Taylor Swift Band • Page 89

I don't think her songs so far are necessarily bad, but they're def not great. Her promo single came up on a playlist and I'd never heard it before, and it totally blended in with all the other songs and didn't stand out at all. Honestly I'd say it was the weakest on the playlist up until that point. Like my tragic anti-fave kkkamila was on that playlist and her song was better. Every song is of course going to do amazing because it's Taylor and now she has spotify streaming on her side so she'll probably break more records than ever but it's painfully basic and bland so far.

 

Not into the new one too much but I don't hate it. Not worried though, the album's gonna be like 16 songs so I'm sure there'll be at least SOMETHING I'll enjoy on there.

 

Idk why that is so amusing to me. Of all the things to ask Maggie lol

 

I think someone asked her (or maybe it was Jake?) during an AMA on Reddit and they ignored it, too.

 

I refuse to believe that song is about a dude she went on like, a single maple latte date with.

 

I believe its about Jake but that it's also dramatized to make a more compelling song. Or she fell hard fast which wouldn't be shocking either lol

 

I love when people think songs are 100% true. I'm guessing "All Too Well" is a fictionalized version of whatever actually happened.

 

and wasn't there a rumor that she lost her v-card to Jake? i'm not sure how long they were dating (surely more than just a "single maple latte date"), but the "falling hard fast" thought could definitely be accurate.

 

i've always thought that too about this song. sometimes the actual story isn't that interesting so you gotta spice it up and make it sound more dramatic.

 

I need the dancing around the kitchen in the refrigerator light image to be based in reality somehow.

 

She actually talked to the guy in You Belong To Me on a typical Wednesday night not Tuesday

 

Still her best lyric ever.

 

Agreed 100%. Simply incredible how so few words do SO MUCH.

 

"Dancing around the kitchen in the refrigerator light"

Cute imagery, but I think we need to step back for a minute and understand that the contents in the fridge suffered with them leaving the door open.

 

It's truly a disgrace.

 

y'all don't have that little light over your ice dispenser smh

 

Look at mr fancy "I can afford an ice dispenser" over here

 

I didn't say it worked tho

 

Maybe it's just because it's something I spend so much time doing, but I feel like it's too simplistic (and a little condescending) to chalk songwriting up to simply making things more dramatic. It's more like marrying emotions to actual events. There will always be an element of artistic license with poetry - which is what lyrics essentially are, at the end of the day - but I believe truly great lyrics always are that way because they have a ring of universal honesty to them. In other words: Something doesn't have to be expressed verbatim as it happened in order to be and feel true to what went down. It's more like paraphrasing, and the added "drama" is based on the feelings surrounding that event. You imbibe one with the other, and when it works you get works of art like "All Too Well".

Maybe I'm taking the comments here a bit too seriously, but honestly - you can't choose what inspires you. You can be inspired to write the mother of all love songs by a single moment in a relationship that didn't last, and at the same time be with someone you love for years who never inspires you to write a single word. It doesn't mean either of those things is less important, or less true - but truly great songs capture the intangible moments in tangible ways. Just seems kinda crappy to judge folks based on what inspires them when it's so involuntary.

At least, that's how I see it. One of the things that's always drawn me to Swift is her uncanny ability to capture specific, often fleeting emotions in a 3-6 minute musical time capsule. I'm hoping we see more of that with the rest of the album.

 

My thought about Taylor dramatizing her songs is partly my own projection as well because I do it too. I can take one little moment or second that is very genuine and go off on and imagine an entire story around it. Idk to me its just kind of a writer thing. Its possible to take a genuine feeling but go places with it that are fictionalized or embellished because you're caught up in the emotion or story of it. So its not necessarily that the feelings or emotions aren't real or valid but that sometimes the words or story surrounding that genuine feeling is more grandiose than reality. But idk if that's how Taylor works - its just how my mind works. Back when I wrote creatively and was in that mode I would take a feeling or a short snapshot of another person or couple doing something and write a story around it. Still a real moment - but dramatized nonetheless. They're not mutually exclusive things but again of course I have no idea of her mindset when she writes a song. Just conjecture.

So when I say dramatizing I don't mean that she didn't feel it genuinely.

 

it's fascinating how everyone gets all Nancy Drew/Olsen and Olsen Mystery Agency with her songs

 

Didn't Jake supposedly take the scarf home? "You've still got it in your drawer, even now." He snatched it up the minute he saw it on Maggie's guest room vanity and took it with him. Maggie had no clue

 

I like to listen to Red in the fall but sometimes when Begin Again comes on and she sings "I've been spending the last eight months thinking all love ever does is break and burn and end" I'm like oop @ me because that's kinda where I've been since like forever #cynic