![]() Throughout the album, Swift also sings about the subject she sings and writes about better than everyone else: short relationships gone awry. The repetitive choruses are as catchy as the best Madge singles and come across as poppy without in-your-face dubstep drops or the overt cuteness of "Shake It Off." On "Out of the Woods" and "Blank Space," her new album's best track, Swift sounds like a natural pop singer. And then " Out of the Woods" came bursting out in screaming color, and everything changed. As Bradley Stern wrote on his popular blog MuuMuse:Įven when Taylor Swift announced (via global livestream on Yahoo, as one does) that her next endeavor would be an "80s inspired" pop record (the musical equivalent of incorporating florals for spring- groundbreaking!), followed immediately by the debut of her horn-heavy, hater-shaking, and incredibly irritating lead single "Shake It Off," it certainly didn't seem like Taylor could be taken too seriously as one of this year's top pop contenders. Similarly, when Swift announced her first full pop album with the widely played, and widely mocked, "Shake It Off," few gay bloggers thought Swift would rise to the level of Spears or even Selena Gomez. (That song also wasn't taken too seriously, and the pretentious video was mocked by critics as a Lana Del Rey ripoff.) In my time in those places I only heard one Swift song ever play (the dubstep-influenced "I Knew You Were Trouble"), and even then that was rare. If you're a country artist and your name isn't Dolly or Shania, your songs probably rarely play at dance music–heavy gay bars. After all, Swift mostly sings about bad boys and breakups, and as Nigel pointed out, "All gay men do is break up." Like, girl, did you just lose your virginity?"īut Nigel couldn't understand why so many gays disliked his gay icon, his Cher. ![]() Wearing nothing but a towel on a balcony overlooking the water, Nigel bounced around, singing "Shake It Off," and described how he lip-synced the song when he performed in drag the first time the previous weekend. For years, many gay men disliked Swift. Over the summer at the Belvedere, a luxury clothing-optional hotel on Fire Island, I was surprised to meet a twink and budding drag queen named Nigel who worshiped Swift. ![]() Taylor Swift Proves That Pop Music Needs Her With Her New Album 1989: - Tynan October 28, 2014īut it wasn't always this way. This week on gay Twitter and Facebook, Swift earned praise from that rarely praiseful, normally salty sphere of social media. Swift's transition from mainstream country star to would-be pop diva has led many pop fans and gay men to call Swift a term typically reserved for Spears and Madonna, the acknowledged queen of pop. ![]()
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