Frontline Mama

I have to clarify that I am no Swiftie, but during Taylor Swift’s breaking of the internet with her recent world tour, I caught lots of social media clips and learned some things. During one of her songs on tour, Taylor’s team selected a child from the crowd to stand at the end of the stage to receive a little serenade from Taylor as well as a hat straight from Taylor’s own head. Cute, right? Except for the other parts in the show, where Taylor sings lyrics about her hips being an alter, her ‘baby’ being her drug, a man writing ‘mine’ on her upper thigh, pulling her to the backseat, to name a few.

If you think these lyrics are inappropriate for children to hear from such an influential figure, then read this paragraph with some discretion. Taylor chose Sabrina Carpenter, a now major pop star that was up and coming at the time she opened for Taylor. Sabrina’s top hits include a song called “Taste”- where she sings about him pinning you down on the carpet and making paintings with his tongue, “House Tour”- where she uses clever metaphors to invite someone after a date to go back to her apartment for a ‘house tour’—which is a metaphor for her body. She goes on to sing “I could take you to the first, second, third floor and I promise none of this is a metaphor I just want you to come inside but never enter through the back door”.

Remember the children who are there singing along? Is it Taylor and Sabrina’s fault that little children are learning these song lyrics? No, I’m not suggesting that they are at fault for the exposure of these explicit and suggestive lyrics to children (though I have some thoughts about what these song lyrics say about their integrity and honor). I am suggesting, no—I’m screaming out loud: WHAT ARE WE DOING PARENTS? Either you don’t take the time to know what your children are singing along to or you know and you’re neglecting to protect your children from nonsense like these dangerous lyrics.

How did we get here? Why are parents buying these concert tickets for thousands of dollars for their children to belt out lyrics that minimize sexual activity and reduce people to sexual objects for consumption? With a few scrolls of TikTok, you can watch Sabrina Carpenter sing her famous song “Juno” (which is her code word for the “Big O”), while she climbs out on a raised platform, gets herself into some contorted sexual position and asks the crowd “Have you ever tried this one?”

Man oh man are we numbed out and desensitized and I plan to keep pointing that out. Subscribe and continue reading as I bring out historical events and current nonsense that all play together to rob our children of the innocence they should have a right to.

Standing our ground together,

The Frontline Mama