Taylor Swift , once the victim of a tortured poet , is now dancing under an opalite sky and making jokes about Travis Kelce’s “redwood.” How far we’ve come! Swift released her 12th album, The Life of a Showgirl , on Friday and it has a little bit of everything. The kind of beautiful, simple lyrics that made Swift a billionaire are situated right next to lines about “girlbossing too close to the sun” and “looking fire.” So, it’s a bit of a mixed bag.

After a few listens, some Cut staffers got together to dive into The Life of a Showgirl and get to the bottom of a few things. Is the Charli XCX diss track “Actually Romantic” a misfire, or does it have its redeeming qualities? Did Swift’s reunion with superproducers Max Martin and Shellback inspire a return to the highs of 1989 a

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