Pray, hope, and don’t worry. Catholic/follower of Jesus first and foremost. Insta : amanderpzzz. MSW grad student.Texas Swiftie! Fearless 3/11/10, SN 10/8/11, Red 5/25/13, 1989 5/22/15&10/17/15, F1 10/22/16. REP tour 10/5 & 10/6.Swiftie since ‘08 ♥️
the way to the casual listener the songs sound nearly exactly the same but to us we can tell just the tiny differences in her inflection and her vocal strength and get to relearn these songs like we learned the old ones
“The song 'Breathe' is a song about having to let go of someone in your life who you care about, and you don't want to hurt, but you've outgrown the friendship or the relationship. And I wrote the idea for it, and Colbie Caillat was in town who's just one of my favorite artists, I absolutely love her music and I love her voice. And she was in town playing a show and I brought her this idea and she really liked it, and we wrote it together. We sat there and wrote the song right before her show. I mean, it was the afternoon, she was about to play that night. And she sang backup vocals on it that are just so haunting. And I'm so lucky because she agreed to do the same backup vocals on my version of 'Breathe.' So, it absolutely would not have been the same without her. I'm really, really grateful that she decided to return to the project."
— Taylor to iHeartMedia on re-recording Breathe and working with Colbie Caillat again
as a general rule. if what we’re calling ‘cultural appropriation’ sounds like nazi ideology (i.e. ‘white people should only do white people things and black people should only do black people things’) with progressive language, we are performing a very very poor application of what ‘cultural appropriation’ means. this is troublingly popular in the blogosphere right now and i think we all need to be more critical of what it is we may be saying or implying, even unintentionally.
Jesus was loving and he did indeed reached out to sinners and the marginalized and those who were deemed less to society. But remember He ALWAYS shared the gospel to everyone. He told them to repent. He told them to turn away from their sins.