When I think back on the Fearless album and all that you turned it into, a completely involuntary smile creeps across my face. This was the musical era in which so many inside jokes were created between us, so many hugs exchanged and hands touched, so many unbreakable bonds formed. So before I say anything else, let me just say that it was a real honor to get to be a teenager alongside you. And for those of you I've come to know more recently than 2008, I am ecstatic that I'll get to experience a bit of that feeling with you in the very near future. Now that I can fully appreciate it in its whimsical, effervescent, chaotic entirety.
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.
"We can come back here every year. You in your world and me in mine. Midsummer's Day. Midday."
"And I'll be there. I'll be there every year. My whole life."
"And if we do meet someone we like, we must be kind to them. We won't compare them. When we come here, just for an hour, we can be together."
"Every year. I promise."
His Dark Materials (2019-2022), 3x08 - "The Botanic Garden"