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lanternburning19 · 6 years

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The Soundtrack of my Life - 1989

“These songs were once about my life. They are now about yours.”

1989 is my favorite Taylor Swift album to date. It’s become such a huge part of my life for the past few years.

After talking to a therapist about my depression, we concluded that one of the biggest reasons for my depression was that I felt trapped. I didn’t feel like I belonged at the college I was attending. I didn’t feel like I belonged in my own home. I felt like I had nowhere to go. So my therapist suggested that any time I felt my depression getting really bad, I should hop in my car and drive around, even if it was just to go get ice cream down the street. I drove to get ice cream a lot. Sometimes I would just drive, with no real destination. When I was in my car, I would blast music and scream sing along. My favorite album to do this with was 1989.

I bought the album as a late birthday present for myself and instantly fell in love. It was a complete 180 from Red, but that’s what I needed in my life. I would put on the exciting Welcome To New York or the sassy Blank Space and just forget my own problems for a few minutes. If Red meant reeling in my depression, 1989 meant making a change in your life to find happiness again.

Other than Taylor, one of the only things that made me happy during that time in my life was Disney. I had wanted to do the Disney College Program, and was planning on applying my junior year of college. But I was at rock bottom, and I needed a change right then and there. So on a whim, I applied.

My acceptance into the DCP was a turning point in my life. I finally had something to look forward to. I joined a bunch of DCP Facebook groups and spent all day and night long on the pages. In one of the groups, someone asked about Taylor Swift’s 1989 World Tour coming to Florida. I found out that Taylor would be making a stop at Tampa on Halloween night. I immediately bought myself a floor seat ticket. It was the most impulsive and best decision of my life (so far).

Being apart of the DCP meant moving halfway across the country to a place I’ve never been before, to live with 5 other girls I’ve never met before. It was the first time I would truly be living “in the real world”. It was scary and exciting and crazy and the best experience of my entire life (so far).

I had to take a half hour bus ride to my job at Disney’s Animal Kingdom everyday. The bus ride back to my apartment was twice as long. The only music I had on my phone at the time was 1989. It was all I listened to, every single day, for 6 months straight. And it was perfect.

After a difficult day of work, I would play Shake it Off on repeat. If I missed my boyfriend I would listen to I Wish You Would or This Love. If I was looking forward to plans with my friends, I would blast New Romantics and try my best not to dance along. If I wanted to just stare out the window into the night I would listen to Style or Wildest Dreams.

The 1989 World Tour concert I attended in Tampa on October 31, 2015 felt like a dream. It was the first time I was in the same room at Taylor Swift, this woman who had been apart of my life for the past 10 years. Since it was Halloween night, Taylor said early on in the show that she has a special surprise for us. A while later she pops up on stage, singing Style in an Olaf costume. Then she brings out Idina Menzel, dressed as Elsa of course, to sing Let it Go. Here I was, at my very first Taylor Swift concert. And I was there because of Disney. And Taylor sings a Disney song. Don’t tell me fate doesn’t exist.

Even after the 1989 era had faded out and Taylor took a break, I still continued to listen to 1989. It’s an album I keep coming back to, and it deserves to go down in history as one of her best albums. It’s the album that means the most to me. I’m so happy that Taylor’s music is apart of my life. And after 10 years of listening to it, I know it’ll never stop being apart of my life.

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