If Swift didn’t fire Nancy Pelosi out of a sparkly cannon, it’s likely because the bit was cut for time.
The performance ended with a shout-out to the Equality Act, a federal bill that would ban anti-LGBTQ discrimination in housing and employment, in big, yellow CGI letters. Complete with stadium-sized rainbows and giant pinwheels, she performed the track - in which she entreats listeners to give homophobes the cold shoulder - flanked by drag queens formerly of “RuPaul‘s Drag Race.”
In late August, Swift opened the 2019 MTV Video Music Awards with a performance of her LGBTQ allyship single “You Need to Calm Down” that was essentially activism via skywriter.
Taylor Swift may be one of the defining singer-songwriters of her era, but subtle she is not.
