The send sgle off her new album "Lover" is the gay anthem we never knew we need.
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- SHA NEVER MA ANYONE LS GAY: FENCE OF TAYLOR SWIFT
- YOU NEED TO CALM DOWNTAYLOR SWIFTTRACK 14 ON LOVER (TARGET EXCLIVE/JAPANE EDN) PRODUCED BYTAYLOR SWIFT & JOEL LTLE“YOU NEED TO CALM DOWN” FDS TAYLOR SWIFT ADDRSG VAR TRACTORS WHO POST HURTFUL MENTS ONLE, FOLLOWG THEM OF SELF-LOVE AND BEG TE TO ONE’S INTY… READ MORE JUN. 14, 20191 VIEWER1.5M VIEWS205 CONTRIBUTORSTRANSLATNSESPAñOLСрпскиPORTUGUêSPOLSKIDTSCHITALIANOFRANçAISENGLISHNERLANDSYOU NEED TO CALM DOWN LYRICS[VERSE 1]YOU ARE SOMEBODY THAT I DON'T KNOWBUT YOU'RE TAK' SHOTS AT ME LIKE 'S PATRóNAND I'M JT LIKE, DAMN, 'S 7 AMSAY THE STREET, THAT'S A KNOCK-OUTBUT YOU SAY A TWEET, THAT'S A P-OUTAND I'M JT LIKE, "HEY, ARE YOU OKAY?"[PRE-CHOS]AND I A'T TRYNA MS WH YOUR SELF-EXPRSNBUT I'VE LEARNED A LSON THAT STRS' AND OBSS' 'BOUT SOMEBODY ELSE IS NO FUNAND SNAK AND STON NEVER BROKE MY BON[CHOS]SO OH-OH, OH-OH, OH-OH, OH-OH, OH-OHYOU NEED TO LM DOWN, YOU'RE BEG TOO LOUDAND I'M JT LIKE OH-OH, OH-OH, OH-OH, OH-OH, OH-OH (OH)YOU NEED TO JT STOP, LIKE N YOU JT NOT STEP ON MY GOWN?YOU NEED TO LM DOWN[VERSE 2]YOU ARE SOMEBODY THAT WE DON'T KNOWBUT YOU'RE ' AT MY IENDS LIKE A MISSILEWHY ARE YOU MAD WHEN YOU ULD BE GLAAD? (YOU ULD BE GLAAD)SUNSHE ON THE STREET AT THE PARABUT YOU WOULD RATHER BE THE DARK AGMAK' THAT SIGN MT'VE TAKEN ALL NIGHTYOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE[PRE-CHOS]YOU JT NEED TO TAKE SEVERAL SEATS AND THEN TRY TO RTORE THE PEACEAND NTROL YOUR URG TO SCREAM ABOUT ALL THE PEOPLE YOU HATE'CSE SHA NEVER MA ANYBODY LS GAY[CHOS]SO OH-OH, OH-OH, OH-OH, OH-OH, OH-OHYOU NEED TO LM DOWN, YOU'RE BEG TOO LOUDAND I'M JT LIKE OH-OH, OH-OH, OH-OH, OH-OH, OH-OH (OH)YOU NEED TO JT STOP, LIKE N YOU JT NOT STEP ON HIS GOWN?YOU NEED TO LM DOWN[BRIDGE]AND WE SEE YOU OVER THERE ON THE TERCOMPARG ALL THE GIRLS WHO ARE KILLG BUT WE FIGURED YOU OUTWE ALL KNOW NOW WE ALL GOT CROWNSYOU NEED TO LM DOWN[CHOS]OH-OH, OH-OH, OH-OH, OH-OH, OH-OHYOU NEED TO LM DOWN (YOU NEED TO LM DOWN)YOU'RE BEG TOO LOUD (YOU'RE BEG TOO LOUD)AND I'M JT LIKE OH-OH, OH-OH, OH-OH, OH-OH, OH-OH (OH)YOU NEED TO JT STOP (CAN YOU STOP?)LIKE N YOU JT NOT STEP ON OUR GOWNS?YOU NEED TO LM DOWN123EMBEDCANCELHOW TO FORMAT LYRICS:TYPE OUT ALL LYRICS, EVEN REPEATG SONG PARTS LIKE THE CHOSLYRICS SHOULD BE BROKEN DOWN TO DIVIDUAL LUSE SECTN HEARS ABOVE DIFFERENT SONG PARTS LIKE [VERSE], [CHOS], ETC.USE ALICS (<I>LYRIC</I>) AND BOLD (<B>LYRIC</B>) TO DISTGUISH BETWEEN DIFFERENT VOLISTS THE SAME SONG PARTIF YOU DON’T UNRSTAND A LYRIC, E [?]TO LEARN MORE, CHECK OUT OUR TRANSCRIPTN GUI OR VIS OUR TRANSCRIBERS FOMABOUT
- "SHA NEVER MA ANYBODY LS GAY"
SHA NEVER MA ANYONE LS GAY: FENCE OF TAYLOR SWIFT
The sger’s pro-gay sgle strangely par her stggl wh fame to more dangero kds of persecutn. * shade never made anybody less gay *
"'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.
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.
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.
YOU NEED TO CALM DOWNTAYLOR SWIFTTRACK 14 ON LOVER (TARGET EXCLIVE/JAPANE EDN) PRODUCED BYTAYLOR SWIFT & JOEL LTLE“YOU NEED TO CALM DOWN” FDS TAYLOR SWIFT ADDRSG VAR TRACTORS WHO POST HURTFUL MENTS ONLE, FOLLOWG THEM OF SELF-LOVE AND BEG TE TO ONE’S INTY… READ MORE JUN. 14, 20191 VIEWER1.5M VIEWS205 CONTRIBUTORSTRANSLATNSESPAñOLСрпскиPORTUGUêSPOLSKIDTSCHITALIANOFRANçAISENGLISHNERLANDSYOU NEED TO CALM DOWN LYRICS[VERSE 1]YOU ARE SOMEBODY THAT I DON'T KNOWBUT YOU'RE TAK' SHOTS AT ME LIKE 'S PATRóNAND I'M JT LIKE, DAMN, 'S 7 AMSAY THE STREET, THAT'S A KNOCK-OUTBUT YOU SAY A TWEET, THAT'S A P-OUTAND I'M JT LIKE, "HEY, ARE YOU OKAY?"[PRE-CHOS]AND I A'T TRYNA MS WH YOUR SELF-EXPRSNBUT I'VE LEARNED A LSON THAT STRS' AND OBSS' 'BOUT SOMEBODY ELSE IS NO FUNAND SNAK AND STON NEVER BROKE MY BON[CHOS]SO OH-OH, OH-OH, OH-OH, OH-OH, OH-OHYOU NEED TO LM DOWN, YOU'RE BEG TOO LOUDAND I'M JT LIKE OH-OH, OH-OH, OH-OH, OH-OH, OH-OH (OH)YOU NEED TO JT STOP, LIKE N YOU JT NOT STEP ON MY GOWN?YOU NEED TO LM DOWN[VERSE 2]YOU ARE SOMEBODY THAT WE DON'T KNOWBUT YOU'RE ' AT MY IENDS LIKE A MISSILEWHY ARE YOU MAD WHEN YOU ULD BE GLAAD? (YOU ULD BE GLAAD)SUNSHE ON THE STREET AT THE PARABUT YOU WOULD RATHER BE THE DARK AGMAK' THAT SIGN MT'VE TAKEN ALL NIGHTYOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE[PRE-CHOS]YOU JT NEED TO TAKE SEVERAL SEATS AND THEN TRY TO RTORE THE PEACEAND NTROL YOUR URG TO SCREAM ABOUT ALL THE PEOPLE YOU HATE'CSE SHA NEVER MA ANYBODY LS GAY[CHOS]SO OH-OH, OH-OH, OH-OH, OH-OH, OH-OHYOU NEED TO LM DOWN, YOU'RE BEG TOO LOUDAND I'M JT LIKE OH-OH, OH-OH, OH-OH, OH-OH, OH-OH (OH)YOU NEED TO JT STOP, LIKE N YOU JT NOT STEP ON HIS GOWN?YOU NEED TO LM DOWN[BRIDGE]AND WE SEE YOU OVER THERE ON THE TERCOMPARG ALL THE GIRLS WHO ARE KILLG BUT WE FIGURED YOU OUTWE ALL KNOW NOW WE ALL GOT CROWNSYOU NEED TO LM DOWN[CHOS]OH-OH, OH-OH, OH-OH, OH-OH, OH-OHYOU NEED TO LM DOWN (YOU NEED TO LM DOWN)YOU'RE BEG TOO LOUD (YOU'RE BEG TOO LOUD)AND I'M JT LIKE OH-OH, OH-OH, OH-OH, OH-OH, OH-OH (OH)YOU NEED TO JT STOP (CAN YOU STOP?)LIKE N YOU JT NOT STEP ON OUR GOWNS?YOU NEED TO LM DOWN123EMBEDCANCELHOW TO FORMAT LYRICS:TYPE OUT ALL LYRICS, EVEN REPEATG SONG PARTS LIKE THE CHOSLYRICS SHOULD BE BROKEN DOWN TO DIVIDUAL LUSE SECTN HEARS ABOVE DIFFERENT SONG PARTS LIKE [VERSE], [CHOS], ETC.USE ALICS (<I>LYRIC</I>) AND BOLD (<B>LYRIC</B>) TO DISTGUISH BETWEEN DIFFERENT VOLISTS THE SAME SONG PARTIF YOU DON’T UNRSTAND A LYRIC, E [?]TO LEARN MORE, CHECK OUT OUR TRANSCRIPTN GUI OR VIS OUR TRANSCRIBERS FOMABOUT
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? ” This explas the headle-quotable le that “sha never ma anybody ls gay. There are many ways to scribe a parent who disowns a trans kid, or a lawmaker who tri to nullify same-sex marriag, or a church member who crash a gay soldier’s funeral.
Homophobia is a real iology wh a real history. Tellg homophob they’re borg downers probably won’t sway them, and ’s hard to image that such a msage will fort many of the people they target.
"SHA NEVER MA ANYBODY LS GAY"
“You Need to Calm Down” has, between s muddled metaphors, only one clear through le: Swift’s stggl wh cricism the public eye are like those of gay people facg actual hate for beg who they are. "The send verse shouts out the LGBTQ rights anizatn GLAAD and acc homophobic people of livg the "dark ag.