Then there\u2019s the song \u201cHoney,\u201d in which Swift sings about how, until she started dating her partner, she had negative associations with pet names. In one instance, she recounts an incident in which \u201cthe b*tch was tellin\u2019 me to back off \/ \u2018Cause her man had looked at me wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n
Paige says she was struck by Swift casually calling a female stranger a \u201cb*tch\u201d throughout the track, given the musician\u2019s thorny history with the word. The singer\u2019s well-publicized feud with Kanye West<\/a> largely stemmed from him writing the lyric \u201cI made that b*tch famous\u201d about her on his 2016 song \u201cFamous<\/a>.\u201d Although Swift didn\u2019t consent<\/a> to West using the lyric, his then-wife Kim Kardashian posted an edited clip in which Swift seemingly agreed to it, sparking a massive backlash<\/a> against Swift that partially inspired her to make Reputation.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was shocking to me that a word that had such a detriment to her personally, and to the trajectory of her career, is now being thrown loosely into conversations about other women,\u201d Paige says.<\/p>\n In contrast to her casually misogynistic lyrics on \u201cHoney,\u201d Bonnie points to a scene in Miss Americana in which Swift talks about working to \u201cdeprogram the misogyny in my own brain.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s no such thing as a sl*t, there\u2019s no such thing as a b*tch,\u201d Swift said in the documentary. \u201cToss it out, reject it, and resist it.\u201d<\/p>\n Outside of these moments, some fans also argued that the actual content of The Life of a Showgirl didn\u2019t match the album they\u2019d been sold. Swift has reflected on the glittery blood, sweat, and tears that go into entertaining millions before, in songs like Red\u2019s \u201cThe Lucky One\u201d and Tortured Poets\u2019 \u201cI Can Do It With A Broken Heart.\u201d Yet outside of the title track, some Swifties found that the album didn\u2019t say much about being a showgirl at all. Curiously, other major 2025 pop songs have already waxed poetic about themes of fame and on-and-offstage affirmation, such as Lady Gaga\u2019s \u201cPerfect Celebrity\u201d and Addison Rae\u2019s \u201cFame Is A Gun.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Then there\u2019s the song \u201cHoney,\u201d in which Swift sings about how, until she started dating her partner, she…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87863,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[56146,93,56145,61,60,278,41700,6543],"class_list":["post-87862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-culture-op-ed","tag-entertainment","tag-fandom","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music","tag-swifties","tag-taylor-swift"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}