What surprises listeners is that even the throwaway compositions of Taylor Swift – the female novelist of pop music – are wonderfully good, with sophisticated, literary-like lyrics.
Taylor Swift looks gorgeous on stage during The Eras Tour – Photo: Getty
While The Eras Tour is causing a stir around the world, last week, Taylor Swift released another re-recorded album: Speak Now (Taylor’s version).
She added songs that had been scrapped, including Timeless , a song about a visit to an antique store where she found black-and-white photographs selling for 25 cents.
In the song, Taylor unravels the spider web to find beautiful mementos of the love of couples from decades ago.
In real life, she uncovers her past to find the musical gems she kept in her closet.
Two years ago, she re-recorded the album Red and released a 10-minute version of the song All Too Well that surpassed the original, with words and a plot worthy of being classified as literature.
Career is like a massive novel
In 17 years of singing, Taylor Swift has 10 original recording albums, nearly 250 songs and 6 tours, each with an average of 100 performances around the world. Anti-fans may hate her image but cannot deny the terrible creativity and work of “the number 1 pop star on the planet today”.
Although we know it’s easy to compare, while fans are wondering about the small number of songs and the high ticket price for a BlackPink music night, many people agree that Taylor Swift’s concerts are worth it. down to every penny.
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Following in the footsteps of legendary touring artists, every night Taylor Swift performs nearly 45 songs for nearly 4 sublime hours, often considered an “epic”.
Each The Eras Tour show is divided into 10 eras corresponding to Taylor Swift’s 10 albums, and it seems that Swift has built each album like a chapter in a massive musical novel.
She has a novelist mindset in building rhythms and knots for the musical journey: from a young girl riding a horse, holding a guitar in the countryside singing love songs in her early teens in Taylor Swift, Fearless and Speak Now , She transformed into a trendy urban pop star in Red and 1989 , pushing it to a climax with the image of the Snake God taking fierce revenge in Reputation.
But suddenly she returned to being the sweet Taylor of Lover , and continued with two albums with folk music imbued with wisdom and poetry, Folklore and Evermore .
The fever had not yet passed when Taylor experimented with pop and electronic sounds in Midnights . Closing each album – or musical chapter, we cannot predict what the next chapter will be.
