In the song, Swift also sings about sitting in a ... The track follows the story from the perspective of a girl named August, with whom a boy named James cheated on his girlfriend Betty.

Over four decades ago, when Mike Scott started The Waterboys, the very first song they released saluted the art of somebody else. “A Girl Named Johnny ... t just a guy who took a lot of ...

Sometimes you can point to a single, humble work of art — it may be a song, a movie, a book or a work of visual art — and find in it a key to an entire zeitgeist. You would assume, in such ...