Anti-Hero Worship

Can we even call Taylor Swift a pop star anymore? She certainly was one in 2011, when I saw her perform Speak Now and touched her hand, which was cold as ice. Since then, her status has more come to resemble that of an evergreen cult leader. Criticisms of various sizes recoil off her exterior, long hardened from years in the limelight; her thighs are somehow increasingly luminous with age.