taylorshandprintsonmysoul

[taylorshandprintsonmysoul]

Happy birthday Taylor ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[taylorshandprintsonmysoul]

I love Say don't go! I love them all but thats the one im already singing along too and identify with most at the first listen

[taylorshandprintsonmysoul]

Anyone else thought Labyrinth was playing when Is it over now started?

[taylorshandprintsonmysoul]

These visuals take me back to 1989 Tour so vividly, I'm emotionaaal

[taylorshandprintsonmysoul]

Happy Release Day!!!

[taylorshandprintsonmysoul]

1989 vault puzzles running list:

update: we have 89 puzzles to solve, according to google!

1989 (taylor’s version)

fifth album (no hint)

from the vault (no hint)

pen click

golf club (hint: smashing)

got a haircut (hint: caption)

new york city (hint: loudest and brightest city)

yes whale

magic, madness, heaven, sin (hint: blank space)f

pop record

thirteen (hint: lucky)

wednesday (hint: date of birth)

you're my best friend

can't stop, won't stop moving

glitch (hint: wildest dreams (taylor's version))

sheep (hint: impossible to reason with)

she lost him (hint: out of the woods intro)

swifties (hint: i love you)

she wasn't doing anything (hint: bad blood)

swiftmas (hint: 🎅)

tokyo (hint: first stop)

it all seems so simple

i'll write your name

secret sessions (hint: excitedly mingling)

floor eighteen (hint: track 6)

you were all i wanted (hint: all you had to do was stay)

chai sugar cookies (hint: christmas in september)

timing is a funny thing

it's a new soundtrack (hint: welcome to new york)

with some other girl

he does it so well

long list of ex-lovers (hint: coffee)

elevator buttons (hint: i wish you would)

everything and nothing (hint: i wish you would)

december thirteenth (hint: birth date)

and we run (hint: i know places)

red lip classic

crossword puzzle

you were looking at me

MCMLXXXIX (hint: karma music video)

sixty five (hint: number of instant films)

pegacorn (hint: halloween costume)

we both went mad

of kisses on cheeks (hint: how you get the girl)

nice to meet you (hint: blank space)

it's gonna be forever (hint: blank space)

faithful

love (hint: a game of cat and mouse)

so hey let's be friends (hint: blank space)

october twenty-seventh

melbourne (hint: last stop)

taylurking (hint: likes, job, whereabouts studied intently)

she's like oh my god (hint: shake it off)

sagittarius (hint: sun sign)

sea urchins (hint: deepest fear)

but they never blind me (hint: welcome to new york)

two paper airplanes flying (hint: out of the woods)

but i'm just gonna shake (hint: shake it off)

sydney (hint: 1989 world tour)

seagulls (hint: blue sweatshirt)

she danced to forget him (hint: shake it off)

crystal blue skies (no hint)

the palm of your hand

they paid the price (hint: all you had to do was stay)

sunrise boulevard yellow (no hint)

the summer i turned pretty (hint: this love tv)

aquamarine green (no hint)

now we got problems (hint: bad blood)

darling i'm a nightmare (hint: blank space)

my name is taylor swift (hint: 1989 tour)

to what you need (hint: this love)

summer fling (no hint)

you are in love (hint: you're my best friend)

and everyone was watching (hint: i know places)

it's been waiting for you (hint: welcome to new york)

i could finally breathe (hint: clean)

loose lips sink ships (hint: i know places)

but not like this (hint: all you had to do was stay)

in silent screams (hint: this love)

reclaimed (hint: taylor's version)

sunglasses (hint: they never go out of style)

rainstorms (hint: makes you clean)

burning it down (hint: wildest dreams)

los angeles (hint: announce)

but she found herself

pink rose garden (no hint)

brave is what you are (hint: clean)

like we stood a chance (hint: out of the woods)

never go out of style (hint: style)

#i love how many insiders she used #i had to think so long why i heard “she wasnt doing anything” in her voice and what it had to do with 1989 #yes whale #getting nostalgic revisiting all these moments and that time of my life #pen click seriously??? i love her

[taylorshandprintsonmysoul]

1989 is the tumblr era. she will be back. no one can tell me otherwise. xoxo.

[taylorshandprintsonmysoul]

Btw can you believe I got tickets to FIVE SHOWS of the Eras Europe Tour 😍😍😍 It was suuuch a mess but I made it

[taylorshandprintsonmysoul]

LMAO tumblr is really the only platform that does the exact opposite of personalized ads, wtf am I supposed to do with this except know I will never ever shop there

[taylorshandprintsonmysoul]

cause i believe that we were supposed to find this (me finding taylor swift)

[taylorshandprintsonmysoul]

Does anyone else so clearly think of Paramores "the only exception" when Taylor sings "you are not the exception" or is it just me?

#me #speak now taylor’s version #foolish ones

[taylorshandprintsonmysoul]

not to be a party pooper but "I’ve been watching you for ages" and "If you would've blinked, then I would've looked away at the first glance." "But what would you do if I went to touch ya now?" and "If you never touched me I would've gone along with the righteous." "What would you do if they never found us out?" and "If I never blushed, then they could've never whispered about this." "And what would you do? Baby, if you only knew" and "Now that I know, I wish you'd left me wondering." "If you tasted poison, you could've spit me out at the first chance" and "Hide away and I will start behaving myself"

[taylorshandprintsonmysoul]

When I think back on the Speak Now album, I get a lump in my throat. I have a feeling it will always be that way, because this period of time was so vibrantly aglow with the last light of the setting sun of my childhood. I made this album, completely self-written, between the ages of 18 and 20. I've spoken about how I feel like those ages are the most emotionally turbulent ones in a persons life. Maybe when I say that, I'm really just talking about myself.

I think they might just be the most idealistic, hopeful years too. At this point in my life, I had released my second album, Fearless. It became the breakthrough moment I'd always dreamt of, one that catapulted my career to new realms of success. It had brought with it a tidal wave of pressures and pitfalls and growing pains. All the while, I was encountering the milestones and checkpoints of normal teenage growth. I had cataclysmic crushes and brushes with heartache. I moved out of my parents' house and set my bags down in a new apartment. I hung photos on my own walls and decorated the space where I would sob and cackle and shatter and dream. Sometimes I felt like a grown up, but a lot of the time I just wanted to time travel back to my childhood bed, where my mom would read stories to me until I fell asleep.

In my darker moments, I was tormented by the doubt that swirled loudly around my ascent and my merits as an artist. I was trying to create a follow up to the most awarded country album in history, while staring directly into the face of intense criticism. I had been widely and publicly slammed for my singing voice and was first encountering the infuriating question that is unfortunately still lobbed at me to this day: does she really write her songs? Spoiler alert: I really, really do.

In the years since, I've developed a thicker skin about public criticism and the cynicism with which some people approach the music I make. At that time, it leveled me. I had these voices in my head telling me that I had the perfect chance and I blew it. I hadn’t been good enough. I had given it all I had and been found wanting.

I wanted to get better, to challenge myself, and to build on my skills as a writer, an artist, and a performer. I didn't want to just be handed respect and acceptance in my field. I wanted to earn it. To try and confront these demons, I underwent extensive vocal training and made a decision that would completely define this album: I decided I would write it entirely on my own. I figured, they couldn't give all the credit to my cowriters if there weren't any. But that posed a new challenge: It really had to be good. If it wasn't, I would be proving my critics right.

I had no idea how much this pain would shape me. That this was the beginning of my series of creative choices made by reacting to setbacks with defiance. That my stubbornness in the face of doubters and dissenters would become my coping mechanism through my entire career from that point forward. This exact pattern of enacting my own form of rebellion when I feel broken is exactly why you're reading these very words, and I'm re-releasing this album now.

I went through my first worldwide scandal (the mic grab seen around the world). I experienced the weirdness of trying to get to know a boy while a swarm of paparazzi surrounds the car. Media contacting my publicist for an official statement on why two teenagers broke up. These are weird experiences to have at any age, but even more surreal when you're 19.

I had the nagging sense that in the most intense moments of my life, I had frozen. I had said nothing publicly. I still don't know if it was out of instinct, not wanting to seem impolite, or just overwhelming fear. But I made sure to say it all in these songs. I decided to call the album Speak Now. It was a play on the speak now or forever hold your peace' moment in weddings, but for me it symbolized a chance to respond to the chatter and commentary around my own life.

Some of these emotional revelations were surprising to people. Some expected anger and instead got compassion and empathy with 'Innocent'. Some expected a kiss-off breakup song but instead got a hand-on-heart apology, 'Back to December. It was an album that was the most precious to me because of its vast extremes. It was unfiltered and potent. In my mind, the saddest song I've ever written is 'Last Kiss'. My most scathing is 'Dear John' and my most wistfully romantic is 'Enchanted'.

I'll be forever proud of setting a goal and seeing it through. I'lI always feel shivers all over when I remember singing 'Long Live' to close the show every night on tour. The outstretched hands of those bright and beautiful faces of the fans. Their support was like an open palm that reached out and helped me up off the ground when others were, frankly, mean.

These days I make my choices for those people, the ones who thought I had been good enough all along. I try to speak my mind when I feel strongly, in the moment I feel it. I'm still idealistic and earnest about the music I make, but I'm less crushed when people mock me for it. I know now that one of the bravest things a person can do is create something with unblinking sincerity, to put it all on the line. I still sometimes wish I was a little kid again in a tiny bed, before I ever grew up.

I always looked at this album as my album, and the lump in my throat expands to a quivering voice as I say this. Thanks to you, dear reader, it finally will be.

I consider this music to be, along with your faith in me, the best thing that's ever been mine.

Yours,

Taylor

#i feel so close to taylor right now #and she makes her choices for us who believed in her all along #i needed to hear that #i love you taylor #thank you for this masterpiece of brutal honesty

[taylorshandprintsonmysoul]

shoutout to all the teenage girls in their 20s who are streaming speak now tv rn

[taylorshandprintsonmysoul]

Also I LOVE FALL OUT BOY ON SPEAK NOW!!!

[taylorshandprintsonmysoul]

Electric touch reminds me of "if I get burned, at least we were electrified"

[taylorshandprintsonmysoul]

Bring on all the pretenders, one day WE will be remembered!!! - me trying to get tickets to the Eras Tour

#me #speak now taylor’s version #eras tour