The Era of Taylor Swift Has Just Begun
On the Eras Tour, Taylor Swift uses the past to highlight her central appeal: the ability to get listeners to appreciate parts of themselves that don’t age.
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Taylor Swift’s New ‘Speak Now’ Nods to the Past, Shows New Path Forward
Taylor Swift’s Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) is a nod to one of life’s central truths: you can’t go back in time, but there are always new paths forward.
Taylor Swift Brings Epic Eras Tour to Hometown Stadium
Taylor Swift is at a high mark in her career as she gives it all during the impeccable Eras Tour shows, stadium after stadium.
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The 13 Best Pop Albums of 2022
The 13 best pop albums of 2022 radiate with unstoppable playlist power, much-needed sweet escapism, self-reflection, self-criticism, and killer melodies.
Taylor Swift Is the Solution to Her Own Problems on ‘Midnights’
Taylor Swift’s Midnights, her latest musical pivot, highlights her artistry by overshooting her commercial ambitions. It’s a capstone to Swift’s career.
Taylor Swift Mines Intrusive Thoughts For Pop Artistry on ‘Midnights’
On Midnights, Taylor Swift reflects on the ghosts of the past and maps the rarely straightforward journey of fully becoming one’s self with pristine popcraft.
Seeing ‘Red’: Taylor Swift’s Professional Premonition at 10
Taylor Swift’s Red and its reissue Red (Taylor’s Version) realign the goals of pop music, making an album’s perceived imperfections the new standard.
Taylor Swift the Musician Became Taylor Swift the Institution on ‘Red’
In the ten years since Red‘s release, it’s easy to take for granted just how pivotal it was in solidifying the visage of Taylor Swift—the woman, the myth, and the machine.
Taylor Swift Re-Immortalizes Classic ‘Red (Taylor’s Version)’
Red (Taylor’s Version) is both an Intellectual Property strategy tool, and a prolepsis of the status that the 2012 album will uphold in the future.
When Taylor Swift Fell Down Lewis Carroll’s Rabbit Hole
Taylor Swift’s “Wonderland” and “long story short” use imagination to interpret reality, whereas Lewis Carroll’s Alice draws from reality to understand the imaginary.
Taylor Swift’s Pandemic Redemption
Taylor Swift responded to the COVID-19 pandemic with an album uniquely suited for it: contemplative, low-fi, acoustic songs perfect for isolation.
Taylor Swift Has Written the Best Music of Her Career with ‘evermore’ and ‘folklore’
Tayor Swift’s second surprise album of 2020, evermore, solidifies the questions brought up by folklore: how do we consider her work when it’s not autobiographical anymore?