The Life of a Showgirl , which reunites Taylor Swift with Max Martin and Shellback, the Swedish producers behind her first breakthrough pop hits, is an exuberant album from an artist whose career and personal life are at their absolute peak. She staged the most successful concert tour of all time, she’s engaged to the captain of the football team, and earlier this week, she became the first female artist to sell over 100 million albums. But in the middle of the celebration—or right at the beginning of Side 2, should we be listening on one of the album’s innumerable vinyl variants—Swift hits pause on the party to take a swipe at an unidentified hater who bears a strong resemblance to fellow pop star Charli XCX.

Even before The Life of a Showgirl dropped at midnight, a blurry screensh

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