Taylor Swift’s new music is morphing into a medium for spreading her liberal political beliefs, and she’s just revealed that the inspiration behind the next song set to release late this month came from being upset with how the 2018 midterms went in her home state of Tennessee (Democrats lost!)
“I was really upset about Tennessee going the way that it did, obviously. And so I just wanted to write a song about it,” Swift told Variety in a recent interview, adding that she waited until 2020 to release the song so that “it could maybe hopefully stoke some fires politically and maybe engage younger people to form their own views, break away from the pack, and not feel like they need to vote exactly the same way that people in their town are voting.”
Taylor Swift made clear her political views, calling the midterms “tragic because young people are the people who feel the worst effects of gun violence, and student loans and trying to figure out how to start their lives and how to pay their bills, and climate change, and are we going to war.”
She also took aim at Republicans, calling their policies “sinister” and “so dark.”
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