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Posted on 10/06/2025 5:11:05 PM PDT by Drew68
Taylor Swift’s 12th studio album The Life of a Showgirl marks her transition from billionaire mogul to soon-to-be spouse of NFL superstar Travis Kelce. “Did you girlboss too close to the sun?”, for example, is a line from her new song “Cancelled!”. It is an unashamedly conservative-coded record, and not only because she is now approaching matrimony.
At the start of her career, Swift’s politics were oblique. But as time went on, she began to repeat the shibboleths that reflected her young, female fanbase. To mark Pride Month 2019, Swift started a petition in support of the Equality Act. In her song “You Need to Calm Down” from the same year, she doubled down on her LGBTQ ally status, singing: “Shade never made anybody less gay.” In a Guardian interview, she called Donald Trump’s first term as president an “autocracy”, came out as strongly “pro-choice”, and endorsed Hillary Clinton — albeit three years too late. In the vexed summer of 2020, Swift took to what was then Twitter to accuse Trump of “stoking the fires of white supremacy and racism”.
But now, in “Cancelled!”, she bemoans the fans who expect uninterrupted virtue from their celebrity idols: “good thing I like my friends cancelled”. Once a strong believer in the Current Thing, Swift seems to have realised the risks of self-satisfaction: “It’s easy to love you when you’re popular/ The optics click, everyone prospers/ But one single drop, you’re off the roster.”
Anti-smartphone sentiment, another frontier of the conservative movement, abounds in The Life of a Showgirl. There are digs about mindless “trolling and memes” and in the song “Opalite” she directly accuses Kelce’s ex-girlfriend of being addicted to scrolling, saying: “You were in it for real/ She was in her phone.”
“Wi$h Li$t”, meanwhile, is Swift’s ode to pro-natalism. With Kelce, she claims, she suddenly wants to “settle down” and “have a couple kids/ Got the whole block looking like you.” His all-American charm has “got [her] dreaming ‘bout a driveway with a basketball hoop”, on which he’ll presumably teach these übermensch offspring to become sporting greats.
Later in the same song, she distinguishes herself from unmoored progressives, who “want that freedom living off the grid/ Three dogs that they call their kids.” For Swift, the days of embracing the “childless cat lady” label popularised by JD Vance, as she did in endorsing Kamala Harris, are well over,
Pre-Travis, Taylor was adamant not to be reduced to arm candy, singing that “he wanted a bride, I was making my own name” on 2022’s “Midnight Rain”. And yet Swift doesn’t mind when Kelce gives her pet names, as she explains in “Honey”, because “you give it a different meaning”.
“Wood” is a less subtle ode to her fiancee’s assets: “redwood tree, it ain’t hard to see.” The “new heights of manhood” she has found with the Kansas City Chiefs’ tight end are clearly different to life with her ex-boyfriend, actor Joe Alwyn, who helped her embrace political activism. His part in the Sally Rooney universe, playing the brooding male lead in Conversations with Friends, allowed them to rise to the rank of progressive royalty. In her 2020 album Midnights, she empathises with Alwyn’s hesitancy to enter into a traditional union: “I wouldn’t marry me either.” But in “Eldest Daughter” on her new album, she admits that her previous distaste for marriage was a product of culture, not conviction: “When I said I don’t believe in marriage, that was a lie.”
In her first post-release interview, with BBC Radio 1’s Greg James, Swift gifted a loaf of blueberry and lemon sourdough bread to the presenter and invited him to her wedding. Maybe “The Life of a Showgirl” would be better if retitled “The Life of a Tradwife”.
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This X thread (complete with glorious videos of single liberal Millennial women crashing out over Swift's new album) sums it up far better than I can.
"Taylor Swift getting her white picket fence ending is going to mentally holocaust an entire generation of millennial liberal women who were told everything is going to be okay and you don't need no man or babies.
It's going to get ugly."
Women on a pathway to marriage become more conservative, because children are becoming their focus.
She wants it to be so secret she endorsed Kamala.
Nobody bought Swift's gunpoint conversion to wokeness. She's got Republican DNA flowing through her Pennsylvanian gentry-class veins. Always has.
Her endorsement of Kamala consisted of a single tepid social media post. Nothing more. No campaign appearances. No fundraising. Nothing.
I always knew she'd come around.
Now she's writing songs about wanting a bunch of white babies and living in a neighborhood where everyone looks like them.
I think it's hilarious and awesome. Welcome to the party, Taylor!
I barely know who she is, if that much, but it seems the left is sensing something they don’t like and now there are a lot of negative tones when writing about her.
No, she’s just a hypocrite.
Who cares?
The vibe shift cares. That's who.
And the vibe shift is going in the right direction for once.
I'll believe it when I see it with my own eyes.
Taylor Swift did call Tennessee Senator Marsha Blackburn, “Trump in a wig.” Swift would do well to, “Shut up and sing”
Very few pop stars careers survive motherhood...
Same for me.
I read the replies thus far, count me in “who cares” crowd.
Youre right that I cant assume the natural life processes that women go through that often changes their POV and political affiliations will apply to her.
👍
she is just a capitalist
She’s a billionaire, doubt if she gives a rats ass what a bunch of libtard scumbags think of her.
Agreed.
Her singing doesn’t impress me.
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