Midnights
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Midnights

Sometimes I’m unable to give Taylor Swift the kudos she deserves because she’s so calculated, effective, brilliant, shameless! I can’t decide whether she’s the girl I love to hate or the girl I hate to love. I guess she’s a little bit of both. 

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Top 5 Pop Songs Ever
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Top 5 Pop Songs Ever

Beloved songs are like chips in our souls that embed themselves and stay with us forever. I guess it’s a good problem there are too many. I betcha can’t name just 5.

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“Drivers License”
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“Drivers License”

How does an 18 year-old girl who can’t have that much experience writing songs professionally tap into her feelings so effortlessly? Well, perhaps she’s simply downloading the truth instead of following an emotional pop-chart algorithm that would guide one through a proven formula. Newsflash…algorithms don’t have hearts. We’re all trying to write hits when we should be ignoring the algorithms and just telling the truth.

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Confessions.