Taylor Swift, her mum’s family and a glimpse of a bygone era in Singapore


Taylor Swift’s mother Andrea lived in a colonial bungalow at Mount Pleasant in the late 1960s. - JULIA NICKSON, ART APART FAIR

SINGAPORE: She came, she thrilled thousands across six sold-out shows, and now, Taylor Swift has left Singapore – but leaves in her wake a lasting impact.

The celebrated American megastar filled the National Stadium and generated a spike in business for airlines, hotels and eateries here. She inspired MPs to pepper their Parliament speeches with references to her songs, and even inadvertently made Singapore the target of envy amid a diplomatic brouhaha over the Lion City being her only stop in South-East Asia.

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