Samantha Max, writing for Gothamist:

Swift went searching for a sound she hadn’t heard before when she moved to New York City in 2014, just in time for her poppiest album yet, “1989.” In the opening track, she officially kicked off her New York era.

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That same year, New York City’s official tourism organization declared Swift a global welcome ambassador. As part of the publicity campaign, she recorded cheeky videos about New York vocabulary, defining words like “bodega” and “stoop.”…

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