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Do not question Taylor Swift’s grammar
By Andy Malt | Published on Wednesday 25 March 2015
Taylor Swift has called out American exams company The Princeton Review for citing her lyrics as an example of bad grammar in an SAT test.
The education body listed a number of lyrics in a question, asking students to spot the errors. One line attributed to Swift was, “Somebody tells you they love you, you got to believe em”.
Did you spot it? Yeah? Well, it doesn’t matter, because that’s not the line she wrote. From ‘Fifteen’, it should of course have read: “Because when you’re fifteen and somebody tells you they love you, you’re going to believe them”.
If there’s one thing you can say about Taylor Swift, it’s that she knows how to deploy a pronoun (if not hold a pencil correctly in order to write it down).
“Not the right lyrics at all pssshhhh”, she wrote in response on Tumblr. “You had one job, test people. One job”.
To be fair, the people involved in writing the test almost certainly had more than one job. Like correctly quoting other disastrous lyrics, including Justin Timberlake’s “When you cheated girl, my heart bleeded girl”.
