Posted on 05/28/2019 9:42:06 AM PDT by Red Badger
Pop megastar Taylor Swift revealed in a recent interview that she has no plans to give up her political activism mere months after her failed effort to help elect former Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen (D) to the U.S. Senate.
“I definitely think there are political undertones in the new music I made,” Taylor Swift told the German publication RTL. “I’m not planning to stop encouraging young people to vote and to try to get them to talk about what’s going on in our country. I think that’s one of the most important things I could do.”
In October 2018, Swift shocked the entertainment world by breaking her long-held silence on politics with an endorsement of Bredesen for U.S. Senate and Democrat Jim Cooper for U.S. House of Representatives, citing their record on LGBT issues.
“As much as I have in the past and would like to continue voting for women in office, I cannot support Marsha Blackburn,” Shake It Off singer wrote. “Her voting record in Congress appalls and terrifies me. She voted against equal pay for women. She voted against the Reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, which attempts to protect women from domestic violence, stalking, and date rape. She believes businesses have a right to refuse service to gay couples. She also believes they should not have the right to marry. These are not MY Tennessee values.”
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I couldn’t name one song that Ms. Dingleberry sings. Who knew communist rock n roll was a seller.
Bet she is being pressured into doing this.
Hey Taylor! Remember the Dixie Chicks? You might want to learn from their example.
The queen of Autotune speaks.
Get woke, go broke.
technically she sings country music, not rock, but I get your point, it is hard to tell the difference these days. LOL
Taylor Swift isn’t too Swift is she?
No kidding. Another musical artist off my list.
I don't want to hear politics when I go to a music performance. Sad, I like her music.
‘..hard to tell the difference..’
Country/Rock = Crock
Sign. Another idiot trying to pretend they can do anything other than act or sing.
STFU, beeatch, and sing (which is questionable to those of us who actually love good music).
No kidding. Not to mention that her “music” puts me to sleep.
Both my daughters, 25 and 22, love her as does my wife. This won’t change things with them. They block that sort of thing. While I’m boycotting Target, Starbucks etc, they just continue. I wish I was capable of doing that. I’m not.
"...Taylor Swift..."
I know several b-list celebrities. They all say that their managers tell them to do this or they lose opportunities.
At this point she can afford to alienate everyone.
Every domain of activity is now complicit — things are getting somewhat TOTAL-itarian.
Bye Felicia
Simply tell them that if they buy her stuff they are enabling her politics of abortion and gay lifestyles...............
swift does have a few good points.
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