Taylor Swift - Lover (August 23, 2019) Album • Page 73

My sister was trying to get me into country and showed me the CMA performance of “Should’ve Said No”.

Became a fan after the “You Belong With Me” video.

 

After “Mine” came out, I decided I needed to listen to Fearless in full. “Fifteen” was definitely when I was like, “Okay, yeah, she’s really good at writing songs.”

 

I heard Teardrops on My Guitar on the radio and loved it, but found the rest of the debut to be too country for my taste. Once Fearless came out, I gave her another shot. Been a Swiftie ever since.

 

I heard Trouble and We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together and liked both of them but didn't really have a strong desire to listen to anything else, and then I heard Shake It Off and was like "oh this is really fun" and went back to listen to Red and now I just lurk this thread

 

I actually like "The Archer" the most out of what's been released so far

 

I was hooked from Our Song tbh. But Fearless showed me she was the real deal

 

Can the ‘Mine’ lovers here help me out. I’ve been a fan since the beginning, but that song has still never clicked for me. What am I missing? I remember watching the livestream and listening to that song and being worried that I wouldn’t like Speak Now. I was wrong but still don’t listen to Mine much.

 

It’s her (one of if not the) best “love story in a pop song with huge hooks.” Lyrically it carries the load of a novel in lines like “he made a rebel of a careless man’s careful daughter.”

 

I wasn't a Taylor fan until I heard "Forever and Always" when an AP.net user told me to listen to Fearless. That's the song that made her click for me. It was right before the Speak Now was announced so it was a lot of fun experiencing the craziness of a new TS album cycle for the first time.

 

It's a whole ass story in 4 minutes

My only issue is Taylor saying " we've got bills to pay", no you don't Taylor

 

i was a flight risk / with a fear of falling

 

For me, it's Taylor writing a Springsteen song. Also one of her all-time best vocal performances.

 

Thanks for sharing everyone! I'm going to check it out again today with all this in mind and see what happens.

 

Following up on my listen through her discography:

What part of my brain ever thought self-titled was better than Fearless?!? Almost feel like I’m just discovering this album today.

That being said: all five main singles (Tim McGraw, Should’ve Said No, Our Song, Picture to Burn, Teardrops) from self-titled are better than anything on Fearless for me. But the drop off after those five is substantial.

 

Also: 90% of artists would kill to have a three song run like Mine-Sparks Fly-Back to December hot damn I needed this listen today

 

I remember really loving Teardrops On My Guitar back in middle school or wherever I was at the time. Then I just kind of enjoyed her hits for a while and listening to her when my friends played her (which was admittedly pretty often), and that’s how I became familiar with a lot of her other songs. But it wasn’t until Red when I went out of my way to listen because I looooved those singles. And then I didn’t pay that much attention to 1989 (it’s probably still the one I’ve actually put on as an album the least). But then I went all in for reputation and intend to stay all in for the rest of her career.

 

The best songs on her self-titled imo are "Cold As You" & "Mary's Song." Unless we count "I'm Only Me When I'm With You," which is easily the pre-Red song I go back to the most besides "Fearless." I don't know what it is about that song that I love so much; it's just such a fun track.

Anyways, I remember being a casual fan back in 2008? Had a soft spot for "Teardrops on My Guitar" whenever that was on the radio, & then summer 2008 my one friend & I would play a bunch of her stuff on YouTube. We'd go to Steak n Shake in the middle of the night a lot, & we happened to be doing so after midnight of when Fearless came out, so we swung by Walmart & I bought the CD at about 2am the day it dropped on a whim. Which ended up being weirdly fitting w/ how much she's mentioned 2am in her lyrics, lol. Even though I now have more go to songs on 1989 than Fearless, when I really think about it, I have to call Fearless my second favorite album of hers. Such a strong, cohesive statement about youth & romance.

 

Three out of the last four posts but I don’t care:

There’s a Taylor Swift career arc that swerves from Haunted to State of Grace and on into rock career in the multiverse and I’d die to hear it

 

Starlight demands more listens

 

Taylor hooked my dramatic teenage dabbling-in-songwriting butt back in 2006 with "Teardrops on My Guitar", I then watched the "Our Song" music video and fell deeply in love with the pretty girl on the screen (and the mastery that is "Cold As You") and I've been here suffering ever since.

And people have been telling me "You don't seem like you'd be a Taylor Swift fan" ever since, too.

 

ive been in since “Our Song”. Even got to see her on that tour. I really liked everything after that but “Holy Ground” took me to another level through Red and 1989.

 

I was a fan with teardrops on my guitar and I def remember making a Best of Taylor Swift mix cd which looking back makes me lol cause she only had two albums at the time. And I was def guilty of doubling down and deifying her after the Kanye incident. She lost me for a sec with her antics around Speak Now. Love the album now and it's my second fave, but That's when she legit had a promo that said "and this time I'm naming names" but then shortly after acted all irritated that so much focus was on the guessing games of who things were about acting like she didn't actively encourage it thru that promo and her album notes. And that was when she said she wasn't a feminist so I remember that annoying me too or maybe that was during red lmao idk I don't remember. Then she won me back with Red. Then she annoyed me again with 1989, espesh when she tried to downplay her dragging the Katy thing into the public sphere when nobody would have known it if she hadn't given so many specific clues in that interview. Then she annoyed me again with Rep. Then she annoyed me less.


It's exhausting. I've decided to remain mostly indifferent now lol

 

So like does anyone else remember the apparently non existant music video for "Speak Now"

 

Been going through her discography again this week and hot damn, All Too Well is such a masterpiece - 'you call me up again just to break me like a promise'

 

Yep, the other half of the couplet too: “So casually cruel in the name of being honest.”

That’s lyrical mastery. Concise, incisive, universal but personal, catchy (the hard Cs in “Casually Cruel”). If you don’t appreciate the bridge of that song, you’re just being intentionally obtuse.