John Legend Praises Taylor Swift for Taking ‘Risk’ With Political Views

John Legend stated he’s “all the time revered” Taylor Swift for being “prepared to take that danger” in brazenly sharing her political opinions.

The EGOT winner, who has been vocal about his assist for Kamala Harris within the upcoming presidential election, lately advised The Unbiased that he understands it’s harder for the pop celebrity to talk out given her fanbase.

“It was all the time actually troublesome for Taylor to talk out for liberal and progressive candidates coming from the nation music world, the place the fanbase is much more conservative,” Legend stated. “It was riskier for her to begin talking out about politics than it’s for me. I all the time revered the truth that she was prepared to take that danger.”

The singer-songwriter added that he thought Swift shared the “excellent assertion” when she introduced on social media earlier this week that she was endorsing Harris. “I’m voting for [Kamala Harris] as a result of she fights for the rights and causes I consider want a warrior to champion them,” the “Fortnight” artist wrote partly. “I feel she is a steady-handed, gifted chief and I consider we will accomplish a lot extra on this nation if we’re led by calm and never chaos.”

Whereas Swift was identified to steer clear of politics earlier in her profession, she in the end spoke out in 2018, endorsing Democratic candidates Phil Bredesen and Jim Cooper within the U.S. midterm elections in her house state of Tennessee. She later endorsed Joe Biden for president in 2020.

As for Legend, he believes Harris “ought to be our subsequent president,” as a result of “she’s extra presidential, she’s extra clever, she understands the issues of the American individuals higher and has higher options,” in comparison with Republican nominee Donald Trump, who he described as “totally poisonous, unqualified and was manifestly horrible at his job.”

Elsewhere in his interview with The Unbiased, the “All of Me” singer opened up concerning the double requirements girls face in society, together with his spouse Chrissy Teigen, who is consistently scrutinized for her look, outfits and parenting fashion.

“I truthfully simply hope all of us get higher with how we deal with girls,” he stated. “It’s abundantly clear to me, from my remark of what occurs with Chrissy, that it’s tougher to be a lady in public than it’s to be a person. You see girls operating for workplace or girls attempting to guide an organization — they get criticisms that simply wouldn’t be thrown at a person in an identical circumstance.”