New Taylor Swift music video has gay teen battling bullies.

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New Taylor Swift music video has gay teen battling bullies.

Posted: 5/9/11 at 1:18pm

The music video for Taylor Swift's single "Mean" was released today and it features a gay teen being picked on by a bunch of football players in a locker room as well as some other people who are being picked on. However, at the end of the video the teen and everyone else being picked on went on to achieve other things. I really like the message of this song.




Taylor Swift battles bullies, critics and silent movie villains in new 'Mean' video: Watch it here

Updated On: 4/21/12 at 01:18 PM

#2

New Taylor Swift music video has gay teen battling bullies.

Posted: 5/9/11 at 2:18pm

A for effort, but it's a lousy video. And why did they have to dress the gay kid is a mauve sweater and a bow tie? Is he gay or just a dweeb?


Thanks Taylor for the sentiment, but you still grate on my nerves like nails on a chalkboard.

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#3

New Taylor Swift music video has gay teen battling bullies.

Posted: 5/9/11 at 2:40pm

As a gay man, I'm starting to feel pandered to by some artists. I know that sounds a little self hating, but I'm kind of sick of the overkill. I mean I hit the wall with Margaret Cho because she just became so political and joyless and angry, and even Gaga could ease up a little bit. I watched her concert the other night and I was like can you just stop giving shouts out to the gays? We get the point.

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New Taylor Swift music video has gay teen battling bullies.

Posted: 5/9/11 at 2:55pm

Dub-dub-double-ee post.

Updated On: 5/9/11 at 02:55 PM

#5

New Taylor Swift music video has gay teen battling bullies.

Posted: 5/9/11 at 2:55pm

I'm treading into this carefully, but I agree with BettyBoy's sentiment. It's not that I don't want straight artists supporting gay people, because I do. I think it's great and I'm appreciative of it. I just wish there were more actual gay celebrities fighting the good fight. As uncageg might say, just my two cents.

Updated On: 5/9/11 at 02:55 PM

#6

New Taylor Swift music video has gay teen battling bullies.

Posted: 5/9/11 at 2:56pm

I appreciate the support from straight celebrities. I just wish Glee hadn't become the model for tolerance.

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#7

New Taylor Swift music video has gay teen battling bullies.

Posted: 5/9/11 at 3:06pm

The intentions are there but she's also reinforcing a stereotype. Because really, God knows all the gay guys I've met wore purple sweaters and were into fashion.

Anyway, she's the queen of passive agression.

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#8

New Taylor Swift music video has gay teen battling bullies.

Posted: 5/9/11 at 4:27pm

She's coming from a good place...but it wasn't really effective. Remember she is a country bumpkin, and she is trying to make a difference conveying a good message to some of her fans that might be very narrow minded. I'm far from a fan, but kudos to her.

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New Taylor Swift music video has gay teen battling bullies.

Posted: 5/9/11 at 10:14pm

Somewhere in the darkest recesses of my heart, I feel like these female artists know that during the lean years (which will come for all of them) the gays will show up and pay the bills. Just ask Taylor Dayne, Tiffany, Debbie Gibson, Cyndi Lauper and many other ladies of the 80s. Most of them make a living off of gay men and gay prides, cruises and festivals.

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"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal "I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello

#10

New Taylor Swift music video has gay teen battling bullies.

Posted: 5/9/11 at 10:18pm

Meanwhile, the gays are often quick to give their hearts to these artists.

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New Taylor Swift music video has gay teen battling bullies.

Posted: 5/10/11 at 4:54am

Remember she is a country bumpkin, and she is trying to make a difference conveying a good message to some of her fans that might be very narrow minded.


She grew up about an hour Northwest of Philly. She's a pretend bumpkin.

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Updated On: 5/10/11 at 04:54 AM

#12

New Taylor Swift music video has gay teen battling bullies.

Posted: 5/10/11 at 9:06pm

So how is she pandering to stereotypes. I don't recall in the video the boy ever showing interest in another boy. Seems like it was your stereotyping that assumed he was supposed to be gay.

#13

New Taylor Swift music video has gay teen battling bullies.

Posted: 5/10/11 at 9:26pm

So, he was just being picked on for having fashion sense, then?

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"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."

#14

New Taylor Swift music video has gay teen battling bullies.

Posted: 5/11/11 at 11:58am

Have you never heard of someone being picked on for dressing differently than others? For liking things that others didn't like or that wasn't the norm?

#15

New Taylor Swift music video has gay teen battling bullies.

Posted: 9/6/11 at 1:30pm

Major bump, but the music video has been nominated for Music Video of the Year at the CMA Awards. The song has also been nominated for Song of the Year.

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New Taylor Swift music video has gay teen battling bullies.

Posted: 9/6/11 at 2:17pm

She's talkiong directly to a demographic who needs to hear the message.

#17

New Taylor Swift music video has gay teen battling bullies.

Posted: 9/6/11 at 11:10pm

Their parents need to hear it, too.
Read the comments on this article, if you dare

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New Taylor Swift music video has gay teen battling bullies.

Posted: 9/6/11 at 11:39pm

I read about two lines of one comment (because I'm a masochist) and I was already ready to go apoplectic. Just to know that people people are still perpetuating the notion that the King kid was hitting on the other boys and making them uncomfortable. Because, if even if that WERE true, that's reason to suggest the kid was asking for it a little bit.

#thankstaylorbutamericareallybreaksmyheartsometimes

#alsosorrytobedebbiedowner

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New Taylor Swift music video has gay teen battling bullies.

Posted: 9/7/11 at 11:29am

Why, Oh Why, did I read those comments? I must be a masochist too.

So all I had to do was give up being gay to stop the harassment in High School (and some of my adult life)? Now why didn't I think of that!

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#20

New Taylor Swift music video has gay teen battling bullies.

Posted: 9/7/11 at 11:39am

My nephew spent a few months at Point Magu, the naval air station outside Oxnard. If you think reading comments like that is bad, you should hear them stated in a check-out lane at a grocery store - loudly. I can atest that a great number of people there feel exactly that way. Just one of the reasons I shake my head when people talk about 'liberal California'.

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New Taylor Swift music video has gay teen battling bullies.

Posted: 9/7/11 at 12:33pm

Oh liberal California my ass!

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"Broadway...I'll lick you yet!"

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New Taylor Swift music video has gay teen battling bullies.

Posted: 9/7/11 at 1:51pm

While California certainly has its pockets of extreme liberalism, it is still the home of the Prop 8 debacle - not to mention Nixon and Reagan!