Taylor Swift’s Apple Win Cements Elite Powerbroker Status

Taylor Swift made a name for herself playing the underdog. One need only look to songs like “You Belong With Me” fromher 2008 albumFearless, where she plays the unassuming nerd (and, in the accompanying music video, quite literally the girl next door) rather than the successful starlet.

In recent years, the underdog label has become increasingly hard to believe, and after last nightseems downright impossible: Swift seems to have singlehandedly convinced Apple, the biggest company in the world...