There’s a scene near the beginning of Netflix’s new Taylor Swift documentary, “Miss Americana,” in which the pop superstar learns that her polarizing “Reputation” album hasn’t been nominated for the top-tier Grammy Awards she once collected like coins. The Grammy problem provides an obstacle, which is the fuel that “Miss Americana” runs on as it depicts a process of overcoming that has quickly become the default narrative in a growing field of pop-star documentaries. “I can never remake this album,” Bieber says at one point in the studio, echoing Swift as he declares that it has to be perfect to meet the importance of its moment. AdvertisementTaylor Swift in the new Netflix documentary “Miss Americana.”It’s also fascinating to see how Swift and Bieber lean in different ways on the people around them for support. Late in the Swift documentary we watch as she discovers that her efforts to sway the election weren’t enough to defeat a Republican whose conservative views she says disgust her.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 30, 2020 23:15 UTC