Taylor Swift has spotted a serious error in an SAT prep book question featuring one of her song lyrics. 
 
 Adults are so lame. Just the lamest! Especially when they’re trying to relate to kids, clumsily trying to get on their level and have a rap session with them. It almost never works. Look at this latest example of adults making a huge boner while trying to dialogue with kids. It comes from maybe the lamest sector of adulthood, the Princeton Review, those nagging nerds who are always on about studying for the SATs and stuff. They’re adults who are thrilled that kids have to take a big, long, dumb test. Really lame. And now they’ve gone and bungled badly while writing a test prep question featuring Taylor Swift, breathy voice of a generation. How embarrassing! 
 
 What happened was this: some teen, whose handle is myswiftlifee, so is presumably a Taylor Swift fan, was studying for the SATs, as so many teens must do (some teens study for the ACTs, other teens study for nothing), using a Princeton Review prep book. He or she arrived at a grammar section that attempted to use pop song lyrics as examples of improper pronoun usage. They cited Katy Perry lyrics, Whitney Houston (so hip, so now), Lady Gaga, and of course Taylor Swift. The Tumblr user screenshotted the questions and made a little comment, which Taylor Swift herself, also a Tumblr user, then reblogged, pointing out the Princeton Review’s big dumb error: 
 
 They got the lyrics wrong. 
 
 Oh for heaven’s sake! Come on, Princeton Review. “You had one job, test people,” Swift says in her Tumblr post. And she’s right. They had one job: to get these dang lyrics right so they could properly teach kids how to ace the SATs. And they didn’t freaking do it. 
 
 The lyric they quoted is: “Somebody tells you they love you, you got to believe ‘em.” Which, presumably, is meant to be a lyric from Swift’s smash-hit, early career-defining jam “Fifteen.” (I think the improper grammar there is that it should be “you’ve got to believe ‘em”? Is that right? I don’t know, I took the SATs well over a hundred years ago.) (Update: As a few very kind people on Twitter have pointed out, the actual grammatical error is a disagreement between "somebody" and "they." Which, yes, is technically grammatically incorrect, but maybe not for long. I regret the error, as do my English teachers and probably my editors.) The problem is, the actual lyric is, as Swift points out in the tags to the Tumblr post, “Somebody tells you they love you, you’re gonna believe them.” She then adds the tag “#ACCUSE ME OF ANYTHING BUT DO NOT ATTACK MY GRAMMAR.” Boom. Ya burnt, Princeton Review test prep. Ya got burnt by Taylor Swift. 
 
 What do we think happened here? Do we think someone deliberately changed the lyrics so they could introduce a grammatical error (beyond a deliberate one like “gonna”) that would fit the question? Did someone at the Princeton Review just remember their Taylor Swift incorrectly? It’s a mystery. But I’m so happy that Swift caught the error and schooled the schoolers. Turns out she was paying attention in high school, not just writing dreamy songs about it. 
 
 I’m curious what the other acts whose lyrics are quoted in the question think about this whole thing. If you asked Lady Gaga, she’d probably say, “Of course I’ll sing a song for you” and then launch into an hour-long set of old standards. Katy Perry, meanwhile, is probably furrowed of brow, earnestly trying to figure out what’s wrong with her grammar, mouthing the words to herself as she reads, having dim memories of taking her own SATs, poor thing. Poor, poor thing. 
 
 But Taylor Swift? She nailed it. She really did. She’s just so good at so many things, isn’t she? She can write the heck out of a pop tune, usually with correct grammar. She tends to handle press attention with a disarming goofiness that belies a calculated aloofness. And, as evidenced here, she engages with her fans, many of them adolescents who flail around her doing mad, hormonal fever dances, with a particular kind of dexterity. She’s connected to them, speaks their language, makes a happy meme of herself without really doing much of the faux self-deprecating, “I’m such a mess!” stuff that, say, the kids at Thought Catalog have done to engage with their similarly aged fans. Good for her. Taylor Swift knows exactly what she’s doing. 
 
 Or, I dunno, maybe she’s just a weirdo, another lame adult, who likes talking to teens on the Internet. Either way, we’re glad she’s doing it. 

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– In the world of standardized testing, it's probably safe to assume that Taylor Swift knows a little something about Taylor Swift. Apparently more than standardized testing knows about Taylor Swift: Vanity Fair spots a Tumblr exchange in which a Swift fan studying for the SATs stumbled across a grammar question having to do with a subject near to her heart. "Pop lyrics are a great source of bad grammar," the Princeton Review prep book intoned, prompting the student to spot the error in a series of pop lyrics, one of which was Swift's. Sort of: "Somebody tells you they love you, you got to believe 'em." Problem being, of course, the correct lyric (from "Fifteen") is: "Somebody tells you they love you, you’re gonna believe them." Swift wasted little time in pointing out the discrepancy, intoning, "You had one job, test people. One job." She helpfully added this hashtag: "#ACCUSE ME OF ANYTHING BUT DO NOT ATTACK MY GRAMMAR." Or, as Richard Lawson puts it, "Boom. Ya burnt, Princeton Review test prep. Ya got burnt by Taylor Swift." (Swift has been having more than a little fun on social media of late.)