“Since Always” is teeming with natural imagery that would elude a less observant eye. He sings about the slow work of the sunshine fading a sign. A petal curling and sticking to a leaf. Honeysuckle ...

Kevin Evers is a senior editor at Harvard Business Review and the author of There’s Nothing Like This: The Strategic Genius of Taylor Swift (Harvard Business Review Press, forthcoming).

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