A Portrait of the Artist as Taylor Swift
Into It: A Vulture Podcast with Sam Sanders
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Country Music Is People Writing Songs That Are Deeply Personal
Taylor Swift comes from a place where disclosure is always crafted so minutely that you can read it as a universal no matter how personal it gets. That's what country music is country music is people writing Songs that are deeply personal in rooms with other people like in an office. So I think these are sort of like two rival impulses within Taylor Swift. There's there's the part of her that's always gonna be that High achiever that high school high achiever, you know that wants who wants to craft the perfect song and and is looking You know toward a lineage that perhaps she's abandoned officially but that is in her blood of country music.
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