![]() Swift is partaking in a long pop-feminist tradition of pointing out double standards by hypothetically swapping gender. ![]() “The Man” is one of the most straightforwardly catchy songs of Lover, and its message needs no decoding. “When everyone believes ya / What’s that like?” “I’d be a fearless leader / I’d be an alpha type,” Swift sings. Most pointedly, her new album, Lover, includes a song called “The Man,” which imagines her being a pop prince rather than princess. She’s performed in boxy business suits and short-styled hair. She’s been hanging in public with-and lobbying on behalf of-LGBTQ people, who challenge traditional notions of guyhood and girldom. When John Travolta mistook a drag queen who plays Taylor Swift for the actual Taylor Swift at the MTV Video Music Awards, it made for a hilariously apt turn in Swift’s recent year of gender play.
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