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<aside> 👸 Relevance to Taylor’s Life:

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<aside> 🌈 Queer History: Chely Wright compared being queer in country music with homophobic military policies:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/04/opinion/taylor-swift-queer.html

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<aside> ➕ See also: ‣ Taylor wearing Army green/camouflage in Rep Era

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Debut (October 24, 2006)

Fearless (November 11, 2008)

• Change -
  • Fight for what we've worked for all these years
  • And the battle was long, it's the fight of our lives But we'll stand up champions tonight

Speak Now (October 25, 2010)

Red (October 22, 2012)

• State of Grace- This is a state of grace This is the worthwhile fight Love is a ruthless game

1989 (October 27, 2014)

• You Are In Love:

  • You fight & you talk
  • You understand now why they lost their minds & fought the wars

• New Romantics - And every day is like a battle But every night with us is like a dream

• Clean - Hung my head as I lost the war

• New Romantics (original lyrics): Leave me cold then keep me warm Fall in love then go to war That's what new romance is for

• Bad Blood Music Video - extras are listed as “soldiers” in the credits

  

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• 2014 MTV Music Awards - Taylor says in her acceptance speech for Bad Blood that she’s glad to live in a world where “boys can play princesses and girls can play soldiers.”

Taylor Swift: ‘I’m Just Happy … We Live in a World Where Boys Can Play Princesses and Girls Can Play Soldiers’

• Rolling Stone article, The Reinvention of Taylor Swift, they say that: “she’s left country behind, sworn off dating and built a fortress around her heart”

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/the-reinvention-of-taylor-swift-116925/amp/