If Time Magazine is to be believed, Taylor Swift, who became the first musician ever to claim the famed ‘Person of the Year‘ accolade, has influenced everything from the shape of the global economy to how microscopic deep-sea bacteria multiply.
To millions if not billions of both Swifties and non-Swifties, the title is very much deserved. She is a beacon of openness and honesty in a world perilously lacking in either, a sequined rebel against the modern patriarchy on not just the global stage but in her personal life, and a pop-songstress extraordinaire whose music has connected meaningfully with a generation of young people in a way not seen since perhaps the Beatles. She’s caused shockwaves, both figuratively—her Eras tour boosted the U.S. economy by some several billion—and literally—Swifties caused a 2.3 magnitude earthquake in Seattle earlier this summer.
