I know it’s ridiculous, but I feel like the forward-thinking, intelligent, in-control Stevie hates the Stevie who loves pretty dresses and believes in love. I grew up valuing individuality and equality, which at some point in my childhood got twisted into a belief that if I appreciated the mainstream, I wasn’t being myself, and if I wasn’t distinctly anti-girly, I was anti-feminist. I can’t speak for anyone else, but I like Taylor Swift on an emotional level because her sometimes frivolous, sometimes ignorant, always naive songs validate the part of me that I had a hard time dealing with when I was younger.
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Stevie, re: Taylor Swift
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I very much feel this way too.
As far as Taylor Swift herself is concerned, well, I just remember driving once and hearing one of her songs come on and her reasonably-pleasant voice singing the line that Autostraddle disparaged… “when you’re fifteen and somebody tells you they love you, you’re gonna believe them”.
And hell if I did not agree with her, a thousand percent. Still do, in fact. Doesn’t anyone remember what it feels like to be young and careless and wistful?
