{"id":2447321,"date":"2019-08-08T09:03:14","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T15:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=868637"},"modified":"2019-08-08T09:03:14","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T15:03:14","slug":"taylor-swift-shares-how-todrick-hall-prompted-her-lgbtq-rights-activism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/taylor-swift-shares-how-todrick-hall-prompted-her-lgbtq-rights-activism\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift Shares How Todrick Hall Prompted Her LGBTQ Rights Activism"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Taylor Swift<\/a> explained her decision to speak up about LGBTQ<\/a> issues in a new interview with Vogue<\/em>.<\/a> The singer also gave more context to her Reputation <\/em>era.<\/p>\n

Swift addresses the LGBTQ community directly through her song \u201cYou Need to Calm Down\u201d as well as its star-studded video, but the need to do so was prompted by her friend Todrick Hall<\/a>. \u201cMaybe a year or two ago, Todrick and I are in the car, and he asked me, What would you do if your son was gay<\/em>? The fact that he had to ask me . . . shocked me and made me realize that I had not made my position clear enough or loud enough,\u201d she says. \u201cIf my son was gay, he\u2019d be gay. I don\u2019t understand the question.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Swift said it was \u201cdevastating\u201d that she had not been \u201cclear\u201d on her stance as a supporter of gay rights, though songs like \u201cWelcome to New York\u201d and the video for \u201cMean\u201d had offered some pro-LGBTQ messaging. She explained further that the current political climate made the timing more prescient.<\/p>\n

\u201cRights are being stripped from basically everyone who isn\u2019t a straight white cisgender male,\u201d she said. \u201cI didn\u2019t realize until recently that I could advocate for a community that I\u2019m not a part of. It\u2019s hard to know how to do that without being so fearful of making a mistake that you just freeze. Because my mistakes are very loud. When I make a mistake, it echoes through the canyons of the world. It\u2019s clickbait, and it\u2019s a part of my life story, and it\u2019s a part of my career arc.\u201d<\/p>\n

The singer-songwriter also explained the intent behind her controversial Reputation<\/em> era as well as her decision to reclaim her own privacy during that time. She noted how it followed her feud with Kim Kardashian and Kanye West over West\u2019s song \u201cFamous,\u201d which has a lyric about Swift. She called her \u201ccancellation\u201d via a leaked phone call and sea of snake emojis on her Instagram an \u201cisolating experience,\u201d especially given the violent nature of some messages.<\/p>\n

\u201cI realized I needed to restructure my life because it felt completely out of control,\u201d she explained. \u201cI knew immediately I needed to make music about it because I knew it was the only way I could survive it. It was the only way I could preserve my mental health and also tell the story of what it\u2019s like to go through something so humiliating.\u201d<\/p>\n

Swift called the version of herself she portrayed during Reputation<\/em> both a \u201ccharacter\u201d and a \u201cmetaphor,\u201d with the dark aesthetic and harsher sound. \u201cI think a lot of people, with Reputation<\/em>, would have perceived that I had torn down the house. Actually, I just built a bunker around it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Taylor Swift\u2019s seventh album, Lover<\/em>, will be out on August 23rd. She will perform at the MTV Video Music Awards that weekend as well.<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Taylor Swift explained her decision to speak up about LGBTQ issues in a new interview with Vogue. The singer also gave more context to her Reputation era. Swift addresses the LGBTQ community directly through her song \u201cYou Need to Calm Down\u201d as well as its star-studded video, but the need to do so was prompted by her friend […]<\/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":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2447321","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-25 23:52:53","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":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2447321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2447321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2447321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2447321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}