Taylor Swift: RED

I apologize fro the delay, but I promise I've been trying to write this blog for a week now. For the past week the soundtrack flowing through my brain has been Taylor Swift's newest and fourth album RED.

It has been amazing seeing how much can change in only two years time. When Speak Now came out I was fresh with painful memories of a broken hear and a cheating boyfriend. As I've grown on from those memories and am finding wonderful new memories with a new boy. Thus RED has been an interesting album.

State of Grace: Taylor has started to grow up as much as I have these last two years and you can tell by the sound of State of Grace. Echos start the album and song with a interesting tone. About never seeing the betrayal coming. It is about living your life like an Audrey and less of a Lindsay. No matter what happens you can do it with dignity. It is about knowing that things are wrong, but learning the lessons from the mistakes.

Red: The title song is such an anthem for girls. Knowing the feelings of red gives you and deciphering which ones are worth it. From the lustful passion to the anger you find in a toxic relationship. I'm happy that unlike Speak Now I relate to the memories, but also understand I am so very far gone from any relationship like that. The beat and lyrics are amazing.

Trecherous: I've not really been too keen on this song until recently. Every once in a while my mind floated back to the summer of 2011. At first I thought this song was kind of boring. It wasn't until I actually listened to the words that I finally understood it. I remembered Summer of 2011 and that want to be with someone that confuses you. It is about not caring how it tears you apart, not caring that it will never go anywhere. It hurts you that they don't want you, yet you continue to persue the path. The trecherous one that makes you feel lost. This song reminds me of the boy from camp. The softness and the simplicity in guitar is about looking at reality of relationships with people instead of your fantasy. The crescendo towards in the chorus of the song is about realizing that you'd do anything for someone, who won't do anything for you. To find your way out of the treacherous.

I Knew You Were Trouble: I LOVE THIS SONG! Taylor really is broadening her spectrum of music capabilities. This song reminds me of my first date after my jerk ex boyfriend. I knew this boy was everything wrong for me. I felt like he was going to be trouble, but I still went for it. I still allowed myself to be all giddy. Still allowed myself to believe all the sweet things he said to me. I still let myself think things were possible. However there wasn't anything there. He was just a players who played the game. It was exciting to get all dressed up, to find my sexy girl inside and pretend to be something. This boy was so dumb, but he helped me to find someone inside of me. Taylor's dubstep and powerful lyrics are one of my favorite parts of this song. It is about knowing you were played and accepting yourself for falling for it.

All Too Well: This is such a beautiful sad song. Last year I wanted to be someone kind and sweet. I thought it was a no-brainer. He was such a great friend, he was the one who'd been there when my pieces fell apart. He was just too afraid to be truthful and make a move. This is the song for Taylor that explains her relationship with Jake. For me it is a goodbye to my thoughts I could have done more. You call me up again just to break me like a promise so casually cruel in the name of being honest. I love this song for it truth. There was nothing either of could do. There were just scared boys and we just coped with music.

22: I really wish this song existed when I was 22. When my 3 year relationship ended it was the week of my 22^nd birthday. This is about being empowered to be you and that it is ok. It is about having great friends that support you. It is about being ok not having a boyfriend. Telling the haters to shut their pie holes. We're happy free, confused, and lonely at the same time it's miserable and magical. I may be 24 now, but it sent me back to the best and worst year/age of my life. That is what the song means with every last playful lyric.

I Almost Do: I will never talk to certain people ever again. I have my legitimate reasons, yet my curiousity sometimes gets the better of me. I want to show him that I am doing so much better without him. To call him up bragging that he was never good for me, that I'm so much happier with someone else than I ever could have been with him. This song is about warring with yourself. To finally getting over feeling guilty and feeling the appropriate feelings. You see Jon shows me every last thing and feeling I lacked before. These things remind me that I've always deserved so much better. That even though I Almost Do, I never will.

We Are Never Getting Back Together: The single is such a catchy tune. I am done with so many people. I've been on so many dates and dealt with so many different of losers. Now that I've found someone that makes me feel happy. I can tell those jerks that they are never going to have me. I love the video for this song. I love the ability to dance around my living room shouting excitedly that those other boys can shove it.

Stay, Stay, Stay: Jon is an amazing boyfriend. Taylor Swift and I are two peas in a pod. We have high standards and are easily stressed. We fall in love and we get into those moods to protect us from getting hurt. This song is an example. Before you I only dated self indulgent takers who took all of their problems out on me, but you carry my groceries and now I'm always laughing. This is the song I dedicate to the girls that lose themselves over stupid petty things, the ones that forget that the boys they have now are not the ones that hurt them. Most importantly my boyfriend, because despite my cynical impatience he still loves me. He still stays. I hope Taylor Swift has found that boy that is as amazing as mine.

The Last Time: This song is such a beautifully haunting song. I love how Taylor takes a backseat to Snow Patrol's Gary Lightbody. Letting his voice shine through the core of this song makes it such a wonderfully sad song. This song for me is about the final goodbye. No more will I let someone inside my head and my heart. It isn't who you think and it doesn't matter. I'm done with breaking my heart over a boy that would have never been good for me. This is the last time.

Holy Ground: This song makes me think of a girl running away. Searching for a dance partner. Crazy chaos this song is about looking at all the troubles and just going with it. This song has a great tempo and I feel like there is a giant undercurrent of memories. Of watching something fall apart and being ok with that. Because that is just what life does sometimes. Pull people apart.

Sad Beautiful Tragic: This is one of my favorite songs off the album. It makes me think of a girl in the 1940s waiting and watching her love leave her to go off to war. She is pretty sure she'll never see him again. All she can do is continue to look at her locket and cry by the train tracks. Taylor's writing style in this song reminds me a lot of tragedy of Last Kiss. Good girls don't always get the happy endings. I love that I find no connection to the song, and I can now travel through the rest of the album with the ability to listen to the music with imagination.

The Lucky One: This is another vintage inspired song. I am pretty sure it is about Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, and Grace Kelly. I picture the simple pretty girl being transformed into this sex symbol. It talks of porn stars and Playboy bunnies. Just normal girls who have to sell their souls for the fame. Girls with the wrong people in their corners. It is about finding your class in the world of tacky girls. Who is the lucky one the girl with fame or the girl with integrity. I love how the tune of this song is very sleek and sexy. Explaining the cruelness of Hollywood.

Everything Has Changed: This song is a fun tune about falling in love and I love it. I have been slightly obsessed with Ed Sheeran lately. More particularly with Lego House. So when Taylor announced she would have a duet with him I was thrilled. The fact that it is a simple love song makes it better. All I know is we said "Hello" and your eyes look like coming home. All I know is a simple name, everything has changed. All I know is you held the door. You'll be mine and I'll be yours.  It is about that moment you fall in love and as someone who has just recently fallen I understand this song with perfection. They say love is powerful, but it has never felt so life changing until this time.

Starlight: This song is addicting. It is about being young and dancing. Letting the night capture you and light you up. Being young no matter what your age. He said, "Look at you, worrying so much about things you can't change. You'll spend your whole life singing the blues if you keep thinking that way.  It is about being in love and letting that love take you away into the world that brightens for you. I look forward to seeing how this will turn out during her concerts.

Begin Again: As we finish out the album I think this is the song that has the most truth for me. The first time I heard it I knew I was in love. I knew this was the story of my new love for a new boy. It is about trying so hard not to fall, but watching is begin again. You throw your head back laughing like a little kid. I think it's strange that you think I'm funny cause he never did.  There has never been truer words spoken in a Taylor Swift song because that is exactly how I feel.

Throughout the twenty four years of my life I've always been able to explain my emotions through music. You can see by many blog entries and facebook posts that Taylor Swift has been an inspiring factor. Whenever I'm confused, sad, happy, or in need of something I always find answers in her music. I've grown up with her, fallen in love, and healed broken hearts with her. I enjoy this new album. It grows on me each additional day I listen to it.

That has been my thoughts on RED.

Soon I will have my epic conclusion to Twilight Saga in a blog. I can't wait until I can go see Part 2. I know I'm going to blubber like a baby when it is over. Until then Good Night.