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Into It: A Portrait of Artist as Taylor Swift

On with Kara Swisher

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Taylor Swift's Confessional Songwriting

I think she took the confessional songwriter tradition into a new era by paying attention to everything around her and engaging with things we wouldn't expect someone in her identity category to engage with like hip hop, for example. She looked at how young people are forming their identities and forming their own truths. And she figured out a way to write songs that spoke to that that also honored the lineage of confessional singer songwriting.

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