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Thursday, November 12, 2009
Dear Taylor Swift: Don’t let us down
If there ever was a pop culture positive role model for girls it is Taylor Swift.
She has won about every country music award possible, most notably and amazingly the Entertainer of the Year Award from the Country Music Association, a category long dominated by men. She’s 19. She’s as close to girl as she is woman.
She recently hosted Saturday Night Live and was hilarious without being vulgar or inappropriate.
She had a moment ruined weeks ago when Kanye West famously interrupted her Video Music Award acceptance speech. She managed to handle that with grace and humor for weeks since then. Even at the CMAs, it was Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood who joked about Kanye, with Taylor in the audience lauging, not participating.
She isn’t just a voice or a look, though she has a voice and good looks. She writes her own music and plays her own guitar.
And she gets teenage girls because she is one. Girls manage to look up to her, but not hate her. She has the homecoming girl looks but the nicest-girl-in-the-class sensibilities.
May I never seen her in an inappropriate photo shoot or falling out of a limousine drunk.
Better, may her peers never see that.
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