“It shows that she was sad but she got over it.” “I like that she writes songs about her boyfriends,” Sophie told me. It doesn’t matter that Sophie’s still too young to have a boyfriend in her eyes, all this makes Swift a figure of empowerment, a role model in a certain sense. At Staples, she laughed when the stage patter turned toward bad boyfriends, and shrieked when Swift played songs such as “Should’ve Said No.” Beginning when I was not much older than she is, I was a rock ‘n’ roll fanatic: first, the Beatles, and later everything from the Grateful Dead to Led Zeppelin to the Clash, as if, in the intersection of all those clanging guitar chords, I might learn some lesson about how to live.įor my daughter, Swift offers a similar connection, one that transcends fanhood for identification instead.
Last summer, I took her to see the Jonas Brothers, and she listens to Demi Lovato, Selena Gomez, all the Disney stars.īut there’s something different about her feelings for Swift, something I recognize from my early days as a music fan. Then Swift entered, wearing a simple yellow dress, to thank us all for coming, and Sophie’s face uncurled. But waiting for the main event, she was quiet, watchful, taking it all in. Normally, she’s a chatty kid, full of excitement and stories. Sitting in the hospitality room deep in the belly of Staples Center, Sophie looked as if she couldn’t quite believe where she was. Partly, this had to do with Swift, who Sophie likes both because of her music and “because she’s not afraid to talk about what happened in her life.” Partly, it had to do with the fact that we were not just seeing the concert but reporting on it, and were therefore invited to a backstage meet-and-greet. 1 fan!” read the sign she brought to the concert with us), which made the show April 16 its own kind of happily ever after - or, as Sophie informed me, “the most important night of my life.” Her grin was electric, her attention sharply focused she wasn’t missing anything.įor the last year or so, Sophie has been a Taylor Swift obsessive (“I am Taylor’s No. “Today was a Fairytale,” Taylor Swift was singing from the stage at Staples Center, and Sophie, age 11, was singing every word along with her, waving a colored light stick back and forth above her head. For my daughter, Sophie, it was like finding the goose that laid the golden egg.
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