“New Romantics” is all about mutation, all about transition, about setting a wobbly stiletto on a dance floor where you have nowhere to hide. It’s a song that’s very easy to ridicule and a song that invites ridicule. Adam Ant sang, “Ridicule is nothing to be scared of,” Taylor sings, “I could build a castle / Out of all the bricks they threw at me,” but it’s the same sentiment.
