Taylor Swift's “Shake It Off” and the Cult of Awkward White Girls

FlavorwireTaylor Swift's “Shake It Off” and the Cult of Awkward White GirlsFlavorwireTaylor Swift's announcement of her new album, 1989, doubled as a proclamation of her pop-star status. “I woke up not wanting, but needing, to make a new style of music,” she said Monday during the 1989 live-stream “event,” adding that this would be ...