{"id":13983,"date":"2024-12-03T09:54:53","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T09:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=13983"},"modified":"2024-12-03T09:54:53","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T09:54:53","slug":"taylor-swift-has-conquered-the-world-heartbreak-is-the-national-anthem-says-but-theres-more-to-come-its-taylor-swifts-world-and-were-just-living-in-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=13983","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift has conquered the world, ‘Heartbreak Is the National Anthem’ says, but there’s more to come! It\u2019s Taylor Swift\u2019s world and we\u2019re just living in it"},"content":{"rendered":"

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My big takeaway from \u201cHeartbreak Is the National Anthem\u201d was: Is it even possible for the most famous person in the world to get famouser?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Rock critic Rob Sheffield\u2019s essays about Taylor Swift\u2019s music mostly argue how thoroughly, and deservedly, the singer (who turns 35 this month) has conquered pop music over the course of the past 16 years. Sheffield, author of several books and a critic for Rolling Stone magazine, makes that argument persuasively, citing her relationship with fans, astonishing sales, shifting musical focus and uniquely personal lyric writing. Swift makes revelations about her romances while also carving out personal space the public knows little about.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Is it canny manipulation or authenticity? Both, probably. Swift knows her every movement is photographed and parsed. But the behind-the-scenes encounters Sheffield describes, including off-the-cuff interactions with fans, show Swift to be the person we\u2019d hoped she would be, even when the cameras are off.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Because Sheffield\u2019s essays are arranged roughly chronologically, they also illustrate how cleverly Swift\u2019s ginormous career has been built. It now seems inevitable, for instance, that her shift from country-ish music to electronic pop would succeed but Sheffield reminds us of the pitfalls of that shift, as well as the unlikeliness of her pandemic-era, introspectively folky albums such as \u201cEvermore\u201d and \u201cMidnights\u201d becoming monumental sellers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Sheffield is a fan more than a critic, at least in the case of Swift, and some will criticize how frequently he inserts himself into these essays. It\u2019s compelling when he talks about specific Swift songs that helped him through rough patches, for sure, but do we need to hear about every time he was invited to her apartment to be among the first to listen to a new album? (We do not. P.S., she wasn\u2019t there when he was.) And we really don\u2019t need to hear his thoughts on Duran Duran, which he has covered better in other books.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Still, the combination of memoir and criticism works beautifully in the strongest parts of \u201cHeartbreak,\u201d which discuss Swift re-recording her early albums in an effort to retain control of them when the originals were sold against her wishes. It\u2019s an idea, Sheffield reminds us, that many advisers thought was idiotic but that resulted in more massive sales \u2014 of albums that already had been massive sellers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cBy revisiting and rerecording her early albums, Swift not only reclaims ownership but also offers a nuanced reflection on the way her music has evolved over the years \u2014 the way she has,\u201d writes Sheffield, who is particularly sharp on the differences between the original and rerecorded (10-minute) \u201cAll Too Well.\u201d Perhaps better known as \u201cThe One Where She Disses Jake Gyllenhaal,\u201d the revamp became the longest No. 1 hit in history, a decade after its original was released on the \u201cRed\u201d album.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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It\u2019s hard to imagine anything that weird happening again. But \u201cHeartbreak Is the National Anthem\u201d makes it seem likely that future Swift will do something even wilder.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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