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I've never heard the former gifted kid undiagnosed ADHD struggle auriculated in a song before and she surprises us with the super poetic "I was so ahead of the curve, the curve became a sphere; fell behind all my classmates and I ended up here" (RIGHT after a joke double entendre line about wasted potential which EVERY SINGLE gifted ADHD kid is told at some point that they aren't living up to their potential and they have so much potential and it's such a known trope these days that like every single teacher put this on report cards for decades or something) but it's just surreal how well she so succinctly captures that in this. I'll always love this song for that creativity.
I love the difference between Dear John and WCS.. Because you can see the maturity in her lyrics... In dear john she says 'I was too young'.. she realizes there is an age difference and that it was wrong, but when she wrote it she felt like a grown up... In WCS she actually IS a grown up, so she says 'I was a child, and you were a grown man, and the only reason you got away with it was because I was legal...
Ya know, I’ve never played this version after to listening to the album originally. I ALWAYS play the live version of her in Paris. It’s just Taylor and her guitar and the audience and it’s…. It’s the song she originally wrote at home before she went in the studio. Here’s the link. Afterwards, the same person posted Cornelia Street which you need to hear as well. ❤ Thanks for your reactions. I love them. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rqsmrSyLTNM.htmlsi=cgmoO-VOhZ_kMJ7l
I'm enjoying rewatching this reaction today, 2 years after i first saw it right when you posted it lol. It's more fun to listen to music with your reaction attached i guess. I've listened to it a ton on my own but lol... idk. But the way i always thought of my own situation of cutting off contact with my abusive mom whenever i heard this song. I cut her off at age 18. I know why i had to say goodbye like the can of my hand indeed. So many of the lyrics don't really fit perfectly, i didn't exactly miss her or wish i could go back to the beginning when it was magic... but so many other lines in this are just so fitting in a way very few songs manage to capture. She captures a very unique type of grief over needing to leave someone behind who didn't give you "their best" after you tried as hard as you possibly could to "make it work". And then separately that line about pushing your love away like it was some kind of loaded gun works so well as a person who's dated my fair share of people with avoidant attachment style. God that's exactly what it is. I'm just trying to give them love and they are TERRIFIED of normal, healthy loving actions and words sometimes.
I knew exactly who this was going out to when I first heard it. From Joe to Travis, she has been dealing with fans who think that they get to tell her who she can love and can't love "because they want wants best for her" and don't want her "involved in a scandal with a bad boy who will ruin her good name". Taylor is a grown ass woman who can make her own choices for better or worse and like every woman out there, she will learn and grow from them. It's her life. Butt out and mind ya own biz!
There's so much subtle language use here.... So much word play. It was legendary... legendary can be like cool but also can mean it's all a myth/fake. If you comb through braids (of lies) it just gets more tangled. Our field of dreams... if you build it they will come... like she built this up to try to get something /a life she wanted and thought he came to fulfill that dream.
"oh no" as soon as the piano starts playing is so relatable 😂 can't wait for you to listen to who's afraid of little old me?, guilty as sin?, and the smallest man who ever lived. oh, the alchemy's good too!
In linguistics, you sometimes talk about conceptual metaphors (George Lakoff, Zoltan Kövecses etc), and quite a few conceptual metaphors for love and/or relationships have been defined. One thing I really love with this album is that almost every song has one main metaphor that she uses and expands. In this case, the "love is a collaborative work of art"-metaphor shows up in different ways: an embroidery, the impressionist paintings, the movie (script). Other songs have the "love is a journey", "love is a game", "love is health", and so forth. She has always been creative with her use of metaphors, but it is the way one overarching metaphor can be identified per song on TTPD that gets my nerdy blood pumping.
High five for the Lakoff reference. She comes up with these metaphors and its always so surprising and yet utterly understandable. This album is brilliant. Beautiful. Awful. Amazing.
She loves a throwback reference to childhood, films, books, etc. Her way of seamlessly weaving those things into her current-day writing is astounding.
