Taylor Swift has been a successful female role model for young women including myself for two decades now. She’s built arguably the biggest fanbase in the world, provided soundtracks to almost every experience, and is probably your favorite artist’s favorite artist. At twelve years old and six years deep into my obsession with Swift’s music, I was often asked what other music I listened to. The answer slowly became more elaborate, and now that I’m nineteen, I can’t imagine wh

Is it a rite of passage, as a music fan, to go through your first heartbreak and immediately dig through all the music you know of to find the greatest heartbreak songs of all time? How devastatingly beautiful it feels to listen to songs you’ve adored since you were young and finally relate to them. Your brain, overcome with emotion, tries to relate every single lyric back to your specific situation, no matter how much you must twist what’s being sung to make it fit. Maybe yo