What you got in the stable? We’ve a lot of starving faithful.” “Something meaty for the main course-that’s a fine looking high horse. The blistering takedown continues into the verses: Instead, what we have on our hands is a deliciously acidic criticism of religious institutions, particularly their interference in our bedrooms.
This isn’t the solipsism of Swift, and this isn’t the self-objectification of Trainor. Offer me that deathless death? Good God, let me give you my life.” “I’ll worship like a dog at the shrine of your lies, I’ll tell you my sins and you can sharpen your knife. “I got that boom boom that all the boys chase, and all the right junk in all the right places.” Ain’t it funny? Rumor’s fly, and I know you heard about me.”Īnd here’s a line from Meghan Trainor’s “ body positive” anthem, “All About That Bass”: “New Money, Suit and Tie-I can read you like a magazine.
By way of example, here’s a couplet from Taylor Swift’s “Blank Space,” currently the number one song in the country:
