Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

Marlon James on Beyoncé haters; me on Taylor Swift haters

A thesis on early Taylor Swift, immediately disproven

The triple meaning of Montresor’s toast to Fortunato’s “long life” in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado” (1846)

A possible echo of “Nights in White Satin” (1967, The Moody Blues) in Taylor Swift’s “gold rush” (2020)

An exemplary three-part song about three moments in a life: Greg Brown’s “If I Had Known” (1990)

Three part songs with themes and variations: Joni Mitchell’s “Both Sides Now” (1969) and Taylor Swift’s “The Best Day” (2008) and “Never Grow Up” (2010)