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Heartbreak Is the National Anthem: How Taylor Swift Reinvented Pop Music

Slim, strongly felt, and delightful ... We look to a critic like this one for the critic’s own feels, for his reactions and judgments and personal experience of Swift’s nearly 300 songs. This is what we came for, whether his prose is matter-of-fact or bejeweled: and he can make the whole place shimmer.
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He treats the enduring relationship between Swift and her audience with the respect it deserves ... Sheffield approaches Swift with a winking sort of affection. He’s less a scholar than an admirer and a fellow music nerd, but few have written about her with such inside-out understanding.
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Hagiographic ... Neither biography nor cultural criticism, seems happy to skirt along the surface of Ms. Swift’s success.
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