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Taylor Swift's Cleveland! Is About Being Completely Unbothered. Here's the Book That Gets You There.
If it's not obvious, I'm a Swiftie. Have been for years. Taylor Swift just dropped one of the most joyful songs she has ever written. Cleveland! is a celebration of love, roots, and being so settled in your own happiness that outside opinions simply don't stick. It's upbeat, it's bold, and it has one of the best lines she has ever written: you only need one person in the whole world who doesn't find you insufferable. And she found hers. If you heard that and felt something, k
Jason Grand
Oct 13 min read


Taylor Swift's Pink Clouding Is About a Feeling We've All Had. Here's What Comes Next.
If it's not obvious, I'm a Swiftie. Have been for years. Taylor Swift has a gift for writing songs that feel like a conversation you needed to have with yourself. Pink Clouding is one of those. The term comes from addiction recovery and describes that early phase of pure joy and euphoria where everything feels possible and perfect and bright. Taylor uses it to describe getting completely swept up in a feeling, so high on the experience of something new that the rest of the wo
Jason Grand
Sep 293 min read


Taylor Swift's Babylon and the Moments We Don't Know We're Missing
If it's not obvious, I'm a Swiftie. Have been for years. Taylor Swift has always had a way of writing about things people feel but can't quite name. Babylon is one of those songs that gets under your skin slowly. The more you sit with it, the more it starts to feel uncomfortably familiar. The way I hear it, the song is about someone who can't anchor themselves in the present moment. And because of that, they completely miss the quiet, beautiful milestones of their own life. T
Jason Grand
Sep 283 min read


Taylor Swift's Patient Zero Has Everyone Talking About Healing. Here's What Comes Next.
If it's not obvious, I'm a Swiftie. Have been for years. Taylor Swift has a gift for writing songs that feel like they were written just for you. Patient Zero is one of those songs. It captures something most of us have felt but rarely say out loud: the moment you look back at a chapter of your life and finally understand it for what it was. And something about hearing it puts a little spark in your chest. That spark? That's worth paying attention to. That Feeling Is Telling
Jason Grand
Sep 263 min read
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