Metalhead turned Swiftie - A song made me hate a man
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- Опубликовано: 13 авг 2023
- ...and if one song can make me feel that towards someone I don't know anything about, imagine what two can!
Emotional stuff! Damn!
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For the past 20+ years, I've listened mainly to Metal and Video Game music. My wife on the other hand, is a Swiftie. One of her biggest bucket list items was seeing Taylor live. With the Eras Tour coming to Europe, that dream is now becoming a reality. And I'll be going with her!
In the spirit of this, I've been challenged by her to become a Swiftie by May 2024. That's in 300 days.
I've heard a lot of Taylor Swift songs around the house and in the car, but I've never really PROPERLY listened to her music. Hearing it and listening to it are two very different things after all.
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imagine your daughter singing “give me back my girlhood it was mine first” that is STRONG and sad af.
Imagine someone writing the lyric, “ I regret you all the time” about you and really meaning it.
Unfun fact: John went on a whole lot of interviews trying to downplay everything and "erase them" as Taylor said it in her song. He also said that Dear John was "cheap" songwriting, but then wrote "paper dolls" about Taylor and the song is literal garbage
The man knows NOT to pause during her bridges! (Quick learner!)
Even with him having 13 years on her, she eclipsed his talent, fame, and status thousands of times over. “YoUr BodY iS a woNderLaNd” COULD NEVER
also dear john has the melody and instrumental very similar to john’s style of music! she is smarter than you think. she took his biggest hit “gravity” for inspiration and irony, if you listen to his song you can kinda hear it
I love how in Dear John the guitar sounds just like how John Mayer plays! I’ve said before, if you’re age starts with a three, leave the nineteen year olds alone.
the thing that just makes me feel so physically sick about the situation is that taylor’s lucky number famously is 13, and their age gap is 13 years so she probably saw it as some great sign when they got together. it just breaks my heart
From "I should've known" to realizing actually the blames on him with "You should've known."
They were in a relationship when she was 19 and he was 32, so when the relationship ended and she saw how he had manipulated her and how wrong it was that he was willing to be in a relationship with someone that young. She wrote the song Dear John, as the lyrics called him up (a 19 year old was the one that called him out and not his older exes), his ego got hurt and made a lawsuit against her 😂 and wrote her a song called Paper Doll. Now that she is 32, wrote the second song and it's the track 19 of the album (´cause she's a mastermind lol), reflecting it wasn't that she shouldn't know, the problem was that him as an adult accept being with someone that younger and manipulated her having so much advantage, grooming her and knowing that he was her idol. Love both songs, the first always give me chills, but the second makes me almost cry thinking that this situation is so common and they always blame it in the young girl, not the grown man. Love your reactions, hope you're enjoying this journey! You are in it for a surprise! Greetings from México!
A line that really hits me is "if clarity's in death then why won't this die?" because I think it's talking about the fact that even if you have analysed a situation and feel like you have fully intellectually understood what happened to you, the feelings don't always go away.
“I feel like someone should be behind bars for this” 😂 you have become a TRUE Swiftie my friend
she was not the only one who suffered in his manipulative hands, jessica simpson and katy perry are unfortunately on the list as well. i HATE the guy he’s everything a woman doesnt need in her life!
The “my mother accused me of losing my mind” part is sad, but so much more upsetting and heartbreaking and (regrettably) relatable (as a daughter) when it’s followed up with “but I swore I was fine”.
This is for predators! Stay away from young girls. Thanks for your reaction! Really love it!
I’m so glad you understood these songs so well- so many men write them off so quickly to be “over dramatic”. I loved that you acknowledged that there are a lot of people whom this song speaks to deeply. I’m one of them and cannot NOT bawl my eyes out every time I hear them, anyone who says these songs aren’t masterpieces are insane.
As someone who’s gone through an abusive relationship (15 - 18) he was (18 - 21) these songs really stab through my heart. Especially the girlhood line, I ALWAYS cry
These two songs just hit so hard. Dear John, when she was fresh out of that relationship when she was still raw from that trauma and then WCS, when she was the same age that he was at the time and her looking back and having lived through that trauma and seeing how wrong and twisted that whole
A little additional context for WCS: Taylor wrote this song with Aaron Dessner after the 2021 Grammys (where they won AOTY for Folklore). John Mayer also performed at the event, and she had to sit there in the audience and watch him. They probably hadn't been in the same room in over a decade. That experience likely brought a lot of these old wounds to the surface, acting as the inspiration for this song.
Taylor was 19, and John Mayer was 32 or 33. One of the best parts of the song, I think, is at the end when she finally says, "You should've known." Since throughout the song, she kept blaming herself.