{"id":218835,"date":"2019-06-15T00:27:45","date_gmt":"2019-06-15T04:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=218835"},"modified":"2019-06-15T00:27:45","modified_gmt":"2019-06-15T04:27:45","slug":"swift-calls-out-homophobes-on-new-song-announces-7th-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/06\/15\/swift-calls-out-homophobes-on-new-song-announces-7th-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Swift calls out homophobes on new song, announces 7th album"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Swift also released a colorful lyric video to match the new song on YouTube late Thursday \u2014 appropriately during Pride Month. (File Photo<\/a>: @taylorswift\/Instagram<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

NEW YORK – Taylor Swift’s latest song has a new target: homophobes.<\/p>\n

Coinciding with the announcement of her seventh album, \u201cLover,\u201d the pop star has released a new tune called \u201cYou Need to Calm Down,\u201d where she addresses her own haters but also calls out those who attack the L-G-B-T-Q community.<\/p>\n

At one point on the beat-laden track, Swift sings: \u201cAnd control your urges to scream about all the people you hate\/ ‘Cause shade never made anybody less gay.\u201d<\/p>\n

At another point she sings: \u201cYou need to just stop, like can you just not step on his gown?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou Need to Calm Down\u201d is the second single from \u201cLover,\u201d to be released on August 23rd.<\/p>\n

The song is the follow-up to \u201cME!,\u201d which featured Brendon Urie of Panic! at the Disco and peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.<\/p>\n

Swift also released a colorful lyric video to match the new song on YouTube late Thursday \u2014 appropriately during Pride Month.<\/p>\n

A music video will be released Monday.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month Swift posted a letter on social media asking Tennessee’s Republican U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander to protect L-G-B-T-Q rights and support the Equality Act.<\/p>\n

Swift lives in Tennessee and said she supported the House’s recent passage of the act, which would extend civil rights protections to L-G-B-T people by prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity.<\/p>\n

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(The Associated Press)<\/p>\n

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