Splainer

Taylor Swift has perhaps the most committed fanbase in all of pop music right now. The Swifties have been following, analysing, and dissecting every single move she has made for close to two decades, united in their adoration. However, her new album, The Life of a Showgirl, has caused a rare ‘glitch’, dividing her fanbase—the disillusioned, the loyal, and the cult conspiracy theorists. All of them trying to grapple with the big Q: What has Taylor Swift become?

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[Taylor Swift, TLOAS, The Life of a Showgirl, Swiftie, Travis Kelce, Music]

Our classical music encyclopedia, Narendra Kusnur (), has been writing fun, accessible guides to Western classical music and how they’ve shaped popular culture for a while. This month, he switches up the tempo and adds some skibidi-doo-bop to it, taking us through the history of jazz music in America, or ‘jass’ as it was first known.

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[Music, Jazz, Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet, Duke Ellington, Jelly Morton, America, 1920s]