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I can say that truly, I can still hear past Taylor, even now.

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Dear Nickelback: Sorry I had to break the news to you about Avril :/

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Let’s face it—being single takes guts.

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You’re just a good old country gal who likes to wear cowboy boots and sundresses to Walmart…

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Say what you want about her, but one thing is undeniable — Taylor Swift will be a force in the music industry for a long time.

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Haters gonna hate, hate, h—ugh.

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In picking up this record I didn’t need to know the messy details of her life to relate I have plenty of details to fill in on my own.

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Because in reality, 1989 is proof that other artists have been doing what Swift is just barely discovering, both for a long while and on a much more interesting caliber.

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Maybe that generic quality is exactly what makes other people love her (and hate her.) To me, it just makes me shrug.

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You can’t ignore how much lower you have to scroll when entering your birth year on forms, which is a tiny (somewhat scary) reminder of how far you’ve come.