Why do Taylor Swift fans love her? A Harvard prof explains [Video]

Toronto seems to be utterly enchanted by Taylor Swift with fans starting to make their way to one of her six sold-out shows this month.

The city is swiftly showing its love for the Grammy-award winning singer – changing street signs in her honour, limiting construction, and increasing transit service to pave the way for the droves of Swifties who will be making their way to the Rogers Centre over the next two weeks.

A slew of events will also be popping up throughout the city that pay homage to the “Blank Space” singer (including a pre-show “Taylgate”).

Toronto has not given nearly the same treatment to any other musician before, so why does this Pennsylvania-born singer command so much attention?

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Stephanie Burt, an English professor at Harvard University who taught an entire course on Taylor Swift and her world, would not call the singer’s appeal universal …