Taylor Swift urges a new generation to get engaged in ‘Only the Young’
Taylor Swift – Only The Young (Featured in Miss Americana / Lyric Video)
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Taylor Swift used to prefer not to speak of her political ideas. In 2012 she made that clear. “I don’t talk about politics because it might influence other people,” she told Time. “And I don’t think that I know enough yet in life to be telling people who to vote for.”
The first sign of a change happened in the fall of 2018 when rumors circulated that she was a big fan of MAGA and President Donald Trump. Shortly thereafter she put an end to that rumor and entered the political fray with an Instagram post calling out Sen. Marsha Blackburn from her home state of Tennessee for having voted against the Violence Against Women Act as well as LGBTQ-friendly bills:
“I can’t see another commercial [with] her disguising these policies behind the words ‘Tennessee Christian values.’ I live in Tennessee. I am Christian. That’s not what we stand for.”
She went on to say “I need to be on the right side of history.”
In 2020, at the age of 30 her hit song “Only The Young” portends a new desire to speak out on the issues most important to her as she urges young people to get involved and calls out to them with passion about her concern for the escalating gun violence in America:
