Christine and the Queens on Taylor Swift's 'You Need to Calm Down'

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'...you can tell that being queer has been glossed out as this super-fancy accessory. You can tell that the queer aesthetic is being used to sell things. The mainstream needs that life because it's so vibrant.'

Swift's pro-gay anthem for equating the online criticism lobbied at her with the discrimination faced by the queer community.The month that Swift released her song, in June during World Pride, there were more critiques about corporations' ongoing commodification of the queer community to sell products rather than supporting the grassroots activism that made Pride possible.

Chris also said in the interview that she's been criticized for using queer aesthetics for marketing purposes."When I changed my name from Christine to Chris on the second album, some people said, 'That's a cool marketing thing you did.' It was so painful," Chris says."I've been singing 'iT' [an early song, which she's said is about"wanting to have a dick in order to have an easy life"] for the past five years.

 

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males make up 50% of the world’s 7B population, 99% of males want nothing to do with that stuff period you people don’t have to worry or act like “victims”, god knows it’s all your good for

My prob w/ this is crying for “inclusion”, then turning it around as “we’re an accessory”. I think most of us would prefer not having the queer asthetic force fed to us to be honest.

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