Taylor Swift Talks Femininity, Says "More Female Art Will Get Made"

The Eras Tour is a hyperfeminine celebration of Swifties in cute outfits and glitter. Taylor Swift is aware. She has called the record-breaking concerts "a three-part summer of feminine extravaganza," the other two being the Barbie movie and Beyoncé's Renaissance Tour.

“To make a fun, entertaining blast of a movie, with that commentary,” Swift said about the Barbie movie, “I cannot imagine how hard that was, and Greta [Gerwig] made it look so easy.” Love how she showed her support for the film while liberal feminists condemned it for its "bimboism."

Queen B recently attended Swift's LA premiere, and the "Anti-Hero" singer returned the love by attending Beyoncé’s in London. “She’s the most precious gem of a person – warm and open and funny,” Swift told Time. “And she’s such a great disrupter of music-industry norms. She taught every artist how to flip the table and challenge archaic business practices.” 

History repeats itself, and stan culture has tried to pit the duo against each other because of their frequently juxtaposed tours. “There were so many stadium tours this summer, but the only ones that were compared were me and Beyoncé,” Swift said. “Clearly it’s very lucrative for the media and stan culture to pit two women against each other, even when those two artists in question refuse to participate in that discussion.”

Swift sees these three cultural moments as a turning point for women and society. “If we have to speak stereotypically about the feminine and the masculine,” she continued, “women have been fed the message that what we naturally gravitate toward –” and provided lovely examples: “Girlhood, feelings, love, breakups, analyzing those feelings, talking about them nonstop, glitter, sequins! We’ve been taught that those things are more frivolous than the things that stereotypically gendered men gravitate toward, right?” 

“And what has existed since the dawn of time? A patriarchal society. What fuels a patriarchal society? Money, flow of revenue, the economy," the multi-Grammy Award Winner explained, "So actually, if we’re going to look at this in the most cynical way possible, feminine ideas becoming lucrative means that more female art will get made. It’s extremely heartening.”

Feminine ideas becoming lucrative means that more female art will get made.

I like how Swift points out how society has undervalued the things usually associated with femininity. Society has indeed placed more of a focus on profit and hustling – things that are tied to the masculine. Like Swift, Evie also recognizes the shift that occurred in the past year. We live in a post-Barbie world, and feminine themes are being celebrated again. Yet, as she mentioned, these traditional ideas of "femininity" mostly stem from a simplistic view that corporations profit from. Buy makeup, wear heels, it's feminine – when, in reality, femininity is far more than dresses and red lipsticks.

The silver lining is that there's now a spotlight on femininity and women, and there's now a greater chance that more female artists will have opportunities to create and share their art and feminine perspectives in the industry. We love it, and as Swift said, "It’s extremely heartening."

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