Taylor Swift Addresses Rumors About Her Sexuality and Why She Purposely Had an All-Girls Squad
1989 (Taylor’s Version) did more than bring help the music from Taylor Swift’s knock 2014 pop album. It also added a major footnote to that era of her animation and the media attention it received. Swift particularly reflected on why she chose to contain an all-female squad, along with rumors about her sexuality.
Swift explains that she pivoted to universal female friendships because she was exhausted of her creature romantically liked to every man she hung out with. She wrote in a prologue for the album:
You see—in the years preceding this, I had become the aim of slut-shaming—the intensity and relentlessness of which would be criticized and called out if it happened today. The jokes about my amount of boyfriends. The trivialization of my songwriting as if it were a predatory operate of a male child crazy psychopath. The media co-signing of this narrative. I had to create it stop. Because it was starting to really offend.
It became eliminate to me that for me, there was no such thing as casual dating, or even having a male friend who you platonically hang out with. If I was seen with him, it was assumed I wa
Taylor Swift’s people seal down speculation about her sexuality – but risked rebuking her LGBTQ fans
In every sense, Taylor Swift is an outlier. This week her Eras Tour film became the highest-grossing concert movie in box office history, taking the record from Michael Jackson’s 2009 production This Is It. She was the only artist who placed in the chart of the UK’s Top 10 albums of 2023 with a modern album rather than an older one (albeit with a re-recording of her 2014 pop breakthrough 1989). Last year she became the first woman to have four albums in the US Top 10 at the same day, she took the record for the most US No 1 albums by a woman from Barbra Streisand, the Eras tour became the first ever to earn more than $1bn, and in October Swift herself was estimated to have develop a billionaire. In November, a US publication hired a dedicated Swift journalist – though the joke is that everyone in amusement media pretty much does the equal job, given the wild scale of her success.
But beyond commerce, Swift, 34, is also an outlier in terms of how she conducts her relationships with her fans and the widespread. She maintains an unusual level of control in a period when other pop superstars a
Let’s stop speculating about Taylor Swift’s sexuality
In her song “22,” Taylor Swift wryly asks the interrogate, “Who’s Taylor Swift anyway? Ew.”
As difficult as it may be to believe, it was once very cool to hate Taylor Swift. Many of her songs from that era, stretching from roughly 2009 to 2018, are about this phenomenon, perhaps most prominently “Shake It Off,” about how “haters gonna hate (hate, hate, hate, hate).” But this theme was shown off in more nuanced ways on albums like “Reputation,” written in response to a feud with Kanye West that she was dragged into.
That she asks the question at all speaks to a broader lack of sympathetic about who this woman is. Swift has spent a pleasant deal of time obfuscating her image, especially recently, when she publicly admitted that years of being in the spotlight had taken a psychological toll. Taylor Swift values her privacy, but this opaqueness has led to many people projecting what they want to see onto her—and these projections often seem, at least to me, inaccurate.
Taylor Swift is a woman who ethics her privacy, but this opaqueness has led to a superb many people projecting what they want to see onto her.
Full of queer energy, the show had one fan screaming ‘Happy Pride Month to me!’
By Chris Azzopardi
On my way to Ford Field in downtown Detroit for the first overnight of Taylor Swift’s brilliant and breathtaking Eras Tour on June 9, I joked with my concert mate that he’d contain to remember the display for me, even though that was my occupation. That is if, of course, he wasn’t about to literally lose his mind, too.
I’d read about the Taylor Swift “amnesia” phenomenon — Swifties reporting that the experience was so overwhelming they felt guilty they couldn’t retain more of it — and I wondered, would the pop magic, all 44 songs, go poof at 11:15 p.m. when Taylor popped off stage? Should I interview 20 Swifties about what happened just in case my mind went blank? What if they couldn’t call to mind all too well, either? Would we all wander around like Dorothy in Taylor’s Oz, Technicolor-dazed and too far from home?
This is how three hours and 20 minutes of Taylor Swift live in Detroit all started — my wild, out-of-body exposure during what has been called “the tour of her generation.” Based on the light research I’d done before the display, I knew the first Detroit Eras Tour cease