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Neil Crossley

“I used it to show people that the way they were portraying me wasn’t breaking me": How Taylor Swift created a self-empowering pop classic

Taylor Swift in 2014.

It’s 20 years since Taylor Swift signed her first record deal and it’s hard to think of an artist who has so consistently and adeptly melded raw creative talent with business prowess.

Ever since her parents moved the family to Hendersonville, Tennessee in 2003, to help their daughter break into the country music scene, Swift has blazed a trail through the music industry to become one of the biggest stars in the history of popular music.

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