"You Need to Calm Down," Taylor Swift
Homophobes, look what you made Taylor Swift do: the pop superstar’s second single from her upcoming Lover album is her gayest yet. She celebrates guys in gowns (and calls out those who don’t). She rightfully wonders why protesters with anti-gay signs at Pride parades waste their time. And as confirmed in the lyric video, there’s a shoutout to GLAAD, with the line, "Why are you mad when you could be GLAAD?" It gets even gayer when the mega singer-songwriter calls out homophobic haters who gay-hate because, after all, "shade never made anybody less gay." Swift’s most political song (it’s at least partly about Trump and she doesn’t even need to say his name) comes shortly after the singer-songwriter recently released a statement in support...
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