Taylor Swift’s Post-<em>Reputation </em>Approach to Politics
The pop star’s call for fans to “get out and vote” in the midterm elections has caused a stir—one that’s best understood as a set of responses to Swift herself.
Taylor Swift is not, necessarily, about to Nor is she exactly finding her political voice: Though fueled intense speculation about whom she was voting for, . What the pop star has done, with a viral Instagram post on Tennessee’s upcoming election, is encourage political action in its most basic form—calling not for protest or explicitly for a takedown of the mighty, but for the modest yet incrementally powerful act of casting a
