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For female pop stars, frequent reinvention is central to the sport. And few understand this expectation quite like Taylor Swift herself, who built an entire economy-shifting tour around celebrating all the distinct chapters of her life and career as if they were our own. (Feeling rebellious? Congrats, you’re in your reputation era!) In her 2020 Netflix documentary, Miss Americana, she opened up about the pressure of “constantly finding new facets of yourself” in what is essentially the pop-star equivalent of America Ferrera’s patriarchy monologue from Barbie: “Be new to us, be young to us, but only in a new way and only in the way we want. And reinvent yourself, but only in a way that we find to be equally comforting but also a challenge for you. Live out a narrative that we find to be interesting enough to entertain us, but not so crazy that it makes us uncomfortable.”