It is surely a sign of superior civilisation when night after night stadiums are filled with crowds eager to cheer mellow musicians with whom the crowd has no chance of copulating and whom the crowd has no prospect of feeding to a lion or sacrificing to competing blood-thirsty musicians. Capitalism is a cult of creators, not thieves and destructors. Taylor Swift is the ultimate creator. She reads the room so well that one is ready to forgive her reading the room so well. She has talent, she has grit, and she is free.