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It can be difficult to extricate Taylor Swift the person from Taylor Swift the musician. The megastar has deliberately engineered this blurring of the lines by inviting fans into her inner world for almost two decades, forging a parasocial connection between listener and artist. Fans will dissect every lyric; haters will do even more.

Swift’s 12th album, The Life of a Showgirl , will doubtlessly inspire countless headlines about her life this week and beyond. The record offers a peek into her romance with football player fiancé Travis Kelce – a relationship inseparable from this album, which was announced on his podcast, with an engagement following swiftly afterwards. Some tracks are wholesome (the starry-eyed, slightly regressive

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