One of the greatest frontmen of all time. One of the greatest actors of all time. Bold, right?
Ever since I can remember, I've been blessed with extraordinary ambition and a belief that, no matter how dark things got, "everything would be alright in the end."
So, after a tough and necessary decade in the metaphorical wilderness, I’ve returned stronger and wiser, ready to achieve extraordinary things.
It's never too late to be what you might have been.
Reactions, reviews, originals, covers. Philosophical ponderings on music and life.
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She is Amazing ❤
I really enjoyed this reaction. Felt genuine and refreshing. Welcome to the NF journey mate
More Taylor reactions please!! :)
You pause a little to much brother
It’s a Superb track beautifully atmospheric..biggest in the world but not really hit a mature male audience.as yet ..Most of us have ignored her for years thinking she only sings teenage bubble gum pop songs . We have been living under a rock ..l
That was really beautiful. ❤🎉
The drums sounds like the Queen song Radio Gaga!
George Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’ was a similar theme, although Ren did not create it with Orwell in mind, but only later realized the similarity.
Been loving your reactions and insights. Ren, NF, Taylor...loving them all!
I kind of love that youre starting at the later NF. I discovered him by jumping around and really loved listening to him that way
Yes she tends to write autobiographical, and often they're really relatable despite the wealth and privilege divide, if that makes sense. This song is at its core about how you can have a deep, visceral connection with someone, it ends, and then you have to live alongside that person as though nothing happened, to live in fragile politeness. Her framework is as neighbors; her former lover's wife is watering flowers like nothing's wrong. Taylor's figurative 'husband' is cheating, and she's JUST as mad at him as at her former lover's wife watering flowers. The mundane misery of suburbia, in a way.
Edit: I think you'd really appreciate the song 'You're On Your Own, Kid.' Taylor has a way of evolving motifs in her songs, and the way that one goes works so well with what you said about loving yourself! I'm two minutes in and loving this! Looking forward to your continuing on with Taylor reactions if you're up for it! The best thing to know about her is RANGE. She embodies each song--if she's a hardass in a song (Don't Blame Me, Look What You Made Me Do, Who's Afraid of Little Old Me), she sells it. If she's hurt (Exile, My Tears Ricochet, loml), she sells it. If she's in love (Lover, So High School, You're In Love), she SELLS it. Literally pick anything, even if it's not Your Thing you'll probably enjoy it!
Never heard that talent/genius quote so I had to look it up. Funny that the video I watched before yours the guy dissected the whole video according to Schopenhauer.
This sounds like music from the past. Kinda smokey jazz soundtrack for a John Cassavetes movie.
The solo was a Moog Voyager synth played by Corrine Bailey Rae’s husband, Steve Brown
Such nostalgic vibrs.
Still The Modfather.
Lots of Elvis Costello Ship Building vibes here. Thanks for bringing him back into my life. I’d fallen off the Weller train 20 years or so ago and now he’s back on high rotation.
I do recommend "My Tears Richochet" from her long pond studio sessions with the interview in the beginning. It's about the man Scott Borchetta who sold her masters from under her so she couldn't own her own music and he was like a second dad to her. Its heart breaking. People always think she writes songs about her relationships but the hard hitting ones are ones like this. Also, from the same long pond studio sessions she has a song "This is me trying" about addiction and survivors that really hits home for a lot of people. I'm glad your enjoying your journey with her!
her albums folklore and evermore are more unplugged but it seems like you enjoy synth, You'd like her latest album the tortured poets department and her last one midnights as well. I also know that I gave you a lot of information just now so I'm sorry lol
Watching you react is like watching paint dry…
Yes, she does tend to write autobiographical songs (although not always, and not always literally). Swift is someone who knows how to mine her own experiences and her own pain in the service of art but that doesn't mean it's always exactly about one of her own experiences. This one kind of is, though - minus the wives and husbands.
Voy a recomendar un par de canciones de Taylor: "dear reader" and "clean". Por favor reacciona a esas dos ❤
Mercy is not receiving punishment. Grace is receiving something good even if you have done wrong. Falling from grace is really impossible because if you have received forgiveness and grace from Jesus you are made new. Unlike Satan who rejected God and became his enemy. How this appears from our perspective is someone who appears to be spitball, but really all along was holding back. All it took was the right circumstance to show their tru colors. Even though it appears that they “fell from grace” they never had it in the first place.
Technically all these lines are borrowed since its a cover from William Bell. Black Keys knocked it out of the park. The songs so short you have to play it like 5 times in a row. And I'm guessing Rod Stewart actually borrowed that opening line from William as well... Incredibly influential song
I think the Rose line might have been a nod to tupac, who once wrote the poem titled 'The Rose That Grew From Concrete'.
15:46 us the fans who would always defend her
Subbed for more NF. Every song is dope.
More coming soon!
I think you would really like The Long Pond studio sessions and it's imperative to listen to the small interviews before each song, because not only do they offer insight into the lyrics, but they also help you get to know her as a person, as an artist, and as a brilliant mind so much better.
I'll probably do something from these next.
Please, please, PLEASE react to and discover more Taylor! I can tell straight away that you will like the depth of her storytelling, and respect how everything that she does is with purpose. Great reaction! I'm captivated! Also, there is a Behind the Scenes for this video that you might appreciate. Taylor directs her own videos and is a part of the editing process and everything. When she writes her songs, she can at the same time envision how she wants the video to look and how she wants it to appear onstage as a performance.
Thanks. Will definitely be doing more.
Forestella is the best vocal quartet!!!! I love them soooooooooo much ~ 👍💋
Izzy I love your conversations. You seem to be reaching your real identity while still young enough to do something about it. Stay as genuine as you are.
What a beautiful thing to say, Cheryl! Thank you! I'm hoping that is the case. Everything so far has just been practice. Now it's time to make some moves.
Great reaction my fríend! I wish you turn on the captions or have the lyrics next to you, it will help with the analisys and you won't loose important parts.
Thanks! I may do one of those.
That's not exactly what stoic or stoicism means.
He is a lyrical genius ❤
The anti hero is herself: she’s her own worst enemy.
EXACTLY! It's me... HI, I'm the problem, it's ME! 🙋♀️
@@cherylcugno7208 That’s why the Other Taylor is paranoid and critical and self-destructive; she’s all her worst thoughts and motivations
We all have the potential to be our own worst enemy ❤
Darklands reference not lost on me. Perfect album.
It is. Top 3 for me.
This song is ultimately about her self loathing and a track off the album "Midnights". Please more Taylor. "The Long Pond Studio Sessions" are fantastic! Folklore is one of my favorite albums by her. The song "I Hate it Here" and "The Prophecy" are great as well. Her song writing is next level. There are courses now studying Swift's lyricism added by a few Universities.
Definitely will be doing more. Probably something from Long Pond Sessions next.
More NF please!
Will be doing more soon!
it's never too late to be what you might have been.....brilliant
I first saw the quote on a fan made Noel Gallagher documentary. But I think the original was George Eliot
When she was leaving her prior record company her manager Scooter Braun purchased all her music catalog hoping to cash in on royalties from the music she had created . She wrote all those songs, I believe it consisted of 8 albums of her work. She found out she could re-record the albums which she did with some slight changes and let her Swifties know what she intended to do which resulted in no one really purchasing the original albums. They waited for the rerelease. Her song I’d Be The Man with a must see video was about him .
A very good but sad story is All Too Well by Taylor Swift . Based on a true story.
It’s for the video
I know little or nothing about Taylor’s music, bar shake it off (decent pop), but you’d want to be a troglodyte not to be aware she’s huge, and whether she likes it or not her life is highly scrutinised. Hear she does good things for charities etc, but her life must be hard - 24/7 exposure. This track is decent too. Fair play for reacting. J&MC ❤.
Yeah, tough to imagine that level of fame isn't it. Cheers, Spruce!
Taylor has always been a strong lyricist, but her skills have gone next level as she entered her thirties. She loves poetry and you’ll find many of her current songs read like poetry. Well, her most recent album is actually called “The Tortured Poets Department”. You might like her Folklore album written during the pandemic. Check out her Long Pond Studio sessions where she discusses the meaning of the lyrics and then she records the song in the studio which is in upstate New York I believe. Folklore is the only album she does this for.
I'll check some of those out.
@@IzzyIzenstain yes- a great reaction is listening to her little talk about the song (with either Jack Antonoff and/or Aaron Dessner, her producers) followed by her singing it in the studio!
“It must be exhausting always routing for the antihero” is directed at the fans… the fans always have to defend her from the ridiculous hate she constantly gets and she’s acknowledging it by identifying as the antihero
The giant Taylor probably shows Taylor's struggle to go out anywhere without drawing too much attention, like when she's out with friends, people take photos of her, staring at her etc. It ruins the fun for people who are with her.
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I love the smile on your face by the end of your analysis. 😊
Thanks!
Hi, Izzy. The vast majority of her songs are autobiographical indeed. This is what her song writing is mainly about.