Taylor Swift called out The Princeton Review, a company that makes study tools for test preparation, for misquoting her lyrics from "Fifteen" in one of their practice test questions.
Swift posted on a photo of the question section on her tumblr page. "Pop songs are a great source of bad grammar. See if you can find an error in each of the following." Well, that's a little harsh Princeton Review. The section wanted the test-taker to look for pronoun errors.
The page included song examples from T-Swift, her rumored nemesis Katy Perry, the late Whitney Houston and Lady Gaga. Swift was notified of the error.
"Not the right lyrics at all pssshhhh," Swift said on Tumblr, "You had one job, test people. One job."
The Princeton Review wrote, "Somebody tells you they love you, you got to believe 'em." The actual line from Swift's song is "Somebody tells you they love you, you're gonna believe them."
Swift could be attacked on is the casual use of "gonna" rather than "going to," but only strict English teachers will have a problem with that. Otherwise, "somebody" is actually a singular pronoun, meaning *technically* she should've written "you're gonna believe [him or her]." But we all know that sounds awkward. However, this pop star doesn't mess around with people criticizing her English skills. She hashtagged at the bottom of the post, "Accuse me of anything, but do not attack my grammar."
Swift was also in the news recently for buying some web domains, specifically TaylorSwift.porn and TaylorSwift.adult, before anyone could use the domains for nefarious reasons. The domains were supposed to become available for purchase on June 1.
[h/t commenter Lee for grammar tip]
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