It's Already the Third Day of 2025

The tennis calendar has never started as early as the 2025 season did this week.

My biggest beef with Taylor Swift—since you’ve probably been wondering—is over the opening line of the title track of her 2019 album, Lover.

“We could leave the Christmas lights up ‘til January,” Taylor sings. “This is our place; We make the rules.”

Ever since I first heard the song, I thought it was an utterly baffling opening example for Taylor to have …