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- I'm reacting to Taylor Swift in chronological order. Today, we start at the beginning with Taylor's self-titled album. I'll do my best to share everything on TH-cam, but unfortunately, a lot has been blocked. If you would like to check out the live performances documentaries and media appearances they are available on Patreon.
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Tim McGraw 1:35
Picture to Burn 6:48
Teardrops (RSR) 10:38
A Place in This World 15:51
Cold As You 20:57
The Outside 27:18
Tied Together With a Smile 32:27
Stay Beautiful 37:37
Should’ve Said No 43:20
Mary’s Song 50:52
Our Song 56:32
I’m Only Me When I’m With You 1:00:44
Invisible 1:05:20
A Perfectly Good Heart 1:09:47
Also, I think it’s been said that she wrote The Outside when she was 12
thank you for your service
AHHH THANK YOU I LOVE YOU YOURE THE BEST TYPE OF PERSON
ahaha thank you may god bless you
I love you
omg never seen someone react to debut before im so excited
RIGHHHTTTT I AM SO EXCITED I WAS GONNA GO TO SLEEP BUT I CANT I HAVE TO WATCH THIS NOW
They will when taylor's version drop
Same😂😂
Taylor wrote Our Song by herself when she was a freshman in high school for a talent show. She was so insanely talented at a young age 😭
This song is so good actually, I keep forgetting about it
Mary's song and Timeless are sisters, truly 🩷
This album is so slept on. A lot of people kind of discard it, but it has some amazing songwriting on it. And as someone who was a country fan in the 2000s it’s hard to overstate what a splash it made on the culture.
We Swifties appreciate and grateful with this reaction. It's so rare now for someone to look back and listen Taylor's debut record as others consider it their least fav album among all her records. I personally enjoyed it. Thank you! 💙💚
It’s sure not my least favorite. I’m thinking of an album with a mind boggling choice for a lead single 😂
I just noticed
“I’m alone on my own, and that’s all I know” - A Place in This World (Debut)
“You’re on your own kid, you always have been” - You’re on Your Own Kid (Midnights)
I'm sure I'll have more fun facts to point out as I continue watching, but one thing that I always chuckle about is that in "Picture to Burn", the original lyric was "So, go ahead and tell your friends that I'm obsessive and crazy. That's fine, I'll tell mine you're gay". But she changed it to "That's fine, you won't mind if I say...", because she didn't want to offend anyone by inferring that being gay was a negative thing. As a gay man, I do appreciate the thoughtfulness in the lyric change, but there is a tiny little part of me that hopes on Taylor's Version she'll give us the original lyric. That's just the petty bitch in me 😂
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oh I wish she sang the og lyric, but if she changed better than revenge, she's definitely not going back to picture to burn h0m0phobic ver. 😭 lmao
@@swlenation I will get every gay in America to sign a petition if I have to 😭😂
@@Tyler_ReactsI will sign that petition. You’re one signature closer. I have the original release, that she signed, and I only break it out to listen to that song. 😂
@@Tyler_Reacts count me in this petition, I'm from Latin America but it's one more lol
Starting from now u should know that Track 5s of every Taylor's album are special...
As fans believed early and she herself later on continued to put her most vulnerable personal songs in the album as Track5s
Starting from
Cold As You
White Horse (Taylor's version)
Dear Jhon (Taylor's version)
All Too Well(Taylor's version)
All you had to Do was Stay(Taylor's version) (least vulnerable type song...among all track 5s for me)
Delicate
The Archer
My tears Ricochet
Tolerate It
You are on your own kid
Oohhh the track 5s, they are so special! 💜💜💜
Wow I never realized this thank you!!
Well, White Horse on Fearless is my absolute favorite. Ill keep that in mind as I continue. Thank you.
Swiftie artists have started doing this too. Like Maisie Peters' Want you back on The Good Witch??
Funny you mention The good Witch its on my album reaction list.@@mathies3598
Mary's Song is actually a real story, about a couple she once lived next-door to, who came over for dinner one night and told her their story. Taylor said, "I thought it was so sweet, because you can go to the grocery store and read the tabloids, and see who's breaking up and cheating on each other (or just listen to some of my songs, haha). But it was really comforting to know that all I had to do was go home and look next door to see a perfect example of forever."
I never knew that. That's so sweet!!!! 🥲
she preformed tied together with a smile on the eras tour recently as a surprise song and sounded incredible if you wanna see that
I cannot agree with this more. This live version was amazing
I absolutely sobbed. I’m very excited for this TV because I think people will finally start to appreciate this album
i LOVE debut and will fight for my baby forever. it’s amazing for a kid to write almost everything on that album. if debut has a million fans i am one of them. if debut has one fan, it’s me. if debut has no fans, i’m dead
Same, I’ve been a fan since debut and it’s so under appreciated and slept on I can’t wait for Taylor’s version so everyone will see how great it is😊
S A M E. It’s honestly better than 1989 to me, which is know is a scalding hot take
@@thatbicatlady YEEESSSS IT IS!!!!!! thank god i’ve found someone who thinks the same
@@isabellezversion OMG TASTE
I was 17 when this album came out. I’ve been able to grow with Taylor in her music and I’m so thankful. Thank you for reacting to this. 😊
Same! Her debut album is when I first fell in love with her song writing. I feel so lucky having been with Taylor on her whole journey, it's really amazing to see how far she's come.
this album is so underrated 💚
“She’s absolutely right he should’ve said no” 😂 obsessed with this reaction video gotta find you on twitch
I know what was he thinking 😅
This is amazing! Sometimes I forget how amazing Debut is. Nothing beats Mary’s Song and Cold as You!
I'm a huge swiftie and the fact that I'm as old as this album (AND HER ENTIRE CAREER) makes me feel so special. She literally released Self-titled like 4 months after I was born.
So Taylor Swift has been the soundtrack of your life. Pretty cool :)
I have to thank you for doing this. I've been a Swiftie since Red era but always slept on this album. It was just too country for me then and I never really went back to it. But watching this, I truly enjoyed the album!
I can't wait to watch you go through her discography in order and see her grow! Nobody does it that way anymore and I think it adds so much to the experience 😊
That’s awesome! I’m glad I could help you appreciate her early work.
@@JimGames This was great. I would have never listened to her first album had you not posted a reaction video.
We appreciate ur time and commitment to acknowledge her art and discography 🙌
Tied Together With A Smile is absolutely one of my favourites😭 thanks for appreciating it 🙏🏼✨
She performed it as a surprise song at the tour 🫶🏼 she sounded amazing!!!
debut is my personal favorite of hers and its so underrated in the fandom, thank you for reacting to it !!!
It was smart for her first single to be titled Tim McGraw because at the time Tim was very famous country singer so having it tied to him really gained a lot of notoriety.
I had the pleasure of seeing Taylor Swift live when she was opening for Brad Paisley way back in 2008. She was so blown away how the crowd knew the lyrics to her songs. She was so adorable. I was able to get a signed copy of this album out in the lobby of the arena. Now my 13 year old is a huge swiftie and I get to take her to see Taylor in concert next November in Toronto.
The debut!!! Epic. She wrote Our Song for her 9th grade talent show. I’ll assume she won. She actually had to fight to get it on the album, her label originally said no but she fought for it. And won. And it ended up being her first #1 song.
god i didnt listen to this album in ages a lot of people think fearless is her first album
i cant wait for the re-recording cause i like couple songs from it but i need her vocals now
I feel like you've put a lot of thought in how you want to dive into her music and as a long time Swiftie, i appreciate that.
FINALLY!! MARY’S SONG APPRECIATION!!!🎉🫶🏻
she wrote our song at 12 years old for a talent show in her school! that’s crazy! her lyrics are inSANE and that goes back to even before debut! she has EVERY reason to be at the top of the world right now!
I think it was 9th grade? But yes she was very young
She was 14 when she wrote our song . She was 12 I believe when she wrote the outside though !
Man, I loved this album back in 2006. My little sad teenage self felt so understood. It has a special place in my heart ❤️
Dude, same.
Also loved it because it made me feel like I could sing.
I mean, these songs aren’t (technically) difficult to sing, I was like…damn…I’m as good as Taylor Swift, if she has a CD I could too!
(Hahaha…I was 14 and clearly delusional).
@@JRay.Rthey’re all so easy & fun to sing-a-long to ❤️
I’m a 58yo fairly new Swiftie and I had not listened to all Debut, although Our Song is a favorite that I have heard. I really enjoyed listening with you. If I had her music in middle or high school, these songs would have spoken to me. I still find myself being taken back to the oversized feelings of a teenage girl hearing them now. Mary’s Song really got to me. 💕
I’m so excited for this. Taylor Swift is the soundtrack to so many peoples lives, especially her original fans. We all were around her age and her songs were so relevant to us and continue to be with each album. She was there for my first boyfriend, when I was cheated on, growing up, we turned 22 the same year. I think that’s where a lot of the devotion comes from.
This album is so nostalgic for me. I remember being 10 years old listening to teardrops on my guitar. I'd obviously never been in a relationship but that didn't stop me from crying. Her lyrics have always been so good that I felt like I could relate even though I couldn't at the time.
So excited! I grew up with this album (26 now, 9 when this was released!) and so many tracks (Our Song, Tim McGraw, Teardrops on My Guitar, Invisible, etc) were the backdrops of my youth. Can’t wait for the TV but loving this trip down nostalgia lane.
Tied Together With A Smile is a song she wrote about one of her friends who was struggling with an eating disorder. So it's very sad to think about how a few years later, the girl who wrote such a beautiful song would struggle with the same thing too.
That was an amazing reaction! This album, while very successful, is somehow underrated since the second album Fearless is the album that truly made her a megastar. Very great writing indeed for a girl that was between 12 and 16 when she wrote it all.
The debut surprise songs she's done on the eras tour have been some of my favourite performances of hers. They're like little taylors versions with her mature voice but she also still puts so much emotion in them. My favourite live was Tied together with a Smile
what’s truly crazy about this album is how many of these songs were written when she was 12/13/14 like the pure talent and ability to express herself!!!
Pausing this to say for a fellow who was hesitant about the ‘country’ aspect of this album…. Hate to break it to you but you close your eyes whenever a fiddle plays. 😂❤
Cold As You is still one of her best songs in my opinion ❤ and Tied Together With A Smile is a song she wrote about a friend battling an eating disorder.
I recommend also listening to her unreleased song I'd Lie. It's on youtube. When she became popular, it was the time of limewire and when you searched taylor swift on it, I'd Lie was always on there and every swiftie that was there from the start listened to it. Most dont even realize its NOT on the debut album. It was almost everyone's favorite song of hers from the beginning.
I always forget about how incredible debut is. It hits you right in the feels and it’s the album that made me fall in love with Taylor, as it is for a lot of swifties. For me, it always gets lost in the shuffle of her other music, but when I come back to debut, I’m like wow, this is incredible and she was so young and so talented and really put her on the map. Definitely an iconic album. Thanks for the reaction!
I'm so glad you did this album! I became a Swiftie during the Red Era. I was never into country music and never felt compelled to go back and listen to the full albums on my own (I just knew her popular country hits). This was the best scenario all around bc you don't cut out parts of the songs, so i got to hear everything, plus your commentary, which I always enjoy.
I ended up liking it a lot more than I thought I would. But I also feel that, being older now, I have a greater appreciation for other types of music and her beginnings. Thanks so much for taking me on this journey!
Damnn first time I see someone reacting to Debut love this
Yaas!!
I love that you're going in chronological order! great reaction, debut doesn't get enough love! glad to see you liked a lot of it and even connected with some of the songs :)
This album CATAPULTS me back to high school every single time. I’m a 1990 baby so this album came out for me at the PERFECT time.
I love this album. It doesn’t get nearly enough love. Thank you so much for reviewing it ❤❤❤❤
My favorite song on the album as an adult is “I’m only me when I’m with you” bc as a neurospicy loveable weirdo, my besties who get me get all my love like this. Because I get the freedom of being my feral, unmasked weird around them. ❤❤❤
Great reaction! When you get to hear midnights pay attention to the resemblence between "a place in this world" and "you're on your own kid", it's says a lot about how she started and how she's been feeling throughout her career.
Also, listening to A Place In This World at 13 back in 2007 (I've been a swiftie since day 1 back in 2006) when my mom was diagnosed with terminal cancer..... this song still hits me cause I remember how seen I felt.
The way I will lose my mind when Debut Taylor’s Version comes out… I was 14 when it came out. I grew up with Taylor. The way I relate to these songs. Singing Tear Drops while holding my acoustic guitar, feeling seen with Tied Together. I’m sobbing 😭😭😭
I will literally be unstable when TV comes out. This album, as a 13 year old, meant so much to me. Hearing it as an adult is surreal and i cant wait to hear Taylors adult voice singing it to adult me. 😭😭😭😭
I’m loving “this is cool dude” as a response to Taylor it’s so cute 🥰
The actual closer is "Our Song". I'm Only Me, Invisible, A Perfectly Good Heart are deluxe tracks.
7:41 "She's kind of brutal" babe and this is the censored version 🤣
I'm so glad Mary's Song is being appreciated. It's so cute and easily top 3 for me on the album.
It’s nice to see a deep dive into this album which gets overlooked
Some of these songs were written when she was very young.
For instance, The Outside, which you interpreted to be about longing for romantic love, was written when she was 12 years old about getting shunned by her classmates
Apparently she would go entire days without anyone speaking to her.
Great reaction!
Taylor Swift, she touches all generations, all types of music and people. Just give her a chance and you win be a life long fan. A fan of her music, yes, but even more of her as a human being. We are all rooting for her.
when I was 8, Cold as You and Tied Together with a Smile gave me a premature existential crisis lol. I'm glad you seemed to appreciate them as much as I do. They are both as beautiful and they are still some of my top favorites from her, even nearly 20 years later. like you said, I am also very interested to see how she'll restructure them for her rerecordings. Thanks for giving her music a shot and offering great insight that feel a lot of other reactors don't do as well as you do!
listening to this is really emotional. Really takes me back to my teenhood and when I listened to these songs back when they were first released.
I knew you'll like Mary's Song!! I love the storytelling in it. ❤ I think you're doing this right by starting from the beginning. Looking forward to the next! 🎉
Oh yeah- I’m glad you lent your ears to these reaction videos. I want to know what you know but just hearing you pointing out things like the male voice behind her’s (I don’t hear it yet) or the kind of strings coming in, oh so rich. Thanks so much!
October 24 will make Debut 18 years old. And 18 years ago, I heard this album when I was 43. It began a real admiration for Taylor Swift's songwriting that has only deepened through the years. I fell in love with music in the 70s, and the music was rich with brilliant singer/songwriters that inspired Taylor, one whom she was named after, James Taylor. So we can thank Andrea, Taylor's mom, for introducing her to such fantastic songwriting. Jim, I'm thrilled to have the chance to follow you through your Taylor Swift journey. If it is even half as moving and fulfilling as the past 18 years have been for me, it will so be worth it! Thank you for sharing your musical knowledge and your life's experiences with us. You have quickly become one of my favorite reactors. Looking forward to each and every Swift reaction! ❤
You REALLY need to watch her live at CMA or ACM of "Should've Said No ", there is a wonderful key change on the chorus right after the bridge and I love it SOOOOO much, I believe when she performed it on "the eras tour" as a surprise song she "reuse" the same key change as in the OG live performance (also included in the fearless tour)
omg i’m so glad i found this video! i’ve never seen someone react to this album! this album was the soundtrack of my middle school lol
jim enjoying Our Song , was actually me. it’s such a cute classic that encompasses that young teenage love it’s catchy and adorable!
Cold As You is one of my favorite songs of hers ever. It was so devastating as a 17 year old … and still is as a 33 year old lol
so happy you decided to go chronologically. you will have a lot of fun on this journey! love this reaction too
So prophetic that you wondered about hearing a mature Taylor voice on A Place In This World. She sang it on the last night of the entire Eras tour in Vancouver. There are lots of TH-cam videos of it - she does mash it up with New Romantics from 1989 but it still gives a good glimpse.
this is one obvious fact to point out: angry baby taylor was ruthless with her revenge songs
OMG this is the first time I'm seeing someone react to her debut album and I'm so excited!!!
So glad you took this route 😂 it’s gonna be fun for us to go through memory lane
It’s so nice to see some debut appreciation. Debut is in my top 5 and so many Swifties sleep on it more than their own bed. Thank you so much for appreciating debut like everyone else should
Tied together with a smile is one of my favorites along with invisible. ttwas is about a friend of hers or a girl that she knew that had an ED. I feel like Taylor re recording is gonna hit different after what she has been through and knowing that has gotten bette and healthier
I love seeing other people enjoy and appreciate debut as much as I do, because honestly it's a great album!!! It has great melodies, and her writing was already fantastic! But sometimes it gets left behind because it's her earliest work. Like you said, it's a very relatable album, very storytelling-driven, and it's still relevant almost 20 years later. Great reaction!
I’m Only Me When I’m With You is actually about her really close friend Abigail which makes it more cute and wholesome imo
The Outside is one of the first songs Taylor wrote when she was 12, and I’m so glad it made it into the album. I was 16 when this album came out, it’s the album that made me fall in love with her music and she has been perfectly wording life situations and loaning us her words to try to make sense of this world ever since ❤
I love love love this album! The writing is immaculate- to think a 13-14 year old wrote all this! It’s so nostalgic! I grew up with her so it’s extra special ❤
I'm only me when im with you fills me with joy cause it has that disney channel energy, it transports me back in time
i literally love you bro
I, for one, am glad you're doing it this way. I appreciate the thought you put into this, and your reaction and opinion of the record.
Now, for onward though, I have a suggestion. Hear me out here. The next album is Fearless. The whole Fearless tour is on youtube, good quality (Journey to Fearless). What if you reacted to that instead of the album? She does all the songs from the album and a few from this one as well.
I'll tell you the pros of this. One- you get to experience the authentic younger performances of the song without having to stream the stolen version (as much as I love the Taylor's versions- they are recorded by her older self with her matured voice, and takes away from that young hopefulness and naivete a little bit that originally made these earlier albums so appealing). Two- you (and us with you) get to see her perform live in a concert and seriously, you can't imagine the treat that it is, and Three- as far as I can tell, literally nobody has reacted to this, you'd be the first.
I hope you consider this. Thanks again for choosing to explore Taylor's music. These sort of reactions are also a chance for us fans to reexperience and rediscover music we love (I literally found out watching this video that in Picture to Burn, she's saying 'all my wasted time', not 'all my waste of time'!)
finally someone reacted to debut!! ❤
This is an exciting to have this journey with you Jim. Self-titled is the only album where I only listened to her singles.
This Album is her first Masterpiece. I'm desperately waiting for Taylor's Version. You have to watch the Musikvideo of Picture to Burn. ❤
The original Teardrops on my Guitar went "he's so damn funny" and clearly the word 'damn' was just too scandalous to play on the radio so that line got edited. 🙄 I found the original so I still listen to that one.
The fact that this woman is 6 years older than me baffles me. Her writing is insane even from this young age.
I was 14/15 when this album came out and Tied Together With A Smile was my “if I need a good cry” song. She played it for one of the surprise songs when I went to the Eras Tour and I criiiiiied😆 Hearing grown Taylor sing it and being an adult now myself, it brought me right back to that time when I didn’t feel good enough and just seeing how much I’ve grown since, and how she’s grown too. It was just so surreal😭
I've been a fan since this era 🥹
very nice reaction! its not everyday you see someone reacting to debut. but cant wait for fearless tv !
Teardrops On My Guitar was the first song I have ever heard from Taylor's and I've loved her ever since. Such a great arist and lyricist. You reacting to these songs have reminded me that I actually like A LOT of these songs.
I love the songs in which she is mad, cause when she is in love she is IN LOVE, but when she is mad she is furious and the songs are amazing! Like, Picture To Burn and Should've Said No... and from other albuns like Better Than Revenge, Mad Woman, I Did Something Bad, Look What You Made Me Do, Vigilante Shit... Love them all
Thanks for appreciating Mary’s song! No one seems to like her debut album as much but it’s so nostalgic and the TV is gonna be so good. This was the first artist I listened to with out the influence of my family and it was when this album came out. Can wait to see you react the the TV and vault tracks!
Clearly she was BORN to do this. Brilliant writer and performer. I love how she gets better & better. This was a fun one to watch ♥️
you can have a little sneak peak on what the mature voice on taylor’s version you could check some of her acoustic performances on the eras tour!
So glad I stumbled across your reaction videos. Your analysis of Taylor's lyrics and music is so interesting. Thank you!
the way she’s a fucking genious at setting the place and temperature and mood and describing the scenery and puting actual things people said on each song ever since she’s a kid i AM SORRY I CANT ITS WAY TOO GENIOUS TO ME also adressing names and everything? bold! i just love this album so much i am sorry i can’t
picture to burn is my favorite, i love me some angry cowboy taylor
This album its the only Taylor album that not Debut at number 1 in US , i hope Taylors version gets the Number 1
All the videos for these songs are adorable too. She is a surprisingly good actress, especially as young as she is for this album. Watching her as a teenager, actually 'being' a teenager is awesome. Age-appropriate songs & videos, showing real teen emotions. And every song she writes isn't necessarily about her personally. She gets inspiration everywhere. FYI~ Drew was her bestie, who she had a crush on, unbeknownst to him... until this song came out. LOL
You remarking that you found the debut album pretty lighthearted and not very angsty or dramatic, then the next song is Should’ve Said No 😂😂😂. Laughed out loud with glee. TYSM😊
I love your breakdowns. Even with no video stuff to go with it. You're so thoughtful when it comes to the lyrics and the music. Thanks! ❤❤❤
I freaking love this reaction video so much. Love it just as much as I did 6 months ago. Thank you, Jim❤
no im glad you're going chronological. you don't start watching marvel movies from the last to first if you wanna understand the universe