Ever since Taylor Swift revealed the 1989 (Taylor’s Version) “From the Vault” tracks on Sept. 20, Swifties have been counting down the days until their first listen of the unreleased tracks. Fans had ...

The challenge of the piece was always — and remains — that there are so many characters. How do we give them all complexity and real estate? So I pitched a gossip number as, “We can learn a little bit ...