The year is 2009. I, a care-free, podgy, not-so-little nine year old, whose only pain stemed from having to wake up at 6am five days a week to go to primary school, suddenly, without any warning bells sounded, experienced the massive trauma and excitement of a spectacular love story between two equally spectacular, yet somehow ordinary people, living in a fairytale world. Is this what heartbreak feels like? Why am I about to burst into tears because some guy called Romeo wasn’t taking some girl Juliet somewhere they could be alone?? Why are they telling Juliet how to feel?? Winx Club can wait, I need answers stat!!!
Taylor Swift introduced me, and probably millions of other people, to whatever concept and notion I have of all the motions of romance, today.
After the Love Story storm struck my world, I obviously had to gallop and listen to any other works of brilliance T-Swift had the angelic generosity to release upon us. That’s when I discovered her self-titled debut album, and my, oh my.
Teardrops on my Guitar? Our Song? Should’ve Said No? Are you seriously telling me she was sixteen! years! of age! when she wrote this album? When I was sixteen, I was binge-watching The Mindy Project and trapping ants as pets at home(not weird at all). But of course, Taylor Swift was busy writing world famous, record-breaking songs during her sweet sixteenth year, because that’s just the Taylor Swift thing to do. And I’m so, so grateful she did.
Covid-19 was, and continues to be, a terribly treacherous time for anyone on Earth except for, y’know, animals and all-things-nature that got a nice, big break from us wonderful human beings.
But in July 2020, she posts a photo. Of her new album. That means more TS songs. What . My brain takes a whole of 3 seconds to comprehend that Her Majesty has just made the rest of 2020 a little less painful with 17 tracks of magical music. Things are a lot easier to handle now.
Cut to the middle of 2021, and we’ve just heard that she’s rewriting her album Red!!! To mimick Chandler from F.R.I.E.N.D.S(my fav), could this BE any more thrilling?!?!?
Taylor Swift makes us feel like we were part of all the brushes she had with love, and that’s what makes her so much more special and personal to me. Ranging from the butterflies-in-your-stomach-while-you’re-on-a-rollercoaster ups to the the how-on-earth-could-you-do-that-to-me-omg-I’m-so-writing-about-you lows, she managed to find beauty in the raw truth of love. And she communicates that beauty with so much grace and mightiness, you can’t help but feel all. the. emotions.
I could gleefully go on forever, but I’m restraining myself for now. (veins popping from my head and everything).
in conclusion, taylor swift is a god-like virtuoso, and we must’ve saved a lot of turtles from choking on plastic straws in our previous lives to have the honour of witnessing her greatness in real time.
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