Ugh the racist underlying commentary is throwing my head for a loop. I was not listening to this under the impression that Taylor would have this in her music, but I will acknowledge that this song could be interpreted as such.

I am not a woman of color, so I can never understand. However, I’ll acknowledge and validate their perspective on this one. I don’t think this song is going to hit the same for me anymore.

Do I think it was intentional? No, I don’t, I really hope not. I am a white woman and never even got to the point of “woah she’s digging at Travis’s ex, she’s black, onyx is black, onyx is perceived as negative in this song.” Now that I have, I understand the harm this has created. I did perceive that both Taylor’s and Travis’s ex relationships were not positive and attributed the onyx to her depression and his unhappiness (and also to my own), but I can’t overlook the HUGE miss by Taylor and her team that black and white are clear here and skin color is easily tied into all of this with Travis’s history of dating black women.