Whether you’re a fan of bubblegum pop anthems or acoustic ballads, there is undeniably a certain je ne sais quoi that makes a song stand out, and that is stripped-bare songwriting. It's a skill Taylor Swift has in abundance and why she has crafted a legacy in the music industry. Real, poetic, meaningful songwriting has the power to tap into the unspoken truths of a person's soul, capture a moment of nostalgia, a moment of pain, or transport a person back to a single memory. Perhaps what makes songwriting most powerful of all is that writers like Swift are able to connect with someone from a completely different walk of life than their own, simply by sharing their own lived human experience. In many ways, it is one of the few artistic forms that reminds us that we are all inevitably connected as humans by the way we feel so deeply. In a generation of catchy choruses, rapid music cycles, and hyperconsumption, songwriting has, in some ways, become a sacrificial lamb for the music industry.
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