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As the V&A advertises for a 'Taylor Swift Super Fan Adviser', an Oxford graduate who wrote a dissertation on the singer provocatively claims she is as culturally important as Shakespeare, Chaucer and Wordsworth


How very far the world has travelled in the 125 years since Queen Victoria laid the foundation stone for London's V&A Museum to today, when it is advertising for a 'Taylor Swift Super Fan Adviser'.

How very far the world has travelled in the 125 years since Queen Victoria laid the foundation stone for London’s V&A Museum to today, when that venerable establishment is advertising for a ‘ Taylor Swift Super Fan Adviser’. They cry that this deification of a pop starlet, known for her string of high-profile boyfriends and fashion sense, will taint the hallowed halls of one of Britain’s most august institutions. Even before the #MeToo movement and before allegations broke against Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, Swift inspired other women to speak out about harassment and testified herself in court about having been assaulted.

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