How Taylor Swift Uses Narrative

The short film that accompanies her rerelease of "All Too Well" is rich with plot devices, "show, don't tell," writing, and effective story framing.

First, let me address the men here who don’t or won't listen to Taylor Swift. The ones who don’t care about the narrative the women in their lives have told them this week about how she is a genius-heroine who outsmarted music industry tycoons to take back creative control of her first six albums. Who hear Swift’s voice every time their wife’s iPhone co…