Taylor Swift scholars discuss all the ways listeners can and should think about the release.
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Elizabeth Scala teaches a course on Taylor Swift's songbook at the University of Texas at Austin as an introduction to literary studies and research methods. “Insults are everywhere in music, and men don’t get the same flak for it,” Hirsch says, in reference to Dear John and Mean. “There’s this idea that women especially are supposed to take the high road, turn the other cheek and all of that, and men can get away with the low road, and they certainly do in music. It’s a kind of double standard. Women are labeled ‘catty’ when confronting bad behaviour, like in Dear John.
“I’m 33 years old. I don’t care about anything that happened to me when I was 19 except the songs I wrote and the memories we made together. So what I’m trying to tell you is, I’m not putting this album out so you should feel the need to defend me on the internet against someone you think I might have written a song about 14 billion years ago.”
“If we think about 2010, slut-shaming rhetoric certainly existed in movies and shows. She’s certainly not the only one who has done this at that time,” Hirsch argues, quick to point out that Swift has also been the target of sexist vitriol. Technology has changed from 2010. So has Swift: Her voice has matured, no longer possessing the sweet self-restraint that coloured her earliest releases.
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