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👸 Relevance to Taylor’s Life:
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🌈 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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➕ See also:
Weapons/Shoot/Archery/Aim/Arrow
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)
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You Are In Love:
- You fight & you talk
- You understand now why they lost their minds & fought the wars
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New Romantics - And every day is like a battle But every night with us is like a dream
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Clean - Hung my head as I lost the war
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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
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Bad Blood Music Video - extras are listed as “soldiers” in the credits
https://img.wattpad.com/779f2d99fa844a27327d5c75362f6503eee66b1f/68747470733a2f2f73332e616d617a6f6e6177732e636f6d2f776174747061642d6d656469612d736572766963652f53746f7279496d6167652f6e45774435666937723274585f673d3d2d3239333231383434322e3134363736303637363263313234663639323439323639343438382e676966
- 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/