For "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together," the trick is economy.
Did you hear that Taylor Swift makes a lot of breakup songs? Thankfully, her songwriting is versatile enough to keep one of her biggest tropes from growing stale. For "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together," the trick is economy. Swift manages to convey plenty with the repetition of those seven words: The "We" with at least three exclamation marks acknowledges a connection filled with history; "Never ever" is sung as an exasperated, for-the-love-of-God plea; and the phrase closes with resolve. — B.J.