A tender love song rather than a furious anthem, 'Slut!' nevertheless contains a damning message and powerful lyrics, writes Clare Thorp.
A tender love song rather than a furious anthem, "Slut!" nevertheless contains a damning message and powerful lyrics, writes Clare Thorp.– the latest in an ongoing project to take back ownership of her old material – it shot straight to the top of the streaming charts. The record, originally released in 2014, is her masterpiece, featuring pop classics like Blank Space, Style and Out of The Woods.
As it was,"Slut!" turned out to be less a furious anthem and instead a woozy, tender love song in which a new affair is so magical, she's willing to deal with whatever narrative comes with it."And if they call me a slut, you know it might be worth it for once," she sings on the chorus. Yet, hidden along with the dream melody are some damning lines, too. The song's most powerful lyric comes when Swift says of the liaison:"I'll pay the price, you won't.
At the 2015 Grammys – where 1989 won Best Album – an Entertainment Tonight reporter told Swift:"You're going to walk home with more than maybe just a trophy tonight…" Swift looks momentarily stunned, before smiling and replying:"I'm not going to go home with any men. I'm going to hang out with my friends, then I'm going to go home to the cats." Even at events meant to honour her musical talent, the focus came back to her love life.
In her 2020 Netflix documentary Miss Americana, Swift talked about trying to"reject" the ingrained misogyny she herself had absorbed, saying"there is no such thing as a slut." That might explain heron her re-record of the song Better Than Revenge on Fearless , switching"She's better known for the things she does on the mattress" to"He was a moth to the flame, she was holding the matches.
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