Music Review: On Taylor Swift’s ‘The Life of a Showgirl,’ love and reputation are on the line

Her last album, “The Tortured Poets Department,” ended with the cautionary “Clara Bow,” an allegory that seemed to suggest her tenure atop the cultural mainstream was inherited from stars of the past, like the namechecked Stevie Nicks — and that a new generation of younger, elastic female pop perfor...

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