Taylor Swift Under Fire As Recent Music Takes ‘Darker Turn’

Pop sensation Taylor Swift is once again under fire for lyrics that critics say are darkening her image as a happy-go-lucky inspiration to girls everywhere.

The American Tribune reported on criticism of Swift by renowned evangelical pastor Shane Pruitt, who wrote on social media recently that the “Eras” singer is preaching “anti-Gospel” music on her latest album, “The Tortured Poets Department.”

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“LYRICS MATTER. Disclaimer, I’m definitely not the minister or parent that has the “no secular music” stance. Also, I fully realize unbelievers are going to act like unbelievers. HOWEVER, there is a difference between being secular, and being ANTI-CHRISTIAN,” Pruitt wrote on X. For example, he pointed to lines in various songs by Swift, including on the songs “But Daddy I Love Him,” “Guilty as Sin,” and “The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived.”

“But daddy I love him / I just learned these people only raise you / To cage you / Sarahs and Hannahs in their Sunday best / Clutchin’ their pearls, sighing, “What a mess” / I just learned these people try and save you ‘Cause they hate you”

“God save the most judgmental creeps / Who say they want what’s best for me / Sanctimoniously performing soliloquies I’ll never see / Thinkin’ it can change the beat / Of my heart when he touches me / And counteract the chemistry / And undo the destiny / You ain’t gotta pray for me / Me and my wild boy and all of this wild joy / If all you want is gray for me / Then it’s just white noise, and it’s just my choice”

“What if I roll the stone away? / They’re gonna crucify me anyway / What if the way you hold me is actually what’s holy?”

“The smallest man who ever lived / I would’ve died for your sins”

As a former fan, Pruitt said it’s disheartening to hear the biggest singer in the world monetize attacking Christians. Her lyrics have become “more and more explicit” over the years, he added, and taken on a “darker turn” in the process.

“In transparency I used to listen to Taylor, HOWEVER I think now it’s time to reconsider. As Christians, who are filled with the Spirit should we be entertained by, sing with, and expose our kids to lyrics that aren’t just different than what you believe, but are actually mocking what you believe?” he added.

The Tribune also spotted an interview Pruitt gave on the Christian Broadcasting Network where he voiced similar sentiments about the importance of calling out anti-Christian influences in pop culture. “I’m not an anti-Taylor guy. I’m [a] pro-Gospel guy.” He continued, explaining the need to call out anti-Christian, anti-Gospel music, “Anything that I know is largely affecting parents, or Christians, or people in the church that seems to … be anti-Gospel, I think we lovingly call it out.”

“I think we just need to be very aware and very careful of what we’re exposing our kids to and how we’re even engaging with things and being entertained by things that are really anti what we say we believe,” he added.

Other conservatives like Candace Owens have gone after Swift for allegedly adding “toxic feminism” to her lyrics about ex-boyfriends. “She’s the most toxic feminist that’s ever existed,” Owens said on a DailyWire podcast in February. “and what she does is basically, the threat is if she doesn’t get what she wants she writes a song about a guy and then has 15 million girls sing the songs and drops little clues so they know who it’s about. It’s totally psychotic if you really think about it.”

Even some of her fans have chided Swift for sharing her desire to travel back in time and live in another century “without all the racists.”

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