Each of Swift’s albums carries a myriad of concepts and conversations that represent different eras of life, love, and liberty. She’s there for us through it all.

The older I get the more I see these perceptions almost immediately. The assumptions laid upon me before I’ve even uttered a word. The limitations are being placed instantaneously, and I too am sick of it. I want to be complex. I want the world to acknowledge as many facets of me as they can, or at least try to…

Swift’s art shows us she’s had too many physical instances with devils and angels, she has no room to believe in the ones we can’t see.

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“The Archer” reveals to listeners what feels like Swift’s diary — a showcase of her most naked, soul-bearing, tortured thoughts and woeful, wide-eyed wonders that feel all too similar to your own.

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As a long-time Swiftie, lover of love, and a tortured poet myself, it was enthralling witnessing Travis Kelce accompany Taylor Swift on stage, symbolically putting the color back in her face and loving her back to life. Unpacking the artistic meaning behind Kelce’s cameo with Swift during The Eras Tour is inspiring, as is realizing the bar Kelce set for women everywhere looking for their long-time lover — if he wanted to, he would.

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Through her art, specifically through songs like “Clara Bow,” Swift demands we change the “It Girl” curse by challenging us to recognize the past in order to change the future.

While you usually disembark from a flight and expect you and your fellow passengers to remain strangers, I wondered how many people from that flight I may trade friendship bracelets with later that week.