Showed up to the GMA concert line at 2 AM this morning to sit in line for hours. For Lover, he’s hoping for “a whole new beginning in the sense of maturity and moving on from a past.” Sounds like Swift’s recent butterfly motif. Each album represents a time in his life, from high school bliss with Red (2012), coming out in college around 1989 (2014) and, three years later, struggling with post-grad around Reputation. Kyle, a 25-year-old from New York, fell for Swift in 2010 during the Speak Now era. “My young body has selling power,” Michael says, adding, “Swifties have a reputation for being crazy.” “If they did it and sent me a screenshot, I’d send them nudes.”īy Wednesday, Lover sales were already close to $1 million. ” When guys messaged him about it, he’d tell them to “go to iTunes and buy Lover by Taylor Swift,” he says. My friend Michael, a 23-year-old Brooklyn gay, came up with a makeshift marketing idea for Swift’s new album: He changed his name on Grindr, where he averages 400 daily views, to “Preorder Lover. Still, there’s no denying Swift has grown a strong LGBTQ fanbase. “Through her songs, she inspired me to be myself and stand up against my enemies,” he tells MEL. Also, since my dad doesn’t speak English much, we used this as a way to bond … I’d translate lyrics him lol.”Įvan, a 21-year-old Swiftie from Singapore, has grown more self-assured through Swift. “He’s such a fan of older songs of hers and he’s so excited about Lover because of how it’s giving Speak Now / Red vibes. “My dad is Japanese and a little bit older than you are and he doesn’t understand English very well but he loved Taylor Swift since ‘Love Story’!” she wrote. The post about straight male fans intrigued me! from TaylorSwiftĪnother commenter said Swift’s songs helped her connect with her Japanese father who doesn’t speak English. I have seen her live six times, have a T. One user replied, “ I’m a 33-year-old straight male and have no shame about what I like. I never felt that way.”Ī slew of other straight men joined Bill in the comments.
TAYMOO AND SWIFTY FREE
“My mother always said after she died that I would be free to start over again. “The whole song is basically about starting over on New Year’s Day,” Bill explains. Swift performed the song ”New Year’s Day” on The Tonight Show that September to honor Jimmy Fallon’s recently deceased mother. The New Yorker found Swift in 2017 while grieving his mom’s death. On Wednesday, Bill, 40, came out as a straight male Swiftie in the Taylor Swift subreddit. I’m just listening to music that I enjoy.” ‘My Dad’s Loved Taylor Swift Since “Love Story”’ “In fact, that practice honestly makes me really uneasy because it’s unabashedly capitalist, specifically American capitalist.” Being a straight male Swiftie is “not a secret shame, lol. “I don’t think you really have to act like a walking billboard to be considered her fan,” he says. Like Joe, Drew thinks the Swiftie stigma is holding people back from publicly embracing her artistry.
TAYMOO AND SWIFTY FULL
Then I just went down YouTube recommendations.” The album is worth a close and full listen, Drew argues, because Swift’s “strategy in recent years is to hide the excellent songs as deeper cuts while her singles are of a much lower quality.” “It was ‘Mean’ that got stuck in my head. “When she shines, the lyrics do too,” he says. More than anything, Drew values Swift’s songwriting. “I’m gonna down two beers and sit in my room almost still while listening to the songs.” Drew, a 22-year-old straight man from Pennsylvania, spent the night absorbing it with no distractions. On Thursday night, Swift released Lover, her seventh album. “It’s hard to acknowledge it.”īesides, he says, “you’d be surprised how many straight male Swifties are out there.” ‘It’s Not a Secret Shame’ “That’s the picture the public paints,” says Joe, 17, who is straight, black and living in Columbus, Ohio. And they’re often painted as a homogenous group of young white women and gay men.īut that reputation isn’t fully accurate. They’re known to be nothing less than omnipresent online.
They staunchly supported Swift’s refusal to be political and later her questionable activism.
When the 2017 album Reputation dropped, they spammed comment sections of Swift’s competitors (and Kim Kardashian) with snake emojis.
Swifties - the fans of country singer turned electropop queen Taylor Swift - might have the most polarizing reputation in pop music.
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