Taylor Swift Lends Her Voice to Get-Out-the-Vote Ad

Continuing in her political efforts, Taylor Swift has lent her song “Only the Young� for use in an ad for California Democratic representative Eric Swalwell (you may remember “Only the Young� from Swift’s documentary, Miss Americana, which documented the singer coming into her political voice.) The ad, which is aimed at increasing youth-voter turnout, opens with a sound bite of Kamala Harris asking, “Why are so many powerful people trying to make it so difficult for us to vote?� As Swift’s song plays, footage of civil unrest and protests is rather pointedly juxtaposed with smiling pictures of Trump-administration officials. Smug headshots of Trump, Mitch McConnell, and Lindsey Graham play over the lyric “And the big bad man and his big bad clan / Their hands are stained with red.� Look, the days of Swift hiding her political leanings in vague Instagram posts are behind us. Harris herself retweeted the ad, writing, “Thank you [Taylor Swift] and my friend [Eric Swalwell] for showing young people what’s at stake in this election.�