Whether you love her, hate her, or are completely indifferent to her, Taylor Swift’s 14-year career has taken many turns both stylistically and personally, but throughout it all she’s seemed to always manage to persevere and rise above. As I was growing up, singing, playing guitar, and feeling like some unrelatable anomaly, Taylor was in the spotlight with her acoustic guitar and her (then) waist-length hair daring to be different, and that both inspired my younger self as well as made me feel validated…
