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🚨 JOIN THE HAZED REACTIONS DISCORD! 🚨 Our community Discord is officially open! Whether you're here for Taylor Swift, Kendrick Lamar, Fleetwood Mac, movies, TV shows, gaming, deep dives, theories, reactions, or just want to hang out with an awesome community, we'd love to have you join us. Huge shoutout to our longtime supporter (and now friend) 'GrilledCheezy' for helping us build and organize the server! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Happy Pride Month from all of us at Hazed Reactions! 🌈 As we celebrate Pride Month, today's upload also arrives on the anniversary of the landmark 2020 Supreme Court decision in Bostock v. Clayton County, which affirmed federal workplace protections for LGBTQ+ employees. It felt like the perfect time to finally sit down and react to Taylor Swift's "You Need To Calm Down" and discuss the message behind one of the most talked-about songs of the Lover era. Not to mention, it's been exactly 7 years since Taylor released this song and music video. So what better time than now? Today, Rick and Robert react to Taylor Swift's "You Need To Calm Down" for the very first time, and this one turns into much more than just a music reaction. Before diving into the music video, we start by watching the lyric video so the guys can focus on Taylor's words without getting distracted by the visuals. Then we jump into one of Taylor Swift's most iconic and talked-about music videos from the Lover era. Along the way we discuss: 🎵 The lyrics and message behind You Need To Calm Down 🎵 Taylor Swift's support of the LGBTQ+ community 🎵 The transition from Reputation's snakes to Lover's butterflies 🎵 The massive celebrity cameos throughout the music video 🎵 The drag queen section and all the pop culture references 🎵 The ending featuring Taylor Swift and Katy Perry 🎵 Taylor's Equality Act petition featured at the end of the video 🎵 Taylor's MTV VMA Video of the Year acceptance speech 🎵 Why this song was designed to start conversations 🎵 Why voting and civic engagement matter 🎵 Why treating people with dignity and respect shouldn't be controversial We also accidentally give Cher credit to Marilyn Monroe at one point... which is exactly the kind of professionalism you've come to expect from Hazed Reactions. 😂 Pride Month is observed each June in recognition of the LGBTQ+ community and the ongoing fight for equality, inspired by the events surrounding the Stonewall uprising in June 1969. This reaction includes discussion of Taylor Swift's You Need To Calm Down music video, Taylor Swift Lover era analysis, LGBTQ+ representation in music videos, Taylor Swift Easter eggs, Taylor Swift reaction content, music video breakdowns, MTV Video Music Awards, Taylor Swift activism, Equality Act discussion, pop culture analysis, and first-time reactions. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ COMING SOON: ➡️ Taylor Swift - Anti-Hero (Music Video Reaction) ➡️ Fleetwood Mac - Landslide (Patreon Exclusive) ➡️ Kendrick Lamar - GNX (Finishing The Album) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CHAPTERS: LYRICS FIRST! - 0:00 INITIAL THOUGHTS - 03:25 HAPPY PRIDE MONTH - 06:00 DISCORD & NEW JOURNEYS - 09:40 TAKE IT AWAY TAY - 13:35 TAYLORE & BTS - 16:45 VERSE 2 & HOOK - 20:40 TAYLOR'S INCLUSIVITY - 22:30 QUIET FOR THE BRIDGE - 25:30 THE WHOLE POINT - 29:10 TAYLOR TAKES A PUBLIC STAND - 38:30 GO VOTE! - 45:25 IM THE PROBLEM ITS ME - 50:45 _______________________________ FOLLOW HAZED REACTIONS: PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/hazedreactions YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@HazedReactions DISCORD: https://discord.gg/GqP5FVtu3 INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/hazedreactions TIKTOK: https://www.tiktok.com/@hazedreactions SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com