If you haven't heard, Taylor Swift has a new CD coming out fairly soon. She actually has three new singles out already, which is a lot of new T-Swift tunes for your listening pleasure.
Taylor Swift is definitely an artist I go back and forth with. I always buy her albums, and I always listen to them and love the incredibly relatable songs about love and life. Mostly love. Love when it starts. Love when it lasts. Love when it ends. Love when it's miserable, or life changing, or colourful (the newest single is titled Red, as is the album). She's a big fan of love songs, and I usually enjoy that.
But after awhile, every Taylor Swift CD gets moved out of my rotation. Firstly, the radio stations quickly overplay her music, so there's no point listening to the CD anymore. Secondly, I always get sick of hearing about her relationships. And knowing, thanks to crappy gossip magazines, who she's been dating. It's pretty hard to feel sorry for Taylor Swift when she walked away from a relationship with Taylor Lautner, from the Twilight movies (supposedly the song Back to December is about Lautner). I mean, I'm sorry Swifty, but you let something beautiful like him slip out of your hands, so I'm not going to feel a lot of pity for you.
I do, however, really admire Taylor Swift. It cannot be easy to date in a society where every guy out there knows you're going to write a song about him at some point and time. And not like a passing song. No, no. Taylor Swift writes songs for the millions of girls who've had their hearts smashed, and the radio stations eat that up. If that song's about you, and you figure it out, you'll have to hear her making sweet money off the heartache that you may have been responsible for.
What I admire about Taylor, though, is the fact that she keeps putting herself out there. She gets dumped by Joe Jonas via a 30-second phone call and she doesn't let that scare her off. She writes a song about it, picks herself up and gets back out there. And judging by the use of the "l-word" in her songs, she's really throwing herself back into relationships.
It has to be difficult to love so freely and so often. I'm definitely presuming a lot based on her music, but if she completely falls for each of these guys, then that's a lot of honest relationships where she's (again, I'm really assuming a lot) not holding back. That's also a lot of recovery time, by which I mean emotional rants with her girlfriends, ice cream binges and unattractive sobbing. Not that I can relate.
I estimate she will have 50 songs about love after this new CD is released. That's a lot of relationships, even if some of the songs are about the same guy.
I can't imagine loving and living like Taylor Swift. She's taking risks with her heart that I can only admire. So annoying or not, her music and her attitude are inspiring and I'm excited for the next album.
Taylor Lautner: If you happened to read this column, please contact Tonaya Marr by e-mail at [email protected]. You can also get a hold of her of Twitter @TonayaMarr. Just think about it.
