featured each of The National’s members but, most memorably, lead singer Matt Berninger on “Coney Island” and even a duet appearance by Marcus Mumford for good measure on “cowboy like me.”
Maybe make an album with Wilco? Absent that, how about The National? And Bon Iver? Over the course of three years and what has amounted to nearly three dozen songs scattered over three Taylor Swift albums plus albums from Big Red Machine and The National, Swift has cashed in on the connection with older male music fans that sprouted with “Blank Space”, was watered by Ryan Adams’ full-album tribute and came to full flower during COVID in what is sometimes called her “Cottagecore” era.