Honey I Rose Up From The Dead

i don’t know what’s crazier.. the fact that Taylor had the audacity to keep Mr. Perfectly Fine in the vault for 13 years, or the fact that “the vault” is probably a worn out journal with glitter and cat stickers on it.

fearless was an album full of magic and curiosity, the bliss and devastation of youth, it was the diary of the adventures and explorations of a teenage girl who was learning tiny lessons with every new crack in the facade of the fairytale ending she’d been shown in the movies.

sincerely and fearlessly, taylor. (insp in replies)

thinking about this quote:

“As far as the need to rebel against the idea of you, or the image of you: Like, I feel no need to burn down the house I built by hand. I can make additions to it. I can redecorate. But I built this. And so I’m not going to sit there and say, ‘Oh, I wish I hadn’t had corkscrew-curly hair and worn cowboy boots and sundresses to awards shows when I was 17; I wish I hadn’t gone through that fairy-tale phase where I just wanted to wear princess dresses to awards shows every single time.’ Because I made those choices. I did that.”

listening to these songs and seeing these throwback pics in the lyric videos and remembering how just two months ago taylor said “it was a real honor being a teenager alongside you”.............

god but the thing about fearless that was so important when it was released, and the thing that still makes it have so much impact all these years later, is because this was a teenage girl entering a male dominated music scene and saying, “no, i’m going to sing about my feelings, i am going to be open about my emotions, i am going to tell my stories.” it was so openly and honestly an album by a teenage girl, and that’s what made it so endearing. that’s what drew so many people to taylor, people who have now stuck around for over a decade, people who grew up with her. it was an album about crushes and puppy love and your best friend and your mother and the first day of high school and all those little moments in your life that seemed so huge at the time. she named names, she recounted specific details, she made sure we knew exactly what she was feeling and exactly who she was talking about. that’s what made it stand out, that’s why it put taylor on the map. it was an album that wanted to be a voice of young girls everywhere. and now she’s revisiting it, and she’s not as young as she once was, but she’s still honest and emotional and tells her own stories. and she’s kind to the girl she once was. treats every song that she wrote as a teenager with as much care and love as she did when she first recorded them, because taylor knows how important they were. how important they are. to the young girl who wrote them, and to the people they inspired everywhere.

no because i’m literally crying

tell me which vault track you're claiming so I can know who has taste

hold up a hand heart if angsty, wide-eyed, hopelessly romantic teenage taylor raised you

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HOW DOES SHE DO THAT WITH HER VOICE AT THE END OF TOSOTD IT SOUNDS SO DIFFERENT BUT SOOOOO MUCH BETTER ITS SO COOL IM LITERALLY WHAT!!!!!! THE LAST 30 SECONDS OF TOSOTD (TAYLOR’S VERSION) IS ALL I WILL BE TALKING ABOUT FOREVER!!!!!!!

Taylor woke up and said make them cry with The Best Day

i think the real vocal difference is that on the originals you can tell little baby taylor is having to give it all she’s got full force every take, and adult taylor masters these songs so effortlessly and with so much control and confidence. not that she didn’t sound good before, she just sounds so much more relaxed in reaching that level. like she has nothing to prove, she has come home, she owns it.

i also think this might account for some of the random one-word lyric differences – that she was just vibing and changed some tiny words here and there on the fly because she felt like it and she could because she owns it