#what is it about me and musicians named paul 😭😭

[mayfriend]

re the "taylor swift is not gay people music" she has three songs (betty, dorothea, how you get the girl) where she sings romantically to a girl like. why has the veil of heteronormativity somehow always been opaque here😭😭

im really not interested in getting into a discussion here but i'll just say that as a queer woman who listens to taylor swift more than i really want to admit to, she spent... a long fucking time not commenting on anything lgbt related. and listen, I personally don't have a problem with that, I don't think a celebrity necessarily needs to comment on social issues, but simply not speaking out to either support or condemn homophobia is something that other celebrities have been absolutely crucified for (chrispratt) then, when she did speak in support, she almost immediately released the music video for 'you need to calm down' which to me very much felt like the good old corporation 'slap a rainbow on it and watch the gays buy from us'. this is the music video that had cameos from laverne cox, ellen degeneres, hayley kiyoko, adam lambert, billy porter, the fab five and ru paul - i think it was probably made with good intentions, but it felt incredibly performative, like hey!! look what a great ally taylor swift is!!

moving on from that -- i really do love betty, it's easily my favourite song from folklore, but it's written from the pov of a man. specifically, a guy called james. its linked to two other songs from the same album august and cardigan, as a fictional love triangle between three high schoolers - james was with betty, then cheated on her with inez, who is the narrator of august, as betty is the singer of cardigan. so, not gay. dorothea was from evermore, which was dropped a few months after folklore, but taylor herself confirmed that dorothea was ALSO part of the james/betty/inez storyline, but not a direct continuation - she 'went to the same school' as they did. the song itself COULD be from a woman's perspective, and it is from an 'old flame' of dorothea's, but seeing the betty situation above, the fact that a woman sings it doesn't mean its automatically from a woman's POV. but, you're right, it could be. finally, I always read 'how you get the girl' as swift talking to a guy who has absolutely no follow through, and simply can't figure out how to keep a woman, and this is her laying it out to him like 'yo. this is how you keep me. shape the fuck up' but!! that's just my interpretation, there's nothing explicitly linking it to a guy. so yeah, again. it COULD be. but it's not definitive.

also, this may be nothing, but of the three songs you named, not one has been a single. compare this to what i personally consider 'gay people music': mary lambert's she keeps me warm (a lesbian singing about loving a woman) and know your name (explicitly has lambert asking the subject if she likes girls), girl in red (which i know is being discarded as too mainstream now but still includes the absolutely crucial lyrics 'they're so pretty it hurts/I'm not talking bout boys I'm talking bout girls' which explicitly confirms a) queerness and b) the open and outright rejection of the automatic het assumption that swift has, to my knowledge, never done openly), wrabel's the village (which is just. ugh. Fucking stunning. religiously traumatised gays rise up), semler's whole album preacher's kid along the same lines --- and even songs by (gasp) cishet musicians which have been adopted by the gay community as a whole: im talking 'i am what I am' by gloria gaynor, 'take me to church' by hozier---

i spent way longer on this reply than i meant to but i just want to be clear. I like taylor swift's music. I mostly like her, she's unoffensive and fairly straightforward. but her music isn't gay people music, I'm sorry; it might be one day, but it simply isn't right now. Things don't have to match every part of your identity for you to like them. I, a gay person, can like music that is not gay people music. I contain multitudes etc.

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