Taylor Swift kept her political opinions for a long time, so much so that it had become a mystery that obsessed America. The singer was even for a time linked to the alt-right, that is to say the American far right (and close to Donald Trump), which had greatly displeased her. Since then, the singer has ended her political silence and sided with the Democrats, but there was good reason for her to remain silent until then. She was afraid.
She thought that giving her opinion in politics would mean the end of her career, like the singer Natalie Maine of the Dixie Chicks. The latter had spoken out against the president at the time, George W. Bush, forcing her to a forced retirement.
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“I saw the way a comment ended a reign, and it terrifies me. Nowadays, with social media, people can go crazy for anything and forget why they were pissed off two weeks later. Everything is fake. But what happened to the Dixie Chicks is real outrage. I remembered it: we are still making a comment about not being able to make music any more, ”she revealed to Variety .
An era that is now over, since October 2018, when it spoke out against racism and Donald Trump.
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