When tens of millions of people around the world all stream the same album in the course of a few days, some of them are inevitably not going to like it. Such has been the case with Taylor Swift ‘s 12th album, The Life of a Showgirl , and fair enough, as the artist herself recognizes . But as discussed in the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now — which breaks down every track of the album — some of the online discourse around this album has been downright ludicrous, rooted in bad-faith misreadings of lyrics by listeners weirdly determined to paint Swift as some kind of trad-wife MAGA fanatic, despite her open support of Democratic candidates, including an endorsement of Kamala Harris just last year.

There have been many odd takes, but perhaps the strangest of all is the id

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