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Topics: Taylor Swift, US News, Music, Celebrity
Rhianna Benson
Topics: Taylor Swift, US News, Music, Celebrity
Fans of Taylor Swift have rushed to the singer's defence this week, after falsified lyrics to one of her latest hit singles began trending online.
Allegations that the 35-year-old has included racist undertones in 'CANCELLED!' - one of the 12 tracks that makes up her new studio album, The Life of a Showgirl - were voiced on social media, causing quite the stir.
For reference, Taylor previously claimed the song centres on the prevalence of cancel culture nowadays, with the Grammy-winner claiming she's seen countless colleagues essentially somewhat 'struck off' the Hollywood register after fans decided they don't agree with a certain decision.
By her own admission (as per ELLE), the musician has endured similar treatment in the past, with critics ceaselessly having their say on both her personal and professional endeavours.
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"It’s not just like a public figure type whatever, it’s like people gossiping about you in your town, negative comments you read on your Instagram," she told fans at her official album release party earlier this month. "You can literally feel canceled by any sort of social backlash that you get."
Taylor went on to recall of her inspiration: "I kind of wanted to write a song about how you can become wiser for it and you can become sharper, and I definitely judge people a lot less now that I’ve been kind of under the microscope for so long.
"I just judge people based on who I know them to be, their actions, not like some kind of general consensus where people are like, ‘Step away! They’re radioactive.’ I’m just not going to do that."
As we say, however, the chart-topper's admirable attempt at embracing reinvention has seemingly grounded to a halt this week, after a group of online trolls unfairly accused her of including racist lyrics in the song.
In a photo-edited screen-grab of 'CANCELLED!'s lyrics written on Spotify, one USER alleged she'd included a reference to the Ku Klux Klan.
The fake lyrics included in the photo read: "Good thing I like my friends cancelled / I like 'em cloaked in white robes with eyeholes cut out."
The post was captioned: "Why did she say this???"
Sharing the same lyrics, another reader falsely wrote: "#TaylorSwift in the year 2025 who likes the KKK."
In reality, the hit-maker's lyrics are: "Good thing I like my friends cancelled / I like 'em cloaked in Gucci and in scandal."
Thankfully, however, a rally of Swifties immediately stood their ground against the online haters, demanding they 'stop spreading misinformation', as one fan put it.
Another agreed: "Nah this is weird n dangerous af. ts not funny at all!"
Issuing something of a backhander, a third went on to jibe in her defence: "She already has enough cooked lyrics, there's genuinely no reason to make things up, this is fake."
A fourth explained: "The 'white robes with eyeholes' version twists it into a KKK reference, likely as a meme or satire on cancel culture."