Taylor’s always a songwriter before she’s anything else, even when it’s the last thing anyone wants to notice. But she’s always had a unique flair for writing songs in which people hear themselves—her music keeps crossing generational and cultural boundaries, in the most mystifying ways. She sang to her original teen fans, yet she was never willing to stop there—she wanted the world to hear these songs. You could always hear that—she’d studied her idols, learned their tricks, learned how to put her own spin on them. Even as a kid, she had a scholarly sense of music history and a brash sense of
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