Taylor Swift's image in pop culture has interesting implications for what is acceptable in girls for today's society. In this video, she's a nerdy girl (as indicated by the fake glasses) crushing on her next-door neighbor who's too busy dating a bitchy, slutty, popular girl (also played by Swift) to notice her until the end where she shows up in a white dress to prom and gets the boy. One can be either smart or sexy in Swift's world, and the implication is that the first is good, and the second bad. Her image promotes the ideal girl as being passive, innocent, and pretty but not too sexy, which disregards female agency and desire. Waiting for a boy to notice you, crying in the rain, regretting "giving everything to a boy who changed his mind", white horses... Here's an infographic made by Autostraddle that sums up her music:
And, here's an interesting article discussing Swift's image (it gets more relevant to our class about 12 paragraphs in):
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