Or forever hold your peace?
Lately in magazines and online websites such as Us Weekly, OK!, and access Hollywood pictures of Taylor Swift shooting a music video in Maine, in a WEDDING gown have been circulating.
If you’re a total Swifter than you know that she was on a live web chat on April 20 to talk about her new album, that before the web chat, no one knew anything about! I don’t know about you, but I was going crazy from not knowing what was happening!
On the web chat she announced that her third studio album Speak Now will be dropped on October 25, 2010. Swift also went along saying that, “THE day is October 25th. Everywhere.” To assure her other country fan bases they would get the album, no later, no sooner. Seems like forever in any country, right?
That’s why she’s releasing a single, Mine, August 16! She informed us all that the shoots of the music video were from this single.
How many tracks on the album? Fourteen. All written by Swift. She told her fans via web chat that that, “didn’t happen on purpose. All the songs that made the cut, I wrote.” Backing herself up she added, “All my great ideas come at like, 3 a.m. And I didn’t have a co-writer around at 3 a.m. So I had to finish myself.” Personally, I want the album even more now. I mean, Fearless which she had Liz Rose as co-writer on some of my favorite songs, were awesome. I loved them, and still do.
But to have an entire album written by Taylor Swift, is like reading her diary or what she calls, “an opened book.” Not her back-up singers, or her producers, or anyone else’s. Hers.
I’m not an anti-co-writer or anything, I just feel a sensation to know that words flowing with the music and from her angelic voice are going to be HER experiences.
You’re probably wondering why I’m going so crazy, and the reason is that this album is a very personal collection (alike her other albums), but this next quote is what kicked me off my rocker.
"Saying the right thing at the right moment is so crucial that most of us start to hesitate, for fear of saying the wrong thing at the wrong time. But lately what I've begun to fear more than that is letting the moment pass without saying anything," Taylor says of the songs on the Speak Now track list. "These songs are made up of words I didn't say when the moment was right in front of me. These songs are open letters. Each is written with a specific person in mind, telling them what I meant to tell them in person."
Which is why I put the ‘Or forever hold your peace’ subtitle. Because most people don’t have the opportunity to write a song, and produce it for the whole world, including whoever it’s about, to hear. Most of us write it in our diary or complain about it in our heads. But Taylor, she makes another outlet for us, and herself. She writes about the things young women go through, and makes it into catchy upbeat fun songs. Even if they’re filled with heartbreak. She knows what’s going on with girls, because she is one. And writes the things she lives. And every girl lives something similar.
Questioned about the two year gap between Fearless and Speak Now Swift says, “I write what I live.. You’ve got to give yourself time to live, so you’ve got something to write about.”
Agreeed.
Right now, I’m going to address the Anti-Swifters.
Most of you, who for some reason are even reading this blog, or others like it, (why are you even doing that?) are going on. And. On. About how, “All her music is about looooooooove. And boys. It’s so stupid. She should teach her fans how to not depend on boys. And do other stuff.”
My attention is on you now my dears. And I’m going to ask a very simple question. What is your life about?
Are you saying to me, that you don’t care if the guy you have a crush on doesn’t even notice you? Or that you don’t even THINK about it. Because you’re lying. It’s as simple as that. You’re jealous of her because she addresses her ex’s or previous douche bag crushes in her songs. You’re too scared to address them. But really. You both are alike, you just have different ways of doing things. Like you probably address your problems to your diary, or go over them in you mind. Taylor puts them in her songs. See? You do have the same problems. I think if you start to listen to her, you should especially take in the Speak Now album. Which, I expect, is her most personal album yet.
In fact when asked for her advice for first time songwriters Swift says, “Make sure you have details.. Because that’s what people relate to..” I’m paraphrasing now because I can’t remember her exact words! “If something happened to you on a certain day, and you put it in your song, the fans can relate to it more than if you just say a week. Or a month. The more details the better. Fans aren’t going to have your exact details, but something similar.”
Back to Anti’s-
Stop being haters because she’s someone to look up too. And just because everyone else loves her, doesn’t mean you have to hate her to look cool.
I hate that about people. Just because someone’s awesome and successful people turn the other way when the subject comes up, just because they don’t want to ‘follow the crowd.’ that’s a saying for drugs and alcohol. Not Taylor Swift.
Okay, I’m done. (FOOOOOOR NOW!)
During the chat session, Taylor went on about her condo in Nashville.
Saying how she’s so excited, ‘because now I have my own little drawers. With my own little socks. In my drawers. I’m just so excited.’
And how she has a whole room at her condo and the studio, dedicated to her fan gifts. And how she’s going to put pictures she’s been given, and pictures her brother took of her and her band on her walls. Woah! I got carried away.
On how she decorated her condo, she says that she doesn’t like matchy matchy, so one room, ‘is all gyspy slash hippie slash park.’ You get the point.
Tay also talked about how she loves cooking. And for her birthday, a majority of her friends gave her cook books (which are all on a shelf hanging in her condo). She went on and on about the books, then joked, “You know when you go into a book store and you see a ‘100 different ways to make a sandwhich’ book, and you go ‘Who buys that?’ I buy that.” I love how she’s so into things that people are like ‘What?’ too. It makes the nerdy part of me feel awesome.
She’s just so awesome. And what’s cool about it is that she doesn’t even have to try. We love all the girly, nerdy, love-obsessed that is Taylor Swift.
