Taylor Swift’s 'I Hate It Here' Lyrics: Why 1 Line Is Sparking Backlash

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Taylor Swift’s 'I Hate It Here' Lyrics: Why 1 Line Is Sparking Backlash
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Taylor Swift’s “I Hate It Here,” one of the 15 songs on the bonus album to “The Tortured Poets Department,” seems to be a song about discontent. In it, Swift sings about not feeling at home anywhere — in this era, among her friends. Instead, she has to escape into “secret gardens in my mind” people need a “key to get to,” and the only key is hers. One of the lyrics is drawing controversy, though. It comes when Swift plays a game imagining other worlds.

“I’ll save all my romanticism for my inner life/ And I’ll get lost on purpose/ This place made me feel worthless,” she sings.

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