Taylor Swift’s “New Year’s Day” Is the Calming End to a Chaotic Era

Today is a good day to revisit something Taylor Swift said to writer Jody Rosen for a 2013 New York magazine profile. At the time, Swift was a 23-year-old superstar just off the breakthrough triumph of her fourth album Red. She hadn't yet begun recording the album that would become 1989, but she was thinking about how she wanted it to sound, and the kind of mistakes she hoped to avoid:…

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