Longtime Taylor Swift writer Rob Sheffield argues that boys are not the main characters in many of her songs, but instead "blank spaces for the girls to find their own identity in":
"She doesn’t have a lot of interest in making these boys the characters of the songs. It’s always
“max martin should’ve said no to her”
“she’s surrounded by yes men”
meanwhile her face at 18 when the director had a slightly different artistic vision than her for a 3 second clip in a music video:
when Elizabeth won her first oscar for this film (after 3 losses) she felt it was given to her out of sympathy saying “I knew it wasn't my acting, but rather my life, which won me the award" as her character played up how the public viewed her
the 1950s shit they want from me