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The New Romantic

Heartbreak is the National Anthem: How Taylor Swift Reinvented Pop Music by Rob Sheffield

February 14, 2025 by jeverett15 Leave a Comment

Rob Sheffield is a music critic at Rolling Stone and the magazine’s in-house Swiftie. This has occasionally caused him grief, as when his rave “instant classic” review of Swift’s latest album, The Tortured Poets Department, was so diverged from mainstream critical assessment it provoked many responses saying Sheffield couldn’t be objective when it came to Swift’s work. Sheffield also maintains the magazine’s ranking of all of Swift’s songs, updating it every time she releases a new album or more vault tracks on one of her […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: Rob Sheffield

jeverett15's CBR17 Review No:10 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: Rob Sheffield ·
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How were we to know the river ever would bend?

Love is a Mix Tape by Rob Sheffield

January 13, 2023 by Joe Grunenwald 5 Comments

If you’ve been a Cannonballer or a Pajiban for a while you probably know my wife. Her name was Jennie Baxla, and she reviewed books under the username baxlala. Jennie died of cancer back in July. To say that Jennie was an avid reader would be an understatement. She was always reading. Books were like oxygen to her. I can’t remember a time in all the years that we were together when she wasn’t reading at least two or three books at once. I’ve never […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir Tagged With: CBR15, Love is a Mix Tape, Rob Sheffield

Joe Grunenwald's CBR15 Review No:1 · Genres: Biography/Memoir · Tags: CBR15, Love is a Mix Tape, Rob Sheffield ·
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