Taylor Swift's 'The Life of a Showgirl' is immaculate damage control | NYGazet

The pop superstar follows up last year's messy 'The Tortured Poets Department' with a tidy collaboration with Max Martin and Shellback.

After the mess, the mop-up. That’s one way to understand Taylor Swift’s new album, “The Life of a Showgirl,” on which music’s biggest star offers up a dozen precision-cut pop songs just 18 months removed from last year’s sprawling and emotionally uns... [4890 chars]