Big Pop Songs are been being released with less and less fanfare as of late; her first song from this era, Me! (obviously, what else would it be called) was blocked off the number one position by Old Town Road (the greatest song ever written), and Reputation didn’t seem as much of a game changer as we all envisioned. As the world is moving onto Billies (Ray Cyrus and Eilish), the old school pop girls of ten years ago are trying new things; be it winning Oscars, launching clothing lines or generally being Beyoncé. Taylor Swift’s new thing is the Gays.

‘You Need to Calm Down’ was released earlier this weekend and is already making a splash across the internet. The song makes overt references to shade, GLAAD and (in the full-length album cut) finding a leather daddy on Grindr. The music video is saccharine, pastel and rainbow, and has cameos from gay icons like RuPaul, Billy Porter, The Fab Five and for some reason, Ryan Reynolds. Because nothing says gay rights like Ryan Reynolds. The song itself is exactly okay verging on bad. It was co-written and produced by Joe Little, of Lorde fame, the beat is a little too Pure Heroin for a Taylor Swift song. The “oh-oh’s” have been stuck in my head all day, so I guess mission accomplished?

The song takes on heavy political issues like homophobia, sexism and people being mean to Taylor online. Everyone always talks about how annoying the “Taylor Swift Talking About Boys,” songs are, but I’d take a million of them over the much more annoying, much more indulgent “Taylor Swift Talking About How Mean People Are To Her” genre. This isn’t fresh! This is like the millionth “stop being mean to me I don’t give a fuck,” song she’s released; it’s kind of difficult to believe you when you say that you don’t care when it’s literally all you’re ever talking about. The fact that she’s throwing in references to homophobia as well comes off as a little offensive; queer people are literally being thrown out of their homes, suicide rates amongst LGBTQ youth are higher than straight youths, and violence against trans people is on the rise. Yeah, that struggle sounds exactly the same as some people being mean to a rich white international superstar on Twitter.