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Needless to say, you’ve already heard: Bad Bunny will headline the Super Bowl halftime show this February. Also needless to say, plenty of people are mad about it. So instead of arguing, we’ll just leave this here—the 2020 halftime show, where Shakira and J. Lo performed… alongside, yes, Bad Bunny.

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Taylor Swift has spent her career writing herself into fairytales: the girl in the tower, the prince who saves her, the kingdom she builds. The Life of a Showgirl feels like the sound of someone realizing the magic is starting to fade.

Last year’s The Tortured Poets Department was her excess era, a self-indulgent diary dump from an artist who’d forgotten what restraint sounds like. This record tries to course-correct. She’s left behind Jack Antonoff and reunited with Max Martin and Shellback, the Swedish duo who helped her leap from country to pop on Red, 1989, and Reputation. The premise is clear: tighten the focus and bring back the hooks.