On Welcome to New York, her latest hit single, Taylor Swift sings with wide-eyed enthusiasm about the experience of being a youthful, aspirational newcomer to the Big Apple.
"The lights are so bright," she notes, a not entirely novel observation, "but they never blind me."
The average 24-year-old might indeed
be dazzled on first arriving in the brilliant glare of the big city, but not so Swift, who has recently become one of Lorde's best pals.
She has been a recording artist for a decade, has won seven Grammy Awards and has just sold almost 1.3 million copies of her new album 1989 in a week.
That represents the biggest seven days of sales for any LP since 2002.
