Taylor Swift Rips Critics Who Shamed Her For 'Dating Like A Normal Young Woman'

Taylor Swift In liner notes for her latest album, Taylor Swift is addressing critics who scrutinized her love life.The pop star, whose Friday release of 1989 (Taylor’s Version) adds to her rerecording journey, wrote that she “decided to completely reinvent” herself at 24 years old before describing how she felt facing comments from the public and media over her relationships.“The voices that had begun to shame me in new ways for dating like a normal young woman? I wanted to silence them,” Swift wrote.“You see — in the years preceding this, I had become the target of slut shaming — the intensity and relentlessness of which would be criticized and called out if it happened today. The jokes about my amount of boyfriends. The trivialization of my songwriting as if it were a predatory act of a boy crazy psychopath. The media co-signing of this narrative. I had to make it stop because it was starting to really hurt.”Swift, who typically keeps mum on her relationships in public, has previousl