Pop star Taylor Swift’s musical growth is showcased in the Netflix special “Taylor Swift: Reputation Stadium Tour,” which is rife with songs and imagery…
Pop star Taylor Swift’s musical growth is showcased in the Netflix special “Taylor Swift: Reputation Stadium Tour,” which is rife with songs and imagery from the last couple of years, her shrewd art-making still inspired by her reactions to the chaos in her life.
But, as we all know by now, the artist has the Midas touch when it comes to dealing with heartbreak and feuds: She, in grand fashion, makes lemonade out of lemons, and the “Reputation” tour, in support of her latest album of the same title, exemplifies her shrewdness, her tried and true “revenge-as-art” sensibilities.
Her complicated 2016 tiff with Kanye West and Kim Kardashian regarding the brouhaha surrounding his “Famous” lyrics led to the flooding of Swift’s social media pages by trolls’ snake emojis.
The pop superstar later turned the snake symbol into an integral part of her next album, merchandise and even her concerts—and that motif is prominently featured in the huge, imposing sculptures of serpentine figures in her “Reputation Stadium Tour” stage.
