The Swifties Are at War Over Taylor Swift’s Teen Years

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A resurfaced video of 16-year-old Taylor Swift at school ignited a reexamination of the singer’s self-created mythology about growing up—and everyone has strong opinions about it.

Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology,” she sings, in the Lilith Fair-esque track’s best line.) But what it actually means for someone like Swift to feel “high school” has been under litigation of late, as Teen Taylor suddenly becomes an object of the internet’s ire and obsession.

There she is, sitting barefoot in the school hallway, writing songs and singing to herself; driving her new Hummer to school; telling her friends that it’s been awhile since they’ve “driven around with the top down and harassed people.” Swift’s bestie Abigail Anderson of “” fame even gets her own shoutout. If she weren’t Taylor Swift, she’d come across as any other rich, popular blonde, who writes and performs music.

One oft-mentioned part of the Swift origin story, for example, is that she was bullied and lonely growing up. In an interview from 2008, when she was 18, she toldthat “people in our school decided were too strange to hang out with. So I’ve only had one friend my entire high school.” Of course, it’s impossible to judge whether someone truly felt lonely at a given point, especially on the basis of a short news clip edited for TV to make everyone look good.

But there are no bombshell revelations in this piece, as one may hope for something so heavily reported. Swift was talented and determined; her parents had the resources to help her achieve her dream. And yet subreddits on both sides of the aisle——have found much to discuss, as they pick apart the girl she once was and put her up alongside the woman she is today.

It’s unfair to compare someone to who they were nearly 20 years ago, or to judge them for the brassiness they exhibited in their youth. But Swift has built a career out of intimacy, a desire to know who she is and how she feels, as for her songs to better resonate. And that career began when she was just a teenager; she released her debut album in fall 2006, not long after she filmed that now-circulating high school visit.

 

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