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As a woman in my early thirties, it is my God-given right \u2013 arguably my duty \u2013 to have an opinion when Taylor Swift releases an album. And it\u2019s a role that I\u2019ve always performed with compunction. But on this occasion \u2013 the release of album 12, The Life of a Showgirl<\/em>,\u00a0my ability to get into the weeds (does \u2018The Fate of Ophelia\u2019 represent close text analysis of Shakespeare?) was hampered by my shock at one particularly audacious lyric.\u00a0<\/p>\n Previous albums have had the the odd raunchy moment. So when, on this new album, she sang \u2018His love was the key that opened my thighs\u2019 in a song titled \u2018Wood\u2019, I was unmoved. In a similar vein, when she sang \u2018I can make deals with the devil because my dick\u2019s bigger\u2019, I was merely appreciative of the transgressive message about the music industry\u2019s obsession with nurturing talent until that talent has any hint of a backbone. It wasn\u2019t until track seven, titled \u2018Actually Romantic\u2019, that there was any hint of a taboo being broached \u2013 because comments about big dicks and cocaine are small fry compared with a line in \u2018Actually Romantic\u2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n The song, which is rumoured to be a swipe at \u2018brat summer\u2019 materfamilias Charli XCX, is a monologue about finding another woman\u2019s obsession with her adorable and endearing. It features the lyrics \u2018You think I\u2019m tacky, baby\/ Stop talking dirty to me\/ It sounded nasty, but it\/ Feels like you\u2019re flirting with me\/ I mind my business, God\u2019s my witness that I don\u2019t provoke it\/ It\u2019s kind of making me wet.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n Making. Me. Wet. If you\u2019re not a life-long worshipper at the church of Swift then it\u2019s hard to understand just how unthinkable it once was for the most wholesome of the pop princesses \u2013 a genuine Disney dream of a young woman \u2013 to acknowledge that she\u2019s had sex, let alone experienced arousal. For years Swift was the pop star that parents wanted their teenage daughter to admire, a well-mannered apolitical sweetheart who baked cookies and used three-syllable words in her songwriting.\u00a0<\/p>\n It wasn\u2019t until Reputation<\/em>, Swift\u2019s sixth album, released when she was 27 years old, that she so much as swore for the first time. Mad as it might sound, I still remember lying in bed at 5 a.m., having woken especially to listen to the whole thing, and literally gasping at hearing the ultimate good girl do something so transgressive as swearing. If you\u2019d told me then that a mere eight years later she\u2019d sing a song lyric about vaginal lubrication, I would have been quite literally unable to believe you.\u00a0<\/p>\n For years Swift was the pop star that parents wanted their teenage daughter to admire, a well-mannered apolitical sweetheart who baked cookies and used three-syllable words in her songwriting<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n For the avoidance of doubt, Swift is by no means the first person to sing about getting wet, even if you discount Gene Kelly.\u00a0 The song of summer 2020 was Cardi B\u2019s \u2018WAP\u2019, which stands for Wet Ass Pussy (unless you\u2019re listening to the child-friendly Kidz Bop remix, in which case it\u2019s Waffles and Pancakes). Sabrina Carpenter\u2019s most recent album Man\u2019s Best Friend<\/em> features lyrics including \u2018I get wet at the thought of you\/ Being a responsible guy\/ Treating me like you\u2019re supposed to do\/ Tears run down my thighs\u2019. Not a libretto likely to see her invited to play Riyadh 2026. But I\u2019d argue that Taylor coming out with a line about physical arousal is far more of a taboo smasher than any of her predecessors because those women were Officially Sexy.\u00a0<\/p>\n Cardi B is a gloriously unfiltered former stripper who talks openly her sexual fantasies. Sabrina Carpenter might look like a Polly Pocket but her entire brand is based around raunch. Words about wetness are a little transgressive but for the most part expected when it comes from a Sabrina or a Cardi. Taylor is something different. She\u2019s a beautiful vanilla frapp\u00e9 of a woman.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n By the time Britney Spears\u00a0had reached Swift\u2019s current age (35) she\u2019d been mostly naked on dozens of magazine covers, married, divorced, had a couple of children and several rehab stints. Swift, on the contrary, is unmarried (though recently engaged) and child-free. All of her scandals have been spats with other celebrities, never a Pamela Anderson sex tape, nor a long-lens pap shot of her cheating a la Kristen Stewart. Not even a leaked nude like the ones stolen from her contemporaries Jennifer Lawrence, Selena Gomez and Cara Delevingne.\u00a0<\/p>\n Whether by luck or by judgment, Taylor\u2019s life has left her in a kind of\u00a0perpetual state of plausible innocence. So when she does the unthinkable and\u00a0acknowledges that even nice blonde ladies sometimes experience visceral signifiers of arousal, it\u2019s genuinely shocking. And, to my mind at least, a kind of public service. The idea that sex is something that only a certain type of (bad) woman likes, and that the good ones merely put up with it, remains pervasive and entirely unfair, and underpins the centuries old Madonna-whore complex which manages to disadvantage both Madonnas and whores.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.spectator.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As a woman in my early thirties, it is my God-given right \u2013 arguably my duty \u2013 to have an opinion when Taylor Swift releases an album. And it\u2019s a role that I\u2019ve always performed with compunction. 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