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Y'all, I did it. I made it to midnight last night. And I got the chance to listen to the song 4 or 5 times before I finally passed out. I managed to throw some incoherent initial thoughts up on Instagram, but long story short: this was ✨not✨ what I expected, but in the best way. I think it's fair to say that the general expectation for Taylor's song was something similar to Sarah McLachlan's rendition of "When She Loved Me" in Toy Story 2 -- a contribution to a scene that rea

It's a crazy time to be a Taylor Swift fan + scholar (because, yes, that's a real thing). One of the things that fascinates me the most about pop culture isn't the texts themselves. Don't get me wrong -- I love Taylor's music and Disney movies and the Percy Jackson books. But in addition to the texts, there's also all these conversations around them -- the narratives that get circulated, the perspectives that get amplified, and what those reveal about us, as a society, in an