As someone who has enjoyed Taylor Swift’s music since before the release of Fearless, there has always been this feeling that we’ve grown up together.
Obviously, I know this isn’t true. The same year I was falling in love with her music, she was becoming a teenage megastar. She had already toured with Faith Hill and Keith Urban, and I was entering the fourth grade in small-town Minnesota. Despite this, I carried the feeling with me throughout my life. She grew beside me. She understood me.