A pop superstar widely perceived as a romantic has in fact mostly written love songs troubled by strife, ghosts and delusion. Ahead of her wedding, we strip away the gossip to see what Swift-as-songwriter has spent 20 years telling us.
A pop superstar widely perceived as a romantic has in fact mostly written love songs troubled by strife, ghosts and delusion.
Ahead of her wedding, we strip away the gossip to see what Swift-as-songwriter has spent 20 years telling us.
Like many women of her generation, Swift has had a complicated relationship with all that marriage implies, at least in how she's written about it.
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A pop superstar widely perceived as a romantic has in fact mostly written love songs troubled by strife, ghosts and delusion. Ahead of her wedding, we strip away the gossip to see what Swift-as-songwriter has spent 20 years telling us. Like many women of her generation, Swift has had a complicated relationship with all that marriage implies, at least in how she's written about it.
When she was 19 and already had her second album under her belt, Taylor Swift made a point of telling a would-be beau he was all wrong for her: "I'm not your princess, this ain't our fairytale … It's too late for you and your white horse to catch me now," she sang in her 2008 song White Horse. "He wanted a bride / I was making my own name," she sang on Midnight Rain.
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