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On <em>SNL</em>, Taylor Swift Stopped Time

The singer’s 10-minute performance of “All Too Well” was a dazzling reminder of how far she has come as an artist.
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Updated at 4:53 p.m. ET on November 14, 2021.

When Taylor Swift was only 22, she lay awake at night and worried about her age. That’s the confession the now-31-year-old singer makes on “Nothing New,” a track she wrote for her 2012 album, , but released only on , the new, rerecorded version that came out on Friday. In the song, she describes how society tells young women to have fun and then shames them for experiencing life. She wonders why she seems to lose confidence with each passing year. “Lord,

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