Oct 13 from https://www.newyorker.com/ Left

Why Does Taylor Swift Think She’s Cursed?

Since Taylor Swift launched the record-breaking Eras Tour, in 2023—a hundred and forty-nine dates, fifty-one cities, more than two billion dollars in ticket sales—she has been freakishly omnipresent in the cultural consciousness: a grinning lodestar in Louboutin boots. The tour ended last December, but, rather than ceding the spotlight, Swift doubled down on her mega-celebrity, first with a...

Oct 03 from https://slate.com/ Left

Taylor Swift Is on Top of the World. Why Is She Still Punching Down?

The Life of a Showgirl, which reunites Taylor Swift with Max Martin and Shellback, the Swedish producers behind her first breakthrough pop hits, is an exuberant album from an artist whose career and personal life are at their absolute peak. She staged the most successful concert tour of all time, she’s engaged to the captain of the football team, and earlier this week she became the first...

Oct 03 from https://slate.com/ Left

Taylor Swift’s New Album Is a Masterpiece of Cringe

In last year’s sweetly devastating Las Vegas melodrama The Last Showgirl, Pamela Anderson’s middle-aged dancer Shelly is on an audition for the first time in decades. Her long-standing gig, the classic revue Le Razzle Dazzle, is shutting down. She allows that many people would consider her too old for this prospective new part (while still lying about her age). But it’s a huge theater, she...

Oct 03 from https://www.vox.com/ Left

Taylor Swift is done pretending she doesn’t absolutely love this life

is a senior correspondent on the Culture team for Vox, where since 2016 she has covered books, publishing, gender, celebrity analysis, and theater. At the end of Taylor Swift’s newly released 12th album, The Life of a Showgirl, the narrator makes a somewhat shocking confession. In the album’s final song, the title track, the narrator describes the sordid life of a showgirl: the betrayals,...

Oct 02 from https://www.nytimes.com/section/opinion Left

Opinion | Taylor Swift Is No Showgirl

Fans often assume that Taylor Swift’s songs are drawn directly from her life. We were introduced to her as the small-town country girl. Then she moved to New York City and became a girl-boss-cum-pop-star. Various romantic entanglements ensued. After a pandemic-era retreat to the woods, she toured the world and got engaged. The now-familiar sight of Ms. Swift cheering on the sidelines for her...

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