
Heartbreak Is the National Anthem
How Taylor Swift Reinvented Pop Music
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Rob Sheffield
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Rob Sheffield
An intimate look at the life and music of modern pop’s most legendary figure, Taylor Swift, from leading music journalist Rob Sheffield.
A cultural phenomenon. A worldwide obsession. An agent of emotional chaos. There’s no parallel to Taylor Swift in history: a teenage girl who turns into the world’s favorite pop star, songwriter, storyteller, guitar hero, live performer, changing how music is made and heard. An all-time great on the level of The Beatles, Prince, or David Bowie.
Heartbreak Is the National Anthem: How Taylor Swift Reinvented Pop Music is the first book that goes 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 Dreaming the Beatles, On Bowie, and Love Is a Mix Tape. The legendary Rolling Stone journalist is the writer who has chronicled Taylor for every step of her long career, from her early days to the Eras Tour. Sheffield gets right to the heart of Swift and her music, her lyrics, her fan connection, her raw power.
At once one of the most beloved music figures of the past two decades and one of the most criticized, Taylor Swift is known as much for her life beyond her music as she is for her hits—the most public of stars, yet also the weirdest and most mysterious. In the tradition of Sheffield’s Dreaming the Beatles, Heartbreak Is the National Anthem will inform and delight a legion of fans who hang on every word from Taylor and every word Rob writes on her.
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Happily, the boyfriends are relegated primarily to the timeline. Sheffield really gives us something new to sink our teeth into.
I happen to think Matty Healy has been a much greater influence on her music, and over a longer period of time, than Sheffield. She tells us in “Fresh Out The Slammer”, that“she swirled you into all of my poems”. “You” is Matty of course. But that’s most beautiful things about being a car-magnet-sporting-Swifty, we all get to draw our own conclusions.
It was an earnest performance of the text, very emotive. I definitely wept a bit as I listened, and, if I’m not mistaken, his voice sounded a little choked up in a smattering of the tender bits. I’m really glad I got to hear him reading this! I am still going to need a print copy, because this thing is an excellent reference! It’s not super easy to flip through an audio book.
It’s an engaging piece of writing, and I absolutely expect to listen again! It’s worth that. Well done!
The author reading his own words makes the audio book special
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A must for Swift fans
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What he said about Taylor
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Unbiased colorization of the wonderland of Taylor Swift
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Rob Sheffield is My Long Lost Bestie
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Loved it!
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A really good insight into taylor swift
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It’s clever and kind
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Disappointed
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Half of the book is an autobiography of the author
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