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.”
Funny…she doesn’t look like a Dixie Chick, but she sounds like one. Over-rated and miseducated.
Same. Dead2me
““homosexuality is sin” and a misspelled “get a brain morans.””
That is STUPID! Everyone knows it’s “maroons”.
No, because they had to sing and play instruments without benefit of autotune and Pro-Tools. They had to sing live, and they weren’t “performers” who got by on choreography and shows staged like a Broadway musical to cover for their lack of talent.
What courage. Bullying the ONLY group in America that it is still “acceptable” to insult. That takes guts!!
I do not think it is a money angle. I think she is a leftist true believer, and now that she has reached the peak of success she feels comfortable espousing her leftist beliefs. I think she's like Kaepernick. She is equally stupid, and has become an enthusiastic proselyte to left-wing causes.
I’ve been listening to classical music in my car (e.g., Mozart, Beethoven, etc.) or discs of my church choir’s cantatas.
Judy Garland at 18 was 100X better than any of the current crop of so-called entertainers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0lNEYbMVpE
Shes a closet lesbian whos not so closrted anymore.
She just went Cher. Next she will be twittering in all caps and nonsensical sentences.
“WTH are the REAL MEN IN ENTERTAINMENT?”
They are not allowed. Heterosexual White Males with a single shred of sexual machismo have been barred from the culture after Axl Rose used the N-Word in a song.
Trust me, I was a rock musician for 25 years and my wife worked for a major record label in New York at the time. She was in the meeting when it was decided.
People think things happen organically but they don’t. Almost over night the natural progression of rock music was cancelled and “Alternative” music was promoted.
For 30 years the music industry was funded by 16 year old girls with David Lee Roth posters on their walls. You think any young ladies have posters of the singer from Radio Head on their wall? Nope! Sexually charged white men are NEVER to be seen again.
I wouldn’t know Taylor Swift if she set up a stage on my front yard and played her greatest hits. She has been/is/always will be nothing to me.
I disagree. “We are the world” didn’t demonize anyone, unlike this video (apparently, I refuse to watch it).
Didn’t take her long to get gobbled up in the PC hysteria and politics.
Her career was probably trending downward and this way she can hang out with the cool kids in Hollywood during her has been days.
“It’s been rumored for quite a while that she’s closeted.”
According to her former boyfriends, she sure acted like it. She has been described as a “dead fish” in bed; kind of asexual.
I’m all for Kanye taking her mic again and kicking her offstage.
“”” I’m sure if she hasn’t already she’ll soon come out in favor of abortion on demand “””
I think that subject was her first foray into political opinion
Any comment from timmy muckgraw in support?
” Get to hear real singers like Dinah Washington and Ella Fitzgerald.”
Or Sarah “Miss Sassy” Vaughan. Her “Brokenhearted Melody” is an absolute classic.
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