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    TAYLOR SWIFT – LOVER: REVIEW
    • Aug 26, 2019

    TAYLOR SWIFT – LOVER: REVIEW

    TAYLOR SWIFT Lover (Universal) Ms Taylor Swift must be the most galling, frustrating creature for those who find her at best tolerable, and more often, insufferable. And I don’t mean because she seems unable to be anything but successful; though that is more than enough reason. A pop politician of a rare kind, Swift usually reads her audience so well that she’s telling them what they want to hear before they know it’s what they wanted to hear. It’s what the best have always d
    I AM WOMAN HEAR ME ROAR, IN NUMBERS TOO BIG TO IGNORE: TAYLOR SWIFT RULES WIND BACK WEDNESDAY
    • Oct 9, 2018

    I AM WOMAN HEAR ME ROAR, IN NUMBERS TOO BIG TO IGNORE: TAYLOR SWIFT RULES WIND BACK WEDNESDAY

    Having suddenly discovered a social and political voice – though as one cynic noted, only after she had sold her American tour tickets – to add to her status as a pop music juggernaut, Taylor Swift begins her Australian tour next week with more than just platitudes about solidarity with the sisterhood. The shows will be big of course – and for a reminder of what she can produce here’s a Wind Back Wednesday reminding you of that spectacular tour in 2015. But in this story from
    TAYLOR SWIFT – REPUTATION: REVIEW
    • Nov 12, 2017

    TAYLOR SWIFT – REPUTATION: REVIEW

    TAYLOR SWIFT Reputation (Universal) Most times Taylor Swift is mentioned in the same sentence or context as Kanye West it is in some form a commentary on that most beloved of media constructs, the “feud”. And that includes the new album, or at least the first single from it, Look What You Made Me Do, which is a very Swiftian - and for that matter, Westian - catalogue of those who have done her wrong and now lie sliced up like a deli ham. (It isn’t, by the way, the last song o
    WIND BACK WEDNESDAY: IN THE COURT OF TAYLOR SWIFT
    • Aug 29, 2017

    WIND BACK WEDNESDAY: IN THE COURT OF TAYLOR SWIFT

    In the week Taylor Swift re-emerges with topicality, calculation, moments of brilliance and self-absorption, Wind Back Wednesday takes a short step back to Peak Swift in 2015. (And if you want to see that the path was set some time before with Ms Swift, click on the link at the end for a preview/prediction in 2012.) DO YOU BELIEVE IN SWIFT JUSTICE? TAYLOR SWIFT ANZ Stadium, November 28 "Dear diary, was there ever a night like this? Like, you know, in history? Surely not. Ever

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