Last night at Houston’s Minute Maid Park, Taylor Swift, the pretty girl from your high school who is friends with three non-popular people, was set to have a concert. After the show, however, a problem arose. The fire alarm sounded, ordering everyone in the stadium to evacuate. As the PA system instructed occupants to exit, the “Style” singer did not evacuate in a calm and orderly manner, but instead pulled out her phone and posted a video to her 45.8 million followers.
In the video above we hear her mother, Andrea, instructing Taylor to put clothes on so the #squad can evacuate to safety. As the PA system instructs in the background, Taylor responds to her mother’s increasingly serious cries to cover up.
“I have clothes on, I have a robe on. This is clothes, I’m covered”
This raises some serious questions. Is robe clothes? Should you bring your mother on tour? Should you ignore fire alarms? Do you remember in college during an evacuation when you got to see everyone in your dorm in towels and/or robes? Does Taylor Swift think about how she missed out on the college experience? Is robe clothes?
As it turns out the alarm was just part of a drill, but what are we to take of Taylor’s cavalier attitude toward fire alarms? Did she “Shake it Off” because she knew it wasn’t a real fire? Is it fair for Taylor to use her mother’s natural maternal fear to score Instagram likes?
Let’s talk about the dilemma Taylor Swift faced when she had to evacuate the Minute Maid park due to an emergency. While wearing a robe, Taylor argued with her mother about whether the robe qualifies as clothes or not. Her mother insisted that she put on proper clothes, but Taylor believed that the robe provided enough coverage. It’s interesting to consider at what point the urgency of an emergency outweighs the need for proper clothing. Perhaps if Taylor had been wearing a sturdy pair of cowboy boots, she would have felt more prepared to evacuate quickly without having to worry about changing her footwear
So, is robe clothes?
Not clothes.