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How Taylor Swift rose, fell, and rose again: Part three

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Taylor Swift's Music Video Subsumes Queerness

The song subsumes queerness into Swift's narratives. Its breathtaking argument is one that famous people are persecuted in a way that's meaningfully comparable to queer people. Even more bizarrely, at the very end of the song, Katy Perry appeared. They were dressed up together as French fries and a hamburger. This was further proof that the song was not about gay rights but was primarily narrative management for superstars.

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