Greensboro Police Threaten Arrestees With Taylor Swift's New Songs on Repeat
The post drew more than 1 million views and prompted backlash before Greensboro police apologized for stirring up Taylor Swift fans.
- On Tuesday, the Greensboro Police Department wrote on Twitter that arrestees would be required to listen to Taylor Swift's new songs on repeat, referencing The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore, a deluxe edition of her 2025 album.
- Critical reception for the new set was mixed, with Pitchfork giving it a 4.0 rating and Rolling Stone's Maya Georgi saying the four-track set "has not only confused the story of Showgirl, she's also muddled that of Taylor Swift."
- Within hours, the post collected over 3,800 retweets and crossed one million views, prompting critics to question why a police department is "making Twitter jokes" instead of remaining professional.
- Following the negative response, the Greensboro Police Department issued a follow-up post stating, "We apologize for stirring up the Taylor bots," addressing the public criticism.
- This controversy coincides with Swift's recent success at the MTV Video Music Awards, where she won Video of the Year for "The Fate" and Best Direction for "Opalite," becoming the inaugural recipient of the Artist Director Honors.
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Endless repetitions of Taylor Swift's new songs: That's exactly what the Greensboro police have jokingly announced. Fans were outraged.
Taylor Swift Songs as an Endless Repetition for Arrested? This joking threat has now created a lot of fuss online in the United States.
‘Everyone arrested today must listen to Taylor Swift’s new songs on a continuous loop.’ With that unusual message came a...
With a Taylor Swift joke, a police department in the U.S. state of North Carolina got into a lot of trouble. "All who are arrested today have to listen to Taylor Swift's new songs in a permanent loop," the police told Greensboro on Thursday at the online portal X. Not only the fans of the singer reacted furiously. Thousands of comments followed the message, many of the angry fans of Taylor Swift. "You seem to feel comfortable in your role as A**…
The fans in North Carolina were outraged.
With a Taylor Swift joke, a police department in the U.S. state of North Carolina has made a fuss.
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