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Or, rather,moreof an inside look than weve ever gotten before.
(She mentions how looking at bad paparazzi photos would often trigger her to not eat.)
And, best of all, we get towatch her songwriting process happen in real time.
But this is, after all, a Swift-approved endeavor.
A narrative she is, as ever, fully in control of.
We are invited, but that doesnt mean we get to see everything we want to.
Or, in some cases, that we even deserve to see those things.
Taylor Swift is a musician who has produced hit after hit after hit.
Were not entitled to her every personal detail.
The first is Joe Alwyn.
Theres another clip where Taylor is singing Call It What You Want on the floor strumming an acoustic guitar.
His is one of the few absences that makesMiss Americanastronger, not weaker.
Shes setting boundaries and telling not asking people to respect them.
But there are a few other omissions that feel more pronounced and calculated.
The first is the absence ofSwifts much-touted female friendships.
How she felt like she didnt have anybody, other thanher mother, to share the joy with.
Swifts squad during that era was ubiquitous and seemingly ever expanding.
Friendships when youre an international icon and many of your friends are too … even messier!
But the decision to ignore their existence in favor of a clean narrative makes the story here feel incomplete.
But things get a little murkier in the drama that occurs in the following years.
