Taylor Swift has confirmed that “Slut!” is one of the five vault tracks being released on 1989 (Taylor’s Version) and now her comments about slut-shaming have resurfaced.
The pop star previously talked about being slut-shamed while speaking to Apple Music’s Zane Lowe in a 2019 interview. Taylor opened up about her experience with slut-shaming when she was 23, which was when she was in the middle of writing the 1989 album. Keep reading to find out more… “When I was, like, 23 and people were just kind of reducing me to … kind of making slideshows of my dating life and putting people in there that I’d sat next to at a party once and deciding that my songwriting was like a trick rather than a skill and a craft,” Taylor said.
She continued, “In a way, it’s figuring out how to completely minimize that skill by taking something that everyone in their darkest, darkest moments loves to do, which is just to slut-shame, you know?
That happened to me at a very young age, so that was a bit hard. That was one of the first times I was like, ‘Wow, this is not fair.’” Taylor added, “I don’t think people understand how easy it is to infer that someone who’s a female artist or a female in our industry is somehow doing something wrong by wanting love, wanting money, wanting success.
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