“Other girls are obstacles; undeserving enemies who steal Taylor’s soulmates with their bewitching good looks and sexual availability. Unfortunately for these mute yet effortlessly hunky jungle-eyed boys, by choosing the ‘beautiful’ girls over Taylor (who is, suspiciously… also beautiful…), they’re missing out on Taylor’s unique understanding of their heart/inner fireball/angelic rainshower/sweet glory of Jesus. ‘All those other girls are beautiful,’ Taylor pines, ‘But would they write a song for you?

This is perhaps her music’s most grating sin: the sex-shaming girl-bashing passed off as outsider insecurity.”
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