Any other lady songwriters in their 30s kindof resentful...

* "Lady" is inclusive, and of course the lads can chime in too, but I feel like this is a specific feeling for us "girls"...

Does anyone else doing the singer-songwriter thing in or around your 30s feel kindof... resentful... towards Taylor Swift for making your inner critic really really loud? Well, it's Taylor's critics that get into your head. But it makes me second-guess everything I write... Oh, is this too shallow? Too immature? Too faux-pretentious? Too boy crazy? Am I allowed to write about love & broken hearts & rage & revenge as a 35-yr-old woman (who is a late bloomer, I might add) or should I be "beyond" that by now?? Am I allowed to make literary references if I've actually read the book (haha)??

(I can answer my own question: No one even knows who I am; I can write whatever I want. But ugghhhh that inner critic just won't shut up!!)