August 01, 2023

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Emily Ratajkowski explains her journey of becoming a Swiftie

Emily Ratajkowski answers how and when about being a fan of Taylor Swift

By George Johnson August 01, 2023
Emily Ratajkowski explains her journey of becoming a Swiftie

Emily Ratajkowski explains her journey of becoming a Swiftie

Emily Ratajkowski publically answers about her conversion into a Taylor Swift fan.

The model, 32, discussed how someone she dated persuaded her to become more interested in the singer's songs in her most recent High Low with EmRata podcast episode.

She also mentioned that while on her current The Eras Tour, she attended one of the 33-year-old Midnights hitmaker's recent gigs and had a good time.

"I kind of grew up [with] a little snobbery around my generation," she elucidated to her podcast guest, Troye Sivan, for the episode. "I wasn't somebody who listened to pop music a ton."

The author — who previously dated Harry Styles and now has an ex in common with Swift — one of her past beaus was "talking about [how] just because something's popular doesn't mean that it isn't excellent."

"Actually, a lot of times the things that are popular are actually just incredibly good," she continued.

"I came around," she then said about her pristine appreciation for Swift. "It changed it for me completely."

"I was not a Swiftie and now I'm like, You know what that means? That means I was a misogynist that I didn't [expletive] with Taylor Swift," she explained.

"Because I went to her concert and I was like, This person is an incredible songwriter, an incredible performer, and anybody who says anything else? Like, they have issues. And actually maybe not a very sophisticated palette," she said obviously being daunted by the Grammy-winning songwriter.

"If you don't like Taylor Swift, then, like, you don't understand things," she said.

The My Body author saw Swift perform in East Rutherford, New Jersey, in May of last year. She shared a TikTok video of herself enjoying the performance.

She defended Swift in an interview with Elle published in March after a resurfaced clip of her 2012 appearance on Ellen DeGeneres' show.

At the time, Swift was asked to list every prominent man she had dated after the talk show presenter placed images of some of them in front of her face.