I meet with my brand manager to review all the assets pending photo editing for our inaugural launch campaign. We review the original creative direction, the music that we’d like to license, and where in the customer journey the assets would live. We pivot to review a new statement of work from our creative agency for our 2022 launches. (We need to make a decision on budget and scope by the end of the week.)1:00 p.m. “The colored male…only too often leads the life of a vagrant,” and that the Black race had a “greater tendency to crime and pauperism than the whites.” This pivotal text —which was presented as a scientific study one of South Korea’s largest entertainment agencies. And it turns out the song is just as romantic as pretty much everyone expected. The track, which was co-produced by Jack Antonoff, is a beautiful, bluesy ballad that will likely be a wedding song for Swifties everywhere, especially when you consider the wedding vow-esque lyrics, “Ladies and gentlemen / Will you please stand / With every guitar string scar on my hand / I take this magnetic force of a man / To be my lover.” Taylor, who’s been dating actor Joe Alwyn for nearly three years, even references the reported timeline of their relationship with the lines, “I've loved you three summers now, honey / And I want them all.”