Over pretzels she contemplates the lessons the pop life has taught her. Keep centered on really living a decent life. She has morphed from the poet laureate of puberty to pop-banger mastermind and is now a basic singer-songwriter, finding new, older fans (including 80-12 months-old Paul McCartney) with each launch. Last month introduced a new downside: tickets launched for her first tour in 5 years, 2023’s The Eras Tour, precipitated a Ticketmaster meltdown, with followers unable to purchase them (blamed on ‘unprecedented demand’ which ‘could have crammed 900 stadiums’). The records she’s now breaking are her own, a list of firsts, onlys, mosts, biggests, fastests. If you attain a sure level where things are going very effectively, the general public wants a "yeah, but… In the period of ‘free’ music she’s fought for the financial rights of musicians, taking on each Spotify (in 2014 she briefly eliminated her back catalogue) and Apple Music (in 2015 she protested over its free trial service which didn’t pay artists; Apple then capitulated) and most famously, in 2019, turned a one-lady trade disruptor.