It’s Time for Men to Make an Admission About Taylor Swift
10 months, 3 weeks ago

It’s Time for Men to Make an Admission About Taylor Swift

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Colt Seavers, the professional stunt performer played by Ryan Gosling in The Fall Guy, is used to brutalizing his body, but a broken heart is another matter. But Swifties who’ve come on board amid the triumphant highs of the “Eras” era may not be used to seeing her sink quite so low, and this is especially true of a demographic that’s still struggling to come to terms with how, and how much, Taylor Swift makes them feel: middle-aged men. It felt like a throwback to the previous decade, when, as a Washington Post columnist put it, “an older gent discovered to be a Swiftie risks being ridiculed by his friends, his wife, his kids or his employees.” In the most recent season of The Bear, Ebon Moss-Bachrach’s Richie spends several episodes hashing out his relationship to Taylor Swift. He gets into his car, steps on the gas, and cranks up Taylor Swift’s “Love Story.” There’s a moment in “Love Story,” taken from Swift’s 2008 album Fearless, that gets me every time. There’s something in this teenage girl’s words that this 45-year-old man still needs to hear—that, as another character tells him near the end of the episode, “it’s never too late to start over.” Related From Slate America Has Revealed Which New Taylor Swift Songs Are the Skips It may never be too late, but outside the realm of fairy tales, women run out of patience—not least Taylor Swift herself.

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