When people say music can change the world, they usually don’t mean songs that capture with bright, sharp intimacy how girls feel. They mean protest songs, political songs, anti-Vietnam war anthems—not the soundtracks to agonizing teenage summers, or to the dancing figures of eight-year-olds on the playground.

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They don’t mean, in short, her songs Taylor Swift. But this is what Malala Yousafzai, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning campaigner for women’s right to education, was singing with her friends in Pakistan. Music, she wrote on Instagram after attending one of Swift’s concerts in London this summer, “it made me and my friends feel confident and free.” That is why the Taliban forbid it in Afghanistan.

This weekend, Swift was in Miami, kicking off the final leg of her ‘Eras ​​Tour’, which coincides with the strangest US election in decades.

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What is interesting is that on Friday night, the Taylor Swift posted a video on Instagram, humorously writing in her post: “Back to the Office”featuring herself exploring the stadium before the show, dressed in jeans and holding her beloved cat. This is a clear position of the artist for the upcoming elections, given Republican vice presidential nominee Jay DeVance’s dismissal of Kamala Harris as a… “childless cat lady.”

Democrats are furiously using Swift’s endorsement of Kamala Harris to woo their younger voters as well. Many voters hand out Kamala Harris-themed friendship bracelets (the bracelets are a Swiftie ritual). Taylor Swift is a force and politicians fear her, especially Donald Trump, who doesn’t want to see her in front of him. Predictably, Taylor Swift has for months been at the center of increasingly deranged deep state conspiracy theories, suggesting she’s the front of an elaborate scheme to manipulate the election that, like all conspiracy theories, is only funny until someone’s crazy to believe them.

When Time magazine chose the 34-year-old singer as its Person of the Year for 2023, it wasn’t by chance. Taylor Swift made many girls and women – and more – believe that their feelings have value, using her songs as a vehicle.

Today, the artist is now asking her fans to make their feelings count through their votes. A gentle reminder that if music is going to change the world, it’s never going to do it alone. And he is right…

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