every single fucking thing Taylor Swift does or lyric she writes is manipulatively passive. she's never responsible for anything.
the more i think about it, the more annoyed i am at "Look What You Made Me Do" as both a single and just a linguistic statement.
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"you belong with me"--but why? you're not a deserving person that someone would be attracted to for her own qualities. you're whiny & boring
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"shake it off" -- i'm gonna ignore all your valid criticism of me because i don't care
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"we are never ever ever ever ad infinitum getting back together" -- no one asked you to. you're not that special. blah.
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"Mean" -- i'm moving to the big city and you're always gonna be horrible cuz you were mean to me back in the day. YAWN.
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"Look What You Made Me Do" -- i didn't want to boil this bunny Fatal Attraction style but you made me do it so i'm not responsible.
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which leads me to another point -- she has a lot of weird criminal stalker-isn sounding lyrics from her no responsibility vantage point.
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"22" -- i'm feeling 22 so if you want to feel good/young too you better keep me next to you or else you'll be screwed.
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"Bad Blood" -- i'm a feminist but i hate this other chick and she made me do it -- "take a look what you've done"
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everything in her music is a passive threat to the listener to keep liking her OR ELSE. she literally is Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction.
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then when someone gets more attention, she co-opts their style, music, video. AKA SHE IS COPYING BEYONCÉ'S FORMATION from a mayo perspective
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&she stays getting credit/accolades and i'm just so so so tired of her bullshit. i do not care how many tear drops she sheds on her guitar.
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she can't even play more than 5 basic chords on that guitar anyway. UGHGHGHG
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let's keep going: "Blank Space"--woah the video. but also passive in its construction of blank. love me forever or i'll set you on fire.
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"Out of the Woods" -- no we're not out of the woods because you won't shut the fuck up and just look up some directions.
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"Wildest Dreams:" "say you'll remember me wearing..." NO I'LL REMEMBER YOU AS A STALKER. next.
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even "I Knew You Were Trouble"--she almost takes responsibility but still deflects to victim. she's on the cold hard ground. blah.
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never forget how close "You Belong With Me" sounds to "You Belong TO Me" either. i'll never get over that mess of a song.
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& all the while she's waiting with prom gown in her closet ready to follow her neighbor to the prom in full make-up at a second's notice.
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Taylor Swift is truly the music Single White Female/Fatal Attraction white woman done wrong as victim regardless of all else. disgusting.
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esp bc young girls eat this shit up as a version of "feminism." Swift claims it & touts the label but undermines the politics at every turn.
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CONTRAST all of this w/ basically ever single Beyoncé lyric: the singer is always empowered, active. no victimization even in pain.
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it's a conscious choice for Taylor to construct EVERYTHING she does this way. her feminism is abt victim status & that's no feminism at all
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she's "empowering" girls and women to fully accept the role of victim and use it to their advantage. THAT'S NOT FEMINISM.
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it ignores why WOC align w/ men in some situations. it ignores INTERSECTIONALITY completely. it defines "agency" as white women's property.
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but look what we made Taylor Swift do, i guess... look what we made her do...
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