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Posted: 2023-05-25T15:36:11Z | Updated: 2023-05-26T13:06:27Z

I was already pretty much done with Taylor Swift .

Then she announced her new collaboration with Bronx rapper Ice Spice on a version of her song Karma and that was the nail in the coffin. This reeks of damage control and an exploitative PR strategy.

Swift has drawn major backlash for reportedly dating Matty Healy, frontman of British pop rock group The 1975. He was someone I really knew nothing about that is, until the couple was seen out and about and I started learning more about how problematic he is .

When I went to the Eras concert in Philadelphia a mere 11 days ago, I was already feeling gross about the two dating. I booed Healy when opener Phoebe Bridgers proudly announced him on the guitar during her set. A Swiftie in front of me had the nerve to look back at me like I was the problematic one.

Healy being featured at the concert and given a platform felt off to me. I wondered, why are these two white women parading around this man who has made antisemitic, Islamophobic and misogynistic statements, even about Swift herself? (He once said dating her would be emasculating.)