On Friday, Swift released “ Speak Now (Taylor’s Version),” a rerecording of her spirited 2010 album, and the third in a series of painstaking redos after her master recordings were reportedly sold without her consent. Forbes says Swift is worth about $740 million, yet, to our knowledge, she has not used it to buy a pet monkey, or a massive pile of drugs, or a spacecraft, or a secret island off New Zealand. There’s something unprecedentedly freaky and single-minded about that. Whenever you encounter a Taylor Swift song, you’re listening to a people-pleaser serenade a dangerously overpopulated planet, and somehow, she still wants more. But can we ever really hope to understand the songwriter? Has anyone in human history rolled out of bed in the morning more famous than her? Better question: Has anyone this revered cared this much about what many millions of strangers are thinking about them on an hourly basis without losing their focus, let alone their mind? These aren’t sycophantic puff-piece rhetoricals. Yes, we’re talking about Taylor Swift, composer of the least ambiguous, most widely circulated pop music recorded in this century - a deep catalogue of vivid love songs that remain legible, neat and expertly designed to be fully understood by English speakers everywhere.
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