TURNED SWIFT’S NEW IMAGE TO AN EXTEND GAG, CREATG A FAKE LEAKED TRACK LIST FOR LOVER THAT CLUS SATIRIL SONGS LIKE “SHANTAY AWAY,” “YAZ FEAT. JONATHAN VAN NS,” AND “BUTTIGIEG 2020.” ON INSTAGRAM, HE HAS BEEN SHARG WOULD-BE VER ART FOR THE SGL, CLUDG A POORLY PHOTOSHOPPED PHOTO OF SWIFT AND HER FORMER BFF/MORED ROMANTIC PARTNER KARLIE KLOSS ON A MOTORCYCLE. TAYLOR SWIFT DO SERVE SOME CRED FOR PUTTG HER MONEY WHERE HER MOUTH IS BY MAKG SIZABLE DONATNS TO THE TENNSEE EQUALY PROJECT AND GLAAD. AND HER LETTER TO SENATOR LAMAR ALEXANR VOICG HER SUPPORT OF THE EQUALY ACT, WHICH SHE SHARED ON INSTAGRAM, SETS AN IMPORTANT EXAMPLE FOR YOUNG FOLLOWERS LOOKG TO GET VOLVED POLICS. THE IA THAT THERE IS A WRONG WAY TO BE AN ALLY IS PLITED, AND MANY OF THE THK PIEC WRTEN ABOUT “YOU NEED TO CALM DOWN” ACKNOWLEDGE THE VIO’S SIGNIFINCE FOR QUEER T. SWIFT FANS AND THE BOOST DONATNS TO GAY RIGHTS ANIZATNS SCE S RELEASE. AS HOLM WR HIS ARTICLE, “I AM LIGHTED FOR THE YOUNG QUEER KID WHO’S HEARG THE SONG AND FEELG SEEN, SUPPORTED, AND NOURISHED FOR THE FIRST TIME.” WH TWO MONTHS UNTIL THE RELEASE OF LOVER ON AUGT 23, WILL BE UP TO FANS TO CI IF THIS IS A SE OF BETTER LATE THAN NEVER OR IF ’S TOO LTLE, TOO LATE. JORDAN JULIAN
TAYLOR SWIFT'S NEW VIO SLAMS ANTI-LGBT CHRISTIAN 'HATE' PROTTERS; EX-GAY CHRISTIANS RPOND
The sger’s pro-gay sgle strangely par her stggl wh fame to more dangero kds of persecutn. * calm down gay *
The Queasy Double Msage of Taylor Swift’s ‘You Need to Calm Down’The sger’s pro-gay sgle strangely par her stggl wh fame to more dangero kds of Swift, drsed as a ench y, mak up wh her pop-star rival the climax to a vio supposedly about gay rights. Shout along wh this bra benr: “Sha never ma anybody ls gay!
The song’s send verse tak on homophobic monstrators: “Sunshe on the street at the para / But you would rather be the dark ag.
IS TAYLOR SWIFT’S NEW LGBT ANTHEM AN EXAMPLE OF ALLYSHIP OR APPROPRIATN?NO SHADETHE ONCE POLICS-SHY SGER IS NOW OUT AND PROUD AS A LGBTQ ALLY, AS EVINCED HER LATT SONG AND VIO—BUT SOME ARE QUTNG HER SCERY.JORDAN JULIANPUBLISHED JUN. 20, 2019 5:06AM EDT VIA YOUTUBEON MONDAY MORNG, TAYLOR SWIFT RELEASED THE MIC VIO FOR “YOU NEED TO CALM DOWN,” THE SEND SGLE OFF HER UPG ALBUM LOVER. THE SONG IS A CLASSIC T. SWIFT FUCK-THE-HATERS ANTHEM, WH A PRI MONTH TWIST. IN SE YOU MISSED HER IMPROMPTU PERFORMANCE AT STONEWALL INN LAST WEEKEND, SWIFT IS A VOL ALLY NOW, STANDG UP FOR ALL OF HER LGBTQ IENDS AGAST THE HATERS “’ AT THEM LIKE A MISSILE.” THE MEDIA RPONSE TO THE VIO WAS SWIFT (PUN TEND) AND IMPASSNED, WH PEOPLE DIVID ON HOW TO FEEL ABOUT THE POP STAR’S NEW POLICIZED IMAGE. WHILE SOME PROMENT QUEER MEDIA CRICS ARE SKEPTIL OF SWIFT’S EMBRACE OF THE LGBTQ MUNY, OTHERS APPRECIATE THAT SHE IS FALLY G HER STAGGERG FLUENCE FOR GOOD. SCE THE VIO DROPPED, THE TER HAS EPTED TO A BATE OVER THE LE BETWEEN ALLYSHIP AND APPROPRIATN. THE SONG’S NFG, ALBE WELL-MEANG, MSAGE LEFT CRICS PERPLEXED WHEN DROPPED LATE LAST WEEK. ONE LYRIC, “WHY BE MAD, WHEN YOU N BE GLAAD,” REFERENC THE LGBTQ MEDIA MONORG ANIZATN, THOUGH YOU’D BE FIVEN FOR THKG STEAD OF THE GLAD GARBAGE BAG MERCIALS. SHE ALSO BORROWS QUEER BLACK SLANG, SGG, “YOU JT NEED TO TAKE SEVERAL SEATS” AND “SHA NEVER MA ANYBODY LS GAY,” ATTEMPTS AT BEG WOKE THAT READ MORE LIKE THE RAMBLGS OF A CRGEY RELATIVE WHO’S WATCHED ONE EPISO OF DRAG RACE. THE STAR-STUDD MIC VIO, WHICH HAS RACKED UP NEARLY 35 LN VIEWS, OPENS WH SWIFT WAKG UP A TRAILER PARK. THE UNIVERSE OF THE VIO FEATUR TRAILERS PATED EVERY LOR OF THE RABOW, ABOVE-GROUND SWIMMG POOLS, PLASTIC FLAMGOS, AND IMPECBLY-DRSED DRAG QUEENS. THERE ARE DRAG QUEENS IMPERSONATG FAMO FEMALE DIVAS, OM ARIANA GRAN TO CARDI B. CIARA OFFICIAT JSE TYLER FERGON AND JT MIKA’S WEDDG. THE ST OF QUEER EYE HOSTS A TEA PARTY THAT WOULD MAKE THE MAD HATTER JEALO. ADAM LAMBERT GIV ELLEN DEGENER A TATTOO. IT’S FLORIDA PANHANDLE MEETS GAY WONRLAND. THERE IS EVEN A CHER REFERENCE, BEE WHEN TAYLOR SWIFT MS TO SOMETHG, SHE REALLY MS. AND THEN THERE ARE THE MORE NTROVERSIAL MOMENTS. THE BULLI SWIFT IS IMPLORG TO LM DOWN ARE ANTI-LGBTQ PROTTERS, STEREOTYPED AS ANGRY, WBOY-HAT-WEARG HILLBILLI WHO N’T SPELL. THE VIO CLOS WH A RENCILIATN BETWEEN SWIFT AND LONGTIME RIVAL KATY PERRY—TWO STRAIGHT WOMEN—TRACTG OM THE PRO-GAY-RIGHTS THEME. STILL, SWIFT GETS POTS FOR ENDG WH A LL TO ACTN ENURAGG VIEWERS TO “SIGN MY PETN FOR SENATE SUPPORT OF THE EQUALY ACT ON ” THE PETN NOW HAS MORE THAN 300,000 SIGNATUR AND UNTG. THE SHIFT TO SUCH OVERT POLIL MSAGG FEELS LIKE A PLETE 180 FOR SWIFT, WHO MA HEADL THE PAST FOR HER RETICENCE ON SOCIAL ISSU AND WAS SPECTED OF VOTG FOR TMP UNTIL SHE PUBLICLY ENDORSED DEMOCRATIC NDIDAT THE 2018 MIDTERM ELECTNS. HER 2006 BREAK-UP SONG “PICTURE TO BURN,” EVEN FEATUR THE HOMOPHOBIC LYRICS, “SO GO AHEAD AND TELL YOUR IENDS THAT I’M OBSSIVE AND CRAZY, THAT’S FE! I’LL TELL ME YOU’RE GAY,” BEGGG THE QUTN OF SCERY. HAS SWIFT TLY HAD A CIVIC AWAKENG? IS SHE, AS LEGNS OF QUEER FANS HAVE BEEN SPECULATG FOR YEARS, PREPARG TO E OUT AS BISEXUAL? OR IS THIS ALL JT AN OVER-THE-TOP, ILL-ADVISED PROMOTNAL TACTIC? THERE’S A REASON THE DAILY BEAST’S AMY ZIMMERMAN ONCE DUBBED SWIFT “OUR NATN’S MOST OPPORTUNISTIC CELEBRY.” IN AN ARTICLE FOR ESQUIRE TLED “NO SHA, BUT THERE’S A WRONG WAY TO MAKE A GAY ANTHEM,” DAVE HOLM CRIQU THE TONE-AF LYRICS OF “YOU NEED TO CALM DOWN,” WHILE MATAG THAT HE APPRECIAT SWIFT’S EFFORT AND HER RECENT FANCIAL AND POLIL SUPPORT. “THE DAYS, LGBTQ WOKENS IS A BOX TO CHECK OFF A MARKETG PLAN,” HOLM WR, “AND WHEN THERE ARE PERFECTLY PABLE QUEER ARTISTS OUT THERE, STG DOWN AS A STRAIGHT PERSON AND SETTG OUT TO WRE A GAY ANTHEM IS VERY MUCH LIKE TRYG TO GIVE YOURSELF A NICKNAME.” OTHERS BELIEVE THAT SWIFT, WHO HAS A WHOLE TALOGUE OF SONGS VOTED TO NMNG HER CRICS AND HATERS, IS G “YOU NEED TO CALM DOWN” TO NFLATE HER EXPERIENC OF BEG BULLIED ONLE WH THE OPPRSN OF THE LGBTQ MUNY. REBEC JENNGS, A REPORTER AT VOX, WR, “I HAVE NO DOUBT THAT CRICISM HURTS HER FEELGS, BUT IS NOT THE SAME THG AS THE SYSTEMIC HATE FACED BY LGBTQ PEOPLE OR ANYONE ELSE WHOSE INTI AMERIN CULTURE DISDAS.” ON TWTER, MENTATORS ARE TAKG MORE LIGHTHEARTED JABS AT THE 30-YEAR-OLD SGER. KEV T. PORTER, ONE OF THE MASTERMDS BEHD THE GILMORE GUYS PODST, TWEETED, “TAYLOR SWIFT BEG AN LGBT+ ALLY FEELS LIKE MY MOM GETTG AN INSTAGRAM.” SHANNON KEATG, WHO WROTE AN ARTICLE FOR BUZZFEED NEWS APRIL ABOUT #GAYLOR NSPIRACI AND QUEERBAG, RPOND TO THE VIO BY TWEETG “SO THANKFUL TO TAYLOR FOR VENTG GAY PEOPLE.” COMEDIAN MATT ROGERS HAS TURNED SWIFT’S NEW IMAGE TO AN EXTEND GAG, CREATG A FAKE LEAKED TRACK LIST FOR LOVER THAT CLUS SATIRIL SONGS LIKE “SHANTAY AWAY,” “YAZ FEAT. JONATHAN VAN NS,” AND “BUTTIGIEG 2020.” ON INSTAGRAM, HE HAS BEEN SHARG WOULD-BE VER ART FOR THE SGL, CLUDG A POORLY PHOTOSHOPPED PHOTO OF SWIFT AND HER FORMER BFF/MORED ROMANTIC PARTNER KARLIE KLOSS ON A MOTORCYCLE. TAYLOR SWIFT DO SERVE SOME CRED FOR PUTTG HER MONEY WHERE HER MOUTH IS BY MAKG SIZABLE DONATNS TO THE TENNSEE EQUALY PROJECT AND GLAAD. AND HER LETTER TO SENATOR LAMAR ALEXANR VOICG HER SUPPORT OF THE EQUALY ACT, WHICH SHE SHARED ON INSTAGRAM, SETS AN IMPORTANT EXAMPLE FOR YOUNG FOLLOWERS LOOKG TO GET VOLVED POLICS. THE IA THAT THERE IS A WRONG WAY TO BE AN ALLY IS PLITED, AND MANY OF THE THK PIEC WRTEN ABOUT “YOU NEED TO CALM DOWN” ACKNOWLEDGE THE VIO’S SIGNIFINCE FOR QUEER T. SWIFT FANS AND THE BOOST DONATNS TO GAY RIGHTS ANIZATNS SCE S RELEASE. AS HOLM WR HIS ARTICLE, “I AM LIGHTED FOR THE YOUNG QUEER KID WHO’S HEARG THE SONG AND FEELG SEEN, SUPPORTED, AND NOURISHED FOR THE FIRST TIME.” WH TWO MONTHS UNTIL THE RELEASE OF LOVER ON AUGT 23, WILL BE UP TO FANS TO CI IF THIS IS A SE OF BETTER LATE THAN NEVER OR IF ’S TOO LTLE, TOO LATE. JORDAN JULIAN
It clos wh a plug to sign a petn for the passage of the Equaly Act, which would ban discrimatn based on sexual orientatn and a star whose greatt polil ntroversy ed to be that she had no polics, a sgle that name-checks GLAAD is a real evolutn, and ’s already reportedly havg the ncrete effect of boostg donatns for gay rights. LGBTQ folks sirg legal protectns, cultural cln, social servic, and all the other ems on the gay agenda rightly wele the help of straight people.
If heterosexuals bee overly important the gay movement, then be harr to talk, wh precisn, about what the movement is actually for. Thought this vio was about gay rights? The send verse is the one about homophobic protters.
)Onle snarkers agast superstars and -person shouters at gay people—why are the two class of people sharg a song?