Taylor Swift

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The refrain consists of repeated motifs built within a small pitch range, which gives the song a catchy tune. I wanted to capture these years of my life on an album while they still represented what I was going through. Taylor Swift used her second album to continue telling her stories about love and heartbreak, and she was only becoming more adept at doing so. Her contract with Big Machine Records in 2005 enabled her to work on the album during her second high school year.

The lyrics describe a girl hiding her inner turbulence; Swift commented, "I always thought that one of the biggest overlooked problems American girls face is insecurity. Join us as we explore the depth, emotion, and timeless melodies that have defined her career, uncovering the remarkable narrative woven within the tapestry of her albums. Meanwhile, ‘The Last Time’ (featuring Snow Patrol’s Gary Lightbody) showed a more mature sound with its grandiose alt-rock guitars and soaring melodies.

Spending 157weeks on the Billboard 200 by October 2009, Taylor Swift marked the longest stay on the chart by any album released in the 2000s decade. Taylor Swift’s next live music video was for the album’s title track, “Red,” which has lyrics that illustrate and echo the themes of the entire album. Meanwhile, the tongue-in-cheek ‘I Forgot That You Existed’ is a strutting reminder of Swift’s skills as a lyricist. Red was also co-produced by Taylor Swift and Nathan Chapman, and it was her most “pop” forward album to date. As if one surprise album drop in 2020 wasn’t way more than Swifties were prepared to handle, Taylor Swift struck again when she released evermore on December 11, 2020, with less than 24 hours notice, two days before her 31st birthday.

Chapman was confident in Swift's abilities, saying that she "knows what she wants to say with her music". The Outside", which Swift wrote at age 12, describes the loneliness she felt when her love of country music alienated her from her peers.On top of that, Fearless would become the most awarded album in the history of country music, earning Taylor Swift her first “Album of the Year” Grammy among many other accolades.

Taylor Swift’s final single from Lover, “The Man,” explores what things would be like if Taylor Swift did all the same things, but as a man. Because albums often drop in sales after their initial release, Swift did not expect her album to remain long on the chart: "I would be incredibly lucky to see this album certified Gold. Swift promoted the album performing on televised programs including Good Morning America, [63] The Megan Mullally Show, [63] America's Got Talent, [64] Total Request Live, [65] the CMT Music Awards, [66] and the Academy of Country Music Awards. The single peaked at number 40 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number six on the Hot Country Songs chart, marking Swift's debut appearance on both charts.On the radio edit and subsequent versions, Swift modified the lyric to "That's fine; You won't mind if I say. Swift’s considerable energies, however, have been channeled into writing songs here that double as short stories and character studies, from Proustian flashbacks (“cardigan,” which bears shades of Lana Del Rey) to outcast widows (“the last great american dynasty”) and doomed relationships (“exile,” a heavy-hearted duet with Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon). The result is straightforward lyrics, which The Daily Telegraph noted to be "brimmed with an earnest naiveté". After a three year wait between albums and a solid year where nobody saw or heard much of Taylor Swift, she cleared her social media and began promoting Reputation with a cryptic video of a snake. She continued to work with favored producer Jack Antonoff, but also leaned heavily on “The National’s” Aaron Dessner for 11 of the album’s tracks.