listen, i'm just too old to listen to taylor swift. i remember britney spears, but i thought i was too old for that, even. i did like the spice girls, but i didn't tell anybody.

in fact, i had a bunch of madonna records in the 80s and 90s and that would be my actual age group, which makes me two or three generations removed from taylor swift, in terms of little girl or tweenage girl pop.

i would argue that watching a middle aged woman dance to and sing taylor swift songs at a baseball stadium like she's an eight year-old is sort of sad and pathetic and something that really belongs in the bathrooms and closets of the world rather than in giant stadiums for exorbitant prices, but i also have no real concept of what tiktok even is, which just exacerbates the generation gap.

so, i'm sorry, but i'm too old for taylor swift, and i'm not interested in having a midlife crisis or on holding on to being a tween into my 50s or on pretending i am.