Taylor Swift, 33, was candid about experiencing “slut shaming” and ongoing rumors about her sexuality within the liner notes of her new re-release, 1989 (Taylor’s Model). Within the assertion, the now-billionaire revealed that she targeted on her friendships with different ladies as a result of damaging remarks about her relationship life, as reported by PEOPLE on October 27. “I had turn into the goal of slut shaming — the depth and relentless of which might be criticized and referred to as out if it occurred right this moment,” she penned within the notes.
“The jokes about my quantity of boyfriends,” Taylor, who’s at present relationship NFL star Travis Kelce went on to jot down. “The trivialization of my songwriting as if it have been a predatory act of a boy loopy psychopath … I needed to make it cease as a result of it was actually beginning to harm.” Following the general public’s fixed criticism of the then 24-year-old’s romantic life, Taylor admitted that she “swore off” hanging out with males and prioritized her feminine buddies.
“If I used to be seen with him, it was assumed I used to be sleeping with him. And so I swore off hanging out with guys, relationship, flirting or something that may very well be weaponized towards me by a tradition that claimed to consider in liberating ladies however constantly handled me with the tough ethical codes of the Victorian period,” the “Anti-Hero” songstress penned. Taylor broke up together with her longtime beau Joe Alwyn in April 2023 after relationship for six years and commenced relationship Travis final month.
The Grammy winner went on to jot down about her determination to dive into her profession and herself throughout that interval of her life. “I swore off relationship and determined to solely deal with myself, my music, my progress, and my feminine friendships. If I solely frolicked with my feminine buddies, folks couldn’t sensationalize or sexualize that — proper? I’d be taught afterward that folks may and folks would,” she continued. Taylor concluded the particular letter to her followers with an expression of gratitude.
“You, who knew that possibly a woman who surrounds herself with feminine buddies in maturity is making up for a scarcity of them in childhood (not beginning a tyrannical scorching woman cult),” she wrote. “You, who noticed that I reinvent myself for one million causes, and that one in all them is to attempt my best to entertain you. You, who’ve had the grace to permit me the liberty to alter.” The 33-year-old introduced her newest re-recorded album on August 9 throughout her Eras Tour. 1989 (Taylor’s Model) is out now and features a new re-recorded model of “Unhealthy Blood” that includes rapper Kendrick Lamar, 36.
