Speak Now Taylor's Version 2023

First, let me talk about my original favorites from this album:

So many things that I wish you knew, so many walls up I can't break through.

The last time I saw that person again was in 2016(?), just want to tell you a quick story lol. So it was during our reunion, just got out of the bathroom and he was outside and The Story of Us was playing in the back of my head because I was just pacing, pretending not to notice, and IDEK why (?) To be honest, I already saw that person when we arrived, went on with my life, and did not even acknowledge his presence while I said hello to everyone. LOL I think I am just embarrassed because most people know how crazy I was for him and yeah, I can't deal with that. HAHAHAHA.

How'd we end up this way?

See me nervously pulling at my clothes

And trying to look busy

And you're doing your best to avoid me

I'm starting to think one day I'll tell the story of us

How I was losing my mind when I saw you here

But you held your pride like you should have held me

 Next, SUPERMAN. Yes, the same person and yes, the same feeling. 😭😁😂

He's got his mothers eyes, his father's ambition; I wonder if he knows how much that I miss him

And I watch you fly around the world
And I hope you don't save some other girl
Don't forget, don't forget about me
I'm far away but I'll never let you go
I'm lovestruck and looking out the window
Don't forget, don't forget where I'll be

Right here, wishing the flowers were from you
Wishing the card was from you
Wishing the call was from you

'Cause I've loved you from the very first day 

And of course Enchanted. This may be one of the crowd favorites from the original release. And yes, to be honest, always for the same person. Same feeling. Same everything.

Please don't be in love with someone else. Please don't have somebody waiting on you.

Now on to the vault tracks.

You know what, when the I Can See You MV was released, it healed my inner childhood. Seeing Joey all grown and of course Taylor Lautner there -- suddenly, if we love again I swear I'd love you right doesn't sound too sad anymore. 

My favorite vault track is Foolish One, it's like Taylor speaking to my soul.

Foolish one, stop checking your mailbox for confessions of love that ain't never gonna come.

To sum it up, this entire record is about my youth. How I felt when I first fell in love and how I felt when I realized he will never feel the same. This record is about growing up from crushes to first loves and from first love to first heartbreak. How it felt the first time you moved out of your old room to a college dorm. This is about the many changes we all went through. This is Speak Now, our version.

Thank you, Taylor, for this record. This record has sustained me during my teen puppy love/heartbreak age and now my all-grown-up, healing adult self.

Red is about to be mine again, but it has always been ours. Tonight we begin again. 💕

Yay! So last week, my girl Taylor released her version of her fourth album RED. To be honest, Red is not really my number 1 favorite album/era of Taylor but my goodness, the songs in RED are all so good. If you will ask me what my favorite album is I'd say Speak Now because it makes me feel young again but I somehow relate to both Red and Reputation albums. Anyway, it took me a while to write about Red TV because I wanted to have a listen first and savor each masterpiece. (Also memorize the 10-minute version of all too well)

Treacherous

Favorite Lyrics: I'd be smart to walk away, but your quicksand // Forever going with the flow but you're friction

State of Grace

Favorite Lyrics: So you were never a saint And I've loved in shades of wrong // We learn to live with the pain, Mosaic broken hearts // But this love is brave and wild

The Moment I Knew

Favorite Lyrics: And what do you do when the one who means the most to you Is the one who didn't show?

and ofc All Too Well

Favorite Lyrics: And you call me up again just to break me like a promise // So casually cruel in the name of being honest

Now! I'm gonna be ranking the tracks From the Vault, it's hard because I love them all! 💕 

All Too Well (10 MV)

Favorite Lyrics: 

There we are again when nobody had to know -- you kept me like a secret but I kept you like an oath // Sacred prayer and we'd swear to remember it all too well

They say all's well that ends well but I'm in a new hell every time you double-cross my mind // You said if we had been closer in age maybe it would have been fine and that made me want to die //  Did the twin flame bruise paint you blue? // Just between us, did the love affair maim you, too? //

Nothing New (Ft Phoebe Bridgers)

Favorite Lyrics:  How can a person know everything at eighteen, but nothin' at twenty-two? // And will you still want me when I'm nothin' new?

Better Man

Favorite Lyrics: We might still be in love if you were a better man // You would've been the one if you were a better man

Message in a Bottle

Favorite Lyrics: Message in a bottle is all I can do; standin' here, hopin' it gets to you 

I Bet You Think About Me (Ft Chris Stapleton)

Favorite Lyrics: But it turned out I'm harder to forget than I was to leave // I bet you think about me when you say: "Oh my God, she's insane, she wrote a song about me"