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Taylor Swift is everywhere! Could I avoid her and her music for the whole month of May?

She is bringing her Eras tour to the UK this week. But just how easy is it to steer clear of the world’s biggest pop star? The Guardian’s stage editor finds out

Is it possible to shield yourself from the daily blanket coverage of a ubiquitous superstar who is one of the most photographed people in the world, had more than 26bn streams on Spotify last year, whose tour is blazing through five continents and has become a record-breaking movie, and who also just happened to drop a new album? Hilda’s was always 22, with my favourite ever misheard lyric: “It feels like a perfect night / To dress up like hamsters!” At that time you couldn’t go to a children’s party without hearing Shake It Off and we’d watch Rosita and Gunter giving the song “major piggy power” in the showstopper scene from the brilliant animated film Sing. Aggie now mostly listens to indie records, but Cardigan pops up on her shared playlist for a road trip she is planning with her friends, along with Swift tunes past and present including Enchanted, August and (nice touch) Getaway Car.

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