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Taylor Swift is dressed in a golden sequinned dress and loose hair, with bright red lips, shrugs.
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Eight Songs That Feel Like Taylor Swift But Aren’t

  • by Jodie Manning
  • Posted on January 17, 2021January 17, 2021

If Olivia Rodrigo is pushing your Taylor Swift buttons, here are seven other artists to fill your need for clever, emotional pop songs with a story to tell

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Taylor Swift’s ‘Champagne Problems’ is about Happiest Season and I will die on this hill

  • by Ellie Wilson
  • Posted on December 21, 2020December 21, 2020

You thought ‘Dorothea’ was the gayest song on Evermore? You thought wrong.

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  • Music

Top Twenty-One Modern Classic Christmas Songs That You Slept On

  • by Jodie Manning
  • Posted on December 20, 2020December 20, 2020

There are good original Christmas songs every single year and the world must know!

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  • Music

Brace! Brace! Another new Taylor Swift album is coming!

  • by Jodie Manning
  • Posted on December 10, 2020December 20, 2020

Gather your headphones, crank up the speakers, ensure your best cottagecore attire is freshly laundered and ready to go, people!

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  • Music

Lost without each other?: On being a Hanson fan in 2020

  • by Jodie Manning
  • Posted on November 22, 2020

At a pivotal moment for my problematic faves, I explore a Pinterest gun meme scandal, a close-knit fandom and why it’s okay to expect more from the bands we love

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  • Music

Taylor Swift’s Speak Now at 10

  • by Jodie Manning
  • Posted on October 25, 2020

On its tenth birthday, I go on a track-by-track deep dive of the album that defined my twenties

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  • Music

Swiftogeddon: What happened at a Taylor Swift club night

  • by Jodie Manning
  • Posted on September 4, 2020November 2, 2020

The people of Swiftogeddon came from all walks of life, with only one thing in common: a love for the music of Taylor Swift so abiding that they would attend an entire night dedicated to her. And what a night it was.

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  • Music

Review: Tourist Season by Miel is the perfect rainy day record

  • by Jodie Manning
  • Posted on August 28, 2020September 17, 2020

Miel’s debut album is a collection of mellow songs tinged with a melancholia that taps into the uneasy malaise that has characterised this most unusual of summers.

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  • Music

Brandi Carlile and Kelly Clarkson covered The Civil Wars’ ‘Poison and Wine’ and I, specifically, melted

  • by Jodie Manning
  • Posted on August 25, 2020January 5, 2021

The two peerless singers combine for a mesmerisingly queer duet.

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  • Music

With ‘Dynamite’ BTS prove that there will always be a place for comforting pop

  • by Jodie Manning
  • Posted on August 24, 2020September 10, 2020

As BTS shatter records yet again, it is strangely comforting to realise that in this confusing world there is still a place for timeless pop music.

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