0:55 Background Info 1:18 Video... Thing (idk what to call that; you'll prolly k!ll me in the replies for saying that) 3:41 ...ready for it? (+ MV) (4th favorite) 9:04 Endgame (+ MV) 14:34 [I Did A Bad Thing] (Special Honorable Mention) 21:09 Don't Blame Me (3rd favorite) 28:37 Reputation Secret Session Video 31:15 (SWIFTOLOGY, HELLO?! YOU THERE?!?;) 31:55 Delicate (+ MV) (2nd favorite) 39:13 Look What You Made Me Do (+ Reputation Stadium Tour) (Special Honorable Mention) 42:12 Endgame (+ Reputation Stadium Tour) 44:24 So It Goes... (Personally, a skip) 48:51 Gorgeous 52:51 Getaway Car (1st favorite) 59:16 King Of My Heart 1:05:58 Evermore, Folklore, and Speak Now (preferably the Taylor's Version) Reaction Foreshadowing 1:06:41 Dancing With Our Hands Tied 1:11:50 Dress (....??? No?? Not yet? Ok) 1:12:01 Taylor Swift + BTS + "Bang Swifties" 1:12:45 Taylor Swift + BTS Video Thingy 1:14:29 Dress (5th favorite) (For real now) 1:16:54 "This is Baby-Making music" LMAO ICONIC 1:20:16 This is Why We Can't Have Nice Things (Special Honorable Mention) 1:25:44 Call It What You Want 1:29:17 New Year's Day 1:30:46 Gorgeous dog interrupts stream 🤧🤧
Reputation is a love album hidden behind themes of Revenge. All of the dissonant sounds and production being cut through by gorgeous, melodic clean tones symbolize Taylor’s experience of finding love and choosing to focus on that in the midst of so much noise. I think its message can get clouded behind the production and visuals but it’s really just about her finding love while her public persona was being torn apart in the media and online
folklore is not just stories. It is allegorical with strong ties to what she was dealing with at time she wrote it. She was experiencing a devastating time in her career (losing her life's work, the sale of her masters) The songs are about betrayal, loss, coping, sadness, thinking of the past, what if's... many can relate to these emotions. Very few would relate to Taylor's exact situation. People love her music because of how honest and relatable it is, so she creates characters and stories with those exact feelings/emotions/dynamics. Stories that people can relate to. Track 5, my tears ricochet is central to the album.
@@Melissa-oo3xk After 17 years of dominating the business, STILL the only way she can get critics & the media to focus on the *music* is by telling them it's "all" fictional. folkmore is a tapestry of her life mixed in with enough relatable stuff to make the songs "universal but relatable" like Jim said. You know, so that people will stop talking about her boyfriends. People STILL say she only writes about boys and break-ups, but she is so so so much more than that. Jim - I'm so happy you liked it! It was really fun watching someone skeptical come in with an open mind and really absorb the entire piece of work. What you don't know yet is that you're about to go down a rabbit hole you can never come back out of, but it's going to be a lovely ride. 🐇 Subscribed. 💜
The delicate music video was her turning invisible as a representation of her taking a step away from the spotlight, and the fun that came with being able to be herself with nobody watching and the loneliness of no one seeing her. The dive bar at the end when she feels seen, is where she meets up with Joe.
im so greatful someone made a document to go with this bc when I see ppl just react to the songs without the context it feels like it doesn't hit as hard
I love the Delicate music video! I've seen people say that it's cringy, and it's a grown woman dancing badly, and she should be embarrassed, but I think those people either hate taylor unconditionally, or they don't get it. To me it's like seeing the freedom invisibility would offer to be her imperfect self in all it's glory. She's imperfect, awkward, silly, and real. Those are my favorite kind of people because I'm a hot mess imperfect express in my own way. It's another thing I love about Taylor Swift. She can joke about herself.
Taylor described this album as "It's an album about finding love throughout all the noise." Even though this album has a heavier, more abrasive sound, at the heart and core of it, it is an album about love.
New Year's Day..a perfect song to end this album..she's got the anger and aggression out..she's starting over, leaving it behind, just like one does with New Year's day. You are gonna love Folklore and Evermore..stripped down, beautiful songwriting..you are going down such a great rabbit hole...enjoy! I love watching people HEAR her music for the first time.
Honestly just came to say this same thing. New Years Day was the perfect ending to the Rep era and the best transition song to get you into the vibe of Folklore
This reaction video was the last straw. You've left me no way out. If this is the kind of content that you're going to offer me, then I have no choice but to subscribe. Not only do I love Taylor Swift, the artist, the brilliant lyricist, and the pristine wordsmith, but your breakdown of her art was refreshingly honest and insightful. You nailed most of it, even as just a new casual listener. That's hard to do with Taylor. She deals in masterful metaphors, double entendres, and killer hooks and bridges. Every word is intentional and precisely placed to elicit maximum bang for the buck. If that intrigues you, you're in for a magical experience when you discover her remarkable discography. Bon Voyage! Enjoy!
Just here to welcome our latest recruit! Jim - I'm certain I speak for all of us Swifties when I say, if you keep reacting to Taylor, we're here for ALL of it.
Right? His channel is going to blow up if this is the kind of content he puts out. When the Swifities find him, he's going to be so glad he went down this path! I enjoyed every minute. I had it on while I did some work and it was like sitting with an old friend, ushering him into the Swiftdom. We'll never not be here for it. :)
It’s a shame reputation didn’t get the recognition by the music industry when it came out and it wasn’t nominated for any awards. Her Taylor’s version better get the redemption it deserves. I can’t WAIT for reputation Taylor’s version and to see what beauty songs are locked in the vault for this album!!!
I would vote for a folklore reaction over and over again (or evermore but as folklore is generally more loved, it has more chances of winning in between the two)
I will never forget Taylor's performance of "New Year's Day"on Jimmy Fallon after his mom died. His team called her cause they knew she was in NYC and she agreed to perform on short notice. It was really beautiful. Especially since he said his mom would squeeze his hand three times which is a lyric in her song. ❤
I cannot recommend Evermore enough. I love that Folklore is the telling of stories and passing them down, like folk music always did, but Evermore is more about moving on from something. Accepting it, processing it, and ultimately healing from those things. I really needed that this year and I know that I will come back to it when I need a reminder that all is not lost and I will get through this. Both albums are a testament to her ability to tell stories that don't necessarily come from her own experiences. She's more than just a girl writing songs about boys, 100% worth a listen and I look forward to hearing your take on them :)
I think this is the best reaction video I've ever seen (and I have seen dozens in the past few months). I hope you will consider doing several more of Taylor's albums. Folklore and evermore are essential. With folklore, you might consider going straight to the movie: "Folklore: The Long Pond Sessions." You would get all of the music, plus you see her and her collaborators playing it and talking about the creation process. (Technically, they are re-creating, at the Long Pond studios, what they all did in their separate places during covid lockdown so it's not 100% identical to the album, but for all practical purposes the same.) BTW, I am a relatively new swifty (I started falling down the rabbit hole last February and have been entranced by all 10 of Taylor's albums ever since. Ideally, after folklore and evermore, you really should consider Lover and Midnights. If, like me, you find yourself in a feeding frenzy,, I suggest Red. I love 1989 as well, but those songs were such big hits that you probably already know most of them. In any case, thanks for this fantastic video and I will be watching fo rmore.
I highly recommend listening to the albums in releasing order! you'll see how much she's grown over time, her music and songwritting only gets better and how she started to go to pop from country gradually
I genuinely enjoyed your reaction to rep so much, I appreciate they way you break down these songs and really notice the lyrics as well as the production! live rep is a whole new level of Taylor that makes you realize she is such talented performer as well!
She's such a great song writer and has always been a great song writer. I kinda don't like it, when swifties only refer to folklore and evermore as her "best lyrical album" and calling rep her weakest lyrical album. Girlll.. her albums are always lyricly great, she just chose a more poetic route with folklore and evermore that's the difference. And I'm not here for the Lover slander, that album is a no skip album for me. I think some ppl just don't like it cos she's so happy in that album. So please react to LOVER.
I've discovered your Channel last week and i geniunely love your takes, and you guessed it, swifties LOVE seeing People discovering the Taylor Swift cinematic universe TSCU. But respectfully, what do you mean ''if i do one more album ??'' 😂 😂 😂 mister you're gonna (please) do all her discography 😂😂😂and We'll be here for it 😂 there's no going back once the swifties are here 😂
Yes!!!!! 🔥 And do them the delux version with lives, tours, long pond session, tiny desk concert, grammy museum, and behind the scenes too! We swifties just can't have enough of her! 💜
I'm so happy I stumbled to this reaction loved how open minded you were and how in tuned to what she was trying to do on this album I really hope you keep reacting to the rest of her albums she's a great artist and lyricist I'd love to hear your opinions going forth , just subscribed
this is my favorite album by her she came out swinging and the way she weaved 2 characters into this album the persona ppl pained her as " the villain " and her true self who was falling in love in the middle of chaos
Don't Blame Me live has to be in my top 3 favorite performances of hers of all time. If you're gonna check out anything from the rep tour, I'd love for that to be on your list!
Oh wow! I was there for the live reaction (loved chatting with you and the community live) and was hoping you’d put it on TH-cam! Just wasn’t expecting it the next day! You’re awesome. :)
@@JimGames To be completely Candid I'm a casual Taylor Swift fan have been since 2006 when I was 9 when she dropped her self titled and I've listened to all of her albums and my girlfriend constantly blasts reputation in the car and Taylor has 1 bad,basic heck horrible album and that's Reputation I don't hear the hype outside New Years Day this song is and will forever be a contender for her best song of All time 🤷🏿♂️
fun fact call it what you want has a little call back to her old song "love story" where she sings "Romeo take me somewhere we could be alone, I'll be waiting all that's left to do is run [...] Romeo save me" and in call it what you want she sings "you don't have to save me but would you run away with me"
Loved this, as someone who recently has become a Taylor swift fan, it was nice to see reactions from both sides of the spectrum, Swifties and someone who knows very little about TS. Great vid!
The fact that this video ends with your dog named BEANS demanding to be let in so you can hold him, and made you start New Years Day over says everything about this reaction. Perfection.
Enjoyed your reaction and I love that you understood that Taylor was mothering in "This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things" 😂 cause "he”is a child! And YES TAYLOR LIVE IS ON ANOTHER LEVEL ❤
just to clarify Taylor didn't meet Joe for the first time at the met gala, I believe at least in public was and from songs was at Gigi Hadid's birthday party, she had recently been at a photoshoot with Joe and so he was invited and she's close friends with Taylor, she had her birthday April 29th which was before the met gala
I think the best album to follow would be either Midnights or folklore. Midnights is about midnight throughout her life and very versatile. Folklore is about different stories - some are related to her life, some are not. This album focuses really on the writing tho
you should definitely listen to folklore next it’s a much more mature album (her best in my opinion), or maybe red it’s also really really good anyway i really loved your reaction and the time you took to understand her lyrics
How personal the lyrics are is what makes Taylor Swift so special. She puts her private thoughts and feelings into these songs and then she puts them out for everyone to listen to. And her fans listen to her describing these feelings and experiences and connect with the lyrics that perfectly describe things they have also felt or experienced. And then she walks on to a stage in a stadium of 70,000 people and sings out those diary entries and all of those 70,000 people who heard those songs for the first time and said “yes. Exactly. Me too” sing them back to her and it’s incredible
from my perspective, taylor does her songs/lyrics in a way that anyone feels what she's saying, her voice conveys a lot of feeling. i really love listening to her music .
Dancing With Our Hands Tied is about her and Joe. In secret sessions she said that this song was about how she was leaving the gym and the paparazzi caught her and were making awful comments about her weight gain which made her start to worry about what they would say when they find out she was dating Joe. She tried to breakup with Joe and told him she didn’t want him to start getting hate from the public and he straight up said no and that he didn’t care at all. So the song was about all the worry about the public, but staying with him anyways
I came accross this reaction video the day it was uploaded, and I've been going back daily to watch my favorite bits, impatiently waiting for the folklore reaction, my favorite album ever. Such good reaction vid!
She has won the album of the year three times with the different genres - fearless (2009) country album - 1989 (2014) pop album - folklore (2020) alternative album But speak now, red, reputation, evermore should have won too😭😭😭
Lol not this again, as if nobody else deserves to win that award, come on 😂 three times for the same artist is enough. Also all three are pop technically (country pop for fearless, and alternative/folk pop for folklore, which is my fave personally)
Shout out to whoever compiled this list of links for you. I can tell they are a true Swiftie, because they didn’t let you give a single penny to Scooter! 😂👍🏼
If you do folklore. I’d definitely do the folklore long pond sessions where she plays every song live in studio and explains each one. Also folklore is fictional yes but it’s also largely about her masters or about Joe still and it’s more using fictional scenarios to represent her real emotions. Evermore is more straight up fictional but I love both.
What an interesting choice for your first Taylor Swift album. Reputation is definitely Taylor's most divisive album so I'm very curious to see your opinions on her other works of art! Awesome video
if you're gonna react to any more live performances from this era, you have to do I Did Something Bad and Don't Blame Me, from the tour...like others are great too, eg Dancing With Our Hands Tied acustic, ut those two are just top tier. Also those you watched were quite stripped from the original, in that video you watched she left out one whole verse of Look What You Made Me do which she sang on the tour, and in End Game she sings her verse on the tour, here it wasn't included.
Delicate video is also a bit of a nod to the fact that she's never been the best dancer--she knows it, she owns it, she's cool with it....she's actually gotten quite good, btw.
Hands down the best reaction I’ve ever watched!! I love that you had a whole document that talked about each song before you went into it. A lot of TH-camrs just dive in without context and then everyone in the comments explains the story behind the songs. For an artist like Taylor swift that discloses a lot of her personal life in her songs, this is really the best way to do it. A ton of her songs are about something specific and if you don’t know it then you’d be lost. The whole Kanye drama brought us gems like the rep album, mad woman, vigilante shit. Even losing her masters turned into songs like my teats ricochet. Also, if you feel bad about the breakup after listening to reputation, you’ll be heartbroken after Lover! Loll
The reputation stadium tour is an EXPERIENCE. If you’re intrigued by the one live performance you watched dude you are in for a treat. She’s truly the greatest performer of our time
The delicate choreo was supposed to be the like crazy dance that anyone does when they're alone and invisible, it's like a freedom from socialization, it was an intentional choreo, she even has a dance practice for it😂🦋
It’s so much fun watching your expression as you’re listening. She’s very talented and her lyrics are so spectacular. There’s many layers (due to her growth as a musician). You’re a swifty! Welcome to the club
“Melodies are unhinged” exactly! While I love that Taylor’s known for her lyricism but her talent of coming up with unique and catchy melodies is so underrated.
Your channel is one of my most recent favorites and I especially love your Taylor reactions. I was a little late to the party, but definitely now a Swiftie or a "Mama Swiftie."😁 My generation thinks that the snake in the backdrop for the live performance of "Look What You Made Me Do" is giving some Iron Maiden and Metal vibes It's so bad ass! 🤘🏻 Love it
Re: delicate. She use to have to sneak and try to be invisible to meet him in the back of the bar and her ‘wish’ came true for a bit until she showed up to the bar and everyone looked at her. It was fleeting freedom
great reaction!! I think you should definitely try folklore next, especially since you liked new year’s day so much. It’s definitely one of her most lyrically impressive albums! (and personally my favorite) ♥️
Wow, nice rx. Would love to follow your journey if you are going to do another. Folklore would be a 180. Its AOTY. Lyrically heavy, a lot of storytelling, but 1/2 is about her as well. Evermore is second to folklore (I prefer evermore) and again 1/2 is about her life as well but a lot of story telling. Actually evermore has some Reputation running through it, whereas folklore doesnt. These are adventurous in that they it’s a genre shift for her, blending folk/indie with pop. Nothing else sounds quite like it. She had been dating Joe for 4 yrs when she wrote folklore, in 3 months. Didn’t tell her label until a week before she surprise dropped it. All albums are very different. Each album has a different aesthetic, sound, theme, color, time of year, and story (aka ERA). I think you need a 180 after Reputation. I’d try folklore. I’m an over middle aged professor, and I started listening to her with folklore 2020, pandemic. Why would i have ever listened to TS? well, i realized I was very wrong at that point. I just needed her to catch up.
I’d love to see him get whiplash moving on to Folklore next! I hope he watches the Long Pond studio sessions where she discusses the meaning behind the songs with Jack Antonoff and Aaron Dessner first, then watch her sing it in the studio. It helps with understanding the lyrics so much! Her singing with Aaron and Jack playing is amazing!
Oh man, "I Did Something Bad" live version in the Rep Stadium Tour movie is next level. Takes a great song and turns it up to 11. I hope you've seen it. In fact, that version of Don't Blame Me is ridiculously good too. Hell, that whole movie never gets old for me.
The fact that secret session is called secret because Taylor invited her fans to her house and played the album to her songs before the album were released . The amount of trust 😩😩😩
Thank you for this video and recognizing her immense talent, despite not being your cup of tea. Highly recommend you to listen to Folklore for lyricism. 🖤
If you ask swifties Folklore and Evermore is a mix of autobiographical and fictional. Folklore album has a few songs that in my opinion are autobiographical like “My Tears Ricochet", about her old record label Big Machine Records/ Scott Borchetta, "Mirrorball" (about us her fans), "This Is Me Trying". "Invisible Stings" and "Peace" (definitely for Joe), “Mad Woman", “Hoax". “The Lakes" about escaping with Joe. Evermore album has "Willow", "Gold Rush", "Long Story Short" which about Joe. "Marjorie" about her grandmother, "Evermore" is about her depression, here’s some songfacts- she went through a bunch of bad experiences in the second half of 2016, including the public condemnation following her spat with Kanye West and Kim Kardashian over the rapper's "Famous" lyrics. Motion capture Put me in a bad light I replay my footsteps on each stepping stone Trying to find the one where I went wrong Kim Kardashian posted on her Snapchat account an edited recording of a phone call between Swift and West, which seemed to show her approving a "Famous" lyric that she had scorned in public. Swift was widely portrayed her as a manipulative liar. There were several other incidents that damaged her reputation, including a fall out with Calvin Harris following the end of their relationship. Swift struggled with her public downfall and the whole experience took a toll on her mental health. She said: "All those times were just sort of taking it day-by-day to get through, trying to find a glimmer of hope, all of that." The song is not all doom and gloom. The redemptive ending finds Swift starting to feel better as she thinks fondly of someone close to her. She concludes that "this pain wouldn't be for evermore." Again, this ties in with Swift singing of her "Cruel Summer" in 2016 as that tough period coincided with the start of her relationship with the British actor Joe Alwyn. And lastly "It’s Time To Go" "It's Time to Go" is a bleak song where Swift depicts different situations when relationships have run their course. Many, if not all of the scenarios, are believed by Swifties to be based on actual events in the singer's personal life. During the first verse, Swift depicts the ending of a friendship. When the words of a sister come back in whispers That prove she was not in fact what she seemed Not a twin from your dreams She's a crook who was caught Fans believe this is about fashion model Karlie Kloss, Swift's best friend from 2014 through 2016. They suspect the pair had a fall out; the pop star then felt betrayed when Kloss started hanging out with her nemesis, Scooter Braun. The second verse starts with a tale of someone losing out on promotion at work to an unfit individual. Twenty years at your job Then the son of the boss gets the spot that was yours Swift's father, Scott, is a former stockbroker who established the Swift Group, a financial advisory group that is part of Merrill Lynch. This may be about obstacles he encountered in his career, The songstress continues the verse by recounting a marriage that has run its course. Or trying to stay for the kids When keeping it how it is will only break their hearts worse Swift's parents were married for 25 years before separating in the early 2010s. Worried about offsetting their daughter's career, they kept their marital issues from the press. The third verse finds Swift seeming to address her broken relationship with former Big Machine Records label boss Scott Borchetta. Fifteen years, fifteen million tears Begging 'til my knees bled I gave it my all, he gave me nothing at all Then wondered why I left Swift signed with Scott Borchetta's Big Machine Records in 2004. Shortly after she left Big Machine 14 years later to sign with Republic, news broke that Borchetta had sold the label, along with the master recordings to her first six albums, to entertainment mogul Scooter Braun. Swift felt betrayed by her former label boss and has compared the breakdown of their relationship to the end of a marriage. She also referenced the deal on several other songs, including Folklore's "My Tears Ricochet" and "Mad Woman." Swift concludes in the chorus and the post chorus that when a relationship turns toxic, the bravest thing to do is to walk away. She tweeted: "'It's Time To Go' is about listening to your gut when it tells you to leave."
My favorite album from her, but definitely you have to continue reviewing her discography, every single album is different from each other. Continue with folklore or evermore, then midnights or lover, you can do after 1989 or red (Taylor’s Version), and finish everything with her first three albums. I was never a swiftie my self, but as soon as you enter to her world, you can’t get out. Watching her documentary, long pond sessions, and the Reputation tour live is a must; I know is a lot of work for you, but all of the swifties we are going to be there to watch your reactions. You are a cool man.
Hey, thank you for your honest reaction, I really loved it, I recently discovered your channel because I'm a Swiftie for over a decade now.. Okay, since your first album reacted to was reputation, I would like to give you a recommendation on which albums to listen to in order, starting with the albums she fully owned, including the documentaries, live performances and short films.. •I Did Something Bad (Live @ the AMAs 2018) •Reputation Stadium Tour (tour documentary) •Lover (album) •Artist of the Decade (Live @ the AMAs 2019) •Miss Americana (documentary) •folklore (album) •Folklore Long Pond Studio Session (live) •2020 Grammy Awards (where she won album of the year for folklore) •evermore (album) •Fearless (Taylor's Version) (album) •Red (Taylor's Version) (album) •Wildest Dreams (Taylor's Version) (a track off of her 5th album 1989, which is to be re-released) •All Too Well (Short Film) •This Love (Taylor's Version) (a track off of her 5th album 1989, which is to be re-released) •All Too Well (SNL) •Midnights (The Til Dawn Edition) (album) •You're Losing Me (exclusive on CDs, but maybe there's a lyric video on YT as well) 🤗 •Speak Now (Taylor's Version) (coming, July 7th) 💜 [added] •and also I forgot to mentioned here, the 4 surprise tracks that she released before her very first tour this year, these are the tracks: •Safe and Sound (Taylor's Version) •Eyes Open (Taylor's Version) •If This Was A Movie (Taylor's Version) •All Of The Girls You Loved Before you may listen to these, after you reacted to Midnights 🤗
This album is 🔥...I'm a woman of course I think it's the best comeback album of all time!!! They lied, called her a snake. Man Karma's a bitch!!! This woman has the most open and generous soul on the planet and to see her cry breaks my heart in a million pieces!! Yes I am a Swiftie and proud to be a part of her Army!!! ❤️
Fun fact, Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds's daughter James said gorgeous at the beginning. Taylor had them (close friends) over and sang the song for them, James kept saying gorgeous, and Taylor liked it and asked them if she could use it in her song.
@@Violet316 what? He had a document in the video that he was reading and on the document it reads: “btw James was 2 and Taylor and Blake and Ryan are friends” basically explaining exactly that 😂
This is an absolutely incredible reaction, I’m so glad I stumbled across your channel! I really love how you articulate your thoughts and back it up with your music knowledge! Taylor is one of my favorite artists and has been for such a long time! This album is one of my favorites from her! Not to be one of those people but as soon as I heard you mention that you enjoy artists who you are able to relate to and are able to keep themselves humble I just had to leave this comment recommending Louis Tomlinson’s work! He’s a person I’ve followed for over 10 years now and in that time he’s been so authentically himself (especially in recent years in regards to making sure he’s making the music he wants to rather than going for big radio plays which I appreciate so much!) I feel like you would really enjoy his music and lyrics! He currently has two albums out one which is called Walls and his second which is called Faith in the Future! I cannot recommend this man enough, I really feel like you would appreciate the direction his music has gone in in recent years! It’s tough to get people to give his music a chance given his origin/start in the music industry and I feel like if people were to give his solo music a chance they’d find that it isn’t what they thought! Once again, thank you so much for this Taylor reaction and I can’t wait to see more reactions from you! :]
@@JimGames Very exciting to hear! I’d also like to add that he has released a track-by-track series where he talks a little about each track from his albums too which are definitely worth a listen in between each track so you can get a feel for what each one’s about and what kind of a person he is whilst talking about his music! A little added context for one of the songs: (trigger warning for discussion of someone passing away and cancer) Two of Us which is a song about his Mother’s passing which happened in late 2016 after a battle with cancer, shortly after One Direction disbanded and 6 days after it was released his younger sister passed away at the age of 18 so it has even more meaning after the fact. It’s a beautiful tribute and I feel like it’s important to have context for this one specifically. As I said, I can’t wait to see your future reactions! You’re a very engaging person to watch whilst also giving people new insight on more technical elements of songs they’ve listened to and loved for years, kudos to you! :]
Earned yourself a subscriber with this one, hoping you'll cover more of her albums in the future, each one is unique and masterful. Folklore is definitely my recommendation for the next one, just remember that not every somg is from her perspective
gonna be honest usually with reaction videos I skip through if people are talking for a long period but this one I was enthralled like you get it and it was very interesting listening to you break it down
red, 1989, and folklore are her strongest lyrically (imo) and are all amazing albums that you would probably really enjoy. evermore is a sister album to folklore, it's tracks that were recorded for folklore but didn't fit the feel of the album, she released them because she felt they were a continuation of the album. taylor is really great and i'd be here to watch any reactions you do of her!
Thank you for NOT stopping the tracks while we listen. You keep the song up and talk softly about your impressions. I hope you understand how much that means to me and probably many others. Had to join your channel just for that wonderful presentation. ❤
(Ik I’m late, sorry) 11:25 THANK YOUUU! endgame as a song in general is real underrated and slept on,and so are each of the features on it. I don’t listen to Ed a lot personally, but I was obsessed with him in this song. This song and Delicate were actually the songs that made me a bigger swiftie, other than Love Story & You Belong With Me obvi. I loved those 2 a lot as well wayyy back then. So I owe Delicate and Endgame a lottt to me being the swiftie I am today. Thank you for actually giving the song a chance and having kind & positive remarks!!🫶🏻
I love your Taylor Swift reaction videos so much. Thanks for putting so much time and effort into understanding her music lyrically and appreciating the massive production of her songs and sharing your thoughts with us. I recommend checking out her 1989 tour live rock versions of "I Knew You Were Trouble" and "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together." Very cool twist on her most popular and probably most disliked songs. We want a T.S. rock album!!!
0:55 Background Info
1:18 Video... Thing (idk what to call that; you'll prolly k!ll me in the replies for saying that)
3:41 ...ready for it? (+ MV) (4th favorite)
9:04 Endgame (+ MV)
14:34 [I Did A Bad Thing] (Special Honorable Mention)
21:09 Don't Blame Me (3rd favorite)
28:37 Reputation Secret Session Video
31:15 (SWIFTOLOGY, HELLO?! YOU THERE?!?;)
31:55 Delicate (+ MV) (2nd favorite)
39:13 Look What You Made Me Do (+ Reputation Stadium Tour) (Special Honorable Mention)
42:12 Endgame (+ Reputation Stadium Tour)
44:24 So It Goes... (Personally, a skip)
48:51 Gorgeous
52:51 Getaway Car (1st favorite)
59:16 King Of My Heart
1:05:58 Evermore, Folklore, and Speak Now (preferably the Taylor's Version) Reaction Foreshadowing
1:06:41 Dancing With Our Hands Tied
1:11:50 Dress (....??? No?? Not yet? Ok)
1:12:01 Taylor Swift + BTS + "Bang Swifties"
1:12:45 Taylor Swift + BTS Video Thingy
1:14:29 Dress (5th favorite) (For real now)
1:16:54 "This is Baby-Making music" LMAO ICONIC
1:20:16 This is Why We Can't Have Nice Things (Special Honorable Mention)
1:25:44 Call It What You Want
1:29:17 New Year's Day
1:30:46 Gorgeous dog interrupts stream 🤧🤧
thanks for this!!❤❤
Thanks!
Not I Did A Bad Thing 😭😭
it’s i did something bad 😭
The video is from her miss americana documentary
Reputation is a love album hidden behind themes of Revenge. All of the dissonant sounds and production being cut through by gorgeous, melodic clean tones symbolize Taylor’s experience of finding love and choosing to focus on that in the midst of so much noise.
I think its message can get clouded behind the production and visuals but it’s really just about her finding love while her public persona was being torn apart in the media and online
I’d agree with that but I also think it’s her victory in finally choosing herself and saying Foff to her haters
folklore is not just stories. It is allegorical with strong ties to what she was dealing with at time she wrote it. She was experiencing a devastating time in her career (losing her life's work, the sale of her masters) The songs are about betrayal, loss, coping, sadness, thinking of the past, what if's... many can relate to these emotions. Very few would relate to Taylor's exact situation. People love her music because of how honest and relatable it is, so she creates characters and stories with those exact feelings/emotions/dynamics. Stories that people can relate to. Track 5, my tears ricochet is central to the album.
My tears ricochet is probably my fav Taylor song EVER and I am a swiftie since the fearless album
Yes this. She's telling stories but so much of her personal feelings and experiences are interwoven.
@@Melissa-oo3xk After 17 years of dominating the business, STILL the only way she can get critics & the media to focus on the *music* is by telling them it's "all" fictional. folkmore is a tapestry of her life mixed in with enough relatable stuff to make the songs "universal but relatable" like Jim said. You know, so that people will stop talking about her boyfriends. People STILL say she only writes about boys and break-ups, but she is so so so much more than that.
Jim - I'm so happy you liked it! It was really fun watching someone skeptical come in with an open mind and really absorb the entire piece of work. What you don't know yet is that you're about to go down a rabbit hole you can never come back out of, but it's going to be a lovely ride. 🐇 Subscribed. 💜
And I She wrote my tears ricoshet by herself no Jackie boy or No Aaron dessner
Just by herself
I am a massive folklore stan. Well deserved album of the year Grammy
The delicate music video was her turning invisible as a representation of her taking a step away from the spotlight, and the fun that came with being able to be herself with nobody watching and the loneliness of no one seeing her. The dive bar at the end when she feels seen, is where she meets up with Joe.
I love the Delicate video! ❤
@@lisahodges9489 she always has the best music videos :)
Thanks for explaining. That Video makes sense to me now
@@brendakrause5639 Yay, I'm glad I could help :)
Perfectly said.
im so greatful someone made a document to go with this bc when I see ppl just react to the songs without the context it feels like it doesn't hit as hard
I was just happy to see that I'm not the only unhinged fan who has a word document like this.
Does anyone know where i can get one
I love the Delicate music video! I've seen people say that it's cringy, and it's a grown woman dancing badly, and she should be embarrassed, but I think those people either hate taylor unconditionally, or they don't get it. To me it's like seeing the freedom invisibility would offer to be her imperfect self in all it's glory. She's imperfect, awkward, silly, and real. Those are my favorite kind of people because I'm a hot mess imperfect express in my own way. It's another thing I love about Taylor Swift. She can joke about herself.
Couldn't have said it better myself. I agree.
Taylor described this album as "It's an album about finding love throughout all the noise."
Even though this album has a heavier, more abrasive sound, at the heart and core of it, it is an album about love.
New Year's Day..a perfect song to end this album..she's got the anger and aggression out..she's starting over, leaving it behind, just like one does with New Year's day. You are gonna love Folklore and Evermore..stripped down, beautiful songwriting..you are going down such a great rabbit hole...enjoy! I love watching people HEAR her music for the first time.
Honestly just came to say this same thing. New Years Day was the perfect ending to the Rep era and the best transition song to get you into the vibe of Folklore
This reaction video was the last straw. You've left me no way out. If this is the kind of content that you're going to offer me, then I have no choice but to subscribe. Not only do I love Taylor Swift, the artist, the brilliant lyricist, and the pristine wordsmith, but your breakdown of her art was refreshingly honest and insightful. You nailed most of it, even as just a new casual listener. That's hard to do with Taylor. She deals in masterful metaphors, double entendres, and killer hooks and bridges. Every word is intentional and precisely placed to elicit maximum bang for the buck. If that intrigues you, you're in for a magical experience when you discover her remarkable discography. Bon Voyage! Enjoy!
FACTS. This is a perfect summation and I couldn't agree more. I have a new co-favorite reacter.
@@IvyCowboy haha I'm humbled.
What a great comment. You're a talented writer! I agree with you completely; Jim is excellent.
@@mamat8184 Well, thank you. Thank you so much. And I agree with you too...I'm a talented writer. LOL j/k I really do appreciate you. 😄
reputation is a career defining record! she was honest raw and brutal! thanks for reaching :)
I think you meant reacting? Haha I hate when I do that. Don’t edit your comment though or you’ll lose the heart
@@Hey_Jamie it was a typo 😭
I cannot wait for Rep TV
ajayyyy??????????
@@ajayyyswiftie13why is Moritz Hau your pfp?
Just here to welcome our latest recruit! Jim - I'm certain I speak for all of us Swifties when I say, if you keep reacting to Taylor, we're here for ALL of it.
Right? His channel is going to blow up if this is the kind of content he puts out. When the Swifities find him, he's going to be so glad he went down this path! I enjoyed every minute. I had it on while I did some work and it was like sitting with an old friend, ushering him into the Swiftdom. We'll never not be here for it. :)
It’s a shame reputation didn’t get the recognition by the music industry when it came out and it wasn’t nominated for any awards. Her Taylor’s version better get the redemption it deserves.
I can’t WAIT for reputation Taylor’s version and to see what beauty songs are locked in the vault for this album!!!
I would vote for a folklore reaction over and over again (or evermore but as folklore is generally more loved, it has more chances of winning in between the two)
I will never forget Taylor's performance of "New Year's Day"on Jimmy Fallon after his mom died.
His team called her cause they knew she was in NYC and she agreed to perform on short notice.
It was really beautiful. Especially since he said his mom would squeeze his hand three times which is a lyric in her song. ❤
I cannot recommend Evermore enough. I love that Folklore is the telling of stories and passing them down, like folk music always did, but Evermore is more about moving on from something. Accepting it, processing it, and ultimately healing from those things. I really needed that this year and I know that I will come back to it when I need a reminder that all is not lost and I will get through this. Both albums are a testament to her ability to tell stories that don't necessarily come from her own experiences. She's more than just a girl writing songs about boys, 100% worth a listen and I look forward to hearing your take on them :)
I think this is the best reaction video I've ever seen (and I have seen dozens in the past few months). I hope you will consider doing several more of Taylor's albums. Folklore and evermore are essential. With folklore, you might consider going straight to the movie: "Folklore: The Long Pond Sessions." You would get all of the music, plus you see her and her collaborators playing it and talking about the creation process. (Technically, they are re-creating, at the Long Pond studios, what they all did in their separate places during covid lockdown so it's not 100% identical to the album, but for all practical purposes the same.) BTW, I am a relatively new swifty (I started falling down the rabbit hole last February and have been entranced by all 10 of Taylor's albums ever since. Ideally, after folklore and evermore, you really should consider Lover and Midnights. If, like me, you find yourself in a feeding frenzy,, I suggest Red. I love 1989 as well, but those songs were such big hits that you probably already know most of them. In any case, thanks for this fantastic video and I will be watching fo rmore.
I highly recommend listening to the albums in releasing order! you'll see how much she's grown over time, her music and songwritting only gets better and how she started to go to pop from country gradually
I genuinely enjoyed your reaction to rep so much, I appreciate they way you break down these songs and really notice the lyrics as well as the production! live rep is a whole new level of Taylor that makes you realize she is such talented performer as well!
She's such a great song writer and has always been a great song writer. I kinda don't like it, when swifties only refer to folklore and evermore as her "best lyrical album" and calling rep her weakest lyrical album. Girlll.. her albums are always lyricly great, she just chose a more poetic route with folklore and evermore that's the difference. And I'm not here for the Lover slander, that album is a no skip album for me. I think some ppl just don't like it cos she's so happy in that album. So please react to LOVER.
"I'm not here for the Lover slander"
GIRL YESSSSS ty
I've discovered your Channel last week and i geniunely love your takes, and you guessed it, swifties LOVE seeing People discovering the Taylor Swift cinematic universe TSCU. But respectfully, what do you mean ''if i do one more album ??'' 😂 😂 😂 mister you're gonna (please) do all her discography 😂😂😂and We'll be here for it 😂 there's no going back once the swifties are here 😂
Yes!!!!! 🔥
And do them the delux version with lives, tours, long pond session, tiny desk concert, grammy museum, and behind the scenes too! We swifties just can't have enough of her! 💜
I'm so happy I stumbled to this reaction loved how open minded you were and how in tuned to what she was trying to do on this album I really hope you keep reacting to the rest of her albums she's a great artist and lyricist I'd love to hear your opinions going forth , just subscribed
this is my favorite album by her she came out swinging and the way she weaved 2 characters into this album the persona ppl pained her as " the villain " and her true self who was falling in love in the middle of chaos
whoever created that document... i salute you 👏 🙌 💯
Don't Blame Me live has to be in my top 3 favorite performances of hers of all time. If you're gonna check out anything from the rep tour, I'd love for that to be on your list!
and idsb!!! i love it sm more live
Oh wow! I was there for the live reaction (loved chatting with you and the community live) and was hoping you’d put it on TH-cam! Just wasn’t expecting it the next day! You’re awesome. :)
I’m not normally this quick lol.
@@JimGames To be completely Candid I'm a casual Taylor Swift fan have been since 2006 when I was 9 when she dropped her self titled and I've listened to all of her albums and my girlfriend constantly blasts reputation in the car and Taylor has 1 bad,basic heck horrible album and that's Reputation I don't hear the hype outside New Years Day this song is and will forever be a contender for her best song of All time 🤷🏿♂️
fun fact call it what you want has a little call back to her old song "love story" where she sings "Romeo take me somewhere we could be alone, I'll be waiting all that's left to do is run [...] Romeo save me" and in call it what you want she sings "you don't have to save me but would you run away with me"
Loved this, as someone who recently has become a Taylor swift fan, it was nice to see reactions from both sides of the spectrum, Swifties and someone who knows very little about TS. Great vid!
i really love it when people are introduced to taylor's songs because they really are an experience. hope you react to more in the future!
The fact that this video ends with your dog named BEANS demanding to be let in so you can hold him, and made you start New Years Day over says everything about this reaction. Perfection.
I wish you reacted to “I did something bad” live at the AMAs in 2018. you should!!
It's great, but the rep tour version is better imo.😻
Yes the rep album is the best!! I love I did something bad live on the rep tour!!
Enjoyed your reaction and I love that you understood that Taylor was mothering in "This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things" 😂 cause "he”is a child! And YES TAYLOR LIVE IS ON ANOTHER LEVEL ❤
just to clarify Taylor didn't meet Joe for the first time at the met gala, I believe at least in public was and from songs was at Gigi Hadid's birthday party, she had recently been at a photoshoot with Joe and so he was invited and she's close friends with Taylor, she had her birthday April 29th which was before the met gala
do you really wanna know where I was April 29th?
Reputation is my favorite album hands down 🫶🫶🫶🖤🖤🖤🖤
I think the best album to follow would be either Midnights or folklore. Midnights is about midnight throughout her life and very versatile. Folklore is about different stories - some are related to her life, some are not. This album focuses really on the writing tho
you should definitely listen to folklore next it’s a much more mature album (her best in my opinion), or maybe red it’s also really really good
anyway i really loved your reaction and the time you took to understand her lyrics
yup red folklore and rep are my top ts albums
Folklore is my all time favourite!
How personal the lyrics are is what makes Taylor Swift so special. She puts her private thoughts and feelings into these songs and then she puts them out for everyone to listen to. And her fans listen to her describing these feelings and experiences and connect with the lyrics that perfectly describe things they have also felt or experienced. And then she walks on to a stage in a stadium of 70,000 people and sings out those diary entries and all of those 70,000 people who heard those songs for the first time and said “yes. Exactly. Me too” sing them back to her and it’s incredible
I’m literally dancing to every song like Taylor’s choreography in the rep stadium tour movie 😭😭
from my perspective, taylor does her songs/lyrics in a way that anyone feels what she's saying, her voice conveys a lot of feeling. i really love listening to her music .
i can’t wait for the reputation vault tracks, this album is so good
New Years Day will be one of the songs that will DESTROY ME when she does a re-recording. It’s gonna hurt, a lot.
Definitely watch the “intro and ready for it” of the Reputation tour
Dancing With Our Hands Tied is about her and Joe. In secret sessions she said that this song was about how she was leaving the gym and the paparazzi caught her and were making awful comments about her weight gain which made her start to worry about what they would say when they find out she was dating Joe. She tried to breakup with Joe and told him she didn’t want him to start getting hate from the public and he straight up said no and that he didn’t care at all. So the song was about all the worry about the public, but staying with him anyways
I Did Something Bad goes hard.. but the live version goes SO. MUCH. HARDER.
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Wow, love this reaction. ❤ Hoping for more Taylor Swift reactions. 😍
I came accross this reaction video the day it was uploaded, and I've been going back daily to watch my favorite bits, impatiently waiting for the folklore reaction, my favorite album ever. Such good reaction vid!
She has won the album of the year three times with the different genres
- fearless (2009) country album
- 1989 (2014) pop album
- folklore (2020) alternative album
But speak now, red, reputation, evermore should have won too😭😭😭
Lol not this again, as if nobody else deserves to win that award, come on 😂 three times for the same artist is enough. Also all three are pop technically (country pop for fearless, and alternative/folk pop for folklore, which is my fave personally)
@@lfior no,not enough
@@lfior reputation and evermore deserves to win
Reputation is album of century
rep will get that long overdue grammy when reputation tv is released!
Shout out to whoever compiled this list of links for you. I can tell they are a true Swiftie, because they didn’t let you give a single penny to Scooter! 😂👍🏼
He already sold the masters didn't he? He already got his money
If you do folklore. I’d definitely do the folklore long pond sessions where she plays every song live in studio and explains each one. Also folklore is fictional yes but it’s also largely about her masters or about Joe still and it’s more using fictional scenarios to represent her real emotions. Evermore is more straight up fictional but I love both.
Or so we thought.
I’d love to see more TS reactions, I’d also recommend Folklore and Evermore as great ones to check out next
She did market them as fictional stories, but the more you listen to her discography, it’s clear some of these stories were inspired by her life also
Her best and my favourite album. Absolute Banger! 💥🔥
The live performance of "King of My Heart" has huge drums in it, drums big enough to take a nap on.
Timpani’s I suppose. They are used in orchestral compositions.
@@JimGamesthink bigger
Her performance with those big drums are amazing! One of the best from the Reputation tour❤
What an interesting choice for your first Taylor Swift album. Reputation is definitely Taylor's most divisive album so I'm very curious to see your opinions on her other works of art! Awesome video
if you're gonna react to any more live performances from this era, you have to do I Did Something Bad and Don't Blame Me, from the tour...like others are great too, eg Dancing With Our Hands Tied acustic, ut those two are just top tier. Also those you watched were quite stripped from the original, in that video you watched she left out one whole verse of Look What You Made Me do which she sang on the tour, and in End Game she sings her verse on the tour, here it wasn't included.
yes please
Delicate video is also a bit of a nod to the fact that she's never been the best dancer--she knows it, she owns it, she's cool with it....she's actually gotten quite good, btw.
Loved this entire reaction! Thank you for doing this. Look forward to future reactions.
Oh pleaseee pleaseeee continue your taylor swift journey! I appreciate your reaction so much! ✨✨✨
Hands down the best reaction I’ve ever watched!! I love that you had a whole document that talked about each song before you went into it. A lot of TH-camrs just dive in without context and then everyone in the comments explains the story behind the songs. For an artist like Taylor swift that discloses a lot of her personal life in her songs, this is really the best way to do it. A ton of her songs are about something specific and if you don’t know it then you’d be lost. The whole Kanye drama brought us gems like the rep album, mad woman, vigilante shit. Even losing her masters turned into songs like my teats ricochet. Also, if you feel bad about the breakup after listening to reputation, you’ll be heartbroken after Lover! Loll
You don't need to be young to love Taylor. I am 52 and I loved her since 2006. Also, she is far from mousey she is always hot and always will be.
The reputation stadium tour is an EXPERIENCE. If you’re intrigued by the one live performance you watched dude you are in for a treat. She’s truly the greatest performer of our time
People talk eras , and eras was decent, but reputation tour is such a slam
Would love to see your reaction to the entire Reputation tour, as well as her Miss Americana documentary!
Midnights really is a great album to go through-obviously folklore is a good one too. But I would love to hear your take on the new album!
The delicate choreo was supposed to be the like crazy dance that anyone does when they're alone and invisible, it's like a freedom from socialization, it was an intentional choreo, she even has a dance practice for it😂🦋
It’s so much fun watching your expression as you’re listening. She’s very talented and her lyrics are so spectacular. There’s many layers (due to her growth as a musician). You’re a swifty! Welcome to the club
“Melodies are unhinged” exactly!
While I love that Taylor’s known for her lyricism but her talent of coming up with unique and catchy melodies is so underrated.
Thank you for the reaction! ❤
This was a great reaction, thanks! Beans is really cute.🤩
Your channel is one of my most recent favorites and I especially love your Taylor reactions.
I was a little late to the party, but definitely now a Swiftie or a "Mama Swiftie."😁 My generation thinks that the snake in the backdrop for the live performance of "Look What You Made Me Do" is giving some Iron Maiden and Metal vibes It's so bad ass! 🤘🏻 Love it
Btw, Callie did an AMAZING job!
i watched this stoned out of my mind, and my god your explanation and thoughts on each song was amazing 🙏
I can’t relate to the people in the chat saying they don’t love End Game. That’s like the best song on the album
I would loooove your reaction to Folklore, Evermore. Those two are truly beautiful, musically and lyricly. Her last album, Midnights is also amazing!
Reputation LIVE is well worth the watch! Enjoy your thoughts
Re: delicate. She use to have to sneak and try to be invisible to meet him in the back of the bar and her ‘wish’ came true for a bit until she showed up to the bar and everyone looked at her. It was fleeting freedom
Would love to see another Taylor album reaction!
I don't know your schedule but the live version of Dear John is amazing!!!
Oh yes! One of my favorite performances
Folklore and evermore next plss...
great reaction!! I think you should definitely try folklore next, especially since you liked new year’s day so much. It’s definitely one of her most lyrically impressive albums! (and personally my favorite) ♥️
Wow, nice rx. Would love to follow your journey if you are going to do another. Folklore would be a 180. Its AOTY. Lyrically heavy, a lot of storytelling, but 1/2 is about her as well. Evermore is second to folklore (I prefer evermore) and again 1/2 is about her life as well but a lot of story telling. Actually evermore has some Reputation running through it, whereas folklore doesnt. These are adventurous in that they it’s a genre shift for her, blending folk/indie with pop. Nothing else sounds quite like it. She had been dating Joe for 4 yrs when she wrote folklore, in 3 months. Didn’t tell her label until a week before she surprise dropped it. All albums are very different. Each album has a different aesthetic, sound, theme, color, time of year, and story (aka ERA). I think you need a 180 after Reputation. I’d try folklore. I’m an over middle aged professor, and I started listening to her with folklore 2020, pandemic. Why would i have ever listened to TS? well, i realized I was very wrong at that point. I just needed her to catch up.
I’d love to see him get whiplash moving on to Folklore next! I hope he watches the Long Pond studio sessions where she discusses the meaning behind the songs with Jack Antonoff and Aaron Dessner first, then watch her sing it in the studio. It helps with understanding the lyrics so much! Her singing with Aaron and Jack playing is amazing!
Absolutely love Taylor's Reputation album! Her new sound is fresh and fierce.
Oh man, "I Did Something Bad" live version in the Rep Stadium Tour movie is next level. Takes a great song and turns it up to 11. I hope you've seen it. In fact, that version of Don't Blame Me is ridiculously good too. Hell, that whole movie never gets old for me.
The fact that secret session is called secret because Taylor invited her fans to her house and played the album to her songs before the album were released . The amount of trust 😩😩😩
Thank you for this video and recognizing her immense talent, despite not being your cup of tea. Highly recommend you to listen to Folklore for lyricism. 🖤
If you ask swifties Folklore and Evermore is a mix of autobiographical and fictional. Folklore album has a few songs that in my opinion are autobiographical like “My Tears Ricochet", about her old record label Big Machine Records/ Scott Borchetta, "Mirrorball" (about us her fans), "This Is Me Trying". "Invisible Stings" and "Peace" (definitely for Joe), “Mad Woman", “Hoax". “The Lakes" about escaping with Joe. Evermore album has "Willow", "Gold Rush", "Long Story Short" which about Joe. "Marjorie" about her grandmother, "Evermore" is about her depression, here’s some songfacts- she went through a bunch of bad experiences in the second half of 2016, including the public condemnation following her spat with Kanye West and Kim Kardashian over the rapper's "Famous" lyrics.
Motion capture
Put me in a bad light
I replay my footsteps on each stepping stone
Trying to find the one where I went wrong
Kim Kardashian posted on her Snapchat account an edited recording of a phone call between Swift and West, which seemed to show her approving a "Famous" lyric that she had scorned in public. Swift was widely portrayed her as a manipulative liar.
There were several other incidents that damaged her reputation, including a fall out with Calvin Harris following the end of their relationship. Swift struggled with her public downfall and the whole experience took a toll on her mental health. She said: "All those times were just sort of taking it day-by-day to get through, trying to find a glimmer of hope, all of that."
The song is not all doom and gloom. The redemptive ending finds Swift starting to feel better as she thinks fondly of someone close to her. She concludes that "this pain wouldn't be for evermore." Again, this ties in with Swift singing of her "Cruel Summer" in 2016 as that tough period coincided with the start of her relationship with the British actor Joe Alwyn. And lastly "It’s Time To Go" "It's Time to Go" is a bleak song where Swift depicts different situations when relationships have run their course. Many, if not all of the scenarios, are believed by Swifties to be based on actual events in the singer's personal life.
During the first verse, Swift depicts the ending of a friendship.
When the words of a sister come back in whispers
That prove she was not in fact what she seemed
Not a twin from your dreams
She's a crook who was caught
Fans believe this is about fashion model Karlie Kloss, Swift's best friend from 2014 through 2016. They suspect the pair had a fall out; the pop star then felt betrayed when Kloss started hanging out with her nemesis, Scooter Braun.
The second verse starts with a tale of someone losing out on promotion at work to an unfit individual.
Twenty years at your job
Then the son of the boss gets the spot that was yours
Swift's father, Scott, is a former stockbroker who established the Swift Group, a financial advisory group that is part of Merrill Lynch. This may be about obstacles he encountered in his career,
The songstress continues the verse by recounting a marriage that has run its course.
Or trying to stay for the kids
When keeping it how it is will only break their hearts worse
Swift's parents were married for 25 years before separating in the early 2010s. Worried about offsetting their daughter's career, they kept their marital issues from the press.
The third verse finds Swift seeming to address her broken relationship with former Big Machine Records label boss Scott Borchetta.
Fifteen years, fifteen million tears
Begging 'til my knees bled
I gave it my all, he gave me nothing at all
Then wondered why I left
Swift signed with Scott Borchetta's Big Machine Records in 2004. Shortly after she left Big Machine 14 years later to sign with Republic, news broke that Borchetta had sold the label, along with the master recordings to her first six albums, to entertainment mogul Scooter Braun. Swift felt betrayed by her former label boss and has compared the breakdown of their relationship to the end of a marriage. She also referenced the deal on several other songs, including Folklore's "My Tears Ricochet" and "Mad Woman."
Swift concludes in the chorus and the post chorus that when a relationship turns toxic, the bravest thing to do is to walk away. She tweeted: "'It's Time To Go' is about listening to your gut when it tells you to leave."
My favorite album from her, but definitely you have to continue reviewing her discography, every single album is different from each other.
Continue with folklore or evermore, then midnights or lover, you can do after 1989 or red (Taylor’s Version), and finish everything with her first three albums.
I was never a swiftie my self, but as soon as you enter to her world, you can’t get out.
Watching her documentary, long pond sessions, and the Reputation tour live is a must; I know is a lot of work for you, but all of the swifties we are going to be there to watch your reactions.
You are a cool man.
You should do Lover next if you want more of "Listening to her Diary".
Hey, thank you for your honest reaction, I really loved it, I recently discovered your channel because I'm a Swiftie for over a decade now.. Okay, since your first album reacted to was reputation, I would like to give you a recommendation on which albums to listen to in order, starting with the albums she fully owned, including the documentaries, live performances and short films..
•I Did Something Bad (Live @ the AMAs 2018)
•Reputation Stadium Tour (tour documentary)
•Lover (album)
•Artist of the Decade (Live @ the AMAs 2019)
•Miss Americana (documentary)
•folklore (album)
•Folklore Long Pond Studio Session (live)
•2020 Grammy Awards (where she won album of the year for folklore)
•evermore (album)
•Fearless (Taylor's Version) (album)
•Red (Taylor's Version) (album)
•Wildest Dreams (Taylor's Version) (a track off of her 5th album 1989, which is to be re-released)
•All Too Well (Short Film)
•This Love (Taylor's Version) (a track off of her 5th album 1989, which is to be re-released)
•All Too Well (SNL)
•Midnights (The Til Dawn Edition) (album)
•You're Losing Me (exclusive on CDs, but maybe there's a lyric video on YT as well) 🤗
•Speak Now (Taylor's Version) (coming, July 7th) 💜
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•and also I forgot to mentioned here, the 4 surprise tracks that she released before her very first tour this year, these are the tracks:
•Safe and Sound (Taylor's Version)
•Eyes Open (Taylor's Version)
•If This Was A Movie (Taylor's Version)
•All Of The Girls You Loved Before
you may listen to these, after you reacted to Midnights 🤗
This album is 🔥...I'm a woman of course I think it's the best comeback album of all time!!! They lied, called her a snake. Man Karma's a bitch!!! This woman has the most open and generous soul on the planet and to see her cry breaks my heart in a million pieces!! Yes I am a Swiftie and proud to be a part of her Army!!! ❤️
Is there anyone like her?🧡
Don't Blame Me - Live from the Reputation Tour is pretty great
I just listened to it for the first time and I love Taylor so much more now. This is her best stuff I swear
Fun fact, Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds's daughter James said gorgeous at the beginning. Taylor had them (close friends) over and sang the song for them, James kept saying gorgeous, and Taylor liked it and asked them if she could use it in her song.
Lol that was in the document
@@Jellybeansatdusk I wouldn't know, I never watched it. Did he watch it?
@@Violet316 what? He had a document in the video that he was reading and on the document it reads: “btw James was 2 and Taylor and Blake and Ryan are friends” basically explaining exactly that 😂
This is an absolutely incredible reaction, I’m so glad I stumbled across your channel! I really love how you articulate your thoughts and back it up with your music knowledge! Taylor is one of my favorite artists and has been for such a long time! This album is one of my favorites from her! Not to be one of those people but as soon as I heard you mention that you enjoy artists who you are able to relate to and are able to keep themselves humble I just had to leave this comment recommending Louis Tomlinson’s work! He’s a person I’ve followed for over 10 years now and in that time he’s been so authentically himself (especially in recent years in regards to making sure he’s making the music he wants to rather than going for big radio plays which I appreciate so much!) I feel like you would really enjoy his music and lyrics! He currently has two albums out one which is called Walls and his second which is called Faith in the Future! I cannot recommend this man enough, I really feel like you would appreciate the direction his music has gone in in recent years! It’s tough to get people to give his music a chance given his origin/start in the music industry and I feel like if people were to give his solo music a chance they’d find that it isn’t what they thought! Once again, thank you so much for this Taylor reaction and I can’t wait to see more reactions from you! :]
I’ll be sure to add Louis Tomlinson to the list then. Thank you for the kind words:)
@@JimGames Very exciting to hear! I’d also like to add that he has released a track-by-track series where he talks a little about each track from his albums too which are definitely worth a listen in between each track so you can get a feel for what each one’s about and what kind of a person he is whilst talking about his music! A little added context for one of the songs: (trigger warning for discussion of someone passing away and cancer) Two of Us which is a song about his Mother’s passing which happened in late 2016 after a battle with cancer, shortly after One Direction disbanded and 6 days after it was released his younger sister passed away at the age of 18 so it has even more meaning after the fact. It’s a beautiful tribute and I feel like it’s important to have context for this one specifically. As I said, I can’t wait to see your future reactions! You’re a very engaging person to watch whilst also giving people new insight on more technical elements of songs they’ve listened to and loved for years, kudos to you! :]
Earned yourself a subscriber with this one, hoping you'll cover more of her albums in the future, each one is unique and masterful.
Folklore is definitely my recommendation for the next one, just remember that not every somg is from her perspective
You have to watch the live!!! We need a reaction! And folklore is amazing
gonna be honest usually with reaction videos I skip through if people are talking for a long period but this one I was enthralled like you get it and it was very interesting listening to you break it down
red, 1989, and folklore are her strongest lyrically (imo) and are all amazing albums that you would probably really enjoy. evermore is a sister album to folklore, it's tracks that were recorded for folklore but didn't fit the feel of the album, she released them because she felt they were a continuation of the album. taylor is really great and i'd be here to watch any reactions you do of her!
Love both Taylor and BTS !!!!❤
Thank you for NOT stopping the tracks while we listen. You keep the song up and talk softly about your impressions. I hope you understand how much that means to me and probably many others. Had to join your channel just for that wonderful presentation. ❤
(Ik I’m late, sorry) 11:25 THANK YOUUU! endgame as a song in general is real underrated and slept on,and so are each of the features on it. I don’t listen to Ed a lot personally, but I was obsessed with him in this song. This song and Delicate were actually the songs that made me a bigger swiftie, other than Love Story & You Belong With Me obvi. I loved those 2 a lot as well wayyy back then. So I owe Delicate and Endgame a lottt to me being the swiftie I am today. Thank you for actually giving the song a chance and having kind & positive remarks!!🫶🏻
I love your Taylor Swift reaction videos so much. Thanks for putting so much time and effort into understanding her music lyrically and appreciating the massive production of her songs and sharing your thoughts with us.
I recommend checking out her 1989 tour live rock versions of "I Knew You Were Trouble" and "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together." Very cool twist on her most popular and probably most disliked songs.
We want a T.S. rock album!!!
Hope I come across your reaction to these songs live!
Thank you, thank you, Sir! You helped me a lot to love the music of Tay! 👍🙏💕💝😘
Taylor has said she almost had the idea of a musical in her head when she was making this album. Very theatrical!
Wait where did she say this omg
Excited to see you go into the woods! I am an Evermore die hard, I think that album is phenomenal