Researchers analyze the impact of Taylor Swift. University of Melbourne symposium looked at the pop star's impact on our lives.

“She has accumulated such power and influence, I think it is unprecedented in the music industry,” says one academic. Last year, a course at the University of Ghent, in Belgium, examined the singer's texts, questioning " his literary genius". The famous Bee Gees song Stayin' Alive was taught for years as the rhythm to follow for cardiopulmonary resuscitation.