{"id":803959,"date":"2020-02-07T11:29:31","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T18:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=949495"},"modified":"2020-02-07T11:29:31","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T18:29:31","slug":"taylor-swift-confronts-sexism-in-animated-the-man-lyric-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/taylor-swift-confronts-sexism-in-animated-the-man-lyric-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift Confronts Sexism in Animated \u2018The Man\u2019 Lyric Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/TaylorSwift.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/taylor-swift\/\">Taylor Swift<\/a> has released an animated lyric video for her&nbsp;<em>Lover<\/em> track \u201cThe Man,\u201d a confrontation of workplace sexism and Swift\u2019s own struggles to rise to the top of her industry. The video depicts a woman trying to get ahead (literally) in a maze-like city full of men and staircases that lead to nowhere. Towards the end, she gets a helping hand from another woman, learning that the true path to success is by lifting each other up.<\/p>\n<p><em>Miss Americana<\/em>, the documentary following Swift\u2019s life during the making of 2019\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Lover<\/em> and her recent political involvements, is now available to stream on Netflix. The film <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/movies\/movie-features\/taylor-swift-miss-americana-sundance-2020-942369\/\">opened at Sundance<\/a> to a positive reception and it contains a new song from the artist, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/taylor-swift-only-the-young-miss-americana-946018\/\">\u201cOnly the Young.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think girls in our society are taught that other people\u2019s approval is of paramount importance to their self-worth,\u201d director Lana Wilson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/taylor-swift-miss-americana-lana-wilson-director-945678\/\">told <em>Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a>. \u201cI really related to those questions of: \u2018Was I nice enough? Do they like me? Are people mad at me?\u2019 When I heard Taylor verbalize that, I was just like, \u2018Oh my God. I can\u2019t believe it. I can\u2019t believe it.\u2019 And I thought it would be so comforting and relatable to so many women to know that, even if you\u2019re a celebrity at the highest level, you still ask yourself those questions.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/taylor-swift-the-man-lyric-video-949495\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taylor Swift has released an animated lyric video for her&nbsp;Lover track \u201cThe Man,\u201d a confrontation of workplace sexism and Swift\u2019s own struggles to rise to the top of her industry. The video depicts a woman trying to get ahead (literally) in a maze-like city full of men and staircases that lead to nowhere. Towards the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-803959","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-23 09:17:20","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}