Londoner. Fan of films, musicals, football and whatever thing I'm obsessed with this month. I came here to kill some time in 2013 and now I'm stuck here.
Thinking about Natalie “Something Catholic” Scatorccio’s religious upbringing coming out when she’s in a state of fear and desperation, reverting back to the only comfort she had as a child by pleading with a God she stopped believing in years ago.
“Father Figure” is a song George Michael released while he was still in the closet at a time in the UK when you could be arrested for having consensual gay sex in a hotel room and many gay men were disowned by their own fathers. He allowed people to believe it was about an older man creeping on an underage girl because that was actually more socially acceptable than being gay at the time.
I do not think Taylor Swift, who is as heterosexual and privileged as a woman can possibly be, is emotionally or intellectually capable of handling that piece of queer history with the care and nuance it deserves. I think it’s appalling she would even touch it. I’m guessing she will strip it down for parts and make it about herself, a straight woman.
Straights: if a song by a queer artist says “love can be mistaken for a crime”, please just accept that not everything is for you to take and profit from.
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