You know it is a great treatment for imposter syndrome to see how in Cats 2019, Taylor Swift, master lyricist Americana storyteller, is just not that good at writing in the post-Sondheim singing-about-yourself Broadway musical tradition, that her performances are highly based on mimicry but her sense of the stuff to be mimicked is still at a band-geek-in-YBWM’s level of Cats fan, that her sense of role is clearly leaning on Grizabella – a character already in this exact musical! – and wherever the scene is not specifically catering to her, her sense of stage is that of a freshman that doesn’t get a part

Cats 2019 is a reminder that while she might be a superstar lyricist steeped in Americana, Taylor Swift is not practiced in Broadway form and is easily outpaced in writing for musicals by the creators of South Park or Family Guy