You start to realise you're getting old when pop music no longer speaks to you directly, you unintentionally break it's surface tension and you inadvertently glimpse the hidden mechanics below....the turning of its carefully calculated cogs.

The music business is deliberate and precise, artists are pushed and pulled in some very strange directions. No wonder they often take up yoga!

According to wikipedia it took SIX people to write this Swift song.

Taylor Swift, Jack Antonoff, Fred Fairbrass, Richard Fairbrass & Rob Manzoli.

The Fairbrass brothers & Manzoli were behind "Right Said Fred" I'm too sexy.
Antonoff has co-written with a bunch of people, from Sia Furler to St Vincent & Lorde. He co-wrote Fun's "We are young".