Before Taylor Swift was a global pop superstar, she was a country music hitmaker. Swift was just 16 years old when her eponymous debut album came out. Even more impressive, Swift wrote all of the ...

Swift's 12th studio album returns to her pop roots, with lots of love-struck lyrics and upbeat melodies. But it's also a warning about the darker side of an industry she has battled — and bested.

If life is just a classroom, Taylor Swift has been lecturing on love, loss and ambition for nearly 20 years through 12 eras of songs. And a new book released Oct. 7 hands out the college course ...