Heartbreak Is the National Anthem
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Heartbreak Is the National Anthem

How Taylor Swift Reinvented Pop Music

  1. 288 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Heartbreak Is the National Anthem

How Taylor Swift Reinvented Pop Music

About this book

***The Instant New York Times Bestseller!***

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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Epigraph
  5. Contents
  6. Once Upon a Time, a Few Mistakes Ago: A Very Fast Timeline
  7. Prelude: Our Song Is a Slamming Screen Door
  8. 1. Planet Taylor: Nice to Meet You, Where You Been
  9. 2. I Love You, It’s Ruining My Life
  10. 3. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young, Loud, and Not-Especially-Great-at-Calming-Down Woman
  11. 4. Early Days: Please Picture Me in the Trees
  12. 5. Track Five: The Ballad of “All Too Well”
  13. 6. The Fangirl
  14. 7. Fearless
  15. 8. Everybody Loves Petty, Everybody Loves Cool
  16. 9. The Songs on Her Arms
  17. 10. “Enchanted”
  18. 11. Every Guitar-String Scar on Her Hand
  19. 12. “The Archer”
  20. 13. The Bridge: Thirteen Songs from Taylor’s Dreams
  21. 14. Red
  22. 15. There Once Was a Girl Known by Everyone and No One: Taylor’s Codes
  23. 16. 1989
  24. 17. The Word “Nice”
  25. 18. “New Romantics”
  26. 19. The Villain Era
  27. 20. Reputation
  28. 21. Taylor’s Version (Taylor’s Version)
  29. 22. “Cruel Summer”
  30. 23. The Lead Single
  31. 24. I’m Not Asleep, My Mind Is Alive: Lover
  32. 25. Folklore
  33. 26. “Mirrorball”
  34. 27. “Marjorie”
  35. 28. “Right Where You Left Me”
  36. 29. Midnights
  37. Finale: Forevermore
  38. Acknowledgments
  39. About the Author
  40. Copyright
  41. About the Publisher