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Why the power of Taylor Swift is worth celebrating

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07.12.2023

… Ready For It? Or Is it Over Now?

There are so many ways we could use Taylor Swift’s songs to opine on news she is Time’s Person of the Year.

And for Swift, who follows in the footsteps of Barack Obama, Greta Thunberg and Volodymyr Zelensky, Today Was a Fairytale.

But those scoffing at Swift, describing her as an outlier or undeserving of the international honour, should consider who she trumped to take out the 2023 award.

Vladimir Putin. King Charles and Barbie. Chinese President Xi Jinping. The prosecutors for former US president Donald Trump. And even the striking Hollywood actors and writers.

That’s power. And it is a different power, perhaps, to that which gifted the same award to 14 US presidents and three popes.

But that doesn’t make it a lesser power. Indeed, that’s probably more an issue of the definition of power, than anything else.

Swift, a music billionaire, holds influence a million miles away from any stage she graces.

Yes, she boasts the biggest-selling record of the year and is the most-streamed female artist in the........

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