What did Sophia Amoruso say about Taylor Swift’s “girlbossed too close to the sun” lyric?

Sophia Amoruso, best known for having coined the term "girlboss," is weighing in on Taylor Swift using it in her latest project.

The author, who coined the term over a decade ago, released a new video about the meaning of the term, the significance it holds in today's world, and how it has now made it to the song of one of the most popular artists of all time.

"I published Girlboss eleven years ago now. It spent eighteen weeks on the New York Times best seller list, it sold half a million copies, became a Netflix series, and now the word is in the Merriam-Webster dictionary, guys. So now I'm like, actually Shakespeare."

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In her monologue, Sophia Amoruso, who published the book Girlboss in 2014, continued,

"It was something that inspired a generation and became a shorthand for ambition, and then culture did what it does, and it took it down. It became that we 'girlbossed too close to the sun,'" Sophia Amoruso said, referencing the lyric from Taylor Swift's song Cancelled. "It went from 'empower her' to 'she's too much' in about five minutes. And it became a joke about women, that we were too ambitious, that we were too loud. That we took up too much space. That we were working too hard and how dare us want so much."

Sophia Amoruso also served as the inspiration behind the Netflix series Girlboss, where its protagonist manages to launch a fashion company from scratch. Named one of the richest self-made women in the world by Forbes in 2016, she continued in her video,

"So yeah, culture rewards female ambition and then it mocks it and then reclaims it when it feels safe again." As for Taylor Swift's lyric, she said, "Maybe she is talking about someone, but the fact is that it's about all of us. It's about all women who dare to be visible, who dare to do big things, who dare to have 'too much fun.' Because we're supposed to play small, we're supposed to be demure."

Sophia Amoruso also said that she's happy to see her word "come a full circle," adding that while she hates pop-culture, she's also a Taylor Swift fan now.

"Maybe I'm a Swiftie now, or maybe I do wanna be part of her girl gang, or maybe she can be part of my girl gang ... and we can girlboss to the sun, but there's no such thing as too close."

As for Taylor Swift, her three-and-a-half-minute track Cancelled has been going viral for the secrecy behind whom its lyrics could be alluding to. In it, she sings about embracing controversy, singing,

“Good thing I like my friends cancelled.”

Sleuths online have been speculating that she could be referring to her longtime friend Blake Lively amid the latter's ongoing legal drama with It Ends With Us co-star Justin Baldoni. However, this has yet to be confirmed.

Taylor Swift produced the track with Max Martin and Shellback, whom she previously worked with on her albums “Red,” “1989,” and “Reputation.”

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