Pitchfork’s Vrinda Jagota on Love Story (Taylor’s Version):

If most mortal millennials tried to recreate our teenage creative endeavors, we would be sharing Twilight fan fiction or painfully awkward YouTube dance videos. It speaks to Taylor’s wunderkind status that she can revisit the work of her teen self without embarrassment.

And Rolling Stone’s Simon Vozick-Levinson:

Instead of a bright, shining act of writerly projection, like it was in 2008, this “Love Story” is full of rich, complex emotional flavor, performed by someone who’s learned how the love stories in your head can differ from the ones you really go through. It’s a savvy business move, a way for one of the world’s biggest stars to strike back after her old master recordings were sold off against her will to private equity sharks. But it’s also an artist in full command of what makes those catalog rights worth fighting for.

I’ve said it before, so I’ll say it again: Swift’s on fire right now, and I am very much here for all the light and heat she’s throwing off.