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Post by Admin on Jun 14, 2019 5:10:59 GMT
Taylor Swift has released a brand new single called “You Need to Calm Down.” Hear it below. Taylor announced that a new track was coming on Instagram Live earlier today. She also shared the title, cover art, and release date of her seventh studio album. Her reputation follow-up Lover is out August 23 via Republic. At one point in the song, Taylor sings, “You just need to take several seats and then try to restore the peace/And control your urges to scream about all the people you hate/‘Cause shade never made anybody less gay.”
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Post by Admin on Jun 16, 2019 18:29:45 GMT
Taylor Swift's "You Need To Calm Down" video premieres tomorrow (!!!), but the singer just released a teaser with a BIG reveal: The video's gonna have approximately one billion famous people in it. In a short clip shared by Swift on Sunday morning, fans got a sneak peek at some of the many, many celebrities slated to appear. "Asked a few friends to be in the 'You Need To Calm Down' video 😄," she wrote.
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Post by Admin on Jun 17, 2019 17:32:30 GMT
Thebmusic video for Taylor Swift’s song “You Need to Calm Down” just dropped, but Twitter is doing anything but calming down. The lyrics were already overtly anti homophobia, but the video dials that up to, like, a thousand (in case they were just too subtle?!). With a rainbow trailer park and about a hundred celebrities, the video shows Taytay and her colorful queer friends (and Katy Perry, because in case you hadn’t heard, their feud is over) chillin’ and being fabulous whilst getting yelled at by a bunch of sign-wielding bumpkins (THE HOMOPHOBES). However, people are far from okay with how both sides are being stereotyped in a mere three and a half minutes. The implication is that it’s the backward-country types who are the real villains here (admittedly, saying “implication” is a little generous—this whole video is so on the nose that it could knock me out). However, as much as I’d *love* to smugly say it is, that stereotype is far from true. As Queer Eye’s Fab Five’s (who also star in this video) OWN SHOW DEMONSTRATES, even being the most crimson of rednecks does not mean you are also a hateful person. Also, our real threat isn’t always the aggro protestors: The suit-wearing, office-holding bigots can be even more dangerous.
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Post by Admin on Jun 18, 2019 17:46:14 GMT
Since it debuted Friday, Taylor Swift’s “You Need to Calm Down” has bounced around in my head for exactly the reason a pop song should: the way it sounds. I like that the beat’s something a great beast might march to, slowly from one side to another, rumbling with each footfall. I like that the “oh-oh” swell of the chorus takes yummy harmonies, typically the key side dish in pop, and makes them the main course. I like the dry, silly way Swift drawls the strongest punch line of the track: “Like, damn … it’s 7 a.m.” But I’ve also been fixated on—uncalmed by, and maybe even losing sleep over!—what the lyrics say. Shout along with this brain bender: “Shade never made anybody less gay!” “You Need to Calm Down” is Swift’s grand LGBTQ-rights statement, released in the middle of Pride Month with all the precision of a bank’s new credit-card rollout. The song’s second verse takes on homophobic demonstrators: “Sunshine on the street at the parade / But you would rather be in the dark ages.” The video, released today, has a legion of queer celebs doing famously queer things such as sipping tea, performing in drag, and getting married in matching baby-blue tuxes. It closes with a plug to sign a petition for the passage of the Equality Act, which would ban discrimination based on sexual orientation and identity.
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Post by Admin on Jun 19, 2019 17:50:38 GMT
Cara Delevingne is praising her close friend Taylor Swift for her “incredible” newly released “You Need to Calm Down” music video and recent public support for LGTBQ rights. “I cried and I’ve been texting her all day,” Delevingne told Variety of Swift. Variety spoke to the actress and model on the red carpet before she accepted the Hero Award at the TrevorLIVE New York gala at Cipriani Wall Street. Delevingne, who identifies as queer, was honored for her commitment to supporting the organization as they work to end suicide among LGBTQ youth. “What [Taylor] is doing is brilliant. It’s just the beginning,” said Delevingne, who appeared in Swift’s celebrity-filled “Bad Blood” video in 2015. “Most of those people who are in support just don’t realize how important it is to say it out loud.”
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