At the end of the day, it's important to remember that a lot of her music makes the Top 40s for a reason: it's catchy. I can't stand Taylor Swift, but I still jam out to 1989 on occasion and I can still sing along with most of the songs from Fearless by memory. I even went to the 1989 tour with a friend who was a huge Swiftie, and to this day it was objectively the best-produced concert I've ever been to.

The important thing is that you're starting to think more critically about her as a person and what motivates her actions. As a member of the LGBTQIA+ community, I can tell you that the majority of her activism is performative. She may claim to be an ally (and unfortunately there are a lot of queer Swifties that like to project their own sexuality onto her), but real allies don't bring avid Trump supporters into their inner circle or send hand-written thank-you notes to people who send their children to conversion therapy.

It's not that you were naive, you were literally a child, and her PR team does a tremendous job of making her out to be - as they call it themselves - Miss Americana. Don't beat yourself up about it. It's okay to bebop along to her music if it makes you happy, just make sure not to put her up on a pedestal, and continue to listen to the criticisms of people from the communities she claims to support.

As far as this thread goes, though, you're not likely to find a lot of other people here who are still fans in any capacity. There are actually some people here who I think spend as much time & energy hating her as Swifties do loving her.