She’s a megastar, but Taylor Swift just won’t shake off old feuds. Good for her | Barbara Ellen

Time magazine's person of the year interview shows a woman who can't dish enough dirt

Is Taylor Swift pop music's last great troublemaker? Or has it always been the done thing for the Time magazine person of the year to use their illustrious anointing to air old beef?

For the magazine has indeed chosen Swift as the 2023 Time person of the year. The global music phenomenon joins the roll call of presidents, popes, peacemakers and 2022's pick, the Ukrainian leader, Volodymyr Zelenskiy. Swift is the first to feature for contribution to the arts, and the first woman to be honoured twice (she was part of a group of #MeToo silence breakers" in 2017).

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