Rob Sheffield is a longtime music journalist and a contributing editor at Rolling Stone, where he has been covering music and pop culture since 1997. (His first issue had Tori Spelling on the cover.) He is the New York Times best-selling author of five books, including Love Is A Mix Tape: Music and Loss, One Song at a Time (2007), Talking To Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man’s Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut (2010), Turn Around Bright Eyes: The Rituals of Love and Karaoke (2013), On Bowie (2016) and Dreaming The Beatles: The Love Story of One Band and the Whole World (2018). His new book is Heartbreak Is The National Anthem: How Taylor Swift Reinvented Pop Music, published by Dey Street in November 2024. He's @robsheff on Twitter and @robbiesheff on Instagram. He lives in Brooklyn.