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Taylor Swift: Album by Album follows the megastar from her roots as a country artist to her transition into pop and finally into the cultural phenomenon touring today, covering both her music and her extraordinary life.
List of contents
Introduction
Ch. 1: Taylor Swift
Ch. 2: Fearless
Ch. 3: Taylors’ Version: Fearless
Ch. 4: Speak Now
Ch. 5: Red
Ch. 6: Taylors’ Version: Red
Ch. 7: 1989
Ch. 8: Reputation
Ch. 9: Taylors’ Version: Speak Now
Ch. 10: Lover
Ch. 11: Folklore
Ch. 12: Taylor’s Version: 1989
Ch. 13: Evermore
Ch. 14: Midnights
Ch. 15: The Tortured Poets Department
Ch. 16: Taylor’s Version: Taylor Swift
About the Authors + Acknowledgments
Image Credits
Index
About the author
Kase Wickman is a culture journalist, editor, and author. Her reporting, criticism, and commentary has appeared in the
New York Times,
The Washington Post,
Rolling Stone, and
New York Magazine, among other publications. She is the culture & society reporter at
Vanity Fair, and her first book,
BRING IT ON: The Complete Story of the Cheerleading Movie That Changed, Like, Everything (No, Seriously), was published in 2022 by Chicago Review Press. Kase lives on the East Coast with her husband, daughter, and 12-foot-tall lawn skeleton, Terror Swift.
Joanna Weiss is a Boston-based writer and editor whose work has appeared in
Politico,
The Atlantic,
Slate,
The Boston Globe,
The Economist, and the book
Nasty Women and Bad Hombres: Gender and Race in the 2016 Presidential Election. Her
Boston Magazine story, “For Those Moms About to Rock,” about the rock band she formed with four working-mom friends during the pandemic, has been optioned for film, with a comedy in development at 20th Century Studios. She thinks of Taylor Swift as a model for songwriting, though she will likely never write a 10-minute-version of anything.
Moira McAvoy lives, writes, and markets shows in Washington, D.C. A founding editor of
Bad For You, McAvoy has also served on the editorial staff of
NANO Fiction and
The Rappahannock Review, and her work can be found in
The Rumpus,
The Financial Diet,
wig-wag, and elsewhere. When not attending her next favorite concert–or promoting yours–Moira can be found taking long walks, making memes, and testing theories about Taylor Swift’s music. McAvoy is currently within the top 500 all-time global listeners for five different Swift tracks (and counting).
Summary
Taylor Swift: Album by Album follows the megastar from her roots as a country artist to her transition into pop and finally into the cultural phenomenon touring today, covering both her music and her extraordinary life.
