“Slut!” (Taylor’s Version) is the first ever Taylor Swift song to have quotation marks!
‘1989’ was her fifth album after she soared into the spotlight as a teenager, and by this point Taylor knew all too well what it was like to be under constant scrutiny, especially when it came to her dating life.
Ahead of her new song ‘Slut!’ here’s everything Taylor’s said about being slut-shamed.
Taylor Swift has confirmed that “Slut!” is one of the five vault tracks being released on 1989 (Taylor’s Version) and now her comments about slut-shaming have resurfaced.
The pop star previously talked about being slut-shamed while speaking to Apple Music’s Zane Lowe in a 2019 interview.
Taylor opened up about her experience with slut-shaming when she was 23, which was when she was in the middle of writing the 1989 album.
“When I was, like, 23 and people were just kind of reducing me to … kind of making slideshows of my dating life and putting people in there that I’d sat next to at a party once and deciding that my songwriting was like a trick rather than a skill and a craft,” Taylor said.
She continued, “In a way, it’s figuring out how to completely minimize that skill by taking something that everyone in their darkest, darkest moments loves to do, which is just to slut-shame, you know? That happened to me at a very young age, so that was a bit hard. That was one of the first times I was like, ‘Wow, this is not fair.’”
In a Beats1 interview with Zane Lowe in 2019, Taylor shared the perspective she’d gained having started out in the music industry so young.
She said coverage of her private life and break-up-inspired lyrics were used to diminish her songwriting skills.
Taylor recalled on the show: “When I was, like, 23 and people were just kind of reducing me to … kind of making slideshows of my dating life and putting people in there that I’d sat next to at a party once and deciding that my songwriting was like a trick rather than a skill and a craft.”
