She is an inspiration and a smart business girl.

The old school of the recording industry wasn't faring well really. Since the 1970s you had rock star millionaires parroting teenage angst with a fair degree of material success, if they were megastars, but they were really getting a bad deal from the publishing and recording royalties, making their fortunes - if they had mass appeal - from their touring. (See Courtney Love's letter to the industry.)

Apparently, if you can manage it in the new digital age, Swift has developed a successful model.