Taylor Swift knows what everyone is saying about her, and it looks like she's using her new song and music video to prove it.
In her new single, "Blank Space," Taylor Swift seems to be singing about the reputation that the media built for her, as people have criticized her writing about her highly publicized past relationships.
"Got a long list of ex-lovers/they'll tell you I'm insane, cause you know I love the players/and you love the game," sings Swift in the new video for the song, according to the New Republic.
Taylor Swift's recent interview for Time magazine may give the lyrics to the new song a little more perspective. The "1989" hitmaker had reportedly mentioned that women in the music industry risk being read as "irrational" or "overemotional" if they write songs about their feelings, according to MTV News.
However, in an industry where a lot of the material is created about love, it's almost impossible for women not to seem too "irrational" and "overemotional." Yes, "Blank Space" may seem to be Taylor Swift's way of saying "I know what you're saying about me," but it may very well be about women who have to struggle to make themselves heard; women that are commonly see as "crazy."
It's not a secret that Taylor Swift has been labeled as the "emotional" girlfriend that goes through boyfriends just to write about them. She has had to prove herself time and time again and she most certainly has with the record breaking sales that her new album has made, despite the fact that she made the decision to pull her music from Spotify.
Swift is not only opening people's eyes to her skills as a pop artist, but also bringing attention to the difficulties that female artists have in a highly male-dominated industry. The 24-year-old even brought up to the issue of female artists not being credited for their own work in her recent interview as well.
"We all know it's a feminist issue. My friend Ed [Sheeran], no one questions whether he writes everything. In the beginning, I liked to think that we were all on the same playing field. And then it became pretty obvious to me that when you have people sort of questioning the validity of a female songwriter, or making it seem like it's somehow unacceptable to write songs about your real emotions-that it somehow makes you irrational and overemotional-seeing that over the years changed my view," stated Swift, according to Bustle.
She continued, " It's a little discouraging that females have to work so much harder to prove that they do their own things. I see Nicki Minaj and Iggy Azalea having to prove that they write their own raps or their own lyrics, and it makes me sad, because they shouldn't have to justify it."