![]() ![]() From epics like “Enchanted” and “All Too Well” to the fizzy catharsis of “22” and “New Romantics”, Swift is a master at the pop art of building refuges of sparkle and storytelling amid the grey chaos of life. In turbulent times, the second-most useful thing pop music can be - after political commentary - is a world to get lost in. ![]() Such a microcosm is far from utopia, and this is what Swift has lost by gaining hyper-relevance. Her current legal battle with a left-wing blogger who accused “Look What You Made Me Do” of “affirming white supremacy” demonstrates the degree to which reputation is not so much a musical work as a microcosm of America’s explosive political landscape and the media's role within it. A phrase that comes up again and again in recent writing about Swift is “lightning rod”. ![]() It should come as no surprise that steadily building political criticism of Taylor Swift has come to an incendiary head in a year when even Lana Del Rey has rolled up her American flag. ![]()
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