I’ve spent most of the last decade saying that although I never really idolised or obsessed over a celebrity, Taylor Swift was my exception.
As a musician, I was obsessed with her throughout my teens and early 20s. This was a woman who was different from me in every way – she’s white, lives miles away from me and, to say the least, leads a very different lifestyle to me – and yet her music made me feel seen. To my 14 year old mind that was enough for her to be absolutely great in every way.
As I grew older, and started getting more involved in what was going on in the world around me, my definition of someone being a person I can admire started to change. I wanted to look up to people who I thought were making a difference in the world, and those who stood for justice, yet still, even within that new sphere, Taylor Swift managed to slip through the cracks in my moral standards and remain.
By Anmol Irfan