The Taylor Swift Method of Pandemic Productivity

Creativity is a continuum

Taylor Swift performs onstage during the 55th Academy of Country Music Awards at the Grand Ole Opry on September 16, 2020 in Nashville, Tennessee. Photo: ACMA2020/Getty Images for ACM

Taylor Swift’s pandemic productivity — two albums, folklore and evermore; two cinematic videos for the songs “cardigan” and “willow”; a “concert film” — is enough to make us mere mortals feel inadequate. I mean, doesn’t even non-pandemic-era T. Swift make us all feel inadequate?