In 2006, Taylor Swift stepped onto the music scene with her self-titled, debut album. Throughout her years of superstardom, the singer has made headlines, but they haven’t always been about her music. As fans know the, the “Lover” songstress has dated many celebrities — like Harry Styles and Calvin Harris, among others — before starting her current, long-term relationship with British actor Joe Alwyn in May 2017.
Now, the 29-year-old is opening up about what it was like to have her dating life so heavily scrutinized. She explained that she felt it was “unfair” to be publicly “slut-shamed” at such a young age.
“I was 23 and people were… making slideshows of my dating life and putting people in there that I’d sat next to at a party once and deciding that my songwriting was a trick rather than a skill and a craft,” the singer and songwriter shared with Beats 1 host Zane Lowe on Wednesday, October 30. “It’s a way to take a woman who’s doing her job and succeeding at doing her job… [and] completely minimize that skill by slut-shaming her.”
Taylor has been pretty vocal about her mission to bridge the gap between male and female artists in the music industry. The blonde beauty opened up about her own struggles in an attempt to create positive change and awareness.
“I don’t think people understand how easy it is to infer that someone who’s a female artist or a female in our industry is somehow doing something wrong by wanting love, wanting money, wanting success. Women are not allowed to want those things the way that men are allowed to want them,” she explained. “Thank God we’ve had Me Too movements and moments where we’re looking at ourselves as a society and we’re looking at internalized misogyny.”
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