Let Taylor Swift Be In Love

 Everyone wants to tell Taylor Swift what to do. The woke left is outraged that Swift, the world’s biggest pop star, fell in love and is getting married. They fear Swift may be embracing a “tradwife” lifestyle of kids and domestic chores. The MAGA right wants Swift to crank out kids and get into the kitchen.

I wish people would have the grace to just let her be in love for a few weeks. Love has its own value. It doesn’t have to be an escape from single life or the one-way road to marriage. Swift’s wonderful new album The Life of a Showgirl is a celebration of the time when two people fall in love and are just enjoying it.

The liberals are the worst. Conservatives may chime in that it’s a life-changing miracle to get married and have a family, and while their encomiums on social media may get cloying, they never approach the emotional pitch of the left. Writing in Jezebel, Lauren Tousignant was vituperative: “My biggest gripe with Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl is that she promised us an album that reflected her ‘exuberant and electric and vibrant’ inner and backstage life while traveling the world on her record-smashing Eras Tour. Instead, we got a soulless and incoherent album about Travis Kelce’s ‘manhood,’ featuring another metaphor for what the sky looks like when you’re in love. My second biggest gripe? Taylor’s tradwife lyrics.”

Tousignant insists that she has “nothing against marriage” and “nothing against weddings” and “nothing against being so fucking happy and drunk in love that you want to sing corny sexual innuendos from the rooftop. But at least write about it well.” Where’s the Taylor “who gave us, ‘Ladies and gentlemen, will you please stand/with every guitar string scar on my hand?’ The line from Lover is obviously pro-marriage—but its sophistication lies in the vulnerability of finding ‘the one’ without throwing her previous self under the bus.”