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The Culture: How Taylor Swift won by taking control of the narrative

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Is There an Elephant in the Room in This Song?

i was somewhat nervous about a ten minute version, because you cannot be concise in a ten minute song. It's perfect, like its perfect song writing. And then after the scarf gets brought back, she offers back those three scenes in quick succession, so that it's flashing in our minds like a filmthere t it's a perfectly written song. We get the famous futhe patriarchy line, which has kind of divided a lot of music critics and fans. There's something about the fucte patriarchy thing that feels very more 20 21 than 20 12.

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