Taylor Swift has been on top of the world over the past few months, with the entire world waiting for her marriage and celebrating her engagement, alongside her latest album, which also worked out well. But it seems there is something about the pop star that is still drawing criticism- her silence on the Trump Administration’s use of her songs to push agendas that promote hatred. Anthony Fantano spoke out against Swift in this respect on his channel.
Taylor Swift faces criticism for allegedly ignoring Donald Trump
Anthony Fantano labelled Taylor Swift a coward for letting the Donald Trump administration use her songs to push their agenda. The Trump administration, as pointed out by Fantano, has been using music from popular artists behind promotional videos or “pieces of AI slop” to push their agendas, most of which push “their bigotry, their hatred, and their fascist agenda (via The Needle Drop).”
Fantano claimed that other artists have had aggressive responses to these unauthorized usages, but not Swift. There are videos online on the White House TikTok account featuring Swift’s music, but the Red singer has neither addressed nor opposed any of this. Fantano also pointed out how this was particularly uncharacteristic for the singer.
Taylor Swift has been very wary of where her songs were used, but in this case, she doesn’t seem to have much say. Moreover, Donald Trump has had a strong stance against Swift on social media platforms. But she has not said anything about Trump, which, again, is uncharacteristic of her.
“By allowing the usage of her music in this way, Taylor is allowing that process to continue, even if we’re to tell ourselves the fairy tale that Taylor’s entire listening audience is nothing but women who hate Trump,” Fantano said, “Taylor’s fan base is mostly white women. White women love voting for Trump, which is exactly why the use of her music in this way must be rejected, because if Taylor’s response to this is that it’s essentially not really that big of a deal, there are going to be people guaranteed that also see the further empowerment of Trump as not that big of a deal.”
He ended his video with several suggestions regarding what Swift could do. The pop star has yet to address any of these accusations.
