Hutcherson clarifies Swift remarks

Josh Hutcherson said this week that he does not dislike Taylor Swift; he said her music is “not my kind of music” and the backlash reinforced why he stays offline. (eonline.com) In a GQ interview published April 20, 2026, Hutcherson said a 2025 promo shoot with his *I Love LA* co-star Jordan Firstman spiraled after he answered a question about being a Swiftie. He said the reaction quickly turned into insults and demands to “destroy” him. (usatoday.com) The original clip came from i-D magazine’s “Camera Roll Roulette” in December 2025, when Hutcherson pulled up a photo of himself and his mother at Swift’s Eras Tour in New Orleans. He said then that his mother “made” him go and that he was “definitely not” a Swiftie. (tiktok.com) Hutcherson said this week that he meant the comment as neither “judgement nor critique.” He added that he thinks Swift is “great,” while separating that from his own taste in music. (aol.com) The episode stretched into a larger online argument because Swift’s fan base is one of pop culture’s biggest and most organized. Coverage from December 2025 and April 2026 treated the flare-up as another case of a casual celebrity remark getting recast as a loyalty test online. (thecut.com) Some fans had focused on the fact that Hutcherson attended the Eras Tour as a VIP guest and then publicly said he was not a fan. Other coverage noted that his newer comments did not reverse the original point so much as narrow it: he was talking about preference, not contempt. (usmagazine.com) Hutcherson used the moment to explain his broader relationship with the internet, saying he does not want that kind of energy in his life. That leaves the story less about a feud with Swift than about how fast fandom, celebrity interviews and social media can turn one offhand answer into a days-long pile-on. (eonline.com)