Concluding my ranked list of the songs on Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl…

#1. ‘Ruin the Friendship’

There’s a school of thought that Taylor Swift has never been better than she was on 2008’s Fearless, an album released when she was 18 years old. And perhaps her best song is that album’s ‘Fifteen,’ written when she was just a couple of years older than its subjects.

I don’t necessarily subscribe to that theory — the woman has released a mountain of excellent material over the last 17 years — but I do viscerally respond to the authenticity and emotion Swift pours into her songs about high school.

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