Taylor Swift.
I have been having issues with Taylor Swift and I finally figured out why.
I think.
I can easily dismiss any other teen popstar-Miley Cyrus (psh, besides the Climb), Justin Bieber (who?)-but for some reason, Taylor Swift got me. Her extremely catchy songs were cute and endearing and PG like the missing all american Disney princess story. The usual teenage romance and heartbreak...I'm down with that from time to time. Sometimes I need a break from Simple Plan and other all black, spiky haired, studded whiny boys. But then I realize her age, and I find her songs immature. A little idealistic and a lot cliche. So I was torn.
Bizarre.
But what was really going on...was, I guess, jealousy (this post is taking a strange turn). She writes these sugary sweet songs mostly from experience, from her own experience. Crap. My high school experience was never like this. In the way high school love should be, some bro falling in love with you, picking you up from your parents house, matching outfits at school dances and overtly public displays of affections on holidays which include balloons and generic red roses of course...I never experienced any of it. Ever. There was no fairy tale romance, no puppy love, and I guess I feel a little left out. I've missed some right of passage that I can never get back. No fault of anyone. It's just the way it unraveled. Fuck, I'm a girl, give me a break. All 284,932 movies about high school romances make it out to be so god damn fantastical I just want a piece.
So, thank you Taylor Swift, for bringing to the surface some problems I didn't know existed in me. And here's hoping your twangy guitar and angelic voice will help sooth something I missed as I blast "Love Story" and belt into my vanity mirror in my two room apartment I share with my hipster brother in New York City.
I think.
I can easily dismiss any other teen popstar-Miley Cyrus (psh, besides the Climb), Justin Bieber (who?)-but for some reason, Taylor Swift got me. Her extremely catchy songs were cute and endearing and PG like the missing all american Disney princess story. The usual teenage romance and heartbreak...I'm down with that from time to time. Sometimes I need a break from Simple Plan and other all black, spiky haired, studded whiny boys. But then I realize her age, and I find her songs immature. A little idealistic and a lot cliche. So I was torn.
Bizarre.
But what was really going on...was, I guess, jealousy (this post is taking a strange turn). She writes these sugary sweet songs mostly from experience, from her own experience. Crap. My high school experience was never like this. In the way high school love should be, some bro falling in love with you, picking you up from your parents house, matching outfits at school dances and overtly public displays of affections on holidays which include balloons and generic red roses of course...I never experienced any of it. Ever. There was no fairy tale romance, no puppy love, and I guess I feel a little left out. I've missed some right of passage that I can never get back. No fault of anyone. It's just the way it unraveled. Fuck, I'm a girl, give me a break. All 284,932 movies about high school romances make it out to be so god damn fantastical I just want a piece.
So, thank you Taylor Swift, for bringing to the surface some problems I didn't know existed in me. And here's hoping your twangy guitar and angelic voice will help sooth something I missed as I blast "Love Story" and belt into my vanity mirror in my two room apartment I share with my hipster brother in New York City.