The Year of Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift grabbed many headlines in 2023. Her widely popular Eras Tour, which proved too much for Ticketmaster to handle, has been both a business and a cultural juggernaut. And Time magazine named her as its person of the year.


Taffy Brodesser-Akner, a staff writer for The New York Times, explains why, for her, 2023 was the year of Taylor Swift.


Guest: Taffy Brodesser-Akner (https://www.nytimes.com/by/taffy-brod...) , a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine.


Background reading: 

• Ms. Swift’s greatest gift is for telling her own story — better than any journalist could. But Ms. Brodesser-Akner gave it a shot anyway (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/12/ma...) .
• Fan demand for Ms. Swift broke Ticketmaster, and that was just the prologue. These are the moments that turned her Eras Tour into a phenomenon (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2...) .

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