Kid Rock took to social media to call out Taylor Swift’s political push for progressive liberal ideas as a way to win over the Hollywood left.
“Taylor Swift wants to be a democrat because she wants to be in movies….period,” the musician wrote on Twitter on Aug. 9.
In the interview, the 29-year-old singer talked about her decision to speak out about LGBTQ rights now, saying, “I didn’t realize until recently that I could advocate for a community that I’m not a part of.”
She also explained how she realized she hadn’t made her stance on the matter clear enough after singer Todrick Hall asked her: “What would you do if your son was gay?”
“The fact that he had to ask me...shocked me and made me realize that I had not made my position clear enough or loud enough. If my son was gay, he'd be gay,” she said.
She went on to say, “If he was thinking that, I can’t imagine what my fans in the LGBTQ community might be thinking. It was kind of devastating to realize that I hadn’t been publicly clear about that.”
Swift then made her stance on LGBTQ rights quite clear in her music video “You Need to Calm Down,” released earlier this year, with such lyrics as: “You just need to take several seats and then try to restore the peace/And control your urges to scream about all the people you hate/'Cause shade never made anybody less gay.”
As part of her advocating for LGBTQ rights, Swift recently donated $113,000 to the Tennessee Equality Project in April. In her Vogue interview, Swift said she thought it was “smart” for the Tennessee Equality Project to organize a petition of faith leaders in opposition.
“I loved how smart it was to come at it from a religious perspective,” she said.
Swift first came onto the political scene shortly before the 2018 midterms. She took to Instagram to endorse Democrats for the Tennessee Legislature while also criticizing Marsha Blackburn, a Republican who was running for Senate.
In the Oct. 7, 2018, Instagram post, Swift wrote of Blackburn: “She believes businesses have a right to refuse service to gay couples. She also believes they should not have the right to marry. These are not MY Tennessee values.”
She also accused Blackburn as someone “who will not be willing to fight for dignity for ALL Americans, not matter their skin color, gender or who they love.”
In her Vogue interview, which was published on Aug. 8, Swift also compared herself to Hillary Clinton, telling the magazine she didn’t endorse Clinton because President Donald Trump was “weaponizing the idea of celebrity endorsements” and claimed he would have portrayed the pair as “the two nasty women.”
