Sexist myths are not legitimized if they come from faux-naive females

Kate Harding has an interesting piece in which she discusses the views of feminists towards Taylor Swift. Harding cringes when she hears the lyrics of Taylor Swift songs, she feels Swift simply enforces the typical myth of the female waiting for her prince charming to rescue her. Despite the stereotypical dependence Swift romanticizes, Harding considers Swift as something of a push, because commercial success as a female, in her mind, has some feminist value:

But I guess I'm a bit more optimistic about what young women like Taylor Swift are accomplishing, at least in big-picture terms. It will be a great day when more female artists are calling the shots, topping the charts and writing lyrics that don't make me cringe -- but two out of three isn't a bad start.

I feel she perhaps overvalues the feminist worth, for lack of a better term, of commercial success. She has grouped in commercial success as a female artist with feminist lyrics, but I think the latter is far more important. In fact, there is a case to be made that what Swift is doing is much worse for the status of woman, because Swift is exploiting these sexist myths and stereotypes in her songs (with a sort of faux-naivete) for the purposes of her own success. If what it means to be a successful female in the record industry is that your work can devalue woman and their individual capacity and independence, then we ought not laud the success of these female recording artists because their gender is only legitimizing these prejudices.