Every couple of years or so, we get a new cultural Beanie Baby. Labubus: Beanie Baby. NFTs: Beanie Baby. Cabbage Patch Kids, Tamagotchis, Furbies: pre-Beanie Baby Beanie Babies. Taylor Swift: Beanie Baby. An enduring, human one, but Beanie Baby nonetheless. I know what you might be thinking on that last one, but hear me out.

The answer to the question, "Is this peak Taylor Swift?" has been no for years. The limit, miraculously and perpetually, does not exist. The law of fads is that they fade. Celebrities eventually fall from grace or find themselves on the receiving end of backlash, especially the female ones — just look at Katy Perry's recent woes or Jennifer Lawrence, or even all the way back to Elizabeth Taylor. But not the 35-year-old Swift. Just when you think something finally has

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