From the Editor's Desk

The Story That’s Holding Taylor Swift Back

The artist is an extraordinarily powerful woman who still, somehow, feels like she has no real power at all.The year was 2006. Popular music was, for women, a pretty desolate landscape. Songs such as "My Humps" and "Buttons" served up shimmering, grinding strip-pop, while dull, minor-key objectification infused "Smack That," "Money Maker," and similar tracks. In the video for "London Bridge," the singer and former child star Fergie gave a lap dance to a silent, immotive King's Guardsman, barely pausing to lick his uniform. For "Ms. New Booty," the rapper Bubba Sparxxx staged a mock infomercial for a product offering women "a little more frosting in your cakes … cantaloupes in your jeans," before proselytizing the message of the era: "Get it ripe, get it right, get it tight."


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