Taylor Swift was rudely and notoriously interrupted by Kanye West a few years ago, but she apparently doesn’t care anymore since the two are now best buddies. However, there is one thing that she cares about: people attacking her because of her bad grammar. ‘Accuse me of anything but do not attack my grammar’ she posted on her Tumblr, and she sounded pissed off.
In a SAT study guide entitled ‘Pop lyrics are a great source of bad grammar. See if you can find the error in each of the following’, they were proposing a few examples taken from songs by Katy Perry, Whitney Houston, Lady Gaga, Justin Timberlake, Dave Matthews Band, Ke$ha, Timbaland and at the end who cares, since most of these people don’t write their own songs… But there also was this Taylor Swift example: ‘Somebody tells you they love you, you got to believe ‘em’. The picture of the page was probably posted by a fan and reblogged by Taylor herself.
‘Not the right lyrics at all pssshhhh,’ wrote Swift. ‘You had one job, test people. One job.’ And apparently her real lyrics are, ‘‘Somebody tells you they love you, you’re gonna believe them’.
Oh Taylor, this makes such a difference in your poetry!! Being so sensitive for no reason, and how pretentious of you! Why do you presume that these people have ‘one job’, one unique job devoted to know your damn lyrics? I seriously doubt this is their only job, as a matter of fact I believe these people are overworked. But is the true version even better? I don’t think so… if there is a problem with ‘Somebody tells you they love you, you got to believe ‘em’’ …. there’s still the same bad grammar in ‘Somebody tells you they love you, you’re gonna believe them’, right? Because technically the problem comes from ‘somebody’ not fitting with ‘them’.
So this was this worth a grammar lesson by miss Swift little-perfection? How much did she get at the SAT, just curious…