It has been A WEEK!
Simply seven days after the midnight launch of Taylor Swift‘s twelfth album, The Lifetime of a Showgirl has inexplicably grow to be her most controversial. However are the lyrics actually that offensive? Or is it the listeners who bought… bizarre?
Look, we’re not speaking concerning the intentional spicy strains, like Really Romantic seemingly igniting a feud with Charli XCX, letting everybody know she might need her extra controversial buddies’ backs on CANCELLED!, or getting dirtier than she’s ever gotten singing about Travis Kelce‘s Wooden. All that we anticipated. No, these are takes we might by no means have anticipated as a result of, effectively… frankly they’re such leaps in logic they defy motive!
Tradwife Propaganda
Listeners are deciphering her want to get married and have kids as… conservative tradwife propaganda. Um… WHAT?!?
Y’all. The patriarchal tradwife factor isn’t about wanting a husband and youngsters. It’s really the alternative! That’s about girls being pressured into the place of being a full-time spouse and child manufacturing unit — as a result of they’re seen because the property of males. Taylor saying she needs that stuff for herself is making a selection.
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As this fan succinctly explains:
“The entire level of feminism is that we wish girls to do no matter they need to do.”
@mariaisalright genuinely the craziest take I’ve heard, go contact grass. #lifeofashowgirl #motherhood #marriage
Taylor isn’t being anti-feminist right here. She’s simply telling everybody what she needs. Which we should always all be nice with. LOVE IS LOVE, do not forget that? It really works the opposite means, too!
Additionally, let’s not neglect, even when Tay retired proper now she’d stay one of the crucial profitable people of their chosen area OF ALL TIME. That’s not what a tradwife is. Tradwives are mainly youngsters drafted into marriage like chattel. Taylor appears nice, however let’s not neglect she’s 35 years previous! And richer than her husband-to-be by A LOT. This ain’t that.
Oh, and Tay herself stated she’s NOT retiring simply because she bought married. And in reality she finds that assumption “shockingly offensive” by the way in which.
Additionally from WI$H LI$T? Some “followers” someway pulled the thought Taylor needs to propagate the white race like she’s Elon Musk. Why? As a result of she sang about eager to:
“Have a pair children, bought the entire block wanting such as you”
See, Trav is a white man, so she clearly is saying she solely needs everybody on the block to be white. And voila, the track about not being into fashionable materialistic wishes is definitely… selling eugenics.
Yeah. It’s all too actual.
IM ACTUALLY SOBBING WHAT THE FUCK IS SHE TALKING ABOUT ?????????? pic.twitter.com/8JtAEiCoS3
— faithmae is a showgirl❤️???? (@yailslut) October 10, 2025
You may see much more about that concept and the Swifties blasting it HERE. (Oh, and in addition take a hearken to Kylie Kelce hilariously explaining why that’s a lot funnier if you recognize the Kelces and their frustratingly dominant genes.)
Additionally, right here’s a response we actually love from Saints tight finish Juwan Johnson and his spouse Chanen…
@juandchan And nothing like me???????? #juandchan
So. Cute. Too dangerous Juwan is clearly a white supremacist, proper? Y’all see how ridiculous you sound now??
Homophobia
In her monitor Really Romantic, Tay takes a brand new tactic on the diss monitor. She likens somebody’s nonstop, compulsive hatred of her to, effectively… a romantic obsession. She’s mainly saying that Charli XCX — or whoever it’s about, a couple of individual in all chance — speaking about her on a regular basis doesn’t really feel harmful, it’s innocent. It’s even flattering, like a crush.
However there’s a contingent who’re simply champing on the bit to name out Taylor for being homophobic, so they are saying it’s homosexual panic. They determine since she’s a lady and Charli is a lady, she’s mainly calling somebody homosexual as an insult…
Neglect the actual fact Taylor loves the LGBTQ group, was the primary pop star to forged a trans actor as a love curiosity in a music video, and has been vocal politically principally about this subject.
She doesn’t discuss politics a lot, however she did tweet in 2021 that she had her “Fingers crossed and praying that the Senate will see trans and lgbtq rights as primary human rights.” In 2018, she additionally spoke out towards the anti-LGBT laws of Tennessee congresswoman Marsha Blackburn, saying:
“I imagine within the struggle for LGBTQ rights, and that any type of discrimination based mostly on sexual orientation or gender is WRONG. I imagine that the systemic racism we nonetheless see on this nation in the direction of individuals of shade is terrifying, sickening and prevalent. I can not vote for somebody who is not going to be prepared to struggle for dignity for ALL People, irrespective of their pores and skin shade, gender or who they love.”
You may hearken to what she’s explicitly saying concerning the matter… or you may infer that she secretly means no matter makes her look the worst. A kind of selections respects her and offers her company.
Racism & Misogynoir
Oof, OK, it is a huge one.
There’s a concept that Taylor isn’t solely racist however particularly obsessive about Black girls — because it pertains to the boys she dates. Travis Kelce’s most up-to-date longterm relationship earlier than her was with a lady named Kayla Nicole — and critics are pairing that with some lyrics and doing a hop, skip, and a leap to… misogynoir, the hatred of Black girls.
The pop delight Opalite is fairly clearly about Tay’s new romance with Trav. She sings about why that is relationship feels so proper compared with previous ones. Meaning, sure, a little bit of a swipe at Kayla. Tay sings:
“You couldn’t perceive it / Why you felt alone / You had been in it for actual / She was in her cellphone / And also you had been only a pose”
Of us have taken this to be about Kayla not simply because she was Trav’s most up-to-date ex but in addition due to resurfaced video of the NFL star and his then-WAG dwelling this actual situation.
That’s nothing unsuitable with a songwriter singing about their very own relationship, and that is all private stuff. We simply realize it as a result of Taylor is essentially the most scrutinized lady alive! However once more, nothing about race in any respect.
Nevertheless, on the similar time, the entire track makes use of the metaphor of opalite, a shiny, glittery man-made gemstone, to symbolize happiness, whereas the black mineral onyx is used to symbolize tough occasions. Persons are deciphering this to say relationship Black girls was what made Trav upset, now he’s together with her and all is white on the earth. It’s SUCH a stretch.
thoughts you the one individuals complaining about this are WHITW pic.twitter.com/Vhpq7Gb3cI
— connor (@tayspenjamin) October 9, 2025
Darkness, night time, stormy climate, all traditional representations of unhappiness — ones which Tay additionally makes use of within the track. And sunshine and lightweight symbolize security, rescue, and hope. Why? Nicely, they beautiful a lot at all times have all through human historical past. In all probability one thing to do with early man getting misplaced to predators and accidents within the scary darkish, and being safer when it was brighter and everybody might see? In any case, it’s like all of tradition, 1000’s of poems, songs, performs, movies…
However when Taylor does it it’s an indication she’s been secretly racist all this time?? Come on, now! Actually??
We’ll let some people clarify who’ve a little bit extra experience…
Want all of the haters to hearken to this pic.twitter.com/eOeF3xbqbG
— b (@bravoswiftiie) October 10, 2025
@brookeg28 Breaking information: phrases imply issues. #taylorswift #swifttok #tloas #swiftie
However significantly, Taylor has ALWAYS, fairly constantly been towards racism. She had the braveness to blast the President of america for “stoking the fires of white supremacy and racism.” And she or he’s been reaping his wrath ever since.
And when white nationalists tried to embrace her as an “Aryan goddess” in 2019, she did what Trump was by no means prepared to do after they embraced him — she very clearly and explicitly denounced them, telling The Guardian:
“There’s actually nothing worse than white supremacy. It’s repulsive. There needs to be no place for it.”
You may hearken to what she says when she’s not being poetic, making her emotions on the matter clear! Or… You may hearken to a track about discovering happiness, wherein she sings:
“You had been dancing by way of the lightning strikes / Sleepless within the onyx night time / However now the sky is opalite”
And assume her secret intention is to take down Black girls. Sigh.
Not Political Sufficient??
Along with those that suppose the entire album is a MAGA canine whistle, there are others complaining about Taylor not getting political. For actual! We’ve seen tons of posts the place individuals are saying Tay isn’t talking to the political second.
Needed to block one in all my favourite TikTokers (she talks about geography) trigger she listened to Showgirl and complained about it not having a track about Palestine pic.twitter.com/lA5KPqJd67
— w (@wilklore) October 9, 2025
And this isn’t simply TikTokers both, we’ve seen precise music critics write complete suppose items about this!
We imply, at the least it’s correct? This album isn’t political. However Tay has by no means actually made political music. It’s principally been about her relationships, her emotions, what it’s like for a woman going by way of huge life moments… It’s all actually private stuff. Interpretations of politics simply aren’t her factor.
There are many folks and traditional rock and punk bands to go to for that type of factor. Like, if Inexperienced Day put out Dookie II proper now? And fully ignored the rise of fascism? After American Fool? We might see their followers being fairly upset in them. However this seems like ordering pizza and complaining there isn’t sufficient standup comedy on it.
It’s OK to make one thing enjoyable and cheerful if that’s your present! And we’ll let this Swiftie give everybody a superb rationalization WHY!
I reside in fucking warzone and Taylor’s music is among the solely issues protecting me going, so go away her the fuck alone. She’s one of many solely good issues about your nation, actually. https://t.co/s5dkJU1Cas
— Marie❤️???? (Taylor’s Model) (@harrypurplebow) October 10, 2025
The WILDEST Takes
Stuff will get crazier. The worst religion takes are literally saying Tay’s album is someway celebrating the genocide in Gaza… Or that Taylor evaluating a hater to “a toy Chihuahua barking at me from a tiny purse” is racist towards… are you able to guess? Asians! Sure, as a result of apparently Chihuahua is a “slur to Asian or half Asian individuals” — ignoring the context that it’s a well known canine breed, and he or she’s explicitly utilizing the time period within the context of the canine breed.
…. No phrases pic.twitter.com/zN5F94qd7J
— caden⸆⸉ ❤️???? (@caden3123) October 7, 2025
However one of the crucial insulting? We’ve seen a number of sizzling takes from critics saying Taylor was about to grow to be transphobic. Not that she’s at present transphobic, not that there’s any proof of that in any respect. No, they’re going full Minority Report and saying they only really feel of their intestine that she’s going to go full JK Rowling any second.
They’re calling Taylor a transphobe bc she doesn’t care about on-line losers opinions pic.twitter.com/KMSVyj9pTq
— Sam (@SamPlommer) October 8, 2025
As a trans lady it’s disappointing to see how individuals right here fetisize concerning the greatest superstar on the earth being a transphobe
She was the primary main straight artist who forged a trans man as her love curiosity. Cease utilizing trans individuals as your pawns on this disgusting narrative https://t.co/SZpC7uPMs6
— • (@blindinqlights) October 9, 2025
What’s essentially the most epically far-reaching take YOU’VE seen about The Lifetime of a Showgirl??
[Image via Taylor Swift/Charli XCX/YouTube/Travis Kelce/Kayla Nicole/Instagram.]
