Then they send me the one with Taylor Swift on the cover. Not knowing (or caring) who she was, I said what the hell is a 14 year old boy doing on the cover of Maxim?
Posted on 06/19/2019 5:37:32 AM PDT by Cronos
Pop superstar Taylor Swift is doubling down on her new social justice warrior persona with the release of her latest music video, a full-blown LGBT anthem that depicts those who hold a Christian view of homosexuality and a bilogical view of sex as angry, dim-witted rednecks.
NBC News describes the video for “You Need to Calm Down” as a “vibrantly colored, surreal” trek through a “pastel-colored trailer park, with anti-LGBT protesters being faced down or ignored by the flamboyantly dressed stars” that “culminates with [sic] a massive foot fight.” Celebrity guests include Katy Perry, Ellen Degeneres, Ryan Reynolds, and Laverne Cox.
The video includes caricatures of anti-LGBT protesters as screaming rednecks with cartoonish hair and tattered clothes, bearing signs such as “homosexuality is sin” and a misspelled “get a brain morans.”
“You are somebody that we don’t know, but you are coming at my friends like a missile,” Swift sings. “Why are you mad? When you could be GLAAD?” (The official lyrics video spells the word “glad” with two A’s, a reference to the LGBT activist group.) The lyrics also tell the straw-man version of Swift’s foes that they “would rather be in the dark ages” and need to “control your urges to scream about all the people you hate, ’cause shade never made anybody less gay.”
The video ends with text exhorting viewers: “Let’s show our pride by demanding that, on a national level, our laws truly treat all of our citizens equally. Please sign my petition for Senate support of the Equality Act on change.org.”
The so-called Equality Act would add “sex,” “sexual orientation,” and “gender identity” to federal “non-discrimination” categories in “public accommodations,” expand the definition of “public accomodations” to include recreation, shopping, online retailers, health care services, and other kinds of establishments, and force anyone employing 15 or more people to recognize their claimed “gender identity” and mandate transgender “access” to opposite-sex restrooms, locker rooms, and dressing rooms.
“Taylor Swift is one of the world’s biggest pop stars. The fact that she continues to use her platform and music to support the LGBTQ community and the Equality Act is a true sign of being an ally,” GLAAD director of talent engagement Anthony Ramos said. “‘You Need to Calm Down’ is the perfect Pride anthem, and we’re thrilled to see Taylor standing with the LGBTQ community to promote inclusivity, equality, and acceptance this Pride month.”
For years, liberals attacked Swift for her relative silence on political and cultural causes. She gave in to the pressure last year, first by endorsing Tennessee’s former Democrat governor Phil Bredesen in his failed Senate race against Republican Marsha Blackburn. In April, the country-turned-pop star donated $113,000 to the left-wing Tennessee Equality Project (TEP) to combat a series of bills before the Tennessee legislature to protect private entities’ religious and conscience rights and reject state recognition of same-sex “marriage.” Swift and TEP dubbed the legislation a “Slate of Hate.”
Stupid, stupid Taylor joining the ranks of stupid, stupid Madonna. But this question is easy: Yes, Jesus would tell them, because He already did... the words said to the woman caught in adultery are both a word of mercy and of confrontation for our depraved society—“Neither do I condemn you. Go, and from now on do not sin any more” (John 8:11).
You don’t get more “telling someone what to do” than that.
So they take ‘pride’ in where they stick their genitals
SOOOO stupid-Like Liberal politicians. It’s quite a plan....
“I hate you and you are a jerk...but please vote for me (or in HER case) buy my recordings”
How’s that gonna work?
I’ll have to check that out. I’m a yankee (ex-yankee really) and was always a classic rock guy but I do like bluegrass. Discovered it a few years back.
Check out the Peasall sisters on youtube. Their version of “Where no one stands alone” is the best. There was a small sample of it at the beginning of True Grit.
There’s a live version of their original song Gray County Line and the youngest one just oozes talent hitting multiple octaves. She plays the fiddle and a member or the Carter family taught her. They do a few Carter Sisters songs too. They broke up. Decided they didn’t want that life. Probably not a bad decision.
bilogical
Should be biological
I was wondering what happened to rock. There was new rock being made as recently as 10-15 years ago and then it disappeared. I didn’t like all of it but some was good.
“For years, liberals attacked Swift for her relative silence on political and cultural causes. “
And they are still attacking her. Some major outlets on the left are taking Swift to task for all the gay stereotypes that appear in the video.
Her career, for all intents and purposes, will be over in a year. Like all radical leftists in the entertainment “business” she forgot that not everyone is continually indoctrinated in her beliefs.
Her run was over anyway.
Her career doesn't end. It just becomes mediocre. 1989 was one of the greatest pop albums of all time. The stuff she's releasing now is as sweet, manufactured (and forgettable) as a can of Pepsi.
At least Madonna somewhat separates her political speech from her entertainment.
Uhhhh, no.
MADONNA COMPARES JOHN MCCAIN TO HITLER AT TOUR OPENER
Pretty much listen to foreign music now. I know too much about American and British celebrities.
New Rock is there, it’s just not on the radio. But really at this point all the good rock music has already been made and everything now is a derivative.
Came across a far superior song with a polar opposite message that might make you feel better.
I really wish I came across this years earlier.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9KQ4_uH1RA
Such a terrible and unlistenable song to boot. Definitely a shark jumping moment.
i don’t follow TS, but why piss off your fans that are NOT pro homo??? Just sing. Make $$ and support your causes quietly.
I’m thinking that the One who destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah because of the presence of it there will be the Eternal Judge, and not Taylor Swift.
Then they send me the one with Taylor Swift on the cover. Not knowing (or caring) who she was, I said what the hell is a 14 year old boy doing on the cover of Maxim?
“I’ve been listening to classical music in my car”
Why was practically all of the classical music that’s played today was written a long time ago?
The obvious answer is that people don’t like the new compositions. That being the case, why don’t today’s composers play closer attention to the old stuff?
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