{"id":626427,"date":"2026-10-10T13:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T13:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/626427\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T13:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T13:50:08","slug":"want-to-get-people-to-talk-about-taylor-swift-on-the-record-good-luck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/626427\/","title":{"rendered":"Want to get people to talk about Taylor Swift on the record? Good luck."},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"NRJUXOFV2RDDXPCVJIOTKS6GYY\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">I knew reporting a book about Taylor Swift was going to be difficult. But I was still surprised the first time someone was too afraid to go on the record to give her a compliment.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"YDUZDT65NBHVRBTBECM36CFZWE\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">This all started in summer 2024, when I took a temporary leave from The Washington Post and relocated to Nashville to work on my new book, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/link.amazon\/B02BMigVr\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/link.amazon\/B02BMigVr\">Taylor Swift: The Debut Years<\/a>,\u201d a deep dive into her first decade in country music \u2014 and her impact on the genre \u2014 on the eve of the 20th anniversary of her debut album. As a pop culture reporter who has spent a dozen years covering both Swift\u2019s career and country music, this process was an exciting, frustrating and ultimately illuminating look at the sheer scope of power that Swift wields.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I knew reporting a book about Taylor Swift was going to be difficult. But I was still surprised&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":626428,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-626427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}