Yess! Found your channel completely completely by accident, but love the reaction to My Tears Ricochet! And like was said above, my God the discography is deep and you haven’t even scratched the surface. PLEASE just start with doing the whole Folklore: Long Pond Sessions! And beyond that the train never stops! Locking your channel in and hoping to to go along for the ride with you , it will be amazing if you do it!
Another one of my absolute favorites. It’s also long pond and it’s positively beautiful. She also is sitting with Jack describing the song in the same clothes as My Tears Ricochet.
@@demonhoopa I’ve had a cocktail when going through a difficult period. More to escape the pain/ stress, but I learned it’s better to be fully present when faced with difficult times. When my son died in 2017 was the worst. Fortunately I figured out I needed to remember everything during that time. I just no longer run to it when presented with a challenge. I suppose……. This is me Trying. 🌻
"Man...If there's a lot more of this kind of stuff in her catalog, I'm lookin' forward to delving a lot more into it." INSTANT FOLLOW, because she totally does. I'm excited for you!
Taylor writes ALL of her lyrics/songs. The guy on the piano, a producer is Jack Antanoff, on guitar is also producer Aaron Dessner, both award winning. Taylor is the most Brilliant songwriter, without question. She has said herself, I’m a songwriter first, who sings her own songs.
Oh, I love this one! It's about Scott Borchetta from her label, Big Machine Records. She was so close to him, and he betrayed her by selling her catalog without her knowledge. When she mentions jewels (you wear the same jewels that I gave you (gold, platinum records) as you bury me. And the stolen lullaby line is superb.
Plus he didn't give her the option to buy them herself. So many artists over the years don't own the music they create. Such as Micheal Jackson buying the rights to The Beatles music.
People have no idea what they're missing when it comes to Taylor and all the different genres and styles that she has across her discography. Most just still see her as a teen girl strumming her guitar that never grew up. She is an immense talent and has something for almost everyone if they just give her a chance. ❤
One of my favourites ❤ 1. This is Jack Antonoff - producer, they work together for years and are great friends,, he also work with Lana Del Rey 2. Track 5 in all her albums is the song that feels more personal to her, more vulnerable 3. This song can be taken as a betrayal by a friend, going through a divorce, literally taken you're dead and the person who killed you is at your wake, but Taylor's reasons for writing come from very deep betrayal by a father figure in her life Scott Borscheta - the owner of her previous label who was with her from the very first album when she was 15-16 years old. He owned her first 6 albums and was planning to sell the company and she knew and wanted to buy her masters but he wanted to sign another contract - for every new album she could buy one old one and she refused and sign with new label but the masters from now on will be hers. Then the biggest betrayal was when he sold the company to Scooter Braun - a man who hates her and through out the years they had feud, so now this enemy of hers "owned" her and if she wanted her music back she had to sign NDA to never speak badly about him ever again - of course she refused. The end of the story, how she won: she decided to re-record all of her past six albums again and now they even sold more then before and even films, radios etc. are using her new masters so basically the old ones are worthless. Until now she has re-recorded 4 albums (while releasing 2 new ones and touring) and we're waiting on the last two - Reputation and Debut. That's why you can see on some songs there is "Taylor's version" her re-records and also she puts as a treats for the fans some never heard before songs which didn't make the final cut on the albums One thing about Taylor - she's very protective of her song writing and melodies👍 Another suggestions: 1. Seven ( about childhood friend who at the time she hadn't realized that it's from an abusive home and just wnated to move together so she can stop crying) 2. Cardigan - there is very beautiful music video 3. The Lakes 4. All too well - (10 minute version) - it's very old song but for her age of 21 I think the writing is amazing 5.Ivy - secret relationship/ cheating 6. Cowboy like me - one of my all time favourites ❤ 7. Dancing with our hands tied - it's more upbeat, beautiful melody 8. Would've, could've, should've - it's from the perspective of 32 years old Taylor when she was 19 and dated a 32 year old and still regrets it to this day😢 9. Exile feat. Bon Iver - immaculate song, also there is version of it in the Long Pond Sessions
@@ingobordewick6480 no other song captures this pain and memories and questions ❤ amazing storytelling even if it's so personal it's one you can relate so much
@@kellly.04 You guys are going to get me, I just know it! I haven't fully come aboard but I've been converted on a bunch of her songs that I didn't initially love, The Bolter as the most recent addition. I think by a couple of months, you'll have me in the bag for Cowboy Like Me! (and honestly, what a gift?? To love her music this much but then to end up loving more of it than I expected? heck yes)
@@darsynia the lyrics in cowboy like me are superior ❤ it sounds simple but the story is not, I can write a book only on the lines "hanging from my lips like the Gardens of Babylon" or one of her best written lines ever "Forever is the sweetest con" like what do you mean? Did he fall in love with you or you fell for him, who in the end got tricked or is it a con at all? It started like lie but ended real or did she fell so hard that she'll never love again? OMG I still think about this story
Wow, amazing description. So accurate. My husband thinks I’m crying over feelings for someone else, someone from my past, but she just tells such amazing stories that just reel you in emotionally.
You've described it exactly: there are a small number of songs, when I heard them for the first time it felt like I already knew them, like I'd heard them all my life because they're so perfect. This is one of those songs.
Taylor describes her songs as written with a glitter gel pen, fountain pen or quill. She has different styles of songs. I think that is a fabulously funny way to describe her songs.
The more you learn about Taylor, the deeper you will venture down the rabbit hole. Can't wait to see you react to other Taylor Swift songs. All of FOLKLORE is amazing. Then you can venture into watching ALL TOO WELL 10 minute movie.
This is me trying with the talk before hand! From long pond. Gets me every time. I always say people who only know “radio Taylor” are missing out. For whatever reason, her singles are never her best. Great reaction! 🥰
I love both versions! I love radio friendly, ear worm “not the best Taylor” singles because maybe I’m shallow and love just easy listening sometimes lol!! But I also love the deep tracks and emotional and non singles too, I think both are great and it takes true talent to do both well :)
@@erikahutchcraft1742me too, I guess we’re both “shallow” or maybe just people who can experience all emotions equally and don’t assign greater importance to the “serious” emotions- we can feel the silliness of Speak Now (the song), we can dance around all goofy to Shake It Off AND we can also feel the gut punch while we sing along with All Too Well or the Smallest Man Who Ever Lived 🫶
"Thats always been there" is exactly it for masterful songs. Yes! Like it was plucked fully ripe from the universe. Exactly. I love your reaction to this.
Oh boy you found a portal to this dimension of the swift catalogue. I am absolutely positive you will blissfully suffer, deeply painfully indulge in joy, in communion with the rest of us! Although the music is slow and somber, buckle up, this gets very deep very fast! In behalf of us, welcome brother!!!
One more easter egg. Almost every line contains a reference to her lost albums. Some: We gather here, we line up Weepin' in a sunlit room, and If I'm on fire (I Did Something Bad - reputation), you'll be made of ashes too Even on my worst day, did I deserve, babe All the hell you gave me? 'Cause I loved you, I swear I loved you 'Til my dying day I didn't have it in myself to go with grace (State Of Grace - RED) And you're the hero flying around, saving face (Superman - Speak Now) And if I'm dead to you, why are you at the wake? (Look What You Made Me Do - reputation) Cursing my name (The Way I Love You - Fearless), wishing I stayed (All You Had To Do Was Stay - 1989) Look at how my tears ricochet (Teardrops On My Guitar - Taylor Swift) We gather stones, never knowing what they'll mean, Some to throw, (Ours - Speak Now) some to make a diamond ring (Love Story - Fearless) You know I didn't want to have to haunt you (Haunted - Speak Now) But what a ghostly scene You wear the same jewels that I gave you As you bury me (her lost gold and platinum albums) I didn't have it in myself to go with grace (State Of Grace - RED) 'Cause when I'd fight, you used to tell me I was brave (Change - Fearless) And if I'm dead to you, why are you at the wake? (Look What You Made Me Do - reputation) Cursing my name, wishing I stayed Look at how my tears ricochet And I can go anywhere I want Anywhere I want, just not home And you can aim for my heart (Perfectly Good Heart - Taylor Swift), go for blood (Bad Blood - 1989) But you would still miss me in your bones And I still talk to you when I'm screaming at the sky (Come In With The Rain - Fearless) And when you can't sleep at night (Message In A Bottle - RED) you hear my stolen lullabies I didn't have it in myself to go with grace (State Of Grace - RED) And so the battleships will sink beneath the waves (This Love - 1989) You had to kill me, but it killed you just the same (The story of us - Speak Now) Cursing my name, wishing I stayed You turned into your worst fears (Blank Space - 1989) And you're tossing out blame (Don't Blame Me - reputation), drunk on this pain Crossing out the good years And you're cursing my name, wishing I stayed Look at how my tears ricochet.
This song is in my top ten Taylor songs, which means nearly top songs of any songs. The passionate mourning in this performance makes me cry every time. It's about her breakup with her record label in which they tried to cheat her of her rights, but it could be about any breakup of a long-term relationship. There's a reason they teach Taylor's lyrics writing in universities now. Thanks for your reaction.
Love a sad song? Check out "loml" (that's L-O-M-L) from the recent album "The Tortured Poets Department" I think it's the saddest song I've ever heard, and it's absolutely gorgeous. The gentleman in the leather jacket is Jack Antonoff. He has been producing and co-writing with Taylor for several albums now. He is also the founder of the band "Bleachers." The other gentleman with the longer hair is Aaron Dessner. This is the first album on which he and Taylor collaborated, but he has continued to produce and co-write with her since. He is also in the band "The National." Taylor does not mess around with her lyrics. We'll never truly know the full meaning, but she makes it so that you can really interpret it in a way that makes it relatable to just about everyone. Her pen game is STRONG. Amazing wordplay, unmatched use of simile and metaphor. She truly is a poet.
Her rabbit hole is deep…so deep you won’t be able to crawl out even if you want to but I will bet my penny, you would not….❤❤❤❤this is just a warning 😂😂
This song is very personal to her....She loved like a favorite uncle, Scott Borchetta of Big Machine Records...then he stabbed her in the back by selling her music to Scooter Braun without giving her a chance to buy her own music. As you delve into Taylor's music, I think you will discover she is a generational talent...one of the, if not THE, best songwriter/storyteller/singers in the business.
Taylor is a multi instrumentalists who writes all her own songs (either alone or with co-writers) and directs her own videos. She's worked so hard on her voice, it's unrecognisable from where she started and she's one of the few who sounds better live. As you hear more you'll realise she also a multi genre artist. Check out Intro/Ready for it and Don't Blame Me live from the Reputation Tour. For more folk/heartbreak listen to Exile. For her country storytelling I love No Body No Crime, but really if I list the TS songs I can't live without it would be way over 100 long! Enjoy the rabbit hole!
Understandable since she started recording at 14/15. Talent, practice, hard work, maturity, aging, genre changes, all will change your vocals. My voice doesn’t sound the same as when it did when I was 15 and I’m not an international superstar who works on it as part of my job LOL!!
Wow, you've perfectly put into words how her music makes me feel. "instantly that line and that melody, its always been in my head. how have it not heard it before?" the words and melody just always feel so famiiar yet it's the first time you're hearing it. almost like a sense of feeling at home in a place you've been in before.
She’s gone through so many phases with her songwriting & they’re all amazing. She wrote “Ronan” (about a little boy whom she didn’t know) who had cancer. She had followed his mom’s blog and messaged her to make sure it was okay if she wrote the song & played it for a fundraiser. It’s beautiful. Other songs that are ridiculously well written and heartfelt are Marjorie, All Too Well, Clean, Maroon, Exile, Peace, & Tolerate It. The more you listen the more you’ll love her.
There's so much more!!! In my opinion, the 2nd half of her most recent record (TPD), the anthology, has some of her best writing EVER. The Prophecy, How did it End, Cassandra...magic. Then there's Evermore, Folklore...can't wait!!! Get going on those 🤗
Great reaction - I love watching new Swifties come into being. Everything from Folklore and the stripped down Long Pond Studio Sessions performances is beautiful, but My Tears Ricochet is definitely my personal favorite. It was inspired by the debacle over Taylor’s masters being sold to Scooter Braun and the dissolution of her relationship with Big Machine Records, the label she basically grew up working with. The line “I can go anywhere I want - anywhere I want, just not home” is one of the song’s many evocative lyrics, because not only was Big Machine her home from the time she was a teenager, the masters debacle was essentially about her life’s work up until 2019 being stolen from her. She’d apparently been clear about how much she wanted to buy them from Scott Borchetta for years, but he chose to sell them to someone who had reportedly bullied Taylor ruthlessly. As an artist you’d probably love her interview with Zane Lowe about the follow-up to Folklore, Evermore - and their conversation about the masters debacle. She spoke in that interview about the emotional impact of separating an artist from their art. The Tortured Poets Department Anthology is my favorite album at this point, but Folklore and The Long Pond Sessions are just phenomenal works. You should definitely check out “Exile”, her first collaboration with Justin Vernon (Bon Iver). But I’m guessing you might really appreciate everything on Folklore, Evermore and TTPD (especially the Anthology) - just for a start. Red (TV), Reputation and Midnights should probably be high on your Swift syllabus as well.
The Long Pond Sessions were my introduction to Taylor's non radio music - I am all in now. Exile and This is Me Trying are two others that are excellent on this album, but most of the album, particularly the Long Pond Session version, is wonderful.
It's a beautiful song and she performs it so beautifully here.Glad you are doing the long pond sessions they are magical.Along with Jack A there's Aaron Dessner from the National.,who she works with a lot. Always think theses sessions show just how good a singer she is,and how much emotion she puts in .Oh boy are you in for a treat with Taylor,l think lyrically she's unsurpassed. The song is about her ex manager who sold her music from under her,hence the re recording of her old music. Her sigh at the end of the song breaks me, heartbreaking.
That sigh reminds me of something similar Rhianna did at the end of a performance of Love On The Brain, at the VMA's, I think. I'll link it at the end of this comment. Different situation/feeling of course, But a genuine release of emotion. To me it's a "wow" like she can't quite believe the power of the wave she rode through that performance. th-cam.com/video/V91daEbU_8s/w-d-xo.htmlsi=PAlqnzdI4VaxrOb5
I think you’d really appreciate This Is Me Trying from the long pond sessions…hearing Taylor’s discussion before the song is quite emotional. She was less open back then about how she relates to the perspectives in the song, but she’s discussed suicidal ideation & coping with alcohol even more since then. These are topics she explores in her art, but *understandably* doesn’t really want to be a public discussion (esp in the media) when it comes to her career
Thank you for your reaction! I adore when someone takes the time to listen to the lyrics and also apreciate the music. You'll see that she is the queen of songwriting but also the mother f queen of melodies that stuck in your brain. Greetings from Argentina!
All of the Long Pond Sessions are great. Listen to So, Long London. It is off of her new album. It is a track 5. All of Taylor's track 5's are the most emotional/vulnerable/personnel songs. This one is about her and her longtime boyfriends breakup. He lived in London. Taylor loves the place London. She has a love song called London Boy about this person. So it is bye to the person and place. All Too Well (Taylor's Version 10 minutes) lyric video has some fantastic lyrics. I think you will love Carolina. It is from the book/movie Where the Crawdads Sing. Taylor read the book several years before talk of it being turned into a movie. She loved the book and when she found out it was going to be turned into a movie she wrote a song for it. The book is set in the 50's so she only used instruments that were made from then or before. She sent it to the producer and director with a note telling them how much she loved the book and got excited when she heard it was being made into a movie. It inspired her to write the song. She hoped they would like it and use it somewhere in the movie. The producer and director said they both burst into tears when they listened to the song. And that a more perfect one could not have been made. Of course it was used. Listen to the 4:29 minute video.
Exile from long pond is excellent. All timme favourite is "All too well" (taylors version) (10 min version) . Watch lyric video before short film so you can fully enjoy the lyrics first!
You are 100% the type of person that can see past all the haters opinions and recognise the artist that she is. Your comment of some songs being instantly familiar without having been heard before was wonderful. I can tell you're a writer just from the way that you speak. If you like sad songs, I'd recommend: LOML from The Tortured Poets Department, This Is Me Trying from Folklore, Marjorie from Evermore (preferably the lyric video featuring Super 8 film footage of her Grandmother) and Bigger Than The Whole Sky from Midnights. This reaction earned you a sub btw :)
It's so great to watch someone discover the genius and beauty of Taylor Swift...judging by this reaction I imagine you will really appreciate the albums Folklore and Evermore, they are extraordinary works of art. She is so talented in song writing and she is also a phenomenal performer...the Eras tour film shows her performing 'My Tears Ricochet' (or anything else really!) might be of interest to you. Thanks for your thoughtful reactions I'm really enjoying them.
Love finding new people reacting to Taylor Swift and realizing she's more than what people make her out to be. I hit subscribe so fast. Looking forward to more of your Taylor Swift future reactions.
One of my top favorite songs from her, thank you for doing this reaction 🙏💗 Her tears ricochet is the consequences of her lifetime ex-record label friend Scott Borchetta, the pain he caused her by selling her work behind her back to someone she disliked for 300 millions... That's what led her to re-record all of her records !!! That's a MAJOR tears ricochet right there 💗💗💗 "Watch what I'll do with those tears" lol You should listen to the original track on the album, there's a beautiful building up beat to it
A comment from a Swiftie said that the Chorus has easter eggs of her 6 stolen albums: She's a Mastermind !!!! 1. …..I didn't have it in myself to go with grace ( Song - State of Grace ) Album: RED 2. …..And you're the hero flying around, saving face ( Song - Superman ) Album: Speak Now 3. …..And if I'm dead to you, why are you at the wake? ( Song - Look What You Made Me Do ) Album: REPUTATION 4. …..Cursing my name, ( Song - The Way I Loved You ) Album: FEARLESS 5. …..wishing I stayed ( Song - All You Had To Do Was Stay ) Album: 1989 6. …..Look at how my tears ricochet ( Song - Teardrops On My Guitar ) Album: Debut - Taylor Swift
The guy is Jack Antonoff he has a band called the Bleachers, and he works with Taylor and other stars, the other guy is Aaron Dessner he is in a band called The National, he doesn't sing, but he composes music, which Taylor has used for some of her songs, he also is involved in production. After a while, most Swifties can tell who worked on which song. The jewels she gave Scott Borchetta of Big Machine Records were the albums that went gold, platinum, and diamond, the stolen lullabies are of course her albums (6 of them). Scott refused to sell to her, but instead, he offered her that for every new album she would get one old one back, she walked when her contract was up, she didn't have it in her to go with grace. Taylor helped build his label, he was just starting out as was she. So, he sold to the one person he knew she hated. Great reaction, yes this is one of her best Quill pen songs. She refers to her songs in what kind of pens she would use for different types of songs, she also keeps a notebook of words she wants to use in her songs. And boy has she been using them, the inside joke is that you need a starter kit for folklore and evermore, it's a dictionary. But she has been upping her vocabulary for her last 2 albums, well the last one was a double album so 3 albums. Folklore has a bonus track called "the lakes" I think you would love it. Good luck with your song.
Oh seeing you catch all those little moments that are so delectable is fantastic! She has great melodies and superb lyrics that describe so much, and yet so common so popular that everyone can understand. To me the coolest singers are those who master their own instrument, it doesn't have to be the best voice, its how you use it, and she has worked on it every single step of the way, she just gets better. The tightrope she manages to pull this all of is unbelievable: write good music, interesting but that radio plays, be pretty but relatable, give us content but fight people invading your privacy, be generous but be business savvy... etc. You should listen to the album version of this song too, the instrumentation and production give the emotion even more body and ambiance. Honestly cant wait for more of these reactions!!
The thing about Taylor is that she makes music for every taste whether you love fun, catchy pop songs; heartbreaking ballads; deep, introspective indie songs; or even youthful country songs. Her storytelling and lyricism has improved with maturity, but she's had those from the time she was a teenager. In my opinion, she has several songs in contention for the best written lyrics. I would check out All Too Well, the 10 minute version which is also a short film music video, Tolerate It from the Eras Tour, Illicit Affairs from the Eras Tour, and from her new album The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived, How did it End, loml, and I could just keep going with songs from each album. Love seeing you're journey here.
I’m so happy for your journey down her discography. Her lyricism is incredible. “Carolina” from the motion picture “Where the Crawdads Sing” The whole Folklore album is my favorite. She made Folklore and Evermore during Covid, in home studio. “Exile with Bon Iver” has to be my favorite, followed by “Peace” and “Epiphany”, “Hoax” and “This is Me Trying”. Welcome to the incredible new area of the music industry that we love. If you have any questions, please just ask. If you have any negativity, that’s not a true fan and I apologize in advance if that happens. 97% of us are just happy and proud of Taylor Swift’s accomplishments. Fantastic reaction. New subscriber! 🙋🏼♀️🥰
Uh oh! I think you’re going to become a Swifties. She is an excellent songwriter. She has always kept journals that help her with being in the moment of a particular moment in her life. Most of her songs are autobiographical, life’s lessons and experiences. Thats what makes her relatable to her audience , it touches their hearts and often describes something that they also have experienced at some point in their lives. Maybe best song till the next album. There are so many amazing songs. Thanks Izzy!
Another interesting tidbit is the lyrics in that outro from the long pond sessions are NOT in the studio version. i have always thought that small lyrical addition of "look at all of my tears, turning into your tears" is so powerful.
I highly recommend Taylor’s official lyric videos, especially the latest TTPD ones. Many of them are works of art in their own right - try “Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me” and “loml”. Oh and “thanK you aIMee”
More to it than on the surface. Always loved this from a Swifty: I didn't have it in myself to go with grace ( Song - State of Grace ) Album: RED And you're the hero flying around, saving face ( Song - Superman ) Album: Speak Now And if I'm dead to you, why are you at the wake? ( Song - Look What You Made Me Do ) Album: REPUTATION Cursing my name, ( Song - The Way I Loved You ) Album: FEARLESS Wishing I stayed ( Song - All You Had To Do Was Stay ) Album: 1989 Look at how my tears ricochet ( Song - Teardrops On My Guitar ) Album: Debut - Taylor Swift
Love your reactions! This song is about her music. When her first 6 studio albums were sold without her knowledge and to someone she did not want them sold to. Her music, her words, her art. The lyric, “when you can’t sleep at night, you hear my stolen lullabies” is powerful. She has fought for the right to regain the rights to her words by recording those same albums, and in doing so has also fought for the rights of other artists to do the same. Only one of the many reasons her fans respect her on a level I have never seen with another artist. The Long Pond Sessions are, as you said, magical. The lyrics she weaves together are a tapestry of truth, pain, and damn good storytelling. Happy listening!
My favorite. She doesn’t mention it but I believe Taylor also drew on the experience of her parents who divorced 9 years before this song was released. They kept the divorce secret for years to protect her reputation and it’s clear the breakup affected her deeply. For anyone who has gone through painful divorce this song hits the hardest of them all.
it’s apparent how deeply music affects you and that you had a real connection to the lyrics. this was such a good reaction video! i’m glad you liked her. she has a lot of hidden gems that you can check out. i’m sure ppl have already recommended them in the comments haha.
Fun bit of info! Track 5’s to taylor are usually the most heart wrenching or just real songs that she has on the albums. It happened on accident for a few albums, but she leaned into it and now it’s a whole thing about every album’s 5th track
I'm a lyrics girl and I love watching reactions to song I find especially beautiful or moving. A lot of the time people don't really listen to what's being said. You do however, and your responses are almost poetic. Im excited to watch more of your reviews.
The Folklore and Evermore albums are probably right up your alley. She dropped these albums just a few months apart early in the pandemic with zero notice. They’re spectacular. Shes an incredible lyricist.
I hope to see more of your reactions to Taylor’s music. You are deep and interpret well. There is so much to interpret with all her double meanings, metaphors intermingled with events through hers eyes. So yes more of Long Pond. Her albums Folklore and Evermore might be interesting to you. I’m looking forward to more of your reactions. Her versatility is amazing. I find her poetry brilliant.
I haven’t heard thus version of this my favourite song, love your calm expression of listening to her. Very empowering emotions that we’ve pretty much all felt. You said it, she paints the picture so so well. Felt the heartache. TS is incredible! Thanks for sharing this.💯👍🏼😃🧡🙏🏼
The way the lyrics out of a sudden touches you and you try to make sense of what just touched you: I know the face of a Swiftie in the making when I see one 🤣❤️ Most of us are here for the lyrics, the way she describes and makes you reach places in yourself you either long forgot or never knew were there. I hope you will enjoy her works as much as I have and still am, her art has truely changed my life. amazing video also, thank you, really enjoyed watching you processing your experince ❤
This reaction has made me so giddy. I can’t WAIT for you to hear more from her folklore, evermore and TTPD. But also I. Excited for you to hear some of the songs she wrote when she was in her teens/early 20s as well. She’s been a gifted storyteller since youth. All too Well 10 minute- I’d check out the official lyric first, then the Short Film. (We Swifties will watch both! 😊) Dear John, Holy Ground (BBC1 live version), Love Story- live 1989 is a great version, but different than the original country version. Both are great. She was 17 when she wrote it. So excited for this Taylor journey.
this is just the tip of the iceberg, I can't wait for you to get into more of long pond! it's worth noting that the studio versions are quite as good if not better -- beautifully full yet understated production throughout
I am so excited for you. Watching people listen to the way she weaves words with melody and really love it for the first time is one of my favorite things. Art that inspires you to make more art is a beautiful thing.
great reaction - okay i know almost everyone will suggest something from folklore/ evermore (which are amazing albums with great songs) but theyre not the only good songs that she has written. so let me give you a few other album tracks to look at - all too well, renegade, loml, clean, never grow up, new years day, death by a thousand cuts (live in paris), maroon, wouldve couldve shouldve. Edit - adding safe & sound and carolina here too. all of them are pretty much moderate tempo wise, but different production styles. i think you'll like a good chunk of them :)
@@TG-mu5ix yep, I think a lot of people tend to overlook her other albums because folk-more seem more "mature" and "serious", but she's always been a good writer, both lyrics and melody wise since the beginning :)
Thanks for a great reaction. Good luck with finishing your song. Taylor talks about her songwriting process as trying to put down on paper everything she's thinking and feeling about a situation in a stream of consciousness kind of way, without judgement or correction, incorporating as many details of the moment - sights, sounds, smells that she can remember so that the song becomes like a snapshot of the moment and what she was feeling and what in was about. She says it's important to chase the song down before she forgets it so she constantly sings into her phone or jots down ideas in her notes. My Tears Ricochet is one of her best songs and one of my favourites among these others: Hoax, This Is Me Trying, Tolerate It and Happiness - from her Folklore and Evermore albums.
Just wait until you get to The Great War and/or How Did It End? You sound like a very inspired person and artist, love to hear you dissecting these songs and sharing personal details from your own creative/musician process to the analysis. Such a calming voice and cool set-up as well! You deserve all the subs.
I watched your eyes as the song unfolded, and there was deep understanding and love of music. and then you explained the feelings. followed. As for the song you are working on: play it, sing it, but by god record it as you do (every time - make it a habit), as some drops of magic need to be captured when flowing. I can't wait to hear your song once complete. 🥰
Thanks, Anastasia. I'll do that. Will put some more songs out soon. In the meantime, here's 2; th-cam.com/play/PLMw7p-gNxYWAsXOU9Qx-czzmYV5Chm88I.html&si=psrPCjKXKWPZZW6E
Such a genuine reaction ◡̈ immediate subscribe! Writing is what Taylor does best and there is no shortage of songs like this! I think you’ll love anything off folklore, evermore or tortured poets department
I just suscribed. I became myself a swiftie who has listened her for a really long time, but just now Im discovering her gems and all the history behind some lyrics. She's so underated. Its one of the best lyricist, I mean the way she has to describe her emotions... true art
Taylor is a good pop star. She is also a good songwriter. The two do not always coincide (and nor do they have to for the purposes! - but this is a strength in her particular arsenal)
@@IzzyIzenstain I’d definitely watch a whole hours or more worth of an album reaction because I LOVE your insight which is hard to find haha. If you liked this kind I’d recommend Folklore (thats this album), evermore, tortured poets (the anthology) and for an older album RED.
Taylor has dipped into so many genres that it's incredible. Its frustrating that some only see her as this bubblegum pop princess but that is what happens when you start your career at 16 I guess. You can tell by the look on her face here that she really still feels this song. Im sure people have mentioned in comments what exactly this song is about... contrary to what some might believe, it's not about a lost lover. But "stolen lullabies" is a giveaway that it was about her stolen music. Folklore and Evermore would be the albums for you.
You haven’t even scratched the surface. If you dig deeper, you'll become a full blown Swiftie. 😂
We will all watch avidly as it happens, too!!
Yess! Found your channel completely completely by accident, but love the reaction to My Tears Ricochet! And like was said above, my God the discography is deep and you haven’t even scratched the surface. PLEASE just start with doing the whole Folklore: Long Pond Sessions! And beyond that the train never stops!
Locking your channel in and hoping to to go along for the ride with you , it will be amazing if you do it!
@@darsynia😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
Love this so much 🎉
@@ladylisaromance8129 Yeah he’s screwed 😂
“This is me trying” is a must from this session.
Another one of my absolute favorites. It’s also long pond and it’s positively beautiful. She also is sitting with Jack describing the song in the same clothes as My Tears Ricochet.
Oh yeah. He mentioned having some challenges with alcohol in his past. This is Me Trying might make him tear up
YES
Make sure to watch the speech she gives right before she performs the song. It's got to be one of the most poignant things Taylor has ever said.
@@demonhoopa I’ve had a cocktail when going through a difficult period.
More to escape the pain/ stress, but I learned it’s better to be fully present when faced with difficult times. When my son died in 2017 was the worst. Fortunately I figured out I needed to remember everything during that time.
I just no longer run to it when presented with a challenge.
I suppose……. This is me Trying.
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"Man...If there's a lot more of this kind of stuff in her catalog, I'm lookin' forward to delving a lot more into it." INSTANT FOLLOW, because she totally does. I'm excited for you!
Thanks! Glad to have you here for it!
“Exile” from these Long Pond sessions is perfection. I’ll die on that hill.
Doubt anyone will try to knock you off that hill. Not people with ears anyway 😎
Exile Reaction out tomorrow.
Taylor writes ALL of her lyrics/songs. The guy on the piano, a producer is Jack Antanoff, on guitar is also producer Aaron Dessner, both award winning. Taylor is the most Brilliant songwriter, without question. She has said herself, I’m a songwriter first, who sings her own songs.
Oh, I love this one! It's about Scott Borchetta from her label, Big Machine Records. She was so close to him, and he betrayed her by selling her catalog without her knowledge. When she mentions jewels (you wear the same jewels that I gave you (gold, platinum records) as you bury me. And the stolen lullaby line is superb.
Wrong, she knew he was selling just didn't know to whom, that was the biggest problem
@@joannaasvesta331 , well, now he gets the gest of it. He sold to Scooter but I didn't want to write him a novel.
Lowlife Scooter Braun, he allegedly messed up Justin Bieber at the hands of Diddy.
@@winkpinky1445Beiber has a song declaring that, not about Braun but about Diddy
Plus he didn't give her the option to buy them herself. So many artists over the years don't own the music they create. Such as Micheal Jackson buying the rights to The Beatles music.
People have no idea what they're missing when it comes to Taylor and all the different genres and styles that she has across her discography. Most just still see her as a teen girl strumming her guitar that never grew up. She is an immense talent and has something for almost everyone if they just give her a chance. ❤
This!
I will never get tired of watching grown men discover her genius. ♥️
One of my favourites ❤
1. This is Jack Antonoff - producer, they work together for years and are great friends,, he also work with Lana Del Rey
2. Track 5 in all her albums is the song that feels more personal to her, more vulnerable
3. This song can be taken as a betrayal by a friend, going through a divorce, literally taken you're dead and the person who killed you is at your wake,
but Taylor's reasons for writing come from very deep betrayal by a father figure in her life Scott Borscheta - the owner of her previous label who was with her from the very first album when she was 15-16 years old. He owned her first 6 albums and was planning to sell the company and she knew and wanted to buy her masters but he wanted to sign another contract - for every new album she could buy one old one and she refused and sign with new label but the masters from now on will be hers.
Then the biggest betrayal was when he sold the company to Scooter Braun - a man who hates her and through out the years they had feud, so now this enemy of hers "owned" her and if she wanted her music back she had to sign NDA to never speak badly about him ever again - of course she refused.
The end of the story, how she won: she decided to re-record all of her past six albums again and now they even sold more then before and even films, radios etc. are using her new masters so basically the old ones are worthless. Until now she has re-recorded 4 albums (while releasing 2 new ones and touring) and we're waiting on the last two - Reputation and Debut.
That's why you can see on some songs there is "Taylor's version" her re-records and also she puts as a treats for the fans some never heard before songs which didn't make the final cut on the albums
One thing about Taylor - she's very protective of her song writing and melodies👍
Another suggestions:
1. Seven ( about childhood friend who at the time she hadn't realized that it's from an abusive home and just wnated to move together so she can stop crying)
2. Cardigan - there is very beautiful music video
3. The Lakes
4. All too well - (10 minute version) - it's very old song but for her age of 21 I think the writing is amazing
5.Ivy - secret relationship/ cheating
6. Cowboy like me - one of my all time favourites ❤
7. Dancing with our hands tied - it's more upbeat, beautiful melody
8. Would've, could've, should've - it's from the perspective of 32 years old Taylor when she was 19 and dated a 32 year old and still regrets it to this day😢
9. Exile feat. Bon Iver - immaculate song, also there is version of it in the Long Pond Sessions
"All too well" is, in my opinion, her lyrical masterpiece, so far.
@@ingobordewick6480 no other song captures this pain and memories and questions ❤ amazing storytelling even if it's so personal it's one you can relate so much
cowboy like me! so underrated 🥹🫶🏻
@@kellly.04 You guys are going to get me, I just know it! I haven't fully come aboard but I've been converted on a bunch of her songs that I didn't initially love, The Bolter as the most recent addition. I think by a couple of months, you'll have me in the bag for Cowboy Like Me! (and honestly, what a gift?? To love her music this much but then to end up loving more of it than I expected? heck yes)
@@darsynia the lyrics in cowboy like me are superior ❤ it sounds simple but the story is not, I can write a book only on the lines "hanging from my lips like the Gardens of Babylon" or one of her best written lines ever "Forever is the sweetest con" like what do you mean? Did he fall in love with you or you fell for him, who in the end got tricked or is it a con at all? It started like lie but ended real or did she fell so hard that she'll never love again?
OMG I still think about this story
She will evoke some secret place in you that you had no idea anyone could know.
Yes❤️
Wow, amazing description. So accurate. My husband thinks I’m crying over feelings for someone else, someone from my past, but she just tells such amazing stories that just reel you in emotionally.
It’s among the greatest she’s written. It’s among the greatest ever-in that pantheon.
She's honestly one of the best writers to ever exist
One of the best people, too. ❤
You've described it exactly: there are a small number of songs, when I heard them for the first time it felt like I already knew them, like I'd heard them all my life because they're so perfect. This is one of those songs.
I came into the comments to see if anyone else was struck by that insight too. Such a fabulous way to put it.
Taylor describes her songs as written with a glitter gel pen, fountain pen or quill. She has different styles of songs. I think that is a fabulously funny way to describe her songs.
Champagne problems, happiness, tolerate it are amazing examples of more songs like this one
@@derlis_whatever7033 Love those! I’m a 1 year old Swiftie and just heard Cowboy Like Me…why isn’t this song bigger, it’s sooo good?!
The more you learn about Taylor, the deeper you will venture down the rabbit hole. Can't wait to see you react to other Taylor Swift songs. All of FOLKLORE is amazing. Then you can venture into watching ALL TOO WELL 10 minute movie.
And “All Too Well (10 Minute Version)” lyric video. I always recommend watching that before the short film.
Thanks! Gonna continue with The Long Pond Sessions for the next few.
I am so glad I got curious what the hype about her was. Never leaving this rabbit hole ever.
@@TG-mu5ix 10 Minute Version....
@@ingobordewick6480 Oops! I edited it.
Her live version of this on Eras Tour is one of my favorite performances.
Yeah he should check that out because it's super cool
This is me trying with the talk before hand! From long pond. Gets me every time. I always say people who only know “radio Taylor” are missing out. For whatever reason, her singles are never her best. Great reaction! 🥰
I love both versions! I love radio friendly, ear worm “not the best Taylor” singles because maybe I’m shallow and love just easy listening sometimes lol!!
But I also love the deep tracks and emotional and non singles too, I think both are great and it takes true talent to do both well :)
@@erikahutchcraft1742me too, I guess we’re both “shallow” or maybe just people who can experience all emotions equally and don’t assign greater importance to the “serious” emotions- we can feel the silliness of Speak Now (the song), we can dance around all goofy to Shake It Off AND we can also feel the gut punch while we sing along with All Too Well or the Smallest Man Who Ever Lived 🫶
@@erikahutchcraft1742totally get that. But I think non swifties (how dare they😂) don’t realize her full potential
Thanks! I think the really great artists are often like that, great singles, but even greater album tracks.
This song is one of the best/simplest presentations of how powerful her writing can be.
‘It feels like a soul exploration melodically’ Taylor’s talent in a nutshell
I love the deeper register she uses so well to convey melancholy
It's a nice one!
Nobody can write lyrics like Taylor. The girls pen is fire!
"Thats always been there" is exactly it for masterful songs. Yes! Like it was plucked fully ripe from the universe. Exactly. I love your reaction to this.
Thanks, Jennifer!
Oh boy you found a portal to this dimension of the swift catalogue. I am absolutely positive you will blissfully suffer, deeply painfully indulge in joy, in communion with the rest of us! Although the music is slow and somber, buckle up, this gets very deep very fast! In behalf of us, welcome brother!!!
Thanks!
One more easter egg. Almost every line contains a reference to her lost albums. Some:
We gather here, we line up
Weepin' in a sunlit room, and
If I'm on fire (I Did Something Bad - reputation), you'll be made of ashes too
Even on my worst day, did I deserve, babe
All the hell you gave me?
'Cause I loved you, I swear I loved you
'Til my dying day
I didn't have it in myself to go with grace (State Of Grace - RED)
And you're the hero flying around, saving face (Superman - Speak Now)
And if I'm dead to you, why are you at the wake? (Look What You Made Me Do - reputation)
Cursing my name (The Way I Love You - Fearless), wishing I stayed (All You Had To Do Was Stay - 1989)
Look at how my tears ricochet (Teardrops On My Guitar - Taylor Swift)
We gather stones, never knowing what they'll mean, Some to throw, (Ours - Speak Now)
some to make a diamond ring (Love Story - Fearless)
You know I didn't want to have to haunt you (Haunted - Speak Now)
But what a ghostly scene
You wear the same jewels that I gave you
As you bury me (her lost gold and platinum albums)
I didn't have it in myself to go with grace (State Of Grace - RED)
'Cause when I'd fight, you used to tell me I was brave (Change - Fearless)
And if I'm dead to you, why are you at the wake? (Look What You Made Me Do - reputation)
Cursing my name, wishing I stayed
Look at how my tears ricochet
And I can go anywhere I want
Anywhere I want, just not home
And you can aim for my heart (Perfectly Good Heart - Taylor Swift), go for blood (Bad Blood - 1989)
But you would still miss me in your bones
And I still talk to you when I'm screaming at the sky (Come In With The Rain - Fearless)
And when you can't sleep at night (Message In A Bottle - RED)
you hear my stolen lullabies
I didn't have it in myself to go with grace (State Of Grace - RED)
And so the battleships will sink beneath the waves (This Love - 1989)
You had to kill me, but it killed you just the same (The story of us - Speak Now)
Cursing my name, wishing I stayed
You turned into your worst fears (Blank Space - 1989)
And you're tossing out blame (Don't Blame Me - reputation), drunk on this pain
Crossing out the good years
And you're cursing my name, wishing I stayed
Look at how my tears ricochet.
no way this cant be real!
You are blowing my mind hahah
This is very, very cool!
This song is in my top ten Taylor songs, which means nearly top songs of any songs. The passionate mourning in this performance makes me cry every time. It's about her breakup with her record label in which they tried to cheat her of her rights, but it could be about any breakup of a long-term relationship. There's a reason they teach Taylor's lyrics writing in universities now. Thanks for your reaction.
Thanks for watching, Rachel!
Love a sad song? Check out "loml" (that's L-O-M-L) from the recent album "The Tortured Poets Department" I think it's the saddest song I've ever heard, and it's absolutely gorgeous.
The gentleman in the leather jacket is Jack Antonoff. He has been producing and co-writing with Taylor for several albums now. He is also the founder of the band "Bleachers."
The other gentleman with the longer hair is Aaron Dessner. This is the first album on which he and Taylor collaborated, but he has continued to produce and co-write with her since. He is also in the band "The National."
Taylor does not mess around with her lyrics. We'll never truly know the full meaning, but she makes it so that you can really interpret it in a way that makes it relatable to just about everyone. Her pen game is STRONG. Amazing wordplay, unmatched use of simile and metaphor. She truly is a poet.
THIS!!!
"I understand already why she's a superstar."
Heard this song a thousand times and I still cry. She does something to my soul.
Same. Tears on my cellphone 😭
Her rabbit hole is deep…so deep you won’t be able to crawl out even if you want to but I will bet my penny, you would not….❤❤❤❤this is just a warning 😂😂
Okay, now I can't wait until we get to 'Exile' (Long Pond, of course)
Coming soon!
This is one of her best, and she has so many bests...
Your attentiveness to the soul of her songs is beautiful.
Thanks! Glad you're enjoying it.
This song is very personal to her....She loved like a favorite uncle, Scott Borchetta of Big Machine Records...then he stabbed her in the back by selling her music to Scooter Braun without giving her a chance to buy her own music. As you delve into Taylor's music, I think you will discover she is a generational talent...one of the, if not THE, best songwriter/storyteller/singers in the business.
Taylor is a multi instrumentalists who writes all her own songs (either alone or with co-writers) and directs her own videos. She's worked so hard on her voice, it's unrecognisable from where she started and she's one of the few who sounds better live. As you hear more you'll realise she also a multi genre artist. Check out Intro/Ready for it and Don't Blame Me live from the Reputation Tour. For more folk/heartbreak listen to Exile. For her country storytelling I love No Body No Crime, but really if I list the TS songs I can't live without it would be way over 100 long! Enjoy the rabbit hole!
Understandable since she started recording at 14/15. Talent, practice, hard work, maturity, aging, genre changes, all will change your vocals. My voice doesn’t sound the same as when it did when I was 15 and I’m not an international superstar who works on it as part of my job LOL!!
Thanks!
Wow, you've perfectly put into words how her music makes me feel. "instantly that line and that melody, its always been in my head. how have it not heard it before?" the words and melody just always feel so famiiar yet it's the first time you're hearing it. almost like a sense of feeling at home in a place you've been in before.
Glad to hear it helped, Tiffany! More coming soon.
8:24 yes there is! This song is from folklore and the whole album is a masterpiece
Gonna check out more soon!
She’s gone through so many phases with her songwriting & they’re all amazing. She wrote “Ronan” (about a little boy whom she didn’t know) who had cancer. She had followed his mom’s blog and messaged her to make sure it was okay if she wrote the song & played it for a fundraiser. It’s beautiful. Other songs that are ridiculously well written and heartfelt are Marjorie, All Too Well, Clean, Maroon, Exile, Peace, & Tolerate It. The more you listen the more you’ll love her.
Im so happy to see people finally realizing how amazing she is
There's so much more!!! In my opinion, the 2nd half of her most recent record (TPD), the anthology, has some of her best writing EVER. The Prophecy, How did it End, Cassandra...magic. Then there's Evermore, Folklore...can't wait!!! Get going on those 🤗
Thanks! Gonna continue with The Long Pond Sessions for the next few.
The albums, folklore evermore and tortured poets department have a lot of lyrical things like this very beautiful
Would love to hear you react to Cornelia street live in Paris. Her emotion in that song just thrills me
It's towards the top of my list, so should get to it in the next few weeks.
Great reaction - I love watching new Swifties come into being. Everything from Folklore and the stripped down Long Pond Studio Sessions performances is beautiful, but My Tears Ricochet is definitely my personal favorite. It was inspired by the debacle over Taylor’s masters being sold to Scooter Braun and the dissolution of her relationship with Big Machine Records, the label she basically grew up working with. The line “I can go anywhere I want - anywhere I want, just not home” is one of the song’s many evocative lyrics, because not only was Big Machine her home from the time she was a teenager, the masters debacle was essentially about her life’s work up until 2019 being stolen from her. She’d apparently been clear about how much she wanted to buy them from Scott Borchetta for years, but he chose to sell them to someone who had reportedly bullied Taylor ruthlessly.
As an artist you’d probably love her interview with Zane Lowe about the follow-up to Folklore, Evermore - and their conversation about the masters debacle. She spoke in that interview about the emotional impact of separating an artist from their art.
The Tortured Poets Department Anthology is my favorite album at this point, but Folklore and The Long Pond Sessions are just phenomenal works. You should definitely check out “Exile”, her first collaboration with Justin Vernon (Bon Iver). But I’m guessing you might really appreciate everything on Folklore, Evermore and TTPD (especially the Anthology) - just for a start. Red (TV), Reputation and Midnights should probably be high on your Swift syllabus as well.
Thanks! Gonna continue with The Long Pond Sessions for the next few.
I’d say half her catalogue is like this and half is more fun upbeat pop. She is a lyrical genius!!!
The Long Pond Sessions were my introduction to Taylor's non radio music - I am all in now. Exile and This is Me Trying are two others that are excellent on this album, but most of the album, particularly the Long Pond Session version, is wonderful.
Gonna do those 2 next.
It's a beautiful song and she performs it so beautifully here.Glad you are doing the long pond sessions they are magical.Along with Jack A there's Aaron Dessner from the National.,who she works with a lot.
Always think theses sessions show just how good a singer she is,and how much emotion she puts in
.Oh boy are you in for a treat with Taylor,l think lyrically she's unsurpassed.
The song is about her ex manager who sold her music from under her,hence the re recording of her old music.
Her sigh at the end of the song breaks me, heartbreaking.
That sigh reminds me of something similar Rhianna did at the end of a performance of Love On The Brain, at the VMA's, I think. I'll link it at the end of this comment. Different situation/feeling of course, But a genuine release of emotion. To me it's a "wow" like she can't quite believe the power of the wave she rode through that performance.
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I think you’d really appreciate This Is Me Trying from the long pond sessions…hearing Taylor’s discussion before the song is quite emotional. She was less open back then about how she relates to the perspectives in the song, but she’s discussed suicidal ideation & coping with alcohol even more since then. These are topics she explores in her art, but *understandably* doesn’t really want to be a public discussion (esp in the media) when it comes to her career
Thanks! Gonna continue with The Long Pond Sessions for the next few.
Thank you for your reaction! I adore when someone takes the time to listen to the lyrics and also apreciate the music. You'll see that she is the queen of songwriting but also the mother f queen of melodies that stuck in your brain. Greetings from Argentina!
Greetings from England! Thanks for watching!
All of the Long Pond Sessions are great.
Listen to So, Long London. It is off of her new album. It is a track 5. All of Taylor's track 5's are the most emotional/vulnerable/personnel songs. This one is about her and her longtime boyfriends breakup. He lived in London. Taylor loves the place London. She has a love song called London Boy about this person. So it is bye to the person and place.
All Too Well (Taylor's Version 10 minutes) lyric video has some fantastic lyrics.
I think you will love Carolina. It is from the book/movie Where the Crawdads Sing. Taylor read the book several years before talk of it being turned into a movie. She loved the book and when she found out it was going to be turned into a movie she wrote a song for it. The book is set in the 50's so she only used instruments that were made from then or before. She sent it to the producer and director with a note telling them how much she loved the book and got excited when she heard it was being made into a movie. It inspired her to write the song. She hoped they would like it and use it somewhere in the movie. The producer and director said they both burst into tears when they listened to the song. And that a more perfect one could not have been made. Of course it was used. Listen to the 4:29 minute video.
Gonna continue with Long Pond for the next few! Thanks.
If you liked that, She has SO many songs you will love
Exile from long pond is excellent. All timme favourite is "All too well" (taylors version) (10 min version) . Watch lyric video before short film so you can fully enjoy the lyrics first!
Coming soon.
You are 100% the type of person that can see past all the haters opinions and recognise the artist that she is. Your comment of some songs being instantly familiar without having been heard before was wonderful. I can tell you're a writer just from the way that you speak. If you like sad songs, I'd recommend: LOML from The Tortured Poets Department, This Is Me Trying from Folklore, Marjorie from Evermore (preferably the lyric video featuring Super 8 film footage of her Grandmother) and Bigger Than The Whole Sky from Midnights. This reaction earned you a sub btw :)
Thanks! Glad to have you here!
It's so great to watch someone discover the genius and beauty of Taylor Swift...judging by this reaction I imagine you will really appreciate the albums Folklore and Evermore, they are extraordinary works of art. She is so talented in song writing and she is also a phenomenal performer...the Eras tour film shows her performing 'My Tears Ricochet' (or anything else really!) might be of interest to you. Thanks for your thoughtful reactions I'm really enjoying them.
Thanks for watching! More coming soon.
Her lyrics are phenomenal. The twists. Most don’t appreciate her .
Love finding new people reacting to Taylor Swift and realizing she's more than what people make her out to be. I hit subscribe so fast. Looking forward to more of your Taylor Swift future reactions.
Thanks! Lot's more coming soon!
Such a well written song! It makes me cry ever time I hear it.💔💔💔💔
One of my top favorite songs from her, thank you for doing this reaction 🙏💗
Her tears ricochet is the consequences of her lifetime ex-record label friend Scott Borchetta, the pain he caused her by selling her work behind her back to someone she disliked for 300 millions... That's what led her to re-record all of her records !!! That's a MAJOR tears ricochet right there 💗💗💗
"Watch what I'll do with those tears" lol
You should listen to the original track on the album, there's a beautiful building up beat to it
Thanks for watching! I'll check that version out.
Taylor’s low notes are gorgeous and underrated.
There is nothing I love more than watching someone fall down the Taylor rabbit hole for the first time. Subscribed! 🫶
Thanks and welcome, Holly!
A comment from a Swiftie said that the Chorus has easter eggs of her 6 stolen albums: She's a Mastermind !!!!
1. …..I didn't have it in myself to go with grace ( Song - State of Grace ) Album: RED
2. …..And you're the hero flying around, saving face ( Song - Superman ) Album: Speak Now
3. …..And if I'm dead to you, why are you at the wake? ( Song - Look What You Made Me Do ) Album: REPUTATION
4. …..Cursing my name, ( Song - The Way I Loved You ) Album: FEARLESS
5. …..wishing I stayed ( Song - All You Had To Do Was Stay ) Album: 1989
6. …..Look at how my tears ricochet ( Song - Teardrops On My Guitar ) Album: Debut - Taylor Swift
this!!! i get chills every time i hear that first chorus even though it’s been years and untold number of times i’ve heard it. incredible writing.
The guy is Jack Antonoff he has a band called the Bleachers, and he works with Taylor and other stars, the other guy is Aaron Dessner he is in a band called The National, he doesn't sing, but he composes music, which Taylor has used for some of her songs, he also is involved in production. After a while, most Swifties can tell who worked on which song. The jewels she gave Scott Borchetta of Big Machine Records were the albums that went gold, platinum, and diamond, the stolen lullabies are of course her albums (6 of them). Scott refused to sell to her, but instead, he offered her that for every new album she would get one old one back, she walked when her contract was up, she didn't have it in her to go with grace. Taylor helped build his label, he was just starting out as was she. So, he sold to the one person he knew she hated. Great reaction, yes this is one of her best Quill pen songs. She refers to her songs in what kind of pens she would use for different types of songs, she also keeps a notebook of words she wants to use in her songs. And boy has she been using them, the inside joke is that you need a starter kit for folklore and evermore, it's a dictionary. But she has been upping her vocabulary for her last 2 albums, well the last one was a double album so 3 albums. Folklore has a bonus track called "the lakes" I think you would love it. Good luck with your song.
Thanks, Violet!
Oh seeing you catch all those little moments that are so delectable is fantastic!
She has great melodies and superb lyrics that describe so much, and yet so common so popular that everyone can understand.
To me the coolest singers are those who master their own instrument, it doesn't have to be the best voice, its how you use it, and she has worked on it every single step of the way, she just gets better.
The tightrope she manages to pull this all of is unbelievable: write good music, interesting but that radio plays, be pretty but relatable, give us content but fight people invading your privacy, be generous but be business savvy... etc.
You should listen to the album version of this song too, the instrumentation and production give the emotion even more body and ambiance.
Honestly cant wait for more of these reactions!!
Thanks! More coming soon!
The thing about Taylor is that she makes music for every taste whether you love fun, catchy pop songs; heartbreaking ballads; deep, introspective indie songs; or even youthful country songs. Her storytelling and lyricism has improved with maturity, but she's had those from the time she was a teenager. In my opinion, she has several songs in contention for the best written lyrics. I would check out All Too Well, the 10 minute version which is also a short film music video, Tolerate It from the Eras Tour, Illicit Affairs from the Eras Tour, and from her new album The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived, How did it End, loml, and I could just keep going with songs from each album. Love seeing you're journey here.
Thanks! More coming soon.
I’m so happy for your journey down her discography. Her lyricism is incredible.
“Carolina” from the motion picture “Where the Crawdads Sing”
The whole Folklore album is my favorite. She made Folklore and Evermore during Covid, in home studio. “Exile with Bon Iver” has to be my favorite, followed by “Peace” and “Epiphany”, “Hoax” and “This is Me Trying”.
Welcome to the incredible new area of the music industry that we love. If you have any questions, please just ask. If you have any negativity, that’s not a true fan and I apologize in advance if that happens. 97% of us are just happy and proud of Taylor Swift’s accomplishments.
Fantastic reaction. New subscriber! 🙋🏼♀️🥰
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Uh oh! I think you’re going to become a Swifties. She is an excellent songwriter. She has always kept journals that help her with being in the moment of a particular moment in her life. Most of her songs are autobiographical, life’s lessons and experiences. Thats what makes her relatable to her audience , it touches their hearts and often describes something that they also have experienced at some point in their lives. Maybe best song till the next album. There are so many amazing songs. Thanks Izzy!
Thanks, Darline!
I hope you continue to react to Taylor’s songs. I can see how her words struck YOUR heart! Really touching ❤
Thanks! Definitely will be doing a lot more.
Another interesting tidbit is the lyrics in that outro from the long pond sessions are NOT in the studio version. i have always thought that small lyrical addition of "look at all of my tears, turning into your tears" is so powerful.
Interesting stuff. Thanks, Courtney!
I highly recommend Taylor’s official lyric videos, especially the latest TTPD ones. Many of them are works of art in their own right - try “Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me” and “loml”. Oh and “thanK you aIMee”
Yea! Yes... This is the one that sold me too. Now I'm a huge fan. SWIFTIE MAX! Love this whole sessions! Loved your analysis.
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More to it than on the surface. Always loved this from a Swifty:
I didn't have it in myself to go with grace ( Song - State of Grace ) Album: RED
And you're the hero flying around, saving face ( Song - Superman ) Album: Speak Now
And if I'm dead to you, why are you at the wake? ( Song - Look What You Made Me Do ) Album: REPUTATION
Cursing my name, ( Song - The Way I Loved You ) Album: FEARLESS
Wishing I stayed ( Song - All You Had To Do Was Stay ) Album: 1989
Look at how my tears ricochet ( Song - Teardrops On My Guitar ) Album: Debut - Taylor Swift
Love your reactions! This song is about her music. When her first 6 studio albums were sold without her knowledge and to someone she did not want them sold to.
Her music, her words, her art. The lyric, “when you can’t sleep at night, you hear my stolen lullabies” is powerful. She has fought for the right to regain the rights to her words by recording those same albums, and in doing so has also fought for the rights of other artists to do the same.
Only one of the many reasons her fans respect her on a level I have never seen with another artist.
The Long Pond Sessions are, as you said, magical. The lyrics she weaves together are a tapestry of truth, pain, and damn good storytelling. Happy listening!
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My favorite. She doesn’t mention it but I believe Taylor also drew on the experience of her parents who divorced 9 years before this song was released. They kept the divorce secret for years to protect her reputation and it’s clear the breakup affected her deeply. For anyone who has gone through painful divorce this song hits the hardest of them all.
That's interesting. Is divorce seen as such a taboo in the States that her parents divorce would affect her reputation?
If you like sad songs, you need to listen to “So Long, London” the album version. It’s beautifully melancholic ❤️
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Oh,my!!! Thank you 🖤
Thank you for this! It's my favourite of hers and the one I always pull up when people ignorantly criticize her talent. 💚
This is one of her best songs she's ever written
it’s apparent how deeply music affects you and that you had a real connection to the lyrics. this was such a good reaction video! i’m glad you liked her. she has a lot of hidden gems that you can check out. i’m sure ppl have already recommended them in the comments haha.
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Fun bit of info! Track 5’s to taylor are usually the most heart wrenching or just real songs that she has on the albums. It happened on accident for a few albums, but she leaned into it and now it’s a whole thing about every album’s 5th track
I'm a lyrics girl and I love watching reactions to song I find especially beautiful or moving. A lot of the time people don't really listen to what's being said. You do however, and your responses are almost poetic. Im excited to watch more of your reviews.
Thanks, Jessica! Lot's more on the way.
The Folklore and Evermore albums are probably right up your alley. She dropped these albums just a few months apart early in the pandemic with zero notice. They’re spectacular. Shes an incredible lyricist.
I hope to see more of your reactions to Taylor’s music. You are deep and interpret well. There is so much to interpret with all her double meanings, metaphors intermingled with events through hers eyes. So yes more of Long Pond. Her albums Folklore and Evermore might be interesting to you. I’m looking forward to more of your reactions. Her versatility is amazing. I find her poetry brilliant.
Thanks! Lots more TS coming very soon.
I haven’t heard thus version of this my favourite song, love your calm expression of listening to her. Very empowering emotions that we’ve pretty much all felt. You said it, she paints the picture so so well. Felt the heartache. TS is incredible! Thanks for sharing this.💯👍🏼😃🧡🙏🏼
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The way the lyrics out of a sudden touches you and you try to make sense of what just touched you: I know the face of a Swiftie in the making when I see one 🤣❤️ Most of us are here for the lyrics, the way she describes and makes you reach places in yourself you either long forgot or never knew were there. I hope you will enjoy her works as much as I have and still am, her art has truely changed my life. amazing video also, thank you, really enjoyed watching you processing your experince ❤
Thanks and thanks for watching! Lots more coming soon.
This reaction has made me so giddy. I can’t WAIT for you to hear more from her folklore, evermore and TTPD. But also I. Excited for you to hear some of the songs she wrote when she was in her teens/early 20s as well. She’s been a gifted storyteller since youth. All too Well 10 minute- I’d check out the official lyric first, then the Short Film. (We Swifties will watch both! 😊) Dear John, Holy Ground (BBC1 live version), Love Story- live 1989 is a great version, but different than the original country version. Both are great. She was 17 when she wrote it. So excited for this Taylor journey.
Thanks! Glad to have you here for it. Looking forward to getting stuck in.
You wear the same jewels that I gave you, while you bury me
Referring to her platinum albums that she wrote the songs for that he sold to her enemy
this is just the tip of the iceberg, I can't wait for you to get into more of long pond! it's worth noting that the studio versions are quite as good if not better -- beautifully full yet understated production throughout
More Long Pond coming soon!
Enjoying ur TS journey, there’s so many additional gems to discover. This woman is a phenomenal communicator: lyrics, melodies, visuals 🔥🫶
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I am so excited for you. Watching people listen to the way she weaves words with melody and really love it for the first time is one of my favorite things. Art that inspires you to make more art is a beautiful thing.
Thanks! It is!
i would highly recommend watching the live performance of this song from the Eras tour. It's one of the emotional highlights of the show.
Great reaction. It is so fun to watch people discover and dive into Taylors music. ❤
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She has a voice of an angel. Soothing and so calm .
great reaction - okay i know almost everyone will suggest something from folklore/ evermore (which are amazing albums with great songs) but theyre not the only good songs that she has written.
so let me give you a few other album tracks to look at - all too well, renegade, loml, clean, never grow up, new years day, death by a thousand cuts (live in paris), maroon, wouldve couldve shouldve.
Edit - adding safe & sound and carolina here too.
all of them are pretty much moderate tempo wise, but different production styles. i think you'll like a good chunk of them :)
These are some great choices. Literally almost all of Taylor’s songs are good. You really can’t go wrong.
@@TG-mu5ix yep, I think a lot of people tend to overlook her other albums because folk-more seem more "mature" and "serious", but she's always been a good writer, both lyrics and melody wise since the beginning :)
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I actually dont know how Taylor did it. As a mother I always feel her pain in all her songs.Love you Taylor knowing you are happy now ❤❤.
Thanks for a great reaction. Good luck with finishing your song. Taylor talks about her songwriting process as trying to put down on paper everything she's thinking and feeling about a situation in a stream of consciousness kind of way, without judgement or correction, incorporating as many details of the moment - sights, sounds, smells that she can remember so that the song becomes like a snapshot of the moment and what she was feeling and what in was about. She says it's important to chase the song down before she forgets it so she constantly sings into her phone or jots down ideas in her notes. My Tears Ricochet is one of her best songs and one of my favourites among these others: Hoax, This Is Me Trying, Tolerate It and Happiness - from her Folklore and Evermore albums.
Thanks, Madeline!
Just wait until you get to The Great War and/or How Did It End? You sound like a very inspired person and artist, love to hear you dissecting these songs and sharing personal details from your own creative/musician process to the analysis. Such a calming voice and cool set-up as well! You deserve all the subs.
Thank you very much!
I watched your eyes as the song unfolded, and there was deep understanding and love of music. and then you explained the feelings. followed. As for the song you are working on: play it, sing it, but by god record it as you do (every time - make it a habit), as some drops of magic need to be captured when flowing. I can't wait to hear your song once complete. 🥰
Thanks, Anastasia. I'll do that. Will put some more songs out soon. In the meantime, here's 2;
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Such a genuine reaction ◡̈ immediate subscribe! Writing is what Taylor does best and there is no shortage of songs like this! I think you’ll love anything off folklore, evermore or tortured poets department
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I just suscribed. I became myself a swiftie who has listened her for a really long time, but just now Im discovering her gems and all the history behind some lyrics. She's so underated. Its one of the best lyricist, I mean the way she has to describe her emotions... true art
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Taylor is a good pop star. She is also a good songwriter. The two do not always coincide (and nor do they have to for the purposes! - but this is a strength in her particular arsenal)
there is A LOT more. id recommend doing album listen throughs over individual songs too because it hits different within the albums
I'll definitely be listening to the albums on my own time once I've reacted to them.
@@IzzyIzenstain I’d definitely watch a whole hours or more worth of an album reaction because I LOVE your insight which is hard to find haha. If you liked this kind I’d recommend Folklore (thats this album), evermore, tortured poets (the anthology) and for an older album RED.
Taylor’s voice just got better and through the years. It’s so beautiful now.
She worked so hard to get here and continues to do so.
Taylor has dipped into so many genres that it's incredible. Its frustrating that some only see her as this bubblegum pop princess but that is what happens when you start your career at 16 I guess.
You can tell by the look on her face here that she really still feels this song. Im sure people have mentioned in comments what exactly this song is about... contrary to what some might believe, it's not about a lost lover. But "stolen lullabies" is a giveaway that it was about her stolen music.
Folklore and Evermore would be the albums for you.
Exile from the Long Pond is also a must ❤
Coming later this week.