Inside Taylor Swift's Game-Changing Moments
Taylor Swift's aforementioned sexual assault trial is just one example of the hurdles females in the industry have to climb over more often than their male peers. Swift has gotten braver about expressing her thoughts on her struggles as a female musician since she left Big Machine Records. First, she wrote "The Man" on 2019's Lover in which she envisions her life as a man a la Beyonce's "If I Were A Boy."
"They'd say I hustled, put in the work/They wouldn't shake their heads and question how much of this I deserve/What I was wearing, if I was rude/Could all be separated from my good ideas and power moves," the second verse muses before a chorus that simply states, "'Cause if I was a man, then I'd be the man/I'd be the man."
On 2020's folklore, Swift gets a little bit more serious as she explores female anger on "Mad Woman." "The most rage-provoking element of being a female is the gaslighting that happens when for centuries we've been just expected to absorb male behavior silently," she said, of what inspired the lyrics. "And oftentimes when we ... respond to bad male behavior or somebody just doing something that was absolutely out of line ... that response is treated like the offense itself," she explained in the Disney Plus documentary Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions. Swift sings lyrics like, "And when you say I seem angry, I get more angry/And there's nothing like a mad woman."
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