Love’s a game, wanna play? The Proverbiality of Taylor Swift’s Lyrics

Taylor Swift (born 1989) is an internationally acknowledged musical superstar whose songwriter/singer status with twelve albums to her credit is indeed phenomenal. She is without doubt a first-class performer on stage as well as in videos and films, who plays several instruments, composes her own songs, and writes her own lyrics as a remarkable poet. Certainly, her lyrics touch a deep nerve in her fandom of young, so-called Swifties, but she also touches listeners, viewers, and readers (of he...