I think I’m getting over Taylor Swift.
Now, before you start to hate me. I’m still a fan. I promise. I have all three cd’s. I even paid for the most recent one.
I’ve been listening to it for the last few days though, and I don’t know how much longer I can support her obsessiveness. I mean honestly? She says at one point in a song, that she has said is about that Jonas brother she dated, she sits on the floor in his clothes. Let’s pretend for a second that she’s not being literal there…that’s still creepy to say. And seriously Taylor, this whole writing songs about every person who breaks up with you? I’m waiting for the collaboration album between you and Alanis.
I’m not going to go very deep into the whole “Dear John” issue…but…I don’t know. That just kind of blows my mind. As hard as it is for me to comprehend a girl who puts off such innocence, and seems to maintain that is who she is, dating a man who is an admitted sex and porn addict; it’s harder to believe that she’s SURPRISED, or upset that things didn’t work out. I guess she might mark that under “Things we’ve got to learn for ourselves”. And I’m mostly ok with that.
Outside of my frustrations that she can’t seem to understand that she’s not actually in love with every person she goes on a date with, I enjoy the album. I think Swift is a great songwriter for her age (What is she these says? 20? 21? Old enough for me to go on a few dates with her and get immortalized in a song? No? Cool). She tells a really good story, and in the end that is what music is about for me; putting a story to notes, and making me feel like it could be my story.
Tracks I loved that don’t get enough public play:
Back To December
Never Grow Up
Enchanted
Innocent (I think this one is actually fairly popular, I just really enjoy it and respect what it’s about. I’m looking forward to the Taylor/Kanye duet)
Even though I find myself disenchanted with this girl who was (and supposedly still is) so enchanted by her newfound notoriety, I can’t deny that she is good at what she does.
Happy Listenings,
-Stippick
Note: This is NOT meant to be inflammatory of Taylor Swift. These are my thoughts an opinion based on how I see/understand the product she puts out to us, the consumer. Probably someday someone will dislike something I say here, or in a book (#lordwilling), and they will write an instant blog by thinking all of the things they dislike, and the chip in their brain making an intelligible article out of it and sending it to the interwebs.
