Monday, October 5, 2009

Taylor Swift

I hate Taylor Swift's music. Nothing against the girl in person, but I really can't stand her songs. I could deal with it when all we heard on the radio was "Love Story" even though the lyrics imply no knowledge of the actual play Romeo and Juliet.

"Romeo save me they're trying to tell me how to feel
This love is difficult, but it's real
Don't be afraid, we'll make it out of this mess
It's a love story baby just say yes"

She does realize that Romeo and Juliet end up dead at the end, right? Still, I could have dealt with that song had it not been for "You Belong With Me." It's basically a song about a girl wanting to steal a guy away from another girl because she thinks they are a better match together. How selfish is this? And why is the entire nation obsessed with this song? Are we all secretly dreaming about breaking up our friends' relationships so we can have them for ourselves? I'm sure many people have someone out there that they secretly adore and feel like they belong with (I see one on FML almost every day) but do we really want to go to the lengths of breaking up other relationships to have someone?

I know, it's just a song and I shouldn't read too much into it, but lyrics are important. I have friends like the couple in the song and I have friends like the narrator of the song, and I root for the couple, which makes me against the narrator, which is why I hate Taylor Swift. Relationships are hard and no one outside the people in them can ever really know what is going on, even very close friends. And I would think people, especially my friends in relationships, would get this. But of course, they're big Taylor fans. Explanation, please!

1 comment:

  1. Hi, it's Jenny! OMG I can explain!!! Have you seen the music video??? Basically, she is in love with this guy. But this guy is in a relationship with a girl who treats him like shit. She cheats on him, yells at him when he does nothing wrong, and just uses him as arm candy and doesn't care about who he is at all. While Taylor's character cares all about who he is and they are best friends, but he never sees her that way and stays with the girl. It's how I ALWAYS felt in high school. I always liked the popular guy who was with the bitchy popular girl, and he never saw me as a result even though we would have been perfect together. That's why I love the song anyway lol.

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