Taylor Swift’s Adulthood Blues
What fans will hunger to know, after watching the new Netflix documentary Miss Americana, is whether Taylor Swift prefers carnitas or carne asada. “Do you eat burritos?” Swift asks her producer, Joel Little, at one point in the movie. Little giggles and asks who on Earth doesn’t eat burritos. Swift answers that she didn’t until two years prior—“I just had never tried one.” Cut to her inserting a chip into a thermos-size mass of tortilla as she discusses her anxieties about soon turning 29.
That Swift lived for two and a half decadeswithout experiencing a Chipotle coma is one of the more concrete revelations of , a stirring work of image correction. The director Lana Wilson, notable for her cinematic journalism about and , applies a vérité filter to Swift Inc.
