I have to say I liked it a lot when I first heard it, but when I went on a night walk last night just to listen to the album in the right environment, this song really hit me hard. It absolutely deserves its place as track 5!
Omg yes !! Most of the reactions have not appreciated the powerful ness of this song and that word. When she first says tolerate it in the song... it broke me
Tolerate it hits so hard!!! The chorus kills me everytime. It's, like, I've been doing everything to keep you looking at me ('mirrorball') but you just tolerate it. And the line that says 'i know my love should be celebrated but you tolerate it' OMG, TAYLOR, YOU WANT ME TO DROWN IN MY OWN TEARS?? She described every relationship I've ever been in
The track five thing was first coincidental, fans noticed that in her first few albums, she put her saddest, most vulnerable songs on track five, so after that Taylor started to intentionally put her saddest song as track five!
Taylor said Dorothea is the girl singing ‘Tis the Season. So those two songs tie together, she moved to LA to “make it” but they still think of each other.
I read a few other comments saying that Dorethea is the male perspective to Tis the damn season... Maybe she has several layers to the songs like in folklore, so theres never really ONE correct theory..
I love that he’s a reactor that pays attention so closely to the lyrics. You HAVE to in her work and the appreciation is so refreshing. I’d subscribe a hundred times if I could.
Track 13 are always special to her and in her last few albums were about family members. Lover track 13 was about her mom. Folklore track 13 was about her grandpa. This one is about her grandmother.
@@stephenvanchhawng7063 for Me, I always find that bcz she had best day as track 12 on Fearless , for her mom on mother's day, and soon you will get better is also in same way about her mom so personal as track 12
@@MichaelBeveraggi You should definitely react to "Christmas tree farm"! And don't forget to watch her video "Taylor Swift - The Making Of Christmas Tree Farm ". She literally made the whole song in a couple of days, and it's my favorite!
@@MichaelBeveraggi If you listen, you can hear her Grandmother's vocals in the background. Marjorie was an opera singer. She died when Taylor was a teenager.
yes it is marcus mumford indeed ! it was actually rumored that they would be collaborating on something when she posted the video about her re recording the older albums because the background was marcus mumford's home studio! so excited for this!
I'm a huge Swiftie and I can say it's totally fine to say you don't like some songs!! No one should be attacked for it! I don't like Closure tbh. It's one of my least favorite Taylor Swift songs.
She's right!! I'm a swiftie as well and there are some Taylor songs I do not like and I skip them whenever they come up! Don't be sorry for not liking a song, thankfully all of us humans have different preferences :) btw, I love watching your love for Taylor grow, such a genuine reaction to her albums. Pls do Reputation or Red next!
HAIM is a band made up of 3 sisters, the Este who gets murdered in No Body No Crime is Este Haim from the band. They’re some of Taylor’s best friends and so great in their own right you should check them out! Their album is actually up against folklore for Album of the Year at the Grammys this year.
@@MichaelBeveraggi if you see this, HAIM released a remix to 2 of the songs from tbeir most recent grammy-nominated album. One is Gasoline with Taylor, the other is 3AM with Thundercat. They're both great. If you listen to Gasoline, listen to HAIM's original first. The two versions are so very similar, but it's fun to hear Taylor's take on it.
"Were you standing in the hallway With a big cake, happy birthday Did I paint your bluest skies the darkest gray? A universe away And when I got into the accident The sight that flashed before me was your face But when I walked up to the podium I think that I forgot to say your name" Coney Island... once you listen to her other albums and you go back to this you will understand. She makes many connections to other songs and it always makes me smile when she does it.
@City Beautiful Attractions we have always known she releases weird or BAD singles . Well I respect your opinion but I really would like you to give dancing with our hands tied a chance ❤. And btw what's you current favorite from evermore.
I’m pretty sure “Closure” is about Kanye. A couple of months ago Kanye went wild with tweets and tweeted that he wanted to help taylor get her record back and I’m pretty sure this song is taylor basically saying I don’t need to make amends with you... I’m doing better now. That is why this song has that Kanye vibe
Yes. And the jarring, dissonant beat of this song is meant to be distracting and unpleasant, I think. It's HIS beat. It just says "You don't belong here."
You should check out her christmas song then.. Christmas Tree Farm! :) She grew up on one and that‘s what the song is about. Taylors the biggest christmas enthusiast I‘ve ever seen xD
My thoughts on these two albums. Folklore was a midnight confession. While Evermore was waking up to a breaking dawn. Folklore crushed me and left me with a cliffhanger. It was dark and powerful. But Evermore somehow gave me some sort of closure in the end. It's hard to explain this feeling. In Folklore, it was almost like she was looking back at her past and present and trying to find clarity out of all the chaos. But she wasn't still out of the woods yet. There were glimpses of evermore in Folklore too. On the other hand, Evermore lifted my spirit. I genuinely needed it. Look at how Willow picked up from Cardigan in the MV. She was missing a person in Cardigan. It took her on a journey with the help of her music but she came out with empty hands alone in her room. Again, it leaving us with a cliffhanger. But in the next moment she looked down and it wasn't empty anymore. The gold thread pulled her back into another journey but this time, the person followed her as she followed him. And just when she thought nothing has changed, she found her man who was waiting for her all this time. With Folklore, she arrived at the station for a new adventure. And Evermore is the journey on the train. The pain and regrets will still follow her but that's life. You can't avoid it no matter what. And my gut feeling tells me that she needed this when her next project comes out. I maybe wrong but I'm just saying. Now, some may like folklore better than evermore and vice versa. But personally for me i love them both equally because what kind of parent picks a fav child? Maybe some do, but not me. Some of the songs kind of threw me off in Evermore on my 1st listen. But when I listened to both albums back to back again, it made more sense better than I can explain. You just need to be on the right frame of mind devoid of the initial release expectations/rush
Thanks man. I'm enjoying your videos so much. Can't wait to watch Reputation reaction from you and not to forget, her live performances. Great job bro!
love this reaction! also some fun facts: "the road not taken" is referencing "the road less travelled by" from folklore, you're right, but the actual reference is from a poem by robert frost where he said "two roads diverged in a wood and i took the one less travelled by, and that has made all the difference". she referenced this poem in both her songs. she wrote 'tis the damn season while being drunk in the middle of the night
In "tolerate it" she ends the song with "i sit and watch you" because at the end she never really did what she said on the bridge, she only considered to but never did because of fear/sadness, as a result she re-starts the song That's the concept Never telling it... so sad tbh :(
I love Closure. I’m so into the clashing of sounds to help illustrate the breakdown of her relationship with Big Machine. It makes me feel the uncomfortability (is that even a word??) and anger in the situation
you should definitely give HAIM’s album a try! their album “women in music pt.iii” is one of the bests of 2020 too. if folklore is an autumn album and evermore is a winter record, women in music part iii is summery. it kind of pays tribute of the sound of nostalgia - from 60s-70s soft rock to 90s alternative music, with very sunny sound palette. ps. the girl named “este” that taylor mentioned in no body, no crime is actually one of the members of the trio (the three are sisters) but yeah, the song is purely fiction
For me in Closure she sings to kanye west and the sound st the beggining is a way to say its about him without name him, because its a very kanye sound
I think this might be my favourite reaction video ever. Not only because of your spot on comments (tolerate it was an immediate favourite of mine too) but because of how genuine and heartfelt all you comments were. An hour watching this absolutely flew by for me and honestly I could listen to you for hours. Thank you so much for the time spent making this, I hope you know how appreciated it is
Closures not supposed to sound fully complete. It’s a song about her fulfilling the “mad women” role and stripping herself from her usual song composing. Yet she makes the song, with the odd drums in mind to give the idea it’s being ripped from her mouth, to show all the words she wanted to say in response to people assuming things about her/ might apologize for assuming things later
Also I believe it's intentionally grating because of the anger behind it. Her vocals are determinately calm while the music behind is rage and distortion and chaos. It's brilliant artistically. The line "cuts right to the bone" is reflected in the stress we feel in the music. It's one of my favorite tracks now several years on. This album and Midnights 3 a.m. are my go to albums then TTPD.
My theory is that closure is about her old Record Label, Big Machines. She had a huge fall out with the owner of her record label because he refused to sell her music back to her even when she could afford to buy it.
Well now Taylor remains off socials but SHE IS THE BIGGEST STAN OF CHRISTMAS. During 1989 era , she literally handpicked and handpacked gifts for her fans and sent them all over the country . THERE IS LOTS OF FOOTAGE OF PEOPLE RECIEVING VERY SPECIFIC GIFTS AND A LETTER FROM TAYLOR or some of the times Taylor herself reached their houses .
The way people thought she has made the best albums in past ... But she comes back and she proves Everyone wrong ...she can improve in 6 months ..she is damn goddess now
Champagne problems is definitely in the top 10 of my favorite Taylor Swift’s song. Makes me sobbed every time, also one of her best bridge. Fun facts: Joe, her boyfriend, play the piano on the track!!
BTW Taylor is a huge Christmas lover. She even grew up on a christmas tree farm (she has a christmas song called christmas tree farm too btw) and she even did a swiftmas where she sent gifts to fans on christmas a few years ago
Dorothea is the girl singing in ‘Tis The Damn Season, she’s a girl who left her little hometown for fame and stardom in Hollywood, and made fake friends there. She knows the only person left who actually cares about her and knows her is the boy back in her hometown (the one singing Dorothea) so when she comes home for a visit so she stays with him just for that weekend, because she has to leave again for LA “I won’t ask you to wait if you don’t ask me to stay”
Taylor's grandmother Majorie, was an accomplished opera singer! Love that she put both of her grandparents in songs, Epiphany (on Folklore) starts with her talking about her Grandfather serving in the war and this song "Marjorie" about how she influenced Taylor and how she still feels so close to her. On both albums they are track #13, Taylor's favorite number and her birthday is December 13th!
The lyric video for Marjorie is absolutely worth a watch when you get the chance, or maybe you could even make a reaction vid to it? There's all this home footage in it that makes the song hit even harder lol
i just love your reaction man ! your attention to details especially when it comes to lyrics, the way she handles lyrics is what made me a big taylor fan and seeing you appreciate it too, makes me super happy
I agree the instrumentals on Closure is distracting. But she did that for a reason, right? She never does anything without reason. I think maybe that’s the point. I don’t think this is about Kanye but I have heard someone else say that instrumental was similar to something he had done before. So maybe it is about Kanye. That’s the only reason I would think why she would have that instrumental on this track, it kinda ruins it. Whatever the reason, I think that’s the point. It’s supposed to ruin it just like whatever this person did ruined any hope of mending ways, and this instrumental never gets resolved.... it continues to be a distraction. Closure would mean eliminating that instrumental. But she doesn’t need the closure. It has to mean that.
Marjorie Finlay, the opera singer grandmother of Taylor that inspired her. She died on 2003 when Taylor was 13, the time she was finding a record deal on Nashville. the lyric video is more like an actual music video.
I do notice folklore she is a lot breathier and evermore she's singing with much less breath and with a sweet brighter texture. She is a great vocalist.
The first 3 records (Taylor Swift, Fearless and Speak Now) from Taylor are pure country, then she realesed RED which was country and pop. After she got 1989 entirely pop and then Reputation, Lover, Folklore and Evermore
Watch Marjorie's lyric video, she shows videos and moments of her and her grandma Marjorie, her mom's mother who was an opera singer and inspired Tay to become a singer. I whipped watching those moments between her and her grandma.
Dude I was looking forward to your reaction so much. You, Cait, Stephen, Ash, and Ajay are my favorites and I think you have one of the most rounded apprisched to appreciating the different aspects of music. Its a crime that you dont have 100k subs
Ooh Yeah Closure is About Kanye... The instrumental was put there on purpose, and its also on purpose that it sounds annoying and that it doesn't belong there.. You know the message of the song.. Like I don't need your closure.. Like You don't belong in my life :) it makes so.much sense
You could be right, but I think it's more about her old record label "Big Machine", and here are the reasons why . . . 1) I think Kanye has gone off the deep end and hopefully he gets some help, but he is in her rear view mirror. 2) This is someone else's interpretation (and I would give them credit if I remembered their name) the sounds sound mechanical and disjointed like a "Big Machinery" breaking down. And 3) she mentioned getting a letter from someone saying they knew that what happened didn't go down right, that really sounds like Scott Borchetta in hindsight not liking what happened. Which is too bad for him, he should have sold to her instead of Braun.
Not sure if someone's already mentioned this, so I have been a huge Bon Iver fan forever and how Justin Vernon (lead singer of Bon Iver) sounds on 'Evermore' is how he usually sounds. The deep voice in 'Exile' was different from how we're used to hearing him. Also so glad you're doing these reactions coz Folklore was definitely my favourite album last year and I freaked out when she released Evermore so soon after.
This album feels much sadder than folklore, but it's so beautiful. Dare I say, an improvement. I love all of the songs so much. Cowboy like me doesn't really grab me, but the lyrics, as always, are pure genius. I think Coney Island is slept on a little.
dude I literally love you now. I adore the way you talk about her lyricism and just how you hear whatever music you’re listening to... YES. you’re what all reactors should be
In marjorie, they also managed to include a snippet of her grandmother singing and she's credited as a background vocalist on the track! It's a really lovely song, and so incredible how they were able to make it that much more personal with the addition of that detail.
And now, on the Eras tour, she sings with her grandmother in front of 60-80k people every night on tour. I have yet to listen to Marjorie without crying; I don't know how she does it in front of all those people.
You seem like such a pure soul, so genuine and exactly my vibe. You wanna be Taylor's friend, i wanna be yours. Dude you're cool! (Btw, me being English and saying dude un-ironically feels bizarre but it was necessary😅) Sidenote: Coney Island is up there on the album for me, also it is full of references to earlier songs - Dear John, The moment i knew and Out of the woods. Miss Swift is insanely clever, she intertwines ANYTHING and EVERYTHING.
I watched this reaction back when it came out and I really enjoyed your honest comments and sincere emotions. I watch a decent amount of reaction videos, and yours really stand out to me ... so much so that 10 months later, I was looking for something to watch while grading homework and I came back to this. So I just wanted to comment and thank you for producing quality reactions. :)
This is my first time watching you and now I'm going go watch all your Taylor content. I am such a huge Taylor Swift fan and don't really have any other people in my life that understand my adoration for her. You said all things I was feeling about this new album. You understand how much of a stand out writer/singer/artist she is and I love that. I subscribed after the first song reaction.
Not sure if you plan on listening to her entire discography, but DEFINITELY listen to the songs "Dear John" on her Speak Now album, and "All Too Well" on her Red album. These two songs are considered her best during her Country era. The songwriting is absolutely insane. In "Dear John" she's singing about an ex (John Mayer) and she absolutely SLAYS him. The song starts slow and then builds and builds and builds. I also think it's one of her best vocals to date. And in "All Too Well" she takes you through an entire relationship and paints the picture so vividly -- just songwriting genius.
tolerate it hits me so hard. I´ve felt this way about my father for so many years and jesus.. i never ever have made it to the point where I could put the feelings into words, then she did it for me.
Marjorie hits soooo hard for me. I makes me think of my grandma who I spent most of my time with as a child & aunt who I never got to meet because she died when she was 24 but I’ve always felt connected to her somehow. Especially now that I’m 24. When she says “I should have asked you questions. I should have asked you how to be.” Kills me because when we’re young we’re so caught up in our own lives that we forget to ask the people who have already lived how they did it.
For the Closure song, the instrumental that is so crazy could be a representation of several things, the noise and distraction of the media in her life, Kanye, Scooter Braun and his past label.
Marjorie, Taylor’s grandmother, was an opera singer. She is credited for the background vocals on the song that can be heard towards the end. I’m sure her dream was always to sing with her grandmother, so she made that happen. Adds another layer of 🥺 to the song.
Marjorie is about her grandmother who was an opera singer and inspired Taylor. Her grandmothers vocals are also in the song after the lyrics”singing to me now” and at the end of the song
I think "Tolerate it" is about someone who gives everything to her/his lover but that love is tolerate ,its so sad,love tay!try to listen and watch all her albums and MV!she is a queen!
Thank you for recognizing her outworldly talent. Taylor is lady Shakespeare, a poetic princess with a sword of a pen. The fact that she wrote 2 masterful albums in quarantine is mind blowing to me. Like you said, no one else is doing it like her. People who are still hating on her need to check their internalized misogyny and acquire some damn taste for the written word.
29:30 "seven years in heaven" okay so taylor told us in interview with AppleMusic that she wrote this song because her friend was going through a break up. There is a rumour that her bestfriend Abigail, is getting divorce with her husband. They dated since 2013/14 if i am not mistaken. So yeah.........
The things is that Christmas is one of the highlights of her year because December is literally here birth month. And she grew up in a Christmas Tree Fam so yeah Christmas and Taylor Swift goes hand in hand 😄💗
I have read the comments and I have different take on the song Closure. That song, for me, is not about Kanye but her former label. BIG MACHINE. As you can notice, the backing sound seems like a broken computer (a broken machine), a very beautiful and clever way of relating her relationship with her former record. And if you'll watch her "making of the song" series on her album Reputation, there's a part there where one of the producer make a random piano sound like the sound in closure and Taylor said this: "Is it weird, i like it, it sounds like a broken computer"
coney island is my fav track of the album and i wanna cry everytime i listen to “and when i got into the accident, the sight that flashed before me was your face” “when the sun goes down, the sight that flash before me was your face” referencing out of the woods (one of my favs tracks from 1989). i love her mind 🥺🩹❤️
I know you probably won’t see this but I would loooooovvveeeee for you to react to The National in general but in particular their 2013 album Trouble Will Find Me. It’s one of those very rare albums that for me at least, every single song is really good and many are in my favorite songs of all time. When you asked “who writes like this?” In this video I involuntarily responded with “The National” before even thinking about it. Their lyrics are similarly profound, poetic and prolific.
Yes! I think Closure is supposed to be annoying/distracting on purpose, almost ironical. It’s about Kanye, and he uses similar sounds in his music. Edited to add: Almost like she won’t give him the privilege of another GOOD song instrumentally. By being the shortest song on the album, I think she may have been relaying the message that she doesn’t want to waste more of her time on him now, or going forward.
I heard it could also be about big machine records/scooter & scott situation and the instrumental is supposed to sound like a "big machine" breaking. I really like both ideas, and the song has really grown on me. hope she talks about it
When I first heard Tolerate it, it killed me. Finally someone appreciated this song. I found some people it went over their head.
I have to say I liked it a lot when I first heard it, but when I went on a night walk last night just to listen to the album in the right environment, this song really hit me hard. It absolutely deserves its place as track 5!
Omg yes !! Most of the reactions have not appreciated the powerful ness of this song and that word. When she first says tolerate it in the song... it broke me
It's in my top 3 with this the damn season and no body, no crime
Tolerate it hits so hard!!! The chorus kills me everytime. It's, like, I've been doing everything to keep you looking at me ('mirrorball') but you just tolerate it. And the line that says 'i know my love should be celebrated but you tolerate it' OMG, TAYLOR, YOU WANT ME TO DROWN IN MY OWN TEARS?? She described every relationship I've ever been in
Yes, Tolerate It is so violently moving.
This is the most genuine Evermore reaction I've ever watched
♥️♥️♥️ thank you so much for the kind words & for joining me
His and Jon Denton's are my favorite. These two guys also appreciate the details and nuances of songwriting and instrumental a lot better than anyone.
@@AnnaS-cz1oc for me Steven in Stereo and Chats and Reacts
I love how he doesn’t talk about how Taylor just murdered Este’s husband AT ALL
"It's so country!"
time stamps:
3:03 willow
7:19 champagne problems
11:20 gold rush
14:09 'tis the damn season
17:05 tolerate it
24:22 no body, no crime
28:47 happiness
32:17 dorothea
33:42 coney island
38:32 ivy
40:45 cowboy like me
42:51 long story short
46:25 marjorie
51:07 closure
57:43 evermore
The track five thing was first coincidental, fans noticed that in her first few albums, she put her saddest, most vulnerable songs on track five, so after that Taylor started to intentionally put her saddest song as track five!
It makes sense that mirrorball is the saddest in folklore
@@kyjobee2184 BYE I-
Mirrorball is track 6. My tears ricochet is track 5 😭
@@andydang9647 yeah I realized this for some time now and I’ve been thinking about my comment 😭😭
@@kyjobee2184 PLSSSSS😭😭😭
@@kyjobee2184 not only that but also, either My tears richochet or hoax or 7 is for sure the saddest song
Taylor said Dorothea is the girl singing ‘Tis the Season. So those two songs tie together, she moved to LA to “make it” but they still think of each other.
I thought Dorothea was about Selena!
I read a few other comments saying that Dorethea is the male perspective to Tis the damn season... Maybe she has several layers to the songs like in folklore, so theres never really ONE correct theory..
where did she say that? any interview i can watch/read ?
no, Dorothea is the male perspective
marjorie is her grandmother, and the vocals on the outro is a sample of her (she was a well known opera singer and one of Taylor’s musical heroes)
I love that he’s a reactor that pays attention so closely to the lyrics. You HAVE to in her work and the appreciation is so refreshing. I’d subscribe a hundred times if I could.
Track 13 are always special to her and in her last few albums were about family members. Lover track 13 was about her mom. Folklore track 13 was about her grandpa. This one is about her grandmother.
Soon you'll get better is track 12 tho
@@stephenvanchhawng7063 for Me, I always find that bcz she had best day as track 12 on Fearless , for her mom on mother's day, and soon you will get better is also in same way about her mom so personal as track 12
false god is not about her mom
@@ellabardz3514 ya never know 😏
i’m joking btw
In “Long Story Short” she isn’t bending the pronunciation of Nemesis. She’s using the plural form Nemeses :)
Yessss
I was going to comment this!
yes. I didn't see this and commented the same thing. Sorry!
Did he just cut the entire champagne problems bridge???????!!!!! 😭😭
I screamed
I came back like three times bc I couldn't believe it
TH-cam cut it.
and the majorie bridge😭
A PART OF ME JUST😭😭✋
All her track 5s are most vulnerable and honest ones from the album.
Taylor loves Christmas. She actually grew up on a Christmas tree farm and she even has a song called like that.
Omgosh didn’t think I could love her more
also her birthday is on December 13th so she naturally just loves December
@@MichaelBeveraggi She also has an entire Christmas album she made really early on in her career! The woman is obsessed with Christmas!
@@MichaelBeveraggi You should definitely react to "Christmas tree farm"! And don't forget to watch her video "Taylor Swift - The Making Of Christmas Tree Farm
". She literally made the whole song in a couple of days, and it's my favorite!
@@MichaelBeveraggi One word: Swiftmas
Marjorie is Taylor’s grandmother
🥺♥️
@@MichaelBeveraggi If you listen, you can hear her Grandmother's vocals in the background. Marjorie was an opera singer. She died when Taylor was a teenager.
She did credit the background vocalist on Cowboy like me! It’s Marcus Mumford from Mumford and Sons (:
WHAT!!? LOVE Mumford!!
yes it is marcus mumford indeed ! it was actually rumored that they would be collaborating on something when she posted the video about her re recording the older albums because the background was marcus mumford's home studio! so excited for this!
This is another major collab I am now crossing my fingers for :) Mumford and Sons with Taylor.
@@AnnaS-cz1oc aren´t we all? that'd be epic!
Does anyone know whos the back up vocal in tis the damn season
folklore cameout exactly 139 days before evermore which is
1+3+9 = 13 ✨
"Not her job to be a rapper"
Me-=laughs in Reputation=-
She rapped in 2 songs in that album I think haha
I'm a huge Swiftie and I can say it's totally fine to say you don't like some songs!! No one should be attacked for it! I don't like Closure tbh. It's one of my least favorite Taylor Swift songs.
😅 thanks so much for your open-mindedness and acceptance Abrielle ♥️
She's right!! I'm a swiftie as well and there are some Taylor songs I do not like and I skip them whenever they come up! Don't be sorry for not liking a song, thankfully all of us humans have different preferences :) btw, I love watching your love for Taylor grow, such a genuine reaction to her albums. Pls do Reputation or Red next!
@@MichaelBeveraggi i'm a swiftie for 8 years and i hide closure from my spotify 😌😌😌😩
Closure and stay stay stay☠️
@@kamallb4650 I like Stay Stay Stay. Not Closure though.
HAIM is a band made up of 3 sisters, the Este who gets murdered in No Body No Crime is Este Haim from the band. They’re some of Taylor’s best friends and so great in their own right you should check them out! Their album is actually up against folklore for Album of the Year at the Grammys this year.
Wow I had no idea! I’ll have to check them out!
Danielle is in it
@@MichaelBeveraggi if you see this, HAIM released a remix to 2 of the songs from tbeir most recent grammy-nominated album. One is Gasoline with Taylor, the other is 3AM with Thundercat. They're both great. If you listen to Gasoline, listen to HAIM's original first. The two versions are so very similar, but it's fun to hear Taylor's take on it.
"Were you standing in the hallway
With a big cake, happy birthday
Did I paint your bluest skies the darkest gray?
A universe away
And when I got into the accident
The sight that flashed before me was your face
But when I walked up to the podium
I think that I forgot to say your name"
Coney Island... once you listen to her other albums and you go back to this you will understand. She makes many connections to other songs and it always makes me smile when she does it.
Damn you haven't even heard RED and REPUTATION yet and you already love Taylor this much . ❤️❤️
Right !??
Can’t wait to see him freak out with Speak Now and how she wrote it all by herself at such young age.
@City Beautiful Attractions we have always known she releases weird or BAD singles . Well I respect your opinion but I really would like you to give dancing with our hands tied a chance ❤. And btw what's you current favorite from evermore.
@City Beautiful Attractions Taylor doesn't have a worst album, I would call it weak rather than worst actually
@@tantheta2184 get away car
I’m pretty sure “Closure” is about Kanye. A couple of months ago Kanye went wild with tweets and tweeted that he wanted to help taylor get her record back and I’m pretty sure this song is taylor basically saying I don’t need to make amends with you... I’m doing better now. That is why this song has that Kanye vibe
same thought!
Yes, same!
I think it's more likely that closure is about her old record label
Yes. And the jarring, dissonant beat of this song is meant to be distracting and unpleasant, I think. It's HIS beat. It just says "You don't belong here."
I also think the chaotic instrumental is meant to signify a break down of a big machine (Big Machine was her old label that screwed her over)
"Closure' is about Big Machine Records, her old record label, and the instrumentals is literally a machine sound
You should check out her christmas song then.. Christmas Tree Farm! :) She grew up on one and that‘s what the song is about. Taylors the biggest christmas enthusiast I‘ve ever seen xD
She’s officially my best friend then! 😭
My thoughts on these two albums.
Folklore was a midnight confession. While Evermore was waking up to a breaking dawn.
Folklore crushed me and left me with a cliffhanger. It was dark and powerful.
But Evermore somehow gave me some sort of closure in the end. It's hard to explain this feeling.
In Folklore, it was almost like she was looking back at her past and present and trying to find clarity out of all the chaos. But she wasn't still out of the woods yet. There were glimpses of evermore in Folklore too.
On the other hand, Evermore lifted my spirit. I genuinely needed it. Look at how Willow picked up from Cardigan in the MV. She was missing a person in Cardigan. It took her on a journey with the help of her music but she came out with empty hands alone in her room. Again, it leaving us with a cliffhanger.
But in the next moment she looked down and it wasn't empty anymore. The gold thread pulled her back into another journey but this time, the person followed her as she followed him. And just when she thought nothing has changed, she found her man who was waiting for her all this time.
With Folklore, she arrived at the station for a new adventure. And Evermore is the journey on the train. The pain and regrets will still follow her but that's life. You can't avoid it no matter what.
And my gut feeling tells me that she needed this when her next project comes out. I maybe wrong but I'm just saying.
Now, some may like folklore better than evermore and vice versa. But personally for me i love them both equally because what kind of parent picks a fav child? Maybe some do, but not me.
Some of the songs kind of threw me off in Evermore on my 1st listen. But when I listened to both albums back to back again, it made more sense better than I can explain. You just need to be on the right frame of mind devoid of the initial release expectations/rush
Beautifully stated Eric!
Thanks man. I'm enjoying your videos so much. Can't wait to watch Reputation reaction from you and not to forget, her live performances. Great job bro!
the satisfaction of the 2 album😍
love this reaction! also some fun facts:
"the road not taken" is referencing "the road less travelled by" from folklore, you're right, but the actual reference is from a poem by robert frost where he said "two roads diverged in a wood and i took the one less travelled by, and that has made all the difference". she referenced this poem in both her songs.
she wrote 'tis the damn season while being drunk in the middle of the night
For me the sister of gold rush is mirrorball... I mean they have the same vibes for me. 💙💛
Ooohh I like this one! 🤔✨
It does vibe like cardigan how it just flows constantly.
Same
Yes gold rush is mirror ball,
willow is invisible string
Exile and coney Island
August and Tis the damn season
Dorothea and Betty
In "tolerate it" she ends the song with "i sit and watch you" because at the end she never really did what she said on the bridge, she only considered to but never did because of fear/sadness, as a result she re-starts the song
That's the concept
Never telling it... so sad tbh :(
Closure - am I the only person who adores this song? It’s so industrial NIN feel - so much love for this one ❤️
I liked it a lot too
I love Closure. I’m so into the clashing of sounds to help illustrate the breakdown of her relationship with Big Machine. It makes me feel the uncomfortability (is that even a word??) and anger in the situation
Me too
Not me checking your channel every few hours since this album dropped 👀
Thank you!
No, Thank You Jalesa!
you should definitely give HAIM’s album a try! their album “women in music pt.iii” is one of the bests of 2020 too. if folklore is an autumn album and evermore is a winter record, women in music part iii is summery. it kind of pays tribute of the sound of nostalgia - from 60s-70s soft rock to 90s alternative music, with very sunny sound palette.
ps. the girl named “este” that taylor mentioned in no body, no crime is actually one of the members of the trio (the three are sisters) but yeah, the song is purely fiction
For me in Closure she sings to kanye west and the sound st the beggining is a way to say its about him without name him, because its a very kanye sound
I think this might be my favourite reaction video ever. Not only because of your spot on comments (tolerate it was an immediate favourite of mine too) but because of how genuine and heartfelt all you comments were. An hour watching this absolutely flew by for me and honestly I could listen to you for hours. Thank you so much for the time spent making this, I hope you know how appreciated it is
Joe Alwyn with Taylor from Reputation, Lover, Folklore & Evermore four albums!!! and i hope he gonna be her forever i love see her happy 💜
Closures not supposed to sound fully complete. It’s a song about her fulfilling the “mad women” role and stripping herself from her usual song composing. Yet she makes the song, with the odd drums in mind to give the idea it’s being ripped from her mouth, to show all the words she wanted to say in response to people assuming things about her/ might apologize for assuming things later
Also I believe it's intentionally grating because of the anger behind it. Her vocals are determinately calm while the music behind is rage and distortion and chaos. It's brilliant artistically. The line "cuts right to the bone" is reflected in the stress we feel in the music. It's one of my favorite tracks now several years on. This album and Midnights 3 a.m. are my go to albums then TTPD.
Taylor was always a country artist, until 2014 when she change to pop. She made 4 country albums
I felt the same way about closure. Strong Kanye vibes.
I kinda hated the spoons with vessels beats.
I think the song is also addressing Kanye somewhere.
I thought maybe Scooter- but maybe Kanye.
My theory is that closure is about her old Record Label, Big Machines. She had a huge fall out with the owner of her record label because he refused to sell her music back to her even when she could afford to buy it.
Well now Taylor remains off socials but SHE IS THE BIGGEST STAN OF CHRISTMAS. During 1989 era , she literally handpicked and handpacked gifts for her fans and sent them all over the country . THERE IS LOTS OF FOOTAGE OF PEOPLE RECIEVING VERY SPECIFIC GIFTS AND A LETTER FROM TAYLOR or some of the times Taylor herself reached their houses .
The way people thought she has made the best albums in past ... But she comes back and she proves Everyone wrong ...she can improve in 6 months ..she is damn goddess now
Champagne problems is definitely in the top 10 of my favorite Taylor Swift’s song. Makes me sobbed every time, also one of her best bridge. Fun facts: Joe, her boyfriend, play the piano on the track!!
he skipped the bridge the best part!
BTW Taylor is a huge Christmas lover. She even grew up on a christmas tree farm (she has a christmas song called christmas tree farm too btw) and she even did a swiftmas where she sent gifts to fans on christmas a few years ago
Dorothea is the girl singing in ‘Tis The Damn Season, she’s a girl who left her little hometown for fame and stardom in Hollywood, and made fake friends there. She knows the only person left who actually cares about her and knows her is the boy back in her hometown (the one singing Dorothea) so when she comes home for a visit so she stays with him just for that weekend, because she has to leave again for LA
“I won’t ask you to wait if you don’t ask me to stay”
Interesting view
And Dorothea is inspired on Selena Gomez
I’m watching your Taylor videos back to back. I see your books on your piano, come on over to the Booktube corner of TH-cam. 😆♥️❄️
Taylor's grandmother Majorie, was an accomplished opera singer! Love that she put both of her grandparents in songs, Epiphany (on Folklore) starts with her talking about her Grandfather serving in the war and this song "Marjorie" about how she influenced Taylor and how she still feels so close to her. On both albums they are track #13, Taylor's favorite number and her birthday is December 13th!
The lyric video for Marjorie is absolutely worth a watch when you get the chance, or maybe you could even make a reaction vid to it? There's all this home footage in it that makes the song hit even harder lol
i just love your reaction man ! your attention to details especially when it comes to lyrics, the way she handles lyrics is what made me a big taylor fan and seeing you appreciate it too, makes me super happy
Ahh thank you so much my friend! Glad we could enjoy this so much together!
Yes her first three albums were country. Self titled, Fearless and Speak now.
I agree the instrumentals on Closure is distracting. But she did that for a reason, right? She never does anything without reason. I think maybe that’s the point. I don’t think this is about Kanye but I have heard someone else say that instrumental was similar to something he had done before. So maybe it is about Kanye. That’s the only reason I would think why she would have that instrumental on this track, it kinda ruins it. Whatever the reason, I think that’s the point. It’s supposed to ruin it just like whatever this person did ruined any hope of mending ways, and this instrumental never gets resolved.... it continues to be a distraction. Closure would mean eliminating that instrumental. But she doesn’t need the closure. It has to mean that.
It can be about her ex record label Big Machine that's why it sounds like Big Machine breaking down.
44:00 Nemeses is the plural of nemesis. She didn't have to bend the word, she's just saying there's more than one 🖤
Marjorie Finlay, the opera singer grandmother of Taylor that inspired her. She died on 2003 when Taylor was 13, the time she was finding a record deal on Nashville. the lyric video is more like an actual music video.
I do notice folklore she is a lot breathier and evermore she's singing with much less breath and with a sweet brighter texture. She is a great vocalist.
The first 3 records (Taylor Swift, Fearless and Speak Now) from Taylor are pure country, then she realesed RED which was country and pop. After she got 1989 entirely pop and then Reputation, Lover, Folklore and Evermore
Watch Marjorie's lyric video, she shows videos and moments of her and her grandma Marjorie, her mom's mother who was an opera singer and inspired Tay to become a singer. I whipped watching those moments between her and her grandma.
WERE YOU LISTENING TO THE CLEAN VERSION? also, this album really is THE shit
UGH
He didnt react that line in Champaign Problems and I was so shocked
I was so thrown off hearing the clean versions of these 😅
Came to say this. The clean versions aren't even close to the explicit versions. Stop making that mistake!
Dude I was looking forward to your reaction so much. You, Cait, Stephen, Ash, and Ajay are my favorites and I think you have one of the most rounded apprisched to appreciating the different aspects of music. Its a crime that you dont have 100k subs
Yes! Love them all. And Dylan if he was still making reactions. I feel like he would’ve absolutely these albums. Considering his reaction to This Love
She released a Christmas song last year . Listen to it . CHRISTMAS TREE FARM
Would love to see a little tour of all the vinyls/CDs you have on your walls!
Ooh Yeah Closure is About Kanye... The instrumental was put there on purpose, and its also on purpose that it sounds annoying and that it doesn't belong there.. You know the message of the song.. Like I don't need your closure.. Like You don't belong in my life :)
it makes so.much sense
I immediately thought of Kanye, but I also thought of the Scooter braun/scott thing.
You could be right, but I think it's more about her old record label "Big Machine", and here are the reasons why . . . 1) I think Kanye has gone off the deep end and hopefully he gets some help, but he is in her rear view mirror. 2) This is someone else's interpretation (and I would give them credit if I remembered their name) the sounds sound mechanical and disjointed like a "Big Machinery" breaking down. And 3) she mentioned getting a letter from someone saying they knew that what happened didn't go down right, that really sounds like Scott Borchetta in hindsight not liking what happened. Which is too bad for him, he should have sold to her instead of Braun.
I like how the "sh*t" word in Tolerate It was bleeped, then few seconds later you said the same uncensored hahahhhaa
Not sure if someone's already mentioned this, so I have been a huge Bon Iver fan forever and how Justin Vernon (lead singer of Bon Iver) sounds on 'Evermore' is how he usually sounds. The deep voice in 'Exile' was different from how we're used to hearing him.
Also so glad you're doing these reactions coz Folklore was definitely my favourite album last year and I freaked out when she released Evermore so soon after.
I will love to keep following you in your deep dive into Taylor Swift discography - you really get her clever writing.
You have a fantastic vibe and you have the most thorough reaction I’ve seen yet. Subscribed to you ✨
You've GOT to react to her country albums! She's such a fantastic genre hopper
This album feels much sadder than folklore, but it's so beautiful. Dare I say, an improvement. I love all of the songs so much. Cowboy like me doesn't really grab me, but the lyrics, as always, are pure genius. I think Coney Island is slept on a little.
dude I literally love you now. I adore the way you talk about her lyricism and just how you hear whatever music you’re listening to... YES. you’re what all reactors should be
In marjorie, they also managed to include a snippet of her grandmother singing and she's credited as a background vocalist on the track! It's a really lovely song, and so incredible how they were able to make it that much more personal with the addition of that detail.
And now, on the Eras tour, she sings with her grandmother in front of 60-80k people every night on tour. I have yet to listen to Marjorie without crying; I don't know how she does it in front of all those people.
Your reactions are so genuine and heartfelt...i just found your channel and it's great♥️
You seem like such a pure soul, so genuine and exactly my vibe. You wanna be Taylor's friend, i wanna be yours. Dude you're cool!
(Btw, me being English and saying dude un-ironically feels bizarre but it was necessary😅)
Sidenote: Coney Island is up there on the album for me, also it is full of references to earlier songs - Dear John, The moment i knew and Out of the woods. Miss Swift is insanely clever, she intertwines ANYTHING and EVERYTHING.
I watched this reaction back when it came out and I really enjoyed your honest comments and sincere emotions. I watch a decent amount of reaction videos, and yours really stand out to me ... so much so that 10 months later, I was looking for something to watch while grading homework and I came back to this. So I just wanted to comment and thank you for producing quality reactions. :)
I love your TS reactions! ❤ i like listening to you about the lyrics. Keep up the great work!
Am I the only one who loves closure, please...
YOU ARE NOT ALONE!!! I’M HERE
Marjorie brings me to tears every time i hear it. It's so beautiful!!!
This is my first time watching you and now I'm going go watch all your Taylor content. I am such a huge Taylor Swift fan and don't really have any other people in my life that understand my adoration for her. You said all things I was feeling about this new album. You understand how much of a stand out writer/singer/artist she is and I love that. I subscribed after the first song reaction.
Not sure if you plan on listening to her entire discography, but DEFINITELY listen to the songs "Dear John" on her Speak Now album, and "All Too Well" on her Red album. These two songs are considered her best during her Country era. The songwriting is absolutely insane. In "Dear John" she's singing about an ex (John Mayer) and she absolutely SLAYS him. The song starts slow and then builds and builds and builds. I also think it's one of her best vocals to date. And in "All Too Well" she takes you through an entire relationship and paints the picture so vividly -- just songwriting genius.
tolerate it hits me so hard. I´ve felt this way about my father for so many years and jesus.. i never ever have made it to the point where I could put the feelings into words, then she did it for me.
I absolutely love watching the birth of a new swiftie 😍
Don’t worry if you do not like all of the songs- not even all swifties like every song she releases. I love your honest reactions so keep them up!!
Marjorie hits soooo hard for me. I makes me think of my grandma who I spent most of my time with as a child & aunt who I never got to meet because she died when she was 24 but I’ve always felt connected to her somehow. Especially now that I’m 24. When she says “I should have asked you questions. I should have asked you how to be.” Kills me because when we’re young we’re so caught up in our own lives that we forget to ask the people who have already lived how they did it.
For the Closure song, the instrumental that is so crazy could be a representation of several things, the noise and distraction of the media in her life, Kanye, Scooter Braun and his past label.
Thank you for reacting to evermore. Patiently waiting for your reputation and RED 😂
Marjorie, Taylor’s grandmother, was an opera singer. She is credited for the background vocals on the song that can be heard towards the end. I’m sure her dream was always to sing with her grandmother, so she made that happen. Adds another layer of 🥺 to the song.
I love the reaction
Marjorie is about her grandmother who was an opera singer and inspired Taylor. Her grandmothers vocals are also in the song after the lyrics”singing to me now” and at the end of the song
I want you to react Speak Now, especially Enchanted in there
Would he survive ? Enchanted - dear john - last kiss are just masterpieces that hit you in the feels
I think "Tolerate it" is about someone who gives everything to her/his lover but that love is tolerate ,its so sad,love tay!try to listen and watch all her albums and MV!she is a queen!
Thank you for recognizing her outworldly talent. Taylor is lady Shakespeare, a poetic princess with a sword of a pen. The fact that she wrote 2 masterful albums in quarantine is mind blowing to me. Like you said, no one else is doing it like her. People who are still hating on her need to check their internalized misogyny and acquire some damn taste for the written word.
In long story short, "nemeses" is actually just plural for "nemesis". Shes not pronouncing it special like you thought.
Ahhh my damn my overactive brain
@@MichaelBeveraggi you're totally fine! Welcome to the Swift appreciation club! I'm enjoying your reaction videos :)
@@euphemiarules9 so happy to be apart of the club ♥️
29:30 "seven years in heaven" okay so taylor told us in interview with AppleMusic that she wrote this song because her friend was going through a break up. There is a rumour that her bestfriend Abigail, is getting divorce with her husband. They dated since 2013/14 if i am not mistaken. So yeah.........
The things is that Christmas is one of the highlights of her year because December is literally here birth month. And she grew up in a Christmas Tree Fam so yeah Christmas and Taylor Swift goes hand in hand 😄💗
I have read the comments and I have different take on the song Closure. That song, for me, is not about Kanye but her former label. BIG MACHINE. As you can notice, the backing sound seems like a broken computer (a broken machine), a very beautiful and clever way of relating her relationship with her former record.
And if you'll watch her "making of the song" series on her album Reputation, there's a part there where one of the producer make a random piano sound like the sound in closure and Taylor said this: "Is it weird, i like it, it sounds like a broken computer"
Here in 2024...yes stand cry scream we love real reactions in real time. Love your reactions. Taylor keeps giving greatness
your reaction on 'tolerate it' 🥺
i feel you 🥺🥺🥺
coney island is my fav track of the album and i wanna cry everytime i listen to “and when i got into the accident, the sight that flashed before me was your face” “when the sun goes down, the sight that flash before me was your face” referencing out of the woods (one of my favs tracks from 1989). i love her mind 🥺🩹❤️
I know you probably won’t see this but I would loooooovvveeeee for you to react to The National in general but in particular their 2013 album Trouble Will Find Me. It’s one of those very rare albums that for me at least, every single song is really good and many are in my favorite songs of all time. When you asked “who writes like this?” In this video I involuntarily responded with “The National” before even thinking about it. Their lyrics are similarly profound, poetic and prolific.
Love this reaction just because tolerate it finally got what it deserves
Been waiting for this❤❤
Yes! I think Closure is supposed to be annoying/distracting on purpose, almost ironical. It’s about Kanye, and he uses similar sounds in his music.
Edited to add: Almost like she won’t give him the privilege of another GOOD song instrumentally. By being the shortest song on the album, I think she may have been relaying the message that she doesn’t want to waste more of her time on him now, or going forward.
I heard it could also be about big machine records/scooter & scott situation and the instrumental is supposed to sound like a "big machine" breaking. I really like both ideas, and the song has really grown on me. hope she talks about it
I will never stop commenting but when you sung that 'teardrop in my guitar' I SAY YOU MAKE A COVER OF IT HUHU
Another lyrical genius is Dermot Kennedy!! i both adore them for their poetry-style songwriting 😍