This year, Taylor Swift is set to embark on her biggest and most expensive world tour. Fans flew into a frenzy when tickets went on sale after several thousand couldn’t get hold of them following technical difficulties. What is it about the pop princess that has the power to influence an entire generation and their politics?

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Guest: Charlotte Ivers, Sunday Times columnist and Times Radio political correspondent.

Host: Manveen Rana.

Clips: NBC, PBS, BBC, ABC, Billboard, Fox, ET, SVT, CNBC, TikTok.

Music excerpts:

Love Story/Better Than Revenge - Taylor Swift, Big Machine Records, LLC. 

Blank Space/New Romantics - Max Martin, Taylor Swift, Shellback, Big Machine Records, LLC. 

Outta the Woods - Jack Antonoff, Taylor Swift, Big Machine Records, LLC. 

Betty/Delicate/Man/You Need to Calm Down/Only the Young - Taylor Swift, Universal Music Group. 

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