Taylor Swift Gets Mean
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Taylor Swift is gearing up to release her third single from her ACM-nominated Speak Now album. “Mean” will be hitting radio airwaves soon and like many of Taylor’s songs, this one is personal. She wrote “Mean” in response to repeated criticism from someone that turned from critic to personal attacker. While Taylor gets that people will be critical, she is quick to point out that there is a line between being critical and being just plain mean.
“There are a million different opinions from a million different people,” Taylor said. “I get it that not everyone is going to like what you do, and I get that no matter what, you’re going to be criticized for something. But I also get that there are different ways to criti-cize someone. There’s constructive criticism, there’s professional criticism and then there’s just being mean. And there’s a line that you cross when you just start to attack everything about a person. And there’s one guy, man, who just crossed the line over and over again of just being mean and just saying things that would ruin my day.”
Taylor will never be void of critics, but it’s not just her who faces criticism – it’s everyone. Her advice? Deal with it because that’s all you can do. “This happens no matter what you do, no matter how old you are, no matter what your job is, no matter what your place is in life,” she said. “There’s always going to be someone who’s just mean to you. And dealing with that is all that you can control.”
Taylor is currently on the European leg of her Speak Now World Tour. She will play Milan on Tuesday and Paris on Thursday.
