Growing up in the song “Never Grow Up,” Taylor touches on her early home life including intricate details about how she didn’t appreciate things enough when she was younger but now, as she has grown, she longs for them. When people are young, they always have a desire to be older and to be more grown up. In this song, she gives multiple examples of this, “At fourteen there’s just so much you can’t do, and you can’t wait to move out someday and call your own shots.” Towards the end of the song, Taylor says, “So here I am in my new apartment… I wish I’d never grown up.” This song makes you stop, think, and really appreciate what you have currently because someday you are going to miss it. I try and never take a day for granted and value what I have now.

Taylor ends her album”Red” with a song called “Begin Again,” and because of its placement on the track listing such an emotional album, it signals to you that it is okay to begin again and to turn over a new leaf, even if you went through such a tough time. In the song, Swift explains how she is melancholy and cannot stop thinking about an ex-boyfriend who wronged her and how challenging it was to move on. One day she met someone new and had to try hard to forget about her past with her old boyfriend. To me, forgetting the past and starting fresh is challenging but this song reminds me that it should be ea

sy and that you should not waste your energy being down.

In the song “Karma,” she mentions all the good things in her life and how she believes that these came to her through doing good throughout her career. To the whole people in her life that wronged her, she says that they are envious of her, that their karma is negative, and all their bad actions have badly returned to them. I believe that you should try and be the best version of yourself and be a genuinely good person because it does pay off. The world gives good to those who’ve earned it.

In Taylor’s album “Reputation,” she covers how many people around the world and in the industry were against her. The album after that was “Lover” and the first track is “I Forgot That You Existed.”This song title, being the first one on the album, shows how she let go of her past and forgot all about the earlier drama. I think it’s important to do this and not mentally drain yourself by holding on to old people or events in your life that damaged you. Letting go of the past is very important and it can benefit you emotionally and allow you to move on.

Taylor’s late grandmother was named Marjorie, who was also a singer, and on Taylor’s ninth album “Evermore,” she wrote a song about her using all the lessons she had taught her. To pay tribute, the song is named Marjorie. In the song, she repeats the lessons her grandmother taught her when she was younger and reflects on how at the time, she didn’t appreciate them but now she would give anything to spend more time with her and hear her speak. “I should’ve asked you questions; I should’ve asked you how to be,” is a lyric she says that I love, and I think it shows off the emotion and empathy the song puts you through. People take things for granted all the time and don’t realize the value of what they have until it’s too late. This song makes me appreciate people in my life even more than before because you never know the last time you will hear from them or learn from them.

The song ‘Ours” is about a man Taylor was in love with and it seemed like them being together received negative feedback from everyone. Through the song she says all these little “imperfections” about him that she loves. The choruses all end with “but this love is ours,” which means that it doesn’t matter what everyone else thinks. This isn’t anyone else’s relationship or love story, it’s hers. As it is important to listen to those close to you, with a grain of salt, they don’t know about your love life, and they don’t need to. Sometimes you must learn lessons on your own and it really is nobody else’s to tell you who and how you love someone.

“Tolerate It” is a song that Taylor wrote about a couple where the woman tries her hardest to make the relationship work; she sets the table and does everything he wishes yet he only tolerates her throughout everything. This song puts you in her shoes and realizes you never want to end up like this character. You deserve the best and you should always believe in yourself, stand up for yourself and follow your heart. Do not let anyone tolerate you because you should hold yourself higher than that and know you can do better.

In Taylor’s debut album, there is a song called “A Place in This World.” This track describes her dreams in her career and how she “is just a girl trying to find a place in this world.” This is very relatable because that is how I think, and I believe most others do as well. We all want to belong and just find our personal legend in this wild world that we live in. Many teenagers do not know our paths yet, especially at the age I am, but eventually, it’ll come. “I don’t know what I want so don’t ask me” is another relatable lyric from this song because we constantly get interrogated about what we want to do with our lives, yet we just don’t know yet.

“Lavender Haze” is a song that explains how Taylor doesn’t want to get married quite yet and how that’s all the press is asking her. In one line she says, “The only kind girl they see is a one night or a wife,” this is a very true thing and are both extremes for women in this current society. In this song, Taylor is explaining how she is in it for the long run but isn’t ready for marriage. From this track I’ve learned that you don’t need to follow what is expected of you; follow what is right in your life.

This to me means that, once you hit rock bottom or at least close to it is when you become your most resilient and really bounce back up. The line “…when I was drowning, I could finally breathe” is from Taylor’s song “Clean.” This song means a lot to me because I think it’s very true that at low points in people’s lives, they finally get the epiphany to change, and their life positively inclines from there. Everyone goes through trials and tribulations throughout their lifetime but those can only make you stronger. The word clean creates a vivid picture in your mind and shows that things are on a clean slate and new.