I was in middle school when Taylor Swift began whispering fairy tales in my ear.

“Fearless,” her second album, dropped when I was 11 — filled with stories of unrequited crushes and Shakespearean romance and knights in shining armor. On “Speak Now,” when I was 13, there were sweeping kisses in the rain, dragons to fight, kingdoms to save.

Swift peddled escapism, and I was an eager customer. Why deal with the mundane reality of adolescence when, with the click of an iPod Nano, I could be in a world where the girl gets the guy? It was catnip to an adolescent.

It’s that girl I was then, the one still sold on summer love under the Georgia stars, who wanted to see “Miss Americana,” which premiered on Friday. Lana Wilson’s Netflix documentary follows Swift through the past couple of years, from the “Reputation” era — Swift’s pop dark horse of a sixth album — to the creation of “Lover,” her latest (and much fluffier) work, released in August 2019.

I never used to care much about what she was like offstage. I was wrapped up in her lyrics, more concerned about the stories than who was telling them.