The very first single was Me!, a collab with Brendan Urie that broke YouTube documents with 65.2 million sights of its sugar-sweet, Parisian music video. The verses video for this latest tune has actually been enjoyed more than a million times just this morning.
At 5 o’clock today, Taylor Swift released a new tune. You Need To Calm Down is the 2nd solitary from her upcoming album, which we now know is mosting likely to be called Lover (out August 23).
It’s an outright bop, obviously. Yet it’s also the anti-homophobia, pro-gay rights anthem we need today. Halfway via Pride month, Taylor has launched a song that mentions GLAAD— «Why are you mad when you could be GLAAD? (You can be GLAAD)»— which is an American non-governmental media tracking organisation established by LGBT individuals.
She likewise highlights the letters E and A in words ‘yell’, ‘peace’ and also ‘equal rights’, which we can safely assume recommendations the Equality Act. The Equality Act remains in the United States Senate today and if it passes, it will certainly amend the Civil Rights Act to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex identity and sexual orientation.
Taylor has actually already campaigned for the Equality Act. Previously this month, in an open letter to Republican Tennessee senator Lamara Alexander, she composed: «For American citizens to be refuted work or housing based on who they love or just how they recognize, in my point of view, is cruel and un-american.» She urged him to vote for the Equality Act in the upcoming Senate vote.
In a second letter, she wrote: «Our country’s absence of security for its very own people ensures that LGBTQ individuals should reside in worry that their lives can be shaken up by a company or proprietor that is transphobic or homophobic.»
We are very below for political activist Taylor. It might be our much-loved incarnation of the pop celebrity.
Currently, she’s continuing her pro-LGBT+ advocacy in the best means she knows just how: with a sick beat. Appearing to resolve haters, homophobes and giants, she sings: «You just require to take a number of seats and then try to recover the tranquility/ And regulate your advises to scream concerning all individuals you dislike/ ‘Cause color never made any person much less gay.»
Watch the video as well as start discovering all those righteous lyrics right below, today.