Pam Goodwin Chief Copy Editor pgoodwin1@murraystate.edu When I was a kid, I inherited this old boombox from my great-grandparents. It took up all of the space on top of my dresser, and if I turned it up enough, I could hear my favorite album, Taylor Swift’s “RED,” from the trees in our front yard. On Read More
Column by Dylan Doyle, Contributing Writer Taylor Swift – ever a popular topic of conversation for traditional and social media outlets alike – recently dropped the acerbic video for her controversial song “Look What You Made Me Do,” and this spiritual successor to “Blank Space” is out for bad blood (and not just Kim Kardashian’s). Plenty Read More
With all the buzz surrounding Taylor Swift lately about her random gift giving to fans across the country, I thought it would be cool to share the story of the most meaningful gift she gave me. In April of 2009, all I wanted was for my mom to take me to “The Hannah Montana Movie” Read More
Taylor Swift released her fifth album, the musical masterpiece known as “1989,” Monday. As an avid Taylor Swift fan, my first response to the album was tears. No fan of Taylor Swift is used to hearing her singing with Auto Tune to a full-on pop song with all the bells and whistles. It’s no secret Read More
Since I got such positive feedback from the last time I shared a story about Taylor Swift I figured it was time to share another one. This one is from the summer of 2010, the summer before Taylor Swift dropped her third album entitled “Speak Now,” but at the time no one knew anything about Read More
I have been putting off writing this column for as long as I can, because I was not sure how to exactly do it justice. As promised in my first column, my stories about Taylor Swift are pretty abundant. I have been fortunate enough to call myself a fan of Taylor for more than seven Read More
It seems like the young country/pop singer Taylor Swift puts out a new album every two years, at least that’s the pattern she’s formed. After taking a brief break out of the spotlight last year, Swift is back again with her fourth studio album, “Red.” Swift wrote in the prologue of the CD’s insert that Read More