Cue the backlash. Outspoken critic Camille Paglia’s took aim at Taylor Swift in an essay she penned for The Hollywood Reporter this week.
In the essay, Paglia, who has criticized Lady Gaga, Katie Couric and Madonna in the past, called the “Wildest Dreams” singer an "obnoxious Nazi Barbie.”
She took on the “#girlsquad” culture in the essay, which Swift has become the center of with her endless squad of actresses, models and fellow singers like Selena Gomez, Gigi Hadid and Cara Delevingne.
Paglia wrote about the term, which “once had a hard, combative street edge” but is now “girly and a bit bourgeois,” saying women should “avoid silly, regressive public image -- as in the tittering, tongues-out mugging of Swift's bear-hugging posse.”
The famed feminist went on to write, "Swift herself should retire that obnoxious Nazi Barbie routine of wheeling out friends and celebrities as performance props."