We’re officially a few days into a new Taylor Swift era. Her twelfth studio album The Life of a Showgirl made its debut on Friday (or late Thursday night, if you’re among the many who stayed up to listen to it immediately).
As is usually the case with a Swift album drop, the Internet hasn’t quite been the same ever since. Discourse and speculation and knee-jerk reactions are everywhere, as fans and cynics alike try to figure out how they feel about the various evolutions in Swift’s sound or the lyrical innuendos about her now-fiance Travis Kelce. Even as a diehard Swiftie, it still took me a second to warm up to some elements of Showgirl… not because I didn’t like it, but because the newness of everything was overwhelming, like trying to become fluent in an entirely new language.
