Honest Question re: Taylor Swift. Can anyone point to one song

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3. Writer Paul Slansky has a take you might find interesting.

https://paulslansky.medium.com/discovering-taylor-swift-4903aa027efd

I listen to KCSN 88.5, the best station I’ve heard in my many decades in L.A. — here, see why — which apparently deemed Taylor Swift not hip enough to be played by them. In the twelve years that the station has existed in its current format, I was not once exposed to her music there. I’m sure I’d heard some of her hits playing in the background at various moments in my life, but I wasn’t really listening to them. As her career took off and she entered her twenties, I was aware of her mainly for her penchant for serial dating famous young guys, breaking up with them, and writing songs about them. I felt no need to seek out those songs.

Still, I began associating her name with good things. She sued some DJ in Denver in connection with his having grabbed her ass during a drop-in to his station. (For a dollar. Just for the principle of it. And she won.) The experience completely politicized her, and whereas she’d been avowedly apolitical — she’d told David Letterman, “It’s my right to vote, but it’s not my right to tell other people what to do” — she suddenly came out strongly against Tennessee’s lunatic Republican Senate candidate (and, horrifically, now Senator) Marsha Blackburn. In the 2020 Netflix doc Miss Americana, you can watch her coming to terms with her inability to remain silent about her political beliefs, and overruling her father and her management when they warn her not to Dixie Chicks her career. (She didn’t care — she loved the Dixie Chicks for just that reason. And her career remained intact.)

The white supremacists who tried to adopt this tall, beautiful blonde as their Aryan goddess were accurately described by her as “repulsive.” She came out as strongly anti-Trump, but not until 2018, too late for her fans to have maybe put Hillary over the top (which she’s aware of and regrets). And she delivered the sweetest fuck-you ever to the music business when the executives who owned the masters of her first six recordings dickishly refused to sell them to her because she’d left the label. She announced that she’d be re-recording those albums and would be licensing only the new versions.

For all of this, I found myself increasingly respecting Taylor Swift as a public figure. As my wife, Liz Dubelman, said, “I’m happy she exists. I like her political stance, I like the fact that she fights back, I like her as a feminist. She seems to be a good person. People like her a lot.” And still I remained ridiculously ignorant of her art.
Until last November 13th, when we sat down for our usual stone-faced viewing of Saturday Night Live. Now, SNL offers me very few rewards, let alone life-changing ones, so I wasn’t expecting anything until host Jonathan Majors said, “Ladies and gentlemen, Taylor Swift.” I thought, not actually in these words but this was the gist, “Okay, the universe is putting it right in front of me. Let’s finally see what this is all about.”
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