Rolling Stone on the online backlash around “The Life of a Showgirl”:
“People turn off certain parts of their brain when they hear [Taylor’s] voice […] Some of the online discourse around this album has been downright ludicrous, rooted in bad-faith misreadings of lyrics by listeners weirdly determined to paint Swift as some kind of trad-wife MAGA fanatic, despite her open support of Democratic candidates, including an endorsement of Kamala Harris just last year.”