Heartbreak is the national anthem : how Taylor Swift reinvented pop music / Rob Sheffield.
"There's no parallel to Taylor Swift in history: a teenage girl who turned into the world's favorite pop star, songwriter, storyteller, guitar hero, and live performer, changing how music is made and heard. An all-time great on the level of the Beatles. But clock this--the Beatles only lasted half this long. Taylor Swift has been at the top of the game for eighteen years already, with no sign of slowing down. She's still peaking, getting more influential and creative every year. Heartbreak Is the National Anthem is the first book to go deep on the musical and cultural impact of Taylor Swift. Nobody can tell the story like Rob Sheffield, the bestselling and award-winning author of Love Is a Mix Tape and Dreaming the Beatles. The legendary Rolling Stone journalist has chronicled Taylor for every step of her long career, from her early Nashville days to her Eras Tour, album by album, song by song. Sheffield gets right to the heart of her music, her tortured poetry, her fan connection, her magical ability to turn her life into folklore, her songs that reach out and grab the soul. In other words, everything that makes her uniquely Taylor Swift. Here he explores all the intimate details of the Taylor legend--the friendship bracelets, the concert rituals, the music's emotional power, and why so many different people hear their own lives in her songs. In the tradition of his acclaimed books on David Bowie and the Beatles, Rob Sheffield's Heartbreak Is the National Anthem is as brilliant, fresh, and fascinating as Taylor herself."-- Dust jacket flaps.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780063351318
- ISBN: 0063351315
- Physical Description: xix, 183 pages ; 19 cm
- Edition: First edition
- Publisher: New York : DeySt., an imprint of William Morrow, [2024]
- Copyright: ©2024
Content descriptions
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Once upon a time, a few mistakes ago : a very fast timeline -- Prelude: Our song is a slamming screen door -- Planet Taylor : nice to meet you, where you been -- I love you, it's ruining my life -- A portrait of the artist as a young, loud, and not-especially-great-at-calming-down woman -- Early days : please picture me in the trees -- Track five : the ballad of "all too well" -- The fangirl -- Fearless -- Everybody loves petty, everybody loves cool -- The songs on her arms -- "Enchanted" -- Every guitar-string scar on her hand -- "The Archer" -- The bridge : thirteen songs from Taylor's dreams -- Red -- There once was a girl known by everyone and no one : Taylor's codes -- 1989 -- The word "nice" -- "New romantics" -- The villain era -- Reputation -- Taylor's Version (Taylor's version) -- "Cruel summer" -- The lead single -- I'm not asleep, my mind is a alive : lover -- Folklore -- "Mirrorball" -- "Marjorie" -- "Right where you left me" -- Midnights -- Finale: Forevermore.
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