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My Commentary for Taylor Swift (Debut) - Including Bonus Tracks

1. Tim McGraw- the first Taylor song I ever heard. “Someday you’ll turn your radio on” gives me such big feelings because of her success and how far she’s come.

2. Picture to Burn- this song makes me so feral. After listening to this I will not just burn your pictures but your entire house and car.

3. Teardrops on My Guitar- As the girl who never got asked out until I was a sophomore in high school this was my sad girl anthem.

4. A Place In This World- The fact that she not only found her place in the music industry but dominates it. Such a strong nostalgia pull with this one.

5. Cold As You- I will never get over the emotional maturity of this song given the fact that she wrote it before she was even legally able to drive.

6. The Outside- I think this definitely has the same energy as A Place In This World. The Outside is the emotional side of her experience and APITW is “this is how I plan to overcome it”

7. Tied Together With a Smile- I can’t help but see this as a song from her to her mom and it makes me sob because I see my own mother in this as well.

8. Stay Beautiful- This one is just so wholesome and precious. The classic having feelings for your friend vibe.

9. Should’ve Said No- Okay going to reveal highly embarrassing info with this one. I didn’t have a boyfriend until highschool but may or may not have fantasized being cheated on so I could fully FEEL this song from ages 8-15 don’t come at me.

10. Mary’s Song (Oh My My My)- My favorite song on Debut. This one is so ridiculously under-rated. 

11. Our Song- My least favorite from the album and since 2006 it has highly irritated me that she says “when we’re on the phone and you talk real slow” as if talking slow will make his momma not know.

12. I’m Only Me When I’m With You- I used to love this song and it was one of my favorites on the album but over time I’ve grown to feel more “meh” about it.

13. Invisible- My favorite bonus track from the album. Someone pointed out the similar melody from this and Cornelia Street and that makes me love this song even more.

14. A Perfectly Good Heart- This one is okay but I think it had so much more potential. There’s only one actual verse and then the chorus repeated 4x. I think with another verse and less repetition this would’ve been better.

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would’ve, could’ve, should’ve

I met you at such a vulnerable point in my life. Naïve and freshly scarred from my first real heartbreak. I met you and I was immediately intrigued by the chaos. The fact that you didn’t care how much you hurt... I coveted that demeanor. I thought maybe it would save me from more heartbreak if I could be that way too.

If you would’ve blinked then I would’ve looked away at the first glance.

We were almost the same age in years, but oceans apart in experience. You had already spent years in the fast life. I hadn’t even seen it yet.

If I was a child, did it matter if you got to wash your hands?

I stayed by your side through it all while still somehow being hidden away and unacknowledged. How dare I let you treat me that way.

But, lord, you made me feel important, then you tried to erase us.

I thought the drugs would numb my pain for awhile, but I never knew I would meet the devil through deceit. Like I said, naïve. Gullible enough to believe you when you told me the name of the drugs you gave me. I never knew until it was too late that I was using the stealer of souls. When I found out, I didn’t even make a big deal out of you deceiving me. I secretly enjoyed it every time I took it.

If you’d never looked my way, I would’ve stayed on my knees. I damn sure never would’ve danced with the devil at eighteen. The god’s honest truth is that the pain was heaven.

I look back in mourning for the person I would’ve, could’ve, should’ve been if I’d never met you. It was my fault all along. I wanted to know what this life was like after the sheltered one I had lived before. I got my wish.

and now that I’m grown, I’m scared of ghosts. Memories feel like weapons. Now that I know, I wish you’d left me wondering.

It’s been five years since we last spoke, and I still resent you all the time, forever yearning to go back and make the decisions I should have back then.

I miss who I used to be. The tomb won’t close, stained glass windows in my mind. I regret you all the time.

I fear this may haunt me my whole life.

I can’t let this go, I fight with you in my sleep.

Why do I still think you’d care enough to apologize if I sent you this letter?

The wound won’t close, I keep on waiting for a sign. I regret you all the time.

I just want the mourning to end. How could I have ever let your memory last this long?

If clarity’s in death, then why won’t this die? I regret you all the time.

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“but in a box beneath my bed, is a letter that you never read from three summers back” -Tim McGraw

“I’ve loved you three summers now, honey, but I want ‘em all.” - Lover

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Taylor Swift’s Guitars: Black Gibson J-180

This guitar was used from 2017 to 2020 when it was sold at “Nashville: An Auction to Benefit ACM Lifting Lives Covid-19 Response Fund”. It sold for $40,000, making it the most expensive item at the auction, followed closely by an Appalachian Dulcimer owned by Dolly Parton. Taylor signed an inscription on the guitar which read “This Guitar was played September 16, 2020 on the ACM Awards by (Taylor’s signature)”.

This was an incredibly special guitar to Taylor, as it was used to write the whole Lover album. It was also featured on the NPR Tiny Desk Session in October 2019 to promote the Lover album release.

She also used this guitar to debut “Betty” at the ACMA awards, as referenced above, as well as at the Ally Coalition Concert, and at the BlueBird Cafe to perform Better Man in 2019.

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Taylor Swift Albums / Singles as Minimalistic Film Posters

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“don’t treat me like some situation that needs to be handled. i’m fine with my spite and my tears and my beers and my candles.”

taylor swift did not write “i know i’m just a wrinkle in your new life staying friends would iron it out so nice guilty guilty reaching out across the sea that you put between you and me but it’s fake and it’s oh so unnecessary” for y’all to ignore closure

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4. been there

5. walked through the door with that “baby, i’m right here” smile

things jake gyllenhaal should have done-

gone to her birthday party

returned that scarf

dated someone his own age

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