{"id":2447819,"date":"2019-08-21T11:24:46","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T17:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=874631"},"modified":"2019-08-21T11:24:46","modified_gmt":"2019-08-21T17:24:46","slug":"taylor-swift-ruins-spelling-for-an-entire-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/taylor-swift-ruins-spelling-for-an-entire-generation\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift Ruins Spelling For an Entire Generation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Taylor Swift<\/a> is supposed to be all-powerful. She\u2019s a titan of industry who can sway markets, bend wills, and convince the minds of millions. But in April, the limitations of Swift\u2019s powers were laid bare during the bridge of Lover<\/em><\/a>\u2018s lead single, \u201cMe!\u201d<\/a> featuring Brendon Urie. \u201cHey kids. Spelling is fun!\u201d the lauded singer-songwriter proclaimed with her entire chest, despite historical analysis proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that spelling is quite possibly antithesis of \u201cfun.\u201d Predictably, the backlash was swift. The line showed a level of audacity rarely seen in the upper echelons of pop<\/a>. Who was Taylor to try to sell a critical re-evaluation of spelling?<\/p>\n

Almost four agonizing months later, balance has been mostly restored. On Wednesday, two days before the release of her next album, the lyric was scrubbed from the Apple Music version of \u201cMe!\u201d The \u201cspelling is cool\u201d version is still available on Spotify, but will likely be replaced soon.<\/p>\n

In April, Swift tried to explain away the spelling controversy by labeling \u201cMe!\u201d \u201cWith this song, we really just wanted to have this song not really be fully taking itself seriously,\u201d Swift said during an interview on the The Hit Network\u2019s Carrie and Tommy<\/a>. \u201cSo the lyrics, that\u2019s a tone decision that we made in the studio. We literally were like, okay, let\u2019s say \u2018Hey, kids! Spelling is fun\u2019 because we want everyone to know that this song is not really serious because it\u2019s not, like, a serious love song.\u201d<\/p>\n

Taylor Swift\u2019s team did not respond to a request for comment from Rolling Stone<\/em>.<\/p>\n