Taylor swift gay songs
Let’s stop speculating about Taylor Swift’s sexuality
In her lyric “22,” Taylor Swift wryly asks the question, “Who’s Taylor Swift anyway? Ew.”
As difficult as it may be to believe, it was once very fresh to hate Taylor Swift. Many of her songs from that era, stretching from roughly 2009 to 2018, are about this phenomenon, perhaps most prominently “Shake It Off,” about how “haters gonna loathe (hate, hate, hate, hate).” But this theme was shown off in more nuanced ways on albums like “Reputation,” written in response to a feud with Kanye West that she was dragged into.
That she asks the question at all speaks to a broader lack of understanding about who this woman is. Swift has spent a fine deal of time obfuscating her image, especially recently, when she publicly admitted that years of existence in the spotlight had taken a psychological toll. Taylor Swift values her privacy, but this opaqueness has led to many people projecting what they want to see onto her—and these projections often seem, at least to me, inaccurate.
Taylor Swift is a woman who principles her privacy, but this opaqueness has led to a great many people projecting what they wish for to see onto her.
It’s my blog and I’ll do what I wish with it.
Okay, so Taylor Swift recently has been being an icon and inviting gay celebs to perform with her. Troye Sivan. And then… Hayley Kiyoko, aka a vaguely-obscure-in-most-circles singer who also has the nickname “lesbian Jesus.”
Listen, no matter what, I actually think it’s amazing that such a high-powered artist invited a biracial Japanese lesbian artist to perform with her in front of like, forty thousand fucking people. That’s really good and I’m really proud of Hayley for getting so far.
So in honor of Taylor Swift being an Ally, here are my superior twenty picks for Taylor Swift songs that grant off strong gay vibes.
20. The Entirety of Red
Start this off with a bang and a warm take. So Red is the era where Taylor Swift’s music started really giving off gay vibes, and became deeply deeply sapphic, more than ever before. The love songs on this album, specifically, are generally a lot more gender neutral than like, anything that came before. This applies specifically to the pining breakup songs, like the very gender neutral and lowkey gay All Too Adv and the just as gay I Almost Do,
forevermore; — 31 Taylor Swift songs, interpreted from a queer...
Taylor Swift is optimal known and beloved as a storyteller, often weaving personal details, cultural references, and double entendres into her songs.
“I love to communicate via Easter eggs. I think the finest messages are cryptic ones,” she told Entertainment Weekly in 2019. She cited clothing, jewelry, and music-video sets as favored hiding spots, adding that she has been “encoding messages into the lyrics” since her debut album in 2006.
Because Swift is proudly meticulous and intentional with her art, fans delight in dissecting her lyrics and visuals, treating each album like a route of breadcrumbs to be found and interpreted.
A certain branch of Swifties, established as “Gaylors,” have extended found queer subtext and themes in her melody — particularly sapphic listeners who find solace and camaraderie in Swift’s accounts of quiet yearning, forbidden love, and female intimacy.
In fact, some believe that dismissing the queer narratives in Swift’s music does “a disservice to her genius and lyrical prowess.”
Songs like “Welcome to Fresh York” and “You Demand to Calm Down” praise overt nods to LGBTQ causes, while oth
43 Taylor Swift songs, interpreted from a queer perspective
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- Taylor Swift fans have elongated found queer subtext and themes in her music.
- Songs like "Dress," "Betty," and "When Emma Falls In Love" could be interpret as tales of sapphic yearning.
- Here's a breakdown of 43 songs in Swift's catalog from a gender non-conforming perspective.
Taylor Swift is finest known and beloved as a storyteller, often weaving personal details, cultural references, and double entendres into her songs.
"I love to communicate via Easter eggs. I think the optimal messages are cryptic ones," she told Entertainment Weekly in 2019. She cited clothing, jewelry, and music-video sets as favored hiding spots, adding that she has been "encoding messages into the lyrics" since her debut album in 2006.
Because Swift is proudly meticulous and intentional with her art, fans delight in dissecting her lyrics and visuals, treating each album lik
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