CELEBRITY
News flash : Can a college course in Taylor fandom REALLY turn our man into a mid-life Swiftie?
It begins like an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting – except there is a curious tone of denial among the attendees.
As indeed, am I. The largest gap in my knowledge is an understanding of my classmates’ motives for attending a Glasgow college’s crash course on the hottest pop star on the planet. So they are not fans. No shame there. Appreciation of her oeuvre is not compulsory.
Yet here they are, giving up a weekday evening for an education on a cultural phenomenon to which they were hitherto content to pay no mind. What has happened to them?