She’s smiling there as she’s delivering a censored line. She sings here “would you tell me to go straight to hell” instead of the original lyric “would you tell me to go F myself”. Her fans know and this is a little cheeky interaction with them 😃
It should be “would you tell me to go F>€£ myself” not “go to hell”. That’s the smile. I wish they’d understand because when people talk about something they don’t understand has me yelling at the iPad. 🙊😣
She is also singing to a camera not an audience since this was during the pandemic. Her country voice came out because this is for the American Country Music Awards.
I love that Taylor introduced this song as her explaining to men how to apologise while everyone else universally agrees that that is the worst apology known to mankind😂
This was filmed during Covid and she was actually very sick. But she doesn’t cancel obligations so she did it. She was INCREDIBLY sick with a fever in Singapore, but just kept singing every night for the people who paid A LOT OF MONEY to see her. She’s a true beauty who loves her fans.
As I agree she doesn't cancel because she is a true professional where are you getting this she was so sick in Singapore? She is on a video coughing & clearing her through once and the social media rumor's turned into she's incredible sick with a fever? She was out with her boyfriend on date nights and out to dinner lol.
This is actually censored when she said will you tell me to go Straight to hell. In actual song she says will you tell me to go f myself that's why she smiled at that part😂
@@EricAriel5 so true. and, she released a clean version of the album for country radio (and parents with little ones); and the ACM awards are, well, country.
😉 I'm at the point where you're laughing about her smiling ==== this is the "clean" version of the album --- which was what played on country radio. This is the ACM awards, after all. She's laughing because of the lyrics change. Also, if no one tells you -- she did her own hair and makeup; this was still during the pandemic. She did that for the Long Pond Sessions, and her music videos (Cardigan and Willow) also. This young lady looks better as she ages!
The order on the album is Cardigan, August, Betty so that’s how I think they should go. The last lines from James loop straight back around to the beginning when Betty says that “I knew you would come back to me”.
In the Long Pond Sessions, she says Cardigan was written from a POV years later; that in her head, they got back together. If so, she is still giving him grief years after the fact. I noted in the video that the sweater she puts on at the end looks waaay too big for her --- I took that to be his. And he's still trying to make it up to her. . . . . lol
3:20 Taylor is actually singing the clean version of this song, and the reason why she’s smiling through it was because she say straight to hell when the actual lyrics are to go f myself. 😂
TS has been performing since she was 14 to intimate and massive crowds, I have yet to see her nervous even when she makes mistakes or something technical goes wrong or others mess up. If she smiles, like most times, there’s a reason as others have explained. And thanks again for reacting to the trilogy! 💜
In the southeast US, a lot of older English word meanings persist in the language. Not the first time for an American song. Rick Nelson, Garden Party (1972) I went to a garden party To reminisce with my old friends A chance to share old memories And play our songs again
In the Long Pond studio sessions documentary she said that Cardigan is written from Betty's point of view as an adult reflecting on what James put her through when they were teenagers. She said that in her mind James and Betty ended up together bc Betty forgave him.
You were not wrong about the timeline, they actually don't align. Betty is during HS when everything happened (17s), August is some time later because the summer has already ended, to me it sounds like just a few years later (20ish), then Cardigan is an adult Betty reminiscing years later (to me it feels like 30-40 ish). Which I also enjoy because not only do we get different povs, but also how their scars are in different timelines.
What I've seen people saying is: August: past Betty: present Cardigan: future I do think it is pretty on point. The things in Betty are happening at the time when Betty found out and James is still trying to win her over, while Cardigan is Betty years later reflecting back on it. But August is right after summer ended. She even says "will you call when you're back to school?". It feels very recent to Agustine. Like it really just happened and she's trying to deal with it ("I can see us (...)" she's definitely not over it yet) and also she saying "remember when I pulled up and said get in the car?" It just feels like a too specific thing for you to remember years later (maybe even months, depending on the person)
@@carolinamansur113 that makes sense, I completely overlooked that "will you call when you're back at school line." I always thought about it being later, but not too far out like Cardigan, but I feel you're right and August does make sense being before Betty in the Timeline. Thanks for sharing that! ✌🏼😊
So my understanding is Betty is at the start of a new school year, but references an end of year dance (prom, maybe) in which James' insecurities get the best of him and he leaves Betty behind at a dance. As he's walking home, Augustine pulls up, they end up hanging out. So August is at the end of the summer, from Augustine's POV, as she's realizing James used her as a summer fling. We snap back to Betty, at the point where James has seen her at school a few times and has finally worked up the nerve to go explain himself to Betty. His song ends right at the same moment that Cardigan does, when she opens the front door and sees James standing on the front porch. However, having said that, some of the lyrics make me feel like the kids actually older than teens. But I'm probably out of touch.
@@Lady_vesuviusThe sense of passage of time in “Cardigan” really gives it a more pulled back perspective as Betty’s sharing a collection of memories from over years. Also interesting that while “Betty” has some great storytelling it also is lyrically and sonically much simpler than the songs sung from Betty and Augustine’s perspectives. So even if Taylor’s head cannon is that Betty and James are end game, she also casts some wicked shade at James as the junior partner in that romantic triangle in terms of maturity and emotional intelligence.
BETTY perfectly captures the vulnerability of young love and reminds us that we also did terrible things in the past in different situations and despite being repentant as adults we tend to make the same mistakes. It also portrays to us the type of person James is with his contradictory statements and signals. The irony with Inez who got a reputation for being unreliable, but who at that moment was the only one to tell the truth.
This was at the CMA awards 2020 during COVID so the auditorium was empty. It was just her and the cameras ppl. She did her hair and her makeup, etc. bc their were no other staff on sight but the essential ones to tape the show.
We get both James and Augustine POVs of their relationship. Here James is apologizing to Betty and calling his affair “a summer thing” and her being “a figment of my worst intentions” which is awful because in august she refers to him as “summer love” and how she can still see them “twisted in bedsheets” when we know James was thinking of Betty then. Basically James sucks and Betty shouldn’t have taken him back 😒
FYI…this is how she introduced her best friends Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds third child’s name …Inez. They already had James Reynolds and. betty..now, their youngest, is Inez. This album was the beginning of Taylor writing songs from a place of imagination,
I enjoyed you reaction. If you enjoy the poetic side of Swift’s work, here’s a few more songs you might want to check out: Death By a Thousand Cuts from Lover Peace from Folklore Hoax from Folklore Ivy from Evermore Whether or not you decide to react to them, I think they are lyrically rich songs. 😊 Also, as a poet, the rabbit hole of Swift as one of the “New Romantics” (she actually has a song by that name) is really interesting. I won’t go into detail here in case you’re not interested 😊, but that’s something I’ve had fun exploring.
Re "garden". I'm from Ireland and in Ireland and uk we refer to our back yard as the back garden or just garden. So when i hear garden i just think back yard. I don't think people from the US say garden for backyard? Maybe she was partly anglicised by Joe Alwyn here?
@@skepticalmaidenshe meant that in the UK they don’t call their backyard backyards, instead they refer it or call it garden. It doesn’t mean that they have flowers, fruits and vegetables that’s just what they call them😊
Eu sempre amei essa musica e a letra dela sempre me "revoltou" com o James tentando a todo momento minimizar a situação e manipular ela, e piorou quando eu percebi que durante toda a música ele não epde desculpa nenhuma vez kkkkkk
Something definitely happened and she just sang it. They got back together. They still did the things they did before. Him seeing her in a cardigan, kissing in the car... etc. I’m surprised that you didn’t get that.
If you listen August again, you will understand how the other girl felt about about the relationship that summer while James "dreamed of you all summer long..."(betty). Long story short James sucks 👍🏼
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She’s smiling there as she’s delivering a censored line. She sings here “would you tell me to go straight to hell” instead of the original lyric “would you tell me to go F myself”. Her fans know and this is a little cheeky interaction with them 😃
She’s smiling because she’s censoring the line lol
It should be “would you tell me to go F>€£ myself” not “go to hell”. That’s the smile. I wish they’d understand because when people talk about something they don’t understand has me yelling at the iPad. 🙊😣
That little knowing smirk of a smile is when was she supposed sing the f-word but couldn't. I love this performance.
Taylor's storytelling is elite.
Also, an interesting fact. James, Inez, and Betty are the names of her good friends' daughters...Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds.
She is also singing to a camera not an audience since this was during the pandemic. Her country voice came out because this is for the American Country Music Awards.
@@lauriemathis3225 TRUE
I love that Taylor introduced this song as her explaining to men how to apologise while everyone else universally agrees that that is the worst apology known to mankind😂
This is an apology from a teens perspective.
This was filmed during Covid and she was actually very sick. But she doesn’t cancel obligations so she did it. She was INCREDIBLY sick with a fever in Singapore, but just kept singing every night for the people who paid A LOT OF MONEY to see her. She’s a true beauty who loves her fans.
As I agree she doesn't cancel because she is a true professional where are you getting this she was so sick in Singapore? She is on a video coughing & clearing her through once and the social media rumor's turned into she's incredible sick with a fever? She was out with her boyfriend on date nights and out to dinner lol.
This is actually censored when she said will you tell me to go Straight to hell. In actual song she says will you tell me to go f myself that's why she smiled at that part😂
Her lil sneaky smile
Yes,was on cbs so she had to do the clean version.
@@EricAriel5 so true. and, she released a clean version of the album for country radio (and parents with little ones); and the ACM awards are, well, country.
this was actually filmed with no audience! it was during covid so it was recorded with taylor playing to an empty room, then uploaded shortly after!
😉 I'm at the point where you're laughing about her smiling ==== this is the "clean" version of the album --- which was what played on country radio. This is the ACM awards, after all. She's laughing because of the lyrics change. Also, if no one tells you -- she did her own hair and makeup; this was still during the pandemic. She did that for the Long Pond Sessions, and her music videos (Cardigan and Willow) also. This young lady looks better as she ages!
The order on the album is Cardigan, August, Betty so that’s how I think they should go. The last lines from James loop straight back around to the beginning when Betty says that “I knew you would come back to me”.
In the Long Pond Sessions, she says Cardigan was written from a POV years later; that in her head, they got back together. If so, she is still giving him grief years after the fact. I noted in the video that the sweater she puts on at the end looks waaay too big for her --- I took that to be his. And he's still trying to make it up to her. . . . . lol
The garden is interesting. She’d been living in the UK, where a backyard is called a garden 😉
James, Betty and Inez are the names of Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds' three daughters. The kids call her Aunt Taylor.
3:20 Taylor is actually singing the clean version of this song, and the reason why she’s smiling through it was because she say straight to hell when the actual lyrics are to go f myself. 😂
TS has been performing since she was 14 to intimate and massive crowds, I have yet to see her nervous even when she makes mistakes or something technical goes wrong or others mess up. If she smiles, like most times, there’s a reason as others have explained. And thanks again for reacting to the trilogy! 💜
Taylor said it herself “James was being foolish” 😂
Listen to these three songs in one sitting cardigan - August - Betty to understand more the songs.
The smile is because the og line says "Would you tell me to go fuck myself" not "straight to hell" lol
“This is The Taylor!” 😂 yep
Taylor smiled because she had change the word and the producers were probably worried she was going to put it back in
In the southeast US, a lot of older English word meanings persist in the language. Not the first time for an American song. Rick Nelson, Garden Party (1972)
I went to a garden party
To reminisce with my old friends
A chance to share old memories
And play our songs again
In the Long Pond studio sessions documentary she said that Cardigan is written from Betty's point of view as an adult reflecting on what James put her through when they were teenagers. She said that in her mind James and Betty ended up together bc Betty forgave him.
James, Inez, and Betty are the names of Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively's 3 daughters. Taylor is their friend.
You were not wrong about the timeline, they actually don't align. Betty is during HS when everything happened (17s), August is some time later because the summer has already ended, to me it sounds like just a few years later (20ish), then Cardigan is an adult Betty reminiscing years later (to me it feels like 30-40 ish).
Which I also enjoy because not only do we get different povs, but also how their scars are in different timelines.
What I've seen people saying is:
August: past
Betty: present
Cardigan: future
I do think it is pretty on point. The things in Betty are happening at the time when Betty found out and James is still trying to win her over, while Cardigan is Betty years later reflecting back on it. But August is right after summer ended. She even says "will you call when you're back to school?". It feels very recent to Agustine. Like it really just happened and she's trying to deal with it ("I can see us (...)" she's definitely not over it yet) and also she saying "remember when I pulled up and said get in the car?" It just feels like a too specific thing for you to remember years later (maybe even months, depending on the person)
@@carolinamansur113 that makes sense, I completely overlooked that "will you call when you're back at school line." I always thought about it being later, but not too far out like Cardigan, but I feel you're right and August does make sense being before Betty in the Timeline.
Thanks for sharing that! ✌🏼😊
So my understanding is Betty is at the start of a new school year, but references an end of year dance (prom, maybe) in which James' insecurities get the best of him and he leaves Betty behind at a dance. As he's walking home, Augustine pulls up, they end up hanging out. So August is at the end of the summer, from Augustine's POV, as she's realizing James used her as a summer fling. We snap back to Betty, at the point where James has seen her at school a few times and has finally worked up the nerve to go explain himself to Betty. His song ends right at the same moment that Cardigan does, when she opens the front door and sees James standing on the front porch.
However, having said that, some of the lyrics make me feel like the kids actually older than teens. But I'm probably out of touch.
@@Lady_vesuviusThe sense of passage of time in “Cardigan” really gives it a more pulled back perspective as Betty’s sharing a collection of memories from over years. Also interesting that while “Betty” has some great storytelling it also is lyrically and sonically much simpler than the songs sung from Betty and Augustine’s perspectives. So even if Taylor’s head cannon is that Betty and James are end game, she also casts some wicked shade at James as the junior partner in that romantic triangle in terms of maturity and emotional intelligence.
BETTY perfectly captures the vulnerability of young love and reminds us that we also did terrible things in the past in different situations and despite being repentant as adults we tend to make the same mistakes. It also portrays to us the type of person James is with his contradictory statements and signals.
The irony with Inez who got a reputation for being unreliable, but who at that moment was the only one to tell the truth.
I think she's smiling because in the unedited version she said fuck but she censored herself
I think she's started using garden when she started dating Joe who is British and they use that term for front yard.
This was at the CMA awards 2020 during COVID so the auditorium was empty. It was just her and the cameras ppl. She did her hair and her makeup, etc. bc their were no other staff on sight but the essential ones to tape the show.
“Straight to hell” is sometimes replaced with “f myself” 😂
FYI. Taylor's dear friends Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds 3 daughters' names are James, Inez, and Betty. ❤
(Blake had a fourth more recently.)
You both react to Cornelia Street live in Paris pleaseeeee 😍😍😍
Garden is the word Britain means back yard.
We get both James and Augustine POVs of their relationship. Here James is apologizing to Betty and calling his affair “a summer thing” and her being “a figment of my worst intentions” which is awful because in august she refers to him as “summer love” and how she can still see them “twisted in bedsheets” when we know James was thinking of Betty then.
Basically James sucks and Betty shouldn’t have taken him back 😒
FYI…this is how she introduced her best friends Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds third child’s name …Inez. They already had James Reynolds and. betty..now, their youngest, is Inez. This album was the beginning of Taylor writing songs from a place of imagination,
I love the tension in the last verse. What’s going to happen? I’ve heard this song a hundred times and I always feel the anxiety of it.
This is the last one. Taylor said in Long Pond that in her mind Betty takes James back.
She's smiling bc she censored that part of the song for TV... it's way more harsh lol.
Garden of Eden 💜 the secret garden
Omg i love your reactionsss..
This performance was during the pandemic so there was so crowd lol 😂
Miss you
I enjoyed you reaction. If you enjoy the poetic side of Swift’s work, here’s a few more songs you might want to check out:
Death By a Thousand Cuts from Lover
Peace from Folklore
Hoax from Folklore
Ivy from Evermore
Whether or not you decide to react to them, I think they are lyrically rich songs. 😊
Also, as a poet, the rabbit hole of Swift as one of the “New Romantics” (she actually has a song by that name) is really interesting. I won’t go into detail here in case you’re not interested 😊, but that’s something I’ve had fun exploring.
Anyways, Taylor confirmed in Long Pond that James and Betty end up together….so
This was during covid so the tiredness is probably because she didn’t perform as much at this point
yeah she probably wasn't as rehearsed! she was out of the swing of constantly performing
Re "garden". I'm from Ireland and in Ireland and uk we refer to our back yard as the back garden or just garden. So when i hear garden i just think back yard. I don't think people from the US say garden for backyard? Maybe she was partly anglicised by Joe Alwyn here?
Your backyard is a garden if you make it one, but most backyards in the states are not gardens.
@@skepticalmaidenshe meant that in the UK they don’t call their backyard backyards, instead they refer it or call it garden. It doesn’t mean that they have flowers, fruits and vegetables that’s just what they call them😊
Eu sempre amei essa musica e a letra dela sempre me "revoltou" com o James tentando a todo momento minimizar a situação e manipular ela, e piorou quando eu percebi que durante toda a música ele não epde desculpa nenhuma vez kkkkkk
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They got back together guys!!! You should’ve listened to cardigan after! 😂 CANT WAIT FOR AUGUST
They already listened to August
@@elizahmoran3855 I THOUGHT THEY HAD AFTER I WROTE IT BUT DIDNT CHECK and I WATCHED, my memory is shitty, thank u!
Something definitely happened and she just sang it. They got back together. They still did the things they did before. Him seeing her in a cardigan, kissing in the car... etc. I’m surprised that you didn’t get that.
Taylor also confirmed that they ended up together in the Long Pond Studio Sessions
Fun fact: Taylor swift and Blake lively are good friends and Blake’s kids are called betty, Inez and James. Her made up story uses these names
I think y’all would like JellyRoll “Save Me”
If you listen August again, you will understand how the other girl felt about about the relationship that summer while James "dreamed of you all summer long..."(betty).
Long story short James sucks 👍🏼
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Taylor was named after James Taylor and Karlie Kloss’ middle name is “Elizabeth “ - Betty. Karlie’s birthday 🎂 is in August
Oh my God. She is not tired. What is wrong with being heavy and hazy. She sounds great. God I hare vocal coaches.
Agreed, she's definitely not tired.