With the release of her 11th studio album, Time posed the question: 鈥淲hy Taylor Swift鈥檚 Music Makes Us So Emotional.鈥�
TCU psychology professor Naomi Ekas had an answer.
鈥淲e all experience loss,鈥� Ekas said. 鈥淲e all experience friends that hurt us, and we want to get back at them and get revenge on them. We all fall in love, we all fall out of love.鈥�
She told the publication that Swift鈥檚 themes are universal and knowing that the artist feels what we feel tends to validate our emotions.
Time spotlighted the popularity of the course Ekas taught, Psychology (Taylor鈥檚 Version), which discussed things like infidelity, revenge, attraction and breakups.
鈥淲e take different topics and themes from her music or her life and apply a developmental perspective to it,鈥� Ekas said.