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What Is Taylor Swift Without a Breakup?
“The Swifties of the world don’t want a marriage plot. They want the story to keep going, and going,” writes Kat Rosenfield. (Screengrab via YouTube.com)
The secret of her stratospheric success is in her ability to make music out of misery. Now that she’s happy, she’s made a superficial album.
By Kat Rosenfield
10.08.25 — Culture and Ideas
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The career trajectory of Taylor Swift has always reminded me of Tolstoy’s famous opening line from Anna Karenina: “All happy families are alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”

The secret of Swift’s stratospheric success is in her ability to make music out of misery, every album doubling as a lyrical autopsy of some doomed love affair, b…

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Kat Rosenfield
Culture writer, novelist, and podcaster. On Twitter at @katrosenfield.
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Taylor Swift
Love & Relationships
Music
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