Kind of surprising that Taylor Swift isn\u2019t more of a writers\u2019 icon, really. If not for her own writing, for the fact that one of her most consistent themes is \u201cpeople should be rewarded \u2013 with money, power, love, sex \u2013 in direct proportion to how good they are at understanding things and putting them into words\u201d
(Her fanbase, or at least the part she interacts with on social media, seems to be more theater kids, but maybe that\u2019s just who makes the dramatic, reblog-worthy gestures.)
Like, and I mentioned how another one of her classic themes was the importance of being a good lover, more important than being attractive. But they\u2019re kind of the same thing, she metaphorizes being good at sex AS being good with words \u2013 I\u2019ll do anything you say/if you say it with your hands \u2013 and marks being a writer as more important in a partner than being attractive \u2013 Hey Stephen, I could give you fifty reasons/Why I should be the one you \nchoose/All those other girls, well they’re beautiful/But would they \nwrite a song for you?
People don\u2019t realize how much of a Lisa Simpson she is. I think part of it is she never manifested a love of schooling, she not only never went to college but left school to be self-taught after 10th grade. She constantly sings about the importance of knowing or memorizing things, and has a good deal of stuff about school, with no overlap between the two, the latter being posed as a social setting for meeting friends and lovers.
But like, to return again to the symbolism of the You Belong With Me video, sure, the bitchy popular girl wearing shiny dresses in public is Taylor Swift, but the thing is the girl blowing things off to stay home in her room studying is also Taylor Swift.