It has been A WEEK!
Simply seven days after the midnight launch of Taylor Swift‘s twelfth album, The Lifetime of a Showgirl has inexplicably turn out to be her most controversial. However are the lyrics actually that offensive? Or is it the listeners who acquired… bizarre?
Look, we’re not speaking concerning the intentional spicy traces, like Really Romantic seemingly igniting a feud with Charli XCX, letting everybody know she might need her extra controversial mates’ backs on CANCELLED!, or getting dirtier than she’s ever gotten singing about Travis Kelce‘s Wooden. All that we anticipated. No, these are takes we might by no means have anticipated as a result of, properly… frankly they’re such leaps in logic they defy cause!
Tradwife Propaganda
Listeners are decoding her need to get married and have kids as… conservative tradwife propaganda. Um… WHAT?!?
Y’all. The patriarchal tradwife factor is just not about wanting a husband and children. It’s truly the alternative! That’s about girls being pressured into the place of being a full-time spouse and child manufacturing unit — as a result of they’re seen because the property of males. Taylor saying she desires that stuff for herself is making a selection.
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As this fan succinctly explains:
“The entire level of feminism is that we would like girls to do no matter they need to do.”
@mariaisalright genuinely the craziest take I’ve heard, go contact grass. #lifeofashowgirl #motherhood #marriage
♬ unique sound – mariagabriela
Taylor isn’t being anti-feminist right here. She’s simply telling everybody what she desires. Which we should always all be tremendous with. LOVE IS LOVE, do not forget that? It really works the opposite approach, too!
Additionally, let’s not overlook, even when Tay retired proper now she’d stay probably the most profitable people of their chosen area OF ALL TIME. That’s not what a tradwife is. Tradwives are mainly youngsters drafted into marriage like chattel. Taylor appears nice, however let’s not overlook she’s 35 years outdated! And richer than her husband-to-be by A LOT. This ain’t that.
Oh, and Tay herself stated she’s NOT retiring simply because she acquired married. And in reality she finds that assumption “shockingly offensive” by the way in which.
Additionally from WI$H LI$T? Some “followers” someway pulled the concept Taylor desires to propagate the white race like she’s Elon Musk. Why? As a result of she sang about desirous to:
“Have a pair youngsters, acquired the entire block trying such as you”
See, Trav is a white man, so she clearly is saying she solely desires everybody on the block to be white. And voila, the music about not being into fashionable materialistic needs is definitely… selling eugenics.
Yeah. It’s all too actual.
IM ACTUALLY SOBBING WHAT THE FUCK IS SHE TALKING ABOUT ?????????? pic.twitter.com/8JtAEiCoS3
— faithmae is a showgirl❤️???? (@yailslut) October 10, 2025
You may see much more about that principle and the Swifties blasting it HERE. (Oh, and likewise take a hearken to Kylie Kelce hilariously explaining why that’s a lot funnier if you understand the Kelces and their frustratingly dominant genes.)
Additionally, right here’s a response we actually love from Saints tight finish Juwan Johnson and his spouse Chanen…
@juandchan And nothing like me???????? #juandchan
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So. Cute. Too dangerous Juwan is clearly a white supremacist, proper? Y’all see how ridiculous you sound now??
Homophobia
In her monitor Really Romantic, Tay takes a brand new tactic on the diss monitor. She likens somebody’s nonstop, compulsive hatred of her to, properly… a romantic obsession. She’s mainly saying that Charli XCX — or whoever it’s about, multiple particular person in all probability — speaking about her on a regular basis doesn’t really feel harmful, it’s innocent. It’s even flattering, like a crush.
However there’s a contingent who’re simply champing on the bit to name out Taylor for being homophobic, so they are saying it’s homosexual panic. They determine since she’s a girl and Charli is a girl, she’s mainly calling somebody homosexual as an insult…
Neglect the very fact Taylor loves the LGBTQ neighborhood, was the primary pop star to solid a trans actor as a love curiosity in a music video, and has been vocal politically principally about this matter.
She doesn’t talk about politics a lot, however she did tweet in 2021 that she had her “Fingers crossed and praying that the Senate will see trans and lgbtq rights as fundamental human rights.” In 2018, she additionally spoke out in opposition to the anti-LGBT laws of Tennessee congresswoman Marsha Blackburn, saying:
“I consider within the combat for LGBTQ rights, and that any type of discrimination primarily based on sexual orientation or gender is WRONG. I consider that the systemic racism we nonetheless see on this nation in the direction of individuals of shade is terrifying, sickening and prevalent. I can not vote for somebody who won’t be prepared to combat for dignity for ALL Individuals, irrespective of their pores and skin shade, gender or who they love.”
You may hearken to what she’s explicitly saying concerning the matter… or you may infer that she secretly means no matter makes her look the worst. A kind of decisions respects her and provides her company.
Racism & Misogynoir
Oof, OK, this can be a large one.
There’s a principle that Taylor is just not solely racist however particularly obsessive about Black girls — because it pertains to the lads she dates. Travis Kelce’s most up-to-date longterm relationship earlier than her was with a girl named Kayla Nicole — and critics are pairing that with some lyrics and doing a hop, skip, and a soar to… misogynoir, the hatred of Black girls.

The pop delight Opalite is fairly clearly about Tay’s new romance with Trav. She sings about why that is relationship feels so proper compared with previous ones. Which means, sure, a little bit of a swipe at Kayla. Tay sings:
“You couldn’t perceive it / Why you felt alone / You had been in it for actual / She was in her telephone / And also you had been only a pose”
People have taken this to be about Kayla not simply because she was Trav’s most up-to-date ex but in addition due to resurfaced video of the NFL star and his then-WAG dwelling this precise situation.
That’s nothing improper with a songwriter singing about their very own relationship, and that is all private stuff. We simply comprehend it as a result of Taylor is probably the most scrutinized girl alive! However once more, nothing about race in any respect.
Nevertheless, on the similar time, the entire music makes use of the metaphor of opalite, a vivid, glittery man-made gemstone, to characterize happiness, whereas the black mineral onyx is used to characterize tough instances. Individuals are decoding this to say relationship Black girls was what made Trav upset, now he’s together with her and all is white on the earth. It’s SUCH a stretch.
thoughts you the one individuals complaining about this are WHITW pic.twitter.com/Vhpq7Gb3cI
— connor (@tayspenjamin) October 9, 2025
Darkness, night time, stormy climate, all basic representations of disappointment — ones which Tay additionally makes use of within the music. And sunshine and light-weight characterize security, rescue, and hope. Why? Effectively, they beautiful a lot all the time have all through human historical past. Most likely one thing to do with early man getting misplaced to predators and accidents within the scary darkish, and being safer when it was brighter and everybody might see? In any case, it’s like all of tradition, 1000’s of poems, songs, performs, movies…
However when Taylor does it it’s an indication she’s been secretly racist all this time?? Come on, now! Actually??
We’ll let some people clarify who’ve just a little extra experience…
Want all of the haters to hearken to this pic.twitter.com/eOeF3xbqbG
— b (@bravoswiftiie) October 10, 2025
@brookeg28 Breaking information: phrases imply issues. #taylorswift #swifttok #tloas #swiftie
♬ unique sound – Brooke Giles
However severely, Taylor has ALWAYS, fairly constantly been in opposition to racism. She had the braveness to blast the President of the US for “stoking the fires of white supremacy and racism.” And he or she’s been reaping his wrath ever since.
And when white nationalists tried to embrace her as an “Aryan goddess” in 2019, she did what Trump was by no means prepared to do after they embraced him — she very clearly and explicitly denounced them, telling The Guardian:
“There’s actually nothing worse than white supremacy. It’s repulsive. There needs to be no place for it.”
You may hearken to what she says when she’s not being poetic, making her emotions on the matter clear! Or… You may hearken to a music about discovering happiness, during which she sings:
“You had been dancing by means of the lightning strikes / Sleepless within the onyx night time / However now the sky is opalite”
And assume her secret intention is to take down Black girls. Sigh.
Not Political Sufficient??
Along with those that suppose the entire album is a MAGA canine whistle, there are others complaining about Taylor not getting political. For actual! We’ve seen tons of posts the place individuals are saying Tay isn’t chatting with the political second.
Needed to block one in every of my favourite TikTokers (she talks about geography) trigger she listened to Showgirl and complained about it not having a music about Palestine pic.twitter.com/lA5KPqJd67
— w (@wilklore) October 9, 2025
And this isn’t simply TikTokers both, we’ve seen precise music critics write complete suppose items about this!
We imply, a minimum of it’s correct? This album isn’t political. However Tay has by no means actually made political music. It’s principally been about her relationships, her emotions, what it’s like for a woman going by means of large life moments… It’s all actually private stuff. Interpretations of politics simply aren’t her factor.
There are many folks and basic rock and punk bands to go to for that type of factor. Like, if Inexperienced Day put out Dookie II proper now? And fully ignored the rise of fascism? After American Fool? We might see their followers being fairly disillusioned in them. However this appears like ordering pizza and complaining there isn’t sufficient standup comedy on it.
It’s OK to make one thing enjoyable and cheerful if that’s your present! And we’ll let this Swiftie give everybody a superb clarification WHY!
I reside in fucking warzone and Taylor’s music is without doubt one of the solely issues preserving me going, so go away her the fuck alone. She’s one of many solely good issues about your nation, actually. https://t.co/s5dkJU1Cas
— Marie❤️???? (Taylor’s Model) (@harrypurplebow) October 10, 2025
The WILDEST Takes
Stuff will get crazier. The worst religion takes are literally saying Tay’s album is someway celebrating the genocide in Gaza… Or that Taylor evaluating a hater to “a toy Chihuahua barking at me from a tiny purse” is racist in opposition to… are you able to guess? Asians! Sure, as a result of apparently Chihuahua is a “slur to Asian or half Asian individuals” — ignoring the context that it’s a widely known canine breed, and he or she’s explicitly utilizing the time period within the context of the canine breed.
…. No phrases pic.twitter.com/zN5F94qd7J
— caden⸆⸉ ❤️???? (@caden3123) October 7, 2025
However probably the most insulting? We’ve seen a number of sizzling takes from critics saying Taylor was about to turn out to be transphobic. Not that she’s at present transphobic, not that there’s any proof of that in any respect. No, they’re going full Minority Report and saying they only really feel of their intestine that she’s going to go full JK Rowling any second.
They’re calling Taylor a transphobe bc she doesn’t care about on-line losers opinions pic.twitter.com/KMSVyj9pTq
— Sam (@SamPlommer) October 8, 2025
As a trans girl it’s disappointing to see how individuals right here fetisize concerning the greatest celeb on the earth being a transphobe
She was the primary main straight artist who solid a trans man as her love curiosity. Cease utilizing trans individuals as your pawns on this disgusting narrative https://t.co/SZpC7uPMs6
— • (@blindinqlights) October 9, 2025
What’s probably the most epically far-reaching take YOU’VE seen about The Lifetime of a Showgirl??
[Image via Taylor Swift/Charli XCX/YouTube/Travis Kelce/Kayla Nicole/Instagram.]
