Taylor Swift Addresses Speculation About Her Sexuality and Stands Up for Her Squad in the Prologue of ‘1989 (Taylor’s Version)’
Taylor Swift and Karlie Kloss participate in the 2014 American Music Awards at Nokia Theatre L.A. Live on November 23, 2014 in Los Angeles, California. Kevin Mazur/AMA2014/WireImage
Taylor Swift is resolving supposition around her sexuality and her “squad” of women close friends. In the beginning for Swift’s re-recorded 1989 (Taylor’s Version), which went down Friday (Oct. 27), the artist remembered ending up being the “target of slut shaming” in the years leading up to the initial cd’s 2014 launch.
“The jokes about my amount of boyfriends,” she created. “The trivialization of my songwriting as if it were a predatory act of a boy crazy psychopath. I had to make it stop because it was starting to really hurt.”
“I assumed I could fix this if I simply changed my behavior,” Swift included. “I swore off dating and decided to focus only on myself, my music, my growth, and my female friendships.”
One of one of the most remarkable of those women relationships was Karlie Kloss, although rumors have swirled in recent times that Swift and the previous Victoria’s Secret cover girl had a befalling. But although it’s been numerous moons because both were photographed with each other, a commonly invasive subsect of the Swiftie fandom has actually guessed on Swift’s sexuality for several years and has actually kept that Swift and Kloss remain in a secret charming partnership that goes back to 2014.
Swift calls out those and others that guessed concerning her lovemaking in her following sentence: “If I only hung out with my female friends, people couldn’t sensationalize or sexualize that — right? I would learn later on that people could and people would.”
Further on in the beginning, Swift likewise thanked her followers for identifying that her famous “Squad” of well-known women close friends — that included Kloss, along with practically every person in the “Bad Blood” video — was never ever meant to be mean, in spite of criticism as claimed or else. “You, who knew that maybe a girl who surrounds herself with female friends in adulthood is making up for a lack of them in childhood (not starting a tyrannical hot girl cult),” she created.
The pop super star is this year’s leading Billboard Music Awards finalist. You can view the BBMAs on Nov. 19 on Billboard and the BBMA’s social media sites networks, along with here.
Read the complete 1989 (Taylor’s Version) beginning listed below:
Taylor Swift’s beginning for #1989TaylorsVersion 🥹🩵
“This moment is a reflection of the woods we’ve wandered through and all this love between us still glowing in the darkest dark.” pic.twitter.com/HGQDTPqKgo
— Taylor Swift Updates (@SwiftNEW YORK CITY) October 27, 2023
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