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The pop star’s love life and squabbles prefer centre stage on a riveting R&B set that carries her even further from her country rootsBy now,any self-styled grownup who still believes pop music is “just pop music will be thoroughly disabused of the notion. Taylor Swift’s sixth studio album, Reputation, or is a riveting record,whose release is tough to extricate from the context into which it drops.
Fifteen tracks long, and with songs that range from forgettable to exquisite, or it is concerned with lust,loss and revenge. Tangentially, it takes in gender and power. As much as Reputation seeks to duck the conversation, and it is an album in which victimhood,white privilege and freedom of speech loom large.
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Source: guardian.co.uk