Taylor Swift's "You Need to Calm Down" song/video

What does that mean? bec?

I'm not a Taylor Swift fan...I could probably name two songs, but then again I'm FAR from her target audience age group.
Therefore I had to look this up, and while I won't be playing it or buying it, I loved what it all stood for and that she is showing her support for the LGBTQ community.
I thought the message in the video was very clear, as well as who needs to calm down.
I particularly liked the "shade never made anybody less gay" line.
Good on her for taking a stand and being public about her support for all of her fans no matter what their gender/sexual identity is.
I don't see how anyone can claim it's queer baiting, when actual LGBTQ people are right there in the video, they aren't fake just to attract an audience.

On another note she was on Graeme Norton recently and I was surprised at how tall she was, I always assumed she was one of those tiny little things but when she sat down in the couch she looked like she was taller than all the other guests, even the men.

Depicting the people that need to " Calm Down" as, for want of a better word " lower class" ,who are carrying placards that are full of spelling mistakes, therefore, uneducated is suggesting that the working-class communities are to blame. Homophobia exists at all levels of the class system, and to pretend that the enemy is in double-denim with an American flag on its T-shirt and uneducated is short sighted in getting this message across.  It isn't only them that she needs to tell to "Calm Down" if she's serious about getting the message across. It's the people at the top, the so called educated, middle and upper class, religious,and the people in authority....where were they in her video?

I don't know that she was saying that it's only the uneducated.  My impression of the video was that you make yourself look like an uneducated moron when you choose to spread that kind of hate.  I've only watched the video 4 times - one time each with one of my kids and solo - but from what I remember, it's a whole thing about taking her own advice too?  So, in the beginning she was in her trailer with all her stuff and then sets it on fire to show she's moving on, the comments and stuff from Trolls has made her realize she's overcome worse and doesn't need it.  Then she moves onto LGBTQ+ and why should you spread hate, when it doesn't change who anybody is, ie: shade doesn't make anyone less gay.  Then she's talking about how people turn women against each other for their own enjoyment, but all women are queens, so nobody needs to fall into "their" games.  She doesn't represent the "them" with this necessarily, just the same crowd of trailer park trash, which just fits in with her trailer park theme?  So, for me, I didn't take her message as only the trailer trash people are to blame, just YOU make yourself a trailer trash person when you behave this way.  

However, I do see where you're coming from, and agree about the other people who are responsible.

I've watched the video so I didn't really need an explanation, but thanks anyway.

As for the trailer park theme, that in itself is a laugh......TS has probably never been in a trailer park in her life let alone live in one. She's still depicting people who live in trailer parks, in your words.....look like a moron,trash and uneducated. You obviously think like her if that is what you get out of the video. Living in a trailer park, being poor or uneducated doesn't necessarily make you a moron or homophobic.

I can't believe this is a thing.

I like the video and message.

Loved it! I will use this chorus of song for everything when telling kids/adults and furbaby...You Need To Calm Down...Love it!


ETA...now the song is stuck in my head.

Whatever. I'm tired of both the whiners and those who make grand assumptions and would love to tell them to just shut it for a while.

Amen!

I haven’t ever paid attention to Taylor Swift (I’ll bop along to her music on the radio but that’s it) and didn’t know about the song and video until I saw this thread. I texted my 29YO gay son who keeps very much up on pop culture (he’s in the entertainment industry) and he didn’t have much to say other than that he felt it was “pandering” and that “people (aka those he knows) are generally annoyed by her.”

So there you go, from the horse’s mouth

Yeah, me too. 

LOL, she's a rich, straight, white woman. She's already winning!

Tay-tay will be okay, I promise. It's okay to critique pop culture!