Fans love their stories as much as they love the songs. Sometimes I even wonder if we keep going back to the songs because we just want to create more of the stories. But it’s more like this: we go to these songs because they tell us our stories. We tell our secrets to these songs, and they scream our secrets back at us. We bring our questions to these songs, the way Taylor asks the streetlights, “Will it be okay?” And the streetlights give her the exact same answer that Stevie Nicks got from the mirror in the sky, all those years ago: “I don’t know.”
