I’ve always said that the world is a different place for the heartbroken. It moves on a different axis, at a different speed. Time skips backwards and forwards fleetingly. The heartbroken might go through thousands of micro-emotions a day trying to figure out how to get through it without picking up the phone to hear that old familiar voice. In the land of heartbreak, moments of strength, independence, and devil-may-care rebellion are intricately woven together with grief, paralyzing vulnerability and hopelessness. Imagining your future might always take you on a detour back to the past. And this is all to say, that the next album I’ll be releasing is my version of Red.
Musically and lyrically, Red resembled a heartbroken person. It was all over the place, a fractured mosaic of feelings that somehow all fit together in the end. Happy, free, confused, lonely, devastated, euphoric, wild, and tortured by memories past. Like trying on pieces of a new life, I went into the studio and experimented with different sounds and collaborators. And I’m not sure if it was pouring my thoughts into this album, hearing thousands of your voices sing the lyrics back to me in passionate solidarity, or if it was simply time, but something was healed along the way.
Sometimes you need to talk it over (over and over and over) for it to ever really be… over. Like your friend who calls you in the middle of the night going on and on about their ex, I just couldn’t stop writing. This will be the first time you hear all 30 songs that were meant to go on Red. And hey, one of them is even ten minutes long.
We can't calm down because two years ago today the "You Need To Calm Down" music video was released! 💖🏳️🌈 To celebrate, we're watching the video and revisiting our favorite moments together! Join us on Twitter at 4pm CT! #2YearsOfYNTCD
‘folklore: the long pond studio sessions’ has won the Grand Award for Special or Variety TV at The Gracies! The award, presented by the Alliance for Women in Media Foundation, recognizes programming created by women, for women and about women. Congrats @taylorswift! 🥰
we know you probably get notes like this all the time, but we just wanted to tell you how much we appreciate you. you have given us the music that’s helped us through some of the hardest years of our lives during quarantine. folklore gave us something to be hopeful to in the early months, evermore helped us heal when we realized we would be in this for the long haul, and fearless taylor’s version has been here for us as everything slowly starts to change for the better.💛
as best friends, your music has made our bond even stronger. neither of us can hear dear john or i think he knows without thinking of each other, and we could talk for hours about never grow up and i did something bad. or just have our own concert with city of lover or the rep stadium tour! we have also met soooo many amazing swifties that we’ve become super close to. without you, we would've never had those amazing relationships or experiences.
although we haven’t been swifties for years and years, your genuine love for us and all of your fans has made us feel more wanted and loved then you could ever imagine. you have stayed such a wonderful person throughout everything you’ve been through, and we recognize how rare and special you are.
even though we’re going to different schools soon, we know that we’ll always be connected as swifties, forever and always, because of you.
we just wanted to say thank you taylor. you mean so much to us. have given us more than you know and we are so grateful for you. love you @taylorswift 💛
*Clover blooms in the fields/spring breaks loose/the time is near...* EVERMORE ALBUM VINYL IS OUT TODAY!! You can get it at your fav indie record store, Target, Walmart & Amazon ✨ and if you’re feeling even more generous, go ahead and stream it too! That would be cool!