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That Taylor Swift makes two references to The Great Gatsby on her new album is perhaps the least surprising element of this surprise release. F. Scott Fitzgerald is Swift’s favorite…

Earlier this year, my partner and I took a day trip to Brighton. It rained the entire time, the storm striping the sky black and grey like a mackerel’s back….

In her October Rolling Stone interview with Paul McCartney, Taylor Swift said, “when I was making folklore, I went lyrically in a total direction of escapism and romanticism. And I…

evermore is Taylor Swift’s most explicit album to date.1 To use my favorite euphemism for profanity, there is a lot of language: six out of the fifteen tracks display the “explicit”…

I seek the company of women through my year of magical thinking.1 Friends who walk, friends who swim, friends who sip coffee outside in any weather. Swift takes her “insurmountable…

In the 2020 documentary, Miss Americana, Taylor Swift says that “[I was] frozen at the age I became famous.” Signed as a songwriter at fourteen, and achieving her first Billboard…

2020 is the year Taylor Swift decided to take on William Wordsworth. She does so on the standout bonus track to folklore, “the lakes.”1 In a documentary about the album,…

At some point in the early 2010s, a gif of Taylor Swift was making its way around on Tumblr. In a sequence of images, Taylor Swift wears a wry yet…

The Taylor Swift of evermore is our pop Heraclitus: nothing here happens for the first time, everything’s a return to something, a rewrite, a re-take, a retraction, a chance to…

Taylor Swift has a reputation for many things. Dropping surprise albums is not one of them, at least not before this year. If folklore is inspired by William Wordsworth, evermore…