{"id":63501,"date":"2020-01-22T02:09:55","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T02:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=63501"},"modified":"2020-01-22T02:09:55","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T02:09:55","slug":"taylor-swift-terrified-dixie-chicks-fate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=63501","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift &#8216;terrified&#8217; about Dixie Chicks fate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taylor Swift\u2019s reputation has been a topic of conversation since her 2017 album titled just that. But the massively famous singer-songwriter had only started altering her influence in the fall of 2018 when she spoke out about her political beliefs for the first time, despite fearing that it would tarnish her career.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old spoke to\u00a0Variety\u00a0about her decision to\u00a0publicly endorse\u00a0Democrat Phil Bredesen in Tennessee\u2019s Senate race during the 2018 midterm election, plunging her into the political conversation and leaving her vulnerable to a divisive fan base. And although there were various outcomes considered before Swift posted to\u00a0social media, the one that made her most fearful was the example set by the\u00a0Dixie Chicks.<\/p>\n<div class=\"e3lan e3lan-in-post1\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"e3lan e3lan-in-post2\"><p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Adv<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bagfactory.com.hk\/216\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Sun Winning Ind Co<\/strong><\/span><\/a>: Manufacture of Canvas Bag, Recycle Bad in China<\/li>\r\n \t<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theunitravel.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TheUniTravel.com<\/a><\/strong><\/span> : Find the latest\u00a0<em>travel<\/em>\u00a0and tourism\u00a0<em>news<\/em>\u00a0from around the world. Stay informed with\u00a0<em>travel news<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>updates<\/em><\/li>\r\n \t\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cI saw how one comment ended such a powerful reign, and it terrified me,\u201d Swift told the magazine about\u00a0Natalie Maines\u2019s 2003 comments\u00a0against then-President George W. Bush \u2014which forced the top-selling female group into exile. \u201cThese days, with social media, people can be so mad about something one day and then forget what they were mad about a couple weeks later. That\u2019s fake outrage. But what happened to the Dixie Chicks was real outrage. I registered it \u2014 that you\u2019re always one comment away from being done being able to make music.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Maines\u2019s statement came during a European promo show where she announced the group\u2019s anti-war stance and said that they were all \u201cashamed that the President of the United States is from Texas.\u201d The statement was met with applause from the British audience, but it ultimately isolated them from their fan base at home \u2014 leading to boycotts of their U.S. shows and bans from country radio.<\/p>\n<p>Despite that history, and her team\u2019s attempt to dissuade her from the endorsement, Swift decided that it was a matter of speaking up for the sake of human rights.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was a situation where, from a humanity perspective, and from what my moral compass was telling me I needed to do, I knew I was right, and I really didn\u2019t care about repercussions,\u201d she said. \u201cMy dad is terrified of threats against my safety and my life, and he has to see how many stalkers we deal with on a daily basis, and know that this is his kid. It\u2019s where he comes from.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Swift had a similar stance when it came to her hit single \u201cYou Need to Calm Down,\u201d which has been deemed an anthem for\u00a0LGBTQ\u00a0rights and landed her as the recipient of a Vanguard Award from GLAAD.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo celebrate but not advocate felt wrong for me,\u201d she told\u00a0Variety\u00a0of her alignment with the LGBTQ community. \u201cUsing my voice to try to advocate was the only choice to make. Because I\u2019ve talked about equality and sung about it in songs like \u2018Welcome to New York,\u2019 but we are at a point where human rights are being violated. When you\u2019re saying that certain people can be kicked out of a restaurant because of who they love or how they identify, and these are actual policies that certain politicians vocally stand behind, and they disguise them as family values, that is sinister. So, so dark.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p>Using her \u201cextreme privilege\u201d to speak up about these existing beliefs is something that\u2019s evidently become important to Swift as she\u2019s gotten older and experienced her own challenges, after admittedly staying quiet about them earlier in her career. Namely, the 2017 sexual assault trial that she went through against a DJ who groped her. However, the singer also opened up to the publication about a current battle that she\u2019s facing with her family, which is her mother\u2019s health, and how it\u2019s helped to put everything into perspective.<\/p>\n<p>Swift first revealed that her mother, Andrea Swift, had breast cancer in 2015, but opened up to\u00a0Variety\u00a0about the toll that it has taken on her family, especially since she started undergoing chemotherapy treatment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, we don\u2019t know what is going to happen,\u201d Swift said, explaining the role of her mom\u2019s cancer in her own decision to not do an extended tour for her latest album. \u201cWe don\u2019t know what treatment we\u2019re going to choose. It just was the decision to make at the time, for right now, for what\u2019s going on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Still, nobody expected that the difficult journey would get even worse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile she was going through treatment, they found a brain tumor. And the symptoms of what a person goes through when they have a brain tumor is nothing like what we\u2019ve ever been through with her cancer before,\u201d Swift explained. \u201cSo it\u2019s just been a really hard time for us as a family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Amidst it all, Swift maintains the understanding that it\u2019s more important now than ever to fight her fights, in politics, in societal matters and even in issues of\u00a0artists\u2019 rights, as a person rather than a brand.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cI do think that it\u2019s really necessary to feel like I can still communicate with people,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd as a songwriter, it\u2019s really important to still feel human and process things in a human way. The through-line of all that is humanity, and reaching out and talking to people and having them see things that aren\u2019t cute.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taylor Swift\u2019s reputation has been a topic of conversation since her 2017 album titled just that. But the massively famous singer-songwriter had only started altering her influence in the fall of 2018 when she spoke out about her political beliefs for the first time, despite fearing that it would tarnish her career. 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