I would love to know who the target audience of this book actually is? Cos as a Swiftie who tries her best to keep up with all the lore of Taylor this was absolutely nothing new for me (hahah) but I also think it would do nothing for a new fan, or someone who wants to get to know her either as it's chock full of references, lyrics (often wrong!!!!!) and inside jokes that would alienate a reader. Literally every second sentence had a quippy lyric reference that got real cringy real fast. 

This book truly pissed me off actually hahaha, as someone who claims to be such a big fan of Taylor I don't think Rob did much research for this book at all, from getting the lyrics wrong (it's not that hard to google before you immortalise it in a book, where was the editor?) to trying to be down with the kids in with the fans by doing a whole chapter on "Haylor" and proceeding to attribute a lyric from "State of Grace" (Twin fire signs, four blue eyes) to Harry - reader, he's not even a fire sign????? c'mon, that was an easy one. For a Music Writer and supposedly a massive fan of Taylor you'd think he'd be able to get this right? 

I do like how he wasn't afraid to critique her or say what he really thought about some of her actions, I think more articles, videos, books etc could do with being a little more critical of her, she's definitely not perfect and we could all do with remembering that!

This book felt really surface level which was so disappointing, as the sub title "How Taylor Swift reinvented pop music" really hooked me and I was so interested to learn about how the industry has changed, her impact etc and this was never even discussed - it was just a rehash of her history and moments like the Kimye drama? It's not what it was hyped up to be and any person kinda familiar with Taylor would already know all this. 

He also just wrote a lot about himself and his relation to Taylors music, which was fine, but not what I was told was gonna be discussed on the cover. I don't really care about him at all so I spent a long part of the book being like alright mate, let's carry on. 

I don't know who I would recommend this book too tbh, I wish it did more of what it said it was gonna do on the tin. It felt a bit like he was just cashing in on the hype.