{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Taylor Swift Has Led Her Fans Down Another Gay Rabbit Hole", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/670036976834134016/", "html": "<p class=\"npf_link\" data-npf='{\"type\":\"link\",\"url\":\"https://href.li/?https://slate.com/culture/2021/11/taylor-swift-red-taylors-version-very-first-night.html\",\"display_url\":\"https://href.li/?https://slate.com/culture/2021/11/taylor-swift-red-taylors-version-very-first-night.html\",\"title\":\"Taylor Swift Has Led Her Fans Down Another Gay Rabbit Hole\",\"description\":\"Her latest queer controversy involves one of Red\u2019s new tracks.\",\"site_name\":\"Slate Magazine\",\"poster\":[{\"media_key\":\"6dbb44b6723b5c2723534db1a2360fb6:a5e4830344d888e5-25\",\"type\":\"image/jpeg\",\"width\":780,\"height\":520}]}'><a href=\"https://href.li/?https://slate.com/culture/2021/11/taylor-swift-red-taylors-version-very-first-night.html\" target=\"_blank\">Taylor Swift Has Led Her Fans Down Another Gay Rabbit Hole</a></p><p>Like, you&rsquo;ve got to understand that from my perspective, the whole of the 2010s was this mounting tension in like, the ~conception of society~ that I faced, permitted to pass over me and through me, assembled a not-insignificant coalition in the face of (that you&rsquo;re part of)\ufffc, as it reached height with actual mobs on the streets of my town I fell into some sort of mythical slumber, and when I came out of the chrysalis not only had I been <i>improved</i> in several ways that <i>don&rsquo;t happen</i>, but basically everything in the culture has churned through to be <b>eerily</b> ideal-for-me</p><p>Like, <i>Matt Yglesias</i> is playing the Michael Kinsley restorationist role (remember when it was gonna have to be Jesse Singal?)</p><p>Like, it has become a mainstream understanding that Taylor Swift, the artist of her generation, is using incredibly fine lyrical control to intertwine her persona with the zeitgeist through <i>implication. </i></p><p>It&rsquo;s weird</p>"}