"Style" Music Video

Here is the music video for "Style" by Taylor Swift from her 1989 album. I am not the biggest fan of this video. It would be a great video minus some parts, like the creepy eyes showing up everywhere. It just doesn't fit the song. The song is upbeat and happy, this could have been such a fun happy video celebrating their relationship. This footage in this video could have been used for "Clean" or Wildest Dreams" much more appropriately.

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Bad Blood

Today's Taylor Swift song is the meaning of "Bad Blood" from her 1989 album.

I have heard varying opinions on this song in the Taylor fandom, but I personally relate to this song to the T.  There have been people in my life that have just started ignoring me for no reason, been mean to me for no reason, and many tears have been shed. Unfortunately it doesn't end with high school.  When I first heard about this song I knew I would relate to it, and every time I hear it, it speaks to me.  For me it's a way to release myself of the unjustified hate that others bring on me so I can focus on the real relationships that matter to me in my life.

Click here for the music video for "Bad Blood".

Taylor tells Rolling Stone on September 8, 2014, "Sometimes the lines in a song are lines you wish you could text-message somebody in real life. I would just be constantly writing all these zingers – like, 'Burn. That would really get her.' And I know people are going to obsess over who it's about, because they think they have all my relationships mapped out. But there's a reason there are not any overt call-outs in that song. My intent was not to create some gossip-fest. I wanted people to apply it to a situation where they felt betrayed in their own lives."  I can definitely relate this to my life.

Who is this song about?  For not wanting to give it away in the song, Taylor gave it away in the article. She tells Rolling Stone, "For years, I was never sure if we were friends or not.  She would come up to me at awards shows and say something and walk away, and I would think, 'Are we friends, or did she just give me the harshest insult of my life?' She did something so horrible.  I was like, 'Oh, we're just straight-up enemies.' And it wasn't even about a guy! It had to do with business. She basically tried to sabotage an entire arena tour. She tried to hire a bunch of people out from under me. And I'm surprisingly non-confrontational – you would not believe how much I hate conflict. So now I have to avoid her. It's awkward, and I don't like it."

Who stole Taylor's people?  It was Katy Perry.

Katy and Taylor came on the music scene about the same time and were seen together at many events.  Taylor desperately wanted to be friends with her.  Katy was always the wild and crazy one when they were together.  But their relationship grew strained over the years as each went on their paths.

Katy stole some of Taylor's dancers and crew from her "Red" tour for her "Prism" tour.  An ex dancer of Taylor's Lockhart Brownlie, who formally danced with Katy told Manika Dadson Dec. 20, 2013, "I was with Taylor for the first six months. It was a great experience and she's a great person to work with, but then Katy contacted us." And the rest is history, or a song in this case.

The tour is not the only thing these two had in common.  They both dated John Mayer, a guy Taylor has written about many times.  I think Katy was jealous of the feelings that John had for Taylor.  In his song "Paper Doll" he describes his relationship with Taylor.  He says, "sure was fun being good to you". He confesses he looks back fondly and enjoyed being with her.  "You’re like twenty-two girls in one/And none of them know what they’re runnin’ from/Was it just too far to fall?/For a little paper doll". He references her song 22 from "Red" and says she was the one who ran.  Then he also references her parents, saying she should, "cut the cord and pull some strings."  In her song "Ours" she also references her dad not approving of his tattoos. In "Dear John" she says her mom doesn't approve of the relationship either.  Things ended by her just not responding anymore.  She "stopped pickin’ up" the phone calls from him  and "Dear John" "is to let you know why."  In the "Story of Us", Taylor says she never knew "what page you're on", she never knew where they were standing.  "Paper Doll" was an answer to her "Speak Now" album of song about him.  Basically he didn't know why she ran away and he enjoyed being with her.  Well for Katy that probably wasn't the thing she wanted her boyfriend to be singing about.  Telling an old girlfriend that he enjoyed her.  Katy here set herself up for failure though, she was the one that was dating her "friend's" ex-boyfriend.  You just don't do that if you're friends.

After that I can only imagine that Katy was like ice to Taylor, mean to her etc and that's why Taylor was hurt.  First she started her dating her ex-boyfriend and then she stole her dancers.  She probably also wasn't very kind to her in passing.  Taylor says in her track by track descriptions, "Bad Blood is a song that I wrote about a new kind of heartbreak that I experienced recently which was when someone I desperately wanted to be my friend and thought was my friend ended up making it very obvious that she wasn't. This was somebody that I really looked up to and really really longed for the approval of this person so it was kind of devastating to receive a kind of low blow from that person.   This song is the first time I ever really stood up myself in that relationship cause she was always the bolder one and the louder one. I think it's important to stand up for yourself even if you can only really come up with the courage to do it in song form then that's how you should do it."

She certainly does that in this song.  She calls out Katy, talks about how they used to have "mad love", but she's "still got scars on my back from your knife" because she "made a really deep cut". and they can't "pretend we'd be fine".  They've "got problems", and she doesn't think they can "solve them".  Katy brought this on, she didn't "think it all through".  She did things to intentionally hurt Taylor.  But Taylor is not going to take Katy's "sorry just for show".

I think Katy grew jealous of Taylor through the years.  Even though they started out the same time Taylor has had infinitely more success than Katy.  And worse yet for Katy, Taylor had a little piece of her boyfriend's heart.  Katy did all these things for spite.  Honestly I don't know how to resolve this.  I've resolved my Katy Perry's by moving away and never having to talk to them again.  It would be nice if they could just get in a room and talk it out.  There was a person in my life that this sort of thing started happening.  She called me out and we went and duked it out in the rain.  Well not really duking because it was just words.  And you know what? She became one of my best friends.  Now everyone that I've had those sort of problems with have I become best friends, sometimes I just ignore them.  I hope this situation with Katy doesn't blow up even more.  I know Katy is egging it on.  I am glad Taylor is just standing up to her, ignoring her and concentrating on the people that really matter in her life.  Keep strong Taylor and don't let her get to you!

Click here for lyrics to the song, "Bad Blood".

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How You Get the Girl

Today's Taylor Swift song is the meaning of the song, "How You Get the Girl" from her 1989 album.

This is surprisingly one of my favorite songs on the album. It's a catchy upbeat song about a girl telling a guy how he gets the girl and then how he lost the girl.

On October 29th 2014, Taylor told Radio.com “The song ‘How You Get the Girl’ is a song that I wrote about how you get the girl back if you ruined the relationship somehow and she won’t talk to you anymore. Like, if you broke up with her and left her on her own for six months and then you realize you miss her. All the steps you have to do to edge your way back into her life, because she’s probably pretty mad at you. So it’s kind of a tutorial. If you follow the directions in the song, chances are things will work out. Or you may get a restraining order.”

Who is this song about?

Like many other songs on the album it's about Harry Styles. They first met and started dating in March 2012 at the Nickelodeon Kids Choice awards. She then saw him with another girl, hence how he lost the girl. He begged and begged for Taylor to take him back and six months later she did. I wonder if he really showed up at her door in the rain. For anyone that has listened to Taylor's music you know she has an obsession with doors and rain. (Someday I'll write a post on those two subjects.) He got her back but couldn't keep her. He "left her all alone/And never told her why". He left her all alone while they were on vacation in Virgin Gorda.

I really love the chorus maybe that's why it's one of my favorite songs. In it she is quoting what she would like the guy to say. Some of the language comes from marriage vows. "I want you for worse or for better, I would wait forever and ever." It shows what Taylor wants in a relationship, some commitment and long term love. I hope you find that Taylor, sorry it didn't happen with Harry!

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Style

Today's Taylor Swift song is the meaning of the song "Style" from her album 1989.

This song it sounds like two different songs, the chorus and the verses have a different and distinct sound.  This first part of the song sounds like you are driving around with just a drum and synthesizer playing an ostinato, the same musical phrase over and over.  The chorus has a fuller sound incorporating a lot more instruments and a lot more confident tone. It all makes it sound amazing and really defines the two moods of the song.  The verses focus on the story and Taylor's uneasiness in the romance.  The guy comes picks her up at "midnight" and she knows that last time things didn't end well. But her reasoning is ignored, because their relationship is just that good.

Photo courtesy of Taylor Swift

Taylor said at her livestream secret session October 27, 2014 "When I wrote this next song I was thinking about how we have these kind of fashion staples that never quite, we never quite throw them out of our closet, right? No one's going to be like, why are you wearing a little black dress, no on wears that, that was so two years ago. Everybody has that perfect little black dress or for a guy that great white t-shirt that fits you perfect. You may not necessarily wear them all the time, but they're always there in the back of your closet in case you need to go to your old standby, that classic thing that always works.  I was thinking about that, and I then I was thinking about how there are feelings like that, how there are trends that never go out of style and how there are feelings that never go out of style.  Do you see where I'm going with this?"

She compares the love to classic looks like "red lip classic", "long hair/slicked back
White t-shirt" and a "James Dean daydream look in your eye", who coincidentally make the white t shirt famous.

Who was this romance with that never went out of style?

James Dean in a white t-shirt

Just take a look at the name of the song, Style.  It was Harry Styles. 

Taylor Swift told On the Air with Ryan Seacrest, on October 31, 2014, "Well it's basically kind of one of those relationships that's always a bit off. I talk about in another song on the record, a crooked love, which is kind of like never quite synced up right.  The two people are trying to forget each other and they've both been out with other people and they've both tried to forget the other.  It's like, I heard you went out went off with her and you came back and well I've done that too so... I would never have said anything like that on a previous album.  My previous albums have always been sort of like, I was right you were wrong, you did this, it made me feel like this, kind of a sense of sense of right and wrong in a relationship.  What happens when you grow up is you realize that the rules in a relationship are very blurred, and that it gets very complicated very quickly. There's not always a case of who was right and who was wrong."

Taylor Swift and Harry Styles recreating a classic pose 12/11/2012
from Dirty Dancing.  Harry has his white t-shirt on :)

This is exactly how their story went down.  Taylor met Harry at the 2012 Nickelodeon Kids Awards in March 2012.  Then she saw him in the news with other girls, hence the lines, "I say I heard -Oh
That you been out and about/With some other girl".  But while he'd been out with other girls, she'd been out with other guys, Conor Kennedy.   Hence the lines, "I said I've been there too a/Few times".  This happens all the time.  I had friends in high school that liked each other, but never at the same time. They were always dating other people usually at opposite times. They finally got in sync when they went to college.  When they decided they wanted to get married, they waited for a few years, because one of them was out of the country always doing something.  It took a long time, but their love is solid.  There are some things in life that are just classic and will never go out of style, sounds like they had a great time together!

Interestingly enough he wrote a song about Taylor in rebuttal to her album, "Perfect".  Click here for the meaning of that song.

Click here for lyrics to the song, "Style".

PS This was the last song written for the record on February 19, 2014.

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"Blank Space" Music Video

Here is the music video for "Blank Space" by Taylor Swift from her "1989" album.

 Click here for the meaning of the song, "Blank Space".

Here is the American Express UNSTAGED: Taylor Swift app for iPhone and Android that provides an interactive experience with the video.

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Blank Space

Today's Taylor Swift song is the meaning of the song "Blank Space" from her 1989 album.

This is a really fun upbeat song from her album and definitely a fan favorite.  From a musical standpoint, the chorus is my favorite part of the song.  It has a really good melody.  My other favorite part of the song comes during the bridge, "Boys only one love if it's torture".  She does amazing things with her voice that sound a lot like Lorde's music.

Who is this song about?

Photo courtesy of Taylor Swift

It's about Taylor, kind of.  Taylor told Chris Willman of Yahoo November 6, 2014,  I just wanted "to write this completely satirical song about the fictionalization of my personal life, and just kind of poke fun at it."

In her secret session livestream on October 27, 2014 she said,  "This is a song that I wrote with Max Martin & Shellback and I always bring them lots of ideas. I bring them like 4 or 5 first choruses that I've kind of worked on and I decided that I like them. We decide together which ones we're going to work on that day. With this one I did not think it was going to get picked because I kind of wrote it as a joke. I was thinking a lot about, you guys know, you've seen in the last couple of years, it's been interesting what the media has decided to fictionalize and sensationalize about my personal life. It's been pretty gnarly.  I was thinking about that. I was thinking about how they've drawn up this character, she's like emotionally unstable, and needy and clingy, but she gets all these boyfriends but they leave her.  She's devastated.  She goes to her evil lair and writes songs for emotional revenge. I was thinking about the juxtaposition of that and my actual personal life which involves just kind of me just sitting there with two cats watching Friends marathons. But I got to thinking about it and I thought, which one is more interesting to write about? I thought the character they've drawn up, although it may be fictional, it's actually sort of interesting. I thought of this line that went, 'I've got a long list of ex lovers/They'll tell you I'm insane/But I've got a blank space baby and I'll write your name.' "

The song has a lot of satirical elements to it, "I get drunk on jealousy", "You look like my next mistake", "I'm dying to see how this one ends", "Got a long list of ex-lovers, They'll tell you I'm insane, But I got a blank space, Baby, And I'll write your name.", "Be that girl for a month", and "boys only want love if it's torture".

Taylor's rooftop livestream secret session October 27, 2014, photo courtesy of iHeartRadio

But what makes the song extra special is how she uses this song to illustrate her thoughts about love, as many great writers do. (Jane Austen I'm looking at you.) In this song she sings about guys with "New money, suit and tie".  Some guys think the way to impress is by having nice things.  I went on a date once with a guy and he had a nice car and that was it.  He didn't know how to treat a lady, he didn't open doors and talked about himself the whole time.  I was not impressed and kept asking myself, am I really on a date? She addresses the fact that some guys only like the chase and once they have the girl it's over, with the lines, "Love's a game, want to play?" and "Boys only want love if it's torture".  She answers the media and those game loving boys with "So it's gonna be forever, or it's gonna go down in flames".  She doesn't want someone who isn't willing to commit. "I can read you like a magazine".  She can see through them and see exactly what they want. And she says she's not going to just take it, "I can make all the tables turn/Keep you second guessing like/Who is she/I get drunk on jealousy". Yes the media may spin it it to appear she is just jealous, but she is not going to take someone who is playing around, as no one should. She knows some guys just want a "girl for a month", like the latest thing, but she wants someone that is going to be around forever. She uses this song to let the media and potential suitors/ex suitors know exactly what she doesn't want in a relationship.  She doesn't want to leave people with "a nasty scar", or with the pain. She doesn't want to have the "worst [] yet to come", tell "pretty lies" and "get drunk on jealousy".  She is not "dying to see how this one ends", but she wants her relationship to be "forever" and not "go down in flames".

Dating is really all about wading through the muck (alot of muck) to find that diamond, to find that prince. It takes time and lots of lots and lots of dates.  It can last forever and it can be the best thing that ever happened in your life.  I hope Taylor you can "grab your passport" and someones hand and not just make things "good for a weekend", but good for "forever".

Click here for lyrics to the song, "Blank Space".

Click here to see the music video for "Blank Space".

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All You Had to Do Was Stay

Today's Taylor Swift song is the meaning of the song "All You Had to Do Was Stay" from her 1989 album.

Photo courtesy of Taylor Swift

This song tells a story of a guy who begged to be back in Taylor's life after they had ended their first attempt at romance.  She says in the song, "People like you always want back/The love they gave away/And people like me want to believe you/When you say you've changed." He kept wanting to get back together with her, and she believed him. But he didn't stick around, wasn't fully committed. He "drove [them] off the road", an allusion to "Out of the Woods" where they ended up at the hospital. The guy got stitches because he couldn't drive the snow vehicle on the road. She then says he was the one that changed his mind wanted to end it, "Let me remind you.../This was what you wanted/You ended it/You were all I wanted/But not like this..."  She wanted him, enjoyed being with him, but he ended it.  She says that in the end even though "People like you always want back/The love they pushed aside/But people like me are gone forever/When you say goodbye".  He said goodbye and she is gone forever. She is not getting back together with him. She tells him in the song that If he really had wanted her "all [he] had to do was stay."

Who is this song about?

It's about Harry Styles and how he ended their relationship the second time around after he tried and tried to get back together with her. The relationship was a whirlwind, and he could never fully commit.  He was all she ever wanted, but he just couldn't stay around.

One of the interesting parts of this song is story of the high pitched Stay. Taylor told fans in her ask/reply on Youtube, "I think the oddest scenario that I ran in to when I was writing this album was when I woke up from a dream that I was having.  It was kind of one of those social anxiety dreams, where you get embarrassed in front of a person that you don't really want to be embarrassed in front of.  In this dream I was trying to talk to someone and instead of being able to speak normally the only thing that would come out of my mouth was this very high pitched singing, going, STAY, the word stay, but it was sung really high and that was all that would come out of mouth, instead of just normal talking. So I woke up from the dream, I was really weirded out by it.  I decided to incorporate that sound into a song called 'All You Had to Do Was Stay.' I'm very lucky that I had that very weird dream because it's a great song."  I can totally relate to Taylor, I've had some very weird vivid dreams, where I couldn't fly, or I could fly, couldn't read something, or the dream just unfolded and I had no control, but I remember lots of details.  I even had a dream to a while ago that I'm turning into a novel, look for that later.  I'm glad that she was inspired by her dreams, because I sometimes think I am weird that I have such vivid dreams.

This song is similar to "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together", but nicer. You can tell she has grown since writing that song. In WANEGBT she told her suitor that she was never getting back together with him. In this song she is tells her suitor (a different suitor) what they should have done to stay together, why she is gone forever. He just had to stay.

Click here for lyrics to the song, "All You Had to Do Was Stay".

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Out of the Woods

Today's Taylor Swift song is meaning of the song "Out of The Woods" from her 1989 album.

When I first heard this song I could definitely hear the 80's sound, especially the intro. According to USA Today it features percussion and synthesizers, a Yamaha DX7 and a "super-distorted Minimoog Voyager". Taylor wrote this song with Jack Antonoff, he wrote the track and then she put lyrics and a melody to it.  What she came back with was brilliant Jack said to USA Today, "she wove this whole story that felt like it came from the outer space of your head."  One of the most interesting things about the development of the song was Jack's voice being used as the back ground.  He told USA Today, "I just chopped this piece of my voice singing and started looping it over and over. Then I started banging on some drums I had in the room and stomping on the floor and sampling all these sounds to make this big bombastic looping beat with the sample on top of it."

Photo courtesy of Taylor Swift

Taylor says, "This song is about the fragility and breakable nature of some relationships, this was a relationship where it was kind of living day to day wondering where it was going if it was going to go anywhere, if it was going to end the next day.  It was a relationship where you kind of never feel like you're standing on solid ground.  That kind of a feeling brings on excitement, but also extreme anxiety, and kind of a frantic feeling of wondering, endless questions.  This songs sounds exactly like that frantic feeling of anxiety and questioning. But it stresses that even if a relationship is breakable and fragile and full of anxiety, it doesn't mean that it isn't worthwhile, exciting, beautiful and all the things that we look for." The verses and the chorus serve as a counterpoint to one another.  The chorus is repetitive and frantic, "Are we out of the woods", and "Are we in the clear" repeated over and over.  Then the verses have a distinct melody and tell a story. She is wondering, hoping if their relationship is in the clear. She spends the whole song looking for that clear, just to get that relief.

I think a lot of people can relate this this stage, the honeymoon stage in a relationship, where everything is new and exciting, but you don't know where you stand, the relationship stands, what the other person wants. You are just dating and it can be so stressful.

Who is this song about?

Taylor Swift and Harry Styles wearing matching airplane necklaces.

It's about Harry Styles. They dated twice, but this song is about the second time they dated. It was a whirlwind romance. They dated from November 2012 to January 2013. The whole time was crazy. She told Rolling Stone "every day was a struggle. Forget making plans for life – we were just trying to make it to next week." They were in different cities all the time, Taylor promoting her new album Red. They met in many places; meeting up in Central Park for a very public date, New York for New Year's Eve, LA for her performance on X Factor, LA for him to get a tatoo, London for her birthday, Utah to spend some time in the snow where the line "20 stitches in a hospital room" came from, and finally Virgin where things ended and Taylor was seen leaving on a boat by herself.

According to Rolling Stone "She says it was inspired by a snowmobile ride with an ex who lost control and wrecked it so badly that she saw her life flash before her eyes. Both of them had to go to the ER, although Swift wasn't hurt. She corrects herself: 'Not as hurt.' "  This was their ski trip in December 2012 in Utah. She asked the hospital staff not to say anything and they didn't.  It was a miracle.  She told Rolling Stone she included this line because "People think they know the whole narrative of my life, I think maybe that line is there to remind people that there are really big things they don't know about."

Photo courtesy of Harry Styles

The song describes other things they liked to do together that the media didn't see, taking Polaroids, wearing matching airplane necklaces (I wonder if they chose this because they had to fly to be with each other), "moving the furniture so [they] could dance". But the pace was too frantic, it didn't work out. They were constantly hounded by the media, they couldn't be alone. It scared them so much, they "couldn't take the heat", she "walked out", and said “I’m setting you free.” But later Taylor realized that the monsters chasing them were just trees, not as scary as what they had imagined. I hope that Taylor doesn't give up on love, because there will be a time when she will get out of the woods and it really doesn't matter what other people think of her relationships. I am glad she enjoyed this one even if it was so stressful.

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1989 World Tour dates

Taylor Swift just announced her 1989 World Tour dates, here they are. I've included presale ticket dates and public sale ticket dates. Which one are you doing to? Vance Joy and Shawn Mendes will be joining her.

The tickets go on sale November 14 with presale tickets selling on November 7 to American express meembers and taylorswift.com members in select cities, other cities are noted below.

Target is selling these 1989 shirts for 16.99. 

May
5 - Tokyo Dome, Tokyo Japan, Public: December 13, 2014
6 - Tokyo Dome, Tokyo Japan, Public: December 13, 2014
20 - CenturyLink Center, Bossier City, La. Presale: November 14-20, 10:00 am-10:00pm local, Public: November 21-10:00 am local
22 - LSU Tiger Stadium, Baton Rouge, La. Presale: November 6-12, 10:00 am-10:00pm local, Public: November 13-10:00 am local
30 - Ford Field, Detroit, Presale:November 14-20, 10:00 am-10:00pm local, Public: November 21, 2014-10:00 am local

June
2 - KFC Yum! Center, Louisville, Ky. Presale: December 5-11, 10:00 am-10:00pm local, public: December 12-10:00 am local
3 - Quicken Loans Arena, Cleveland, Presale: November 7-13, 10:00 am-10:00pm local, Public: November 14-10:00 am local
6 - Heinz Field, Pittsburgh, Presale: November 7-13, 10:00 am-10:00pm local, Public: November 14-10:00 am local
8 - Time Warner Cable Arena, Charlotte, N.C., Presale: November 7-13, 10:00 am-10:00pm local, Public: November 14-10:00 am local
9 - PNC Arena, Raleigh, N.C., November 7-13, 10:00 am-10:00pm local, Public: November 14-10:00 am local
13 - Lincoln Financial Field, Philadelphia, Presale: November 14-20, 10:00 am-10:00pm local, Public: November 21-10:00 am local
19 - Lanxess Arena, Cologne, Germany, Publick: November 13, 9:00 am CET
20 - Lanxess Arena, Cologne, Germany, Presale: November 3-13, 10:00 am-10:00pm local, Public: November 14-10:00 am local
21 - Ziggo Dome, Amsterdam, Holland, Presale: November 3-13, 10:00 am-10:00pm local, Public: November 14-10:00 am local
23 - The SSE, Hydro Glasgow, U.K., Presale: November 4-13, 10:00 am-10:00pm local, Public: November 14-10:00 am local
24 - Arena, Manchester, U.K., Presale: November 4-13, 10:00 am-10:00pm local, Public: November 14-10:00 am local
27 - British Summertime Hyde Park, London, U.K., Presale: November 4-13, 10:00 am-10:00pm local, Public: November 14-10:00 am local

July
6 - Canadian Tire Centre, Ottawa, Ont., Presale: December 5-11, 10:00 am-10:00pm local, public: December 12-10:00 am local
7 - Bell Centre, Montreal, Que., Presale: November 7-13, 10:00 am-10:00pm local, Public: November 14-10:00 am local
10 - MetLife Stadium, East Rutherford, NJ., Presale: November 18-20, 10:00 am-10:00pm local, Public: November 21-10:00 am local
11 - MetLife Stadium, East Rutherford, NJ., Presale: November 7-13, 10:00 am-10:00pm local, Public: November 14-10:00 am local
13 - Nationals, Park Washington, D.C., Presale: November 14-20, 10:00 am-10:00pm local, Public: November 21-10:00 am local
18 - Soldier Field, Chicago, Presale: November 7-13, 10:00 am-10:00pm local, Public: November 14-10:00 am local
19 - Soldier Field, Chicago, Presale: November 17-20, 10:00 am-10:00pm local, Public: November 21-10:00 am local
24 - Gillette Stadium, Foxborough, Mass., Presale: November 7-13, 10:00 am-10:00pm local, Public: November 14-10:00 am local
25 - Gillette Stadium, Foxborough, Mass., Presale: November 7-13, 10:00 am-10:00pm local, Public: November 14-10:00 am local

August
1 - BC Place Stadium, Vancouver, BC., , Presale: November 14-20, 10:00 am-10:00pm local, Public: November 21-10:00 am local
4 - Rexall Place, Edmonton, Alb., Presale: November 14-20, 10:00 am-10:00pm local, Public: November 21-10:00 am local
5 - Rexall Place, Edmonton, Alb., Presale: November 14-20, 10:00 am-10:00pm local, Public: November 21-10:00 am local
8 - CenturyLink Field, Seattle, Presale: November 14-20, 10:00 am-10:00pm local, Public: November 21-10:00 am local
15 - Levi's Stadium, Santa Clara, Calif., Presale: December 5-11, 10:00 am-10:00pm local, public: December 12-10:00 am local
17 - Gila River Arena, Glendale, Ariz., Presale: November 7-13, 10:00 am-10:00pm local, Public: November 14-10:00 am local
18 - Gila River Arena, Glendale, Ariz., Presale: November 7-13, 10:00 am-10:00pm local, Public: November 14-10:00 am local
21 - Staples Center, Los Angeles, Presale: November 17-20, 10:00 am-10:00pm local, Public: November 21-10:00 am local
25 - Staples Center, Los Angeles, Presale: November 7-13, 10:00 am-10:00pm local, Public: November 14-10:00 am local
26 - Staples Center, Los Angeles, Presale: November 7-13, 10:00 am-10:00pm local, Public: November 14-10:00 am local
29 - PETCO Park, San Diego, Presale: November 14-20, 10:00 am-10:00pm local, Public: November 21-10:00 am local

September
4 - EnergySolutions Arena, Salt Lake City, Utah, Presale: December 5-11, 10:00 am-10:00pm local, public: December 12-10:00 am local
5 - Pepsi Center, Denver, Presale: November 14-20, 10:00 am-10:00pm local, Public: November 21-10:00 am local
6 - Pepsi Center, Denver, Presale: November 14-20, 10:00 am-10:00pm local, Public: November 21-10:00 am local
9 - Fargodome Fargo, N.D., TBA
11 - Xcel Energy Center, St. Paul, Minn., Presale: November 14-20, 10:00 am-10:00pm local, Public: November 21-10:00 am local
12 - Xcel Energy Center, St. Paul, Minn., Presale: November 14-20, 10:00 am-10:00pm local, Public: November 21-10:00 am local
16 - Bankers Life Fieldhouse, Indianapolis, Presale: November 7-13, 10:00 am-10:00pm local, Public: November 14-10:00 am local
17 - Nationwide Arena, Columbus, Ohio, Presale: December 5-11, 10:00 am-10:00pm local, public: December 12-10:00 am local
18 - Nationwide Arena, Columbus, Ohio, Presale: December 5-11, 10:00 am-10:00pm local, public: December 12-10:00 am local
21 - Sprint Center, Kansas City, Mo., Presale: December 5-11, 10:00 am-10:00pm local, public: December 12-10:00 am local
22 - Sprint Center, Kansas City, Mo., Presale: December 5-11, 10:00 am-10:00pm local, public: December 12-10:00 am local
25 - Bridgestone Arena, Nashville, Presale: November 7-13, 10:00 am-10:00pm local, Public: November 14-10:00 am local
26 - Bridgestone Arena, Nashville, Presale: November 7-13, 10:00 am-10:00pm local, Public: November 14-10:00 am local

October
2 - Rogers Centre, Toronto, Presale: November 7-13, 10:00 am-10:00pm local, Public: November 14-10:00 am local
3 - Rogers Centre, Toronto, Presale: November 7-13, 10:00 am-10:00pm local, Public: November 14-10:00 am local
8 - Wells Fargo Arena, Des Moines, Iowa, Presale: November 7-13, 10:00 am-10:00pm local, Public: November 14-10:00 am local
9 - CenturyLink Center, Omaha, Neb., Presale: December 5-11, 10:00 am-10:00pm local, public: December 12-10:00 am local
10 - CenturyLink Center, Omaha, Neb., Presale: December 5-11, 10:00 am-10:00pm local, public: December 12-10:00 am local
13 - Scottrade Center, St. Louis, Presale: January 23-29, 2015, 10:00 am-10:00pm local, public: January 30, 2015-10:00 am local
14 - Scottrade Center St. Louis, Presale: January 23-29, 2015, 10:00 am-10:00pm local, public: January 30, 2015-10:00 am local
17 - AT&T Stadium, Dallas, Presale: November 7-13, 10:00 am-10:00pm local, Public: November 14-10:00 am local
20 - Rupp Arena, Lexington, Ky., Presale: December 5-11, 10:00 am-10:00pm local, public: December 12-10:00 am local
21 - Greensboro Coliseum Complex, Greensboro, N.C., Presale: February 20-26, 2015, 10:00 am-10:00pm local, public: February 27, 2015-10:00 am local
24 - Georgia Dome, Atlanta, Presale: November 7-13, 10:00 am-10:00pm local, Public: November 14-10:00 am local
27 - AmericanAirlines, Arena Miami, Presale: November 7-13, 10:00 am-10:00pm local, Public: November 14-10:00 am local
31 - Raymond James Stadium, Tampa, Presale: November 7-13, 10:00 am-10:00pm local, Public: November 14-10:00 am local

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You Are In Love

Today's Taylor Swift song is the meaning of the song, "You Are In Love" from her 1989 album.

This song sounded so familiar when I first heard it, I've heard this song before I thought. I couldn't quite place it. Then I remembered it was the song from Jerry McGuire, Secret Garden. When I reread the 22 Things You Learn From Hanging Out With Taylor Swift Rolling Stone article, Jack Antonoff who cowrote this song told Rolling Stone it had a "a very 'Secret Garden' Springsteen vibe". It certainly does. The intro is the part that sounds the most like it me. They are both about 25 seconds. You could probably look at the notes and such too if you're a music nerd like me and they would be similar.

Photo courtesy of Target.

One of my favorite set of lines from the song is, "And your shoulders brush/No proof, one touch/You felt enough/You can hear it in the silence/You can feel it on the way home/You can see it with the lights out/You are in love/True love".  When I was first falling in love with my husband I certainly felt this way, there was that moment when you hadn't held hands, no physical contact, and your hands accidentally brush, and you get so excited.  And I think love isn't always about being in love.  I love when she said you can hear it in the silence, you are just comfortable being with that person and you don't have to talk all the time.  I love the other line, "And he keeps the picture of you in his office downtown", cause my husband does the same thing, and I gave him a picture when we were dating and he put it in his wallet.

Who is this song about?

I'll give you a hint. It's not about Taylor.  It's about  her friends Jack Antonoff and Lena Dunham. Taylor told Jimmy Kimmel on October 24, 2014, "I wrote it with my friend Jack Antonoff whose dating my friend Lena. Jack sent me this track to this song, that was just an instrumental track he was working on.  Immediately I knew what the song needed to be. I wrote it as kind of a commentary on what their relationship has been like. It's me looking in and going this happened, then that happened and that happened and that's how you knew you guys you're in love. You're supposed to be friends and you're supposed to be in love and it's the whole package deal." 

Lena Dunham and Jack Antonoff

Lena and Jack met online and he told her all about himself. He told US weekly said, “It was a blind date by modern standards. I mean, I used the Internet,” Antonoff admitted. “I told Lena everything about my whole life, because when you really like someone, you want them to know everything about you.”  They are completely in love and don't like to be apart much which is really healthy for a relationship. Lena said "We met and the day after we were apart for three months and so our relationship was sort of formed long distance, like that's what I became used to. But now, for the most part, we see each other…we try not to be apart for more than a week or two."

Lena said if she gets married "there's no ... way Taylor is not playing that song," as it should be since it was written about them. I love the line about being best friends. I love my husband, he is my best friend in the whole world. Lena told Parade Magazine, “I reached a point where I was so excited about my career and so excited about everything happening in that department that I thought to myself that if I’m alone for the next 10 years, I don’t care. The moment I wasn’t seeking approval in all the wrong places was the moment when someone came along. I wasn’t so good at the search, but I was able to accept someone really wonderful into my life. That was the distinction for me.” I feel like Taylor is at the same point Lena was when she found Jack, very excited about her career and not needing approval. In the song Taylor says "You understand now why they lost their minds and fought the wars/And why I've spent my whole life try to put it in words..." I hope she finds the special someone to be completely in love with and that something that she has spent her whole live writing about.

Click here to for the lyrics to the song, "You Are In Love."

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Welcome to New York

Today's Taylor Swift song is meaning of the song "Welcome to New York" from her 1989 album.

New York City is my absolute favorite city. My dream since I was young was to live there for a year. Well what do you know? I was finally able to live there for a year. I absolutely loved it. I loved picking out a neighborhood to go to and enjoy everything it had to offer when I went in for the day. I have so many fond memories. My favorite street would have to be Bleeker St., Grom's, Joes pizza, Magnolia Bakery. Heaven. Hmm...it's all food.  I was kind of sad when Taylor moved there, because I had just left.  I would have loved to "bump" into her in the city.  The odds of that happening are next to none, but one can dream?

Who is this song about?

Photo courtesy of Taylor Swift

It's about Taylor and her move to New York. The cool thing about this song and her move is that I actually saw her house, not just the outside.  I got to inside.  She is also such a kind hostess. When we walked in she greeted us in her entry way.  She had black and white photos of her friends and family on the wall.  Especially touching was a picture of her grandmother Marjorie Finlay, an opera singer.  She had bird cages that were stuffed with antiques and her awards.  She had a sitting room filled couches and pillows that had Polaroids all over the wall.  Her kitchen was amazing, she had a stove that had a flat grill on it.  My favorite room was probably the piano room where she had a Steinway and Sons piano, that I got to play and a guitar.  I can imagine a lot of good music coming from there.  Her decorations were simple, it wasn't cluttered, but very tasteful.  When we left she said goodbye to each one of us at the door.

On her Youtube channel Taylor explains the inspiration for the song "Welcome to New York", "I wanted to start the album with this song because New York has been an important landscape and location for the story of my life in the last couple of years, I dreamt about moving to New York. I obsessed over moving to New York and then I did it. The inspiration that I found in that city is kind of hard to describe and hard to compare to any other force of inspiration I've ever experienced in my life. It's like an electric city. I approached moving there with such wide-eyed optimism and sort of saw it as a place of endless potential and possibilities. You can kind of hear that reflected in this music and this first song especially."

New York City used to intimidate me too. So big and so many people. I love the lines, "Walking through a crowd/The village is aglow/Kaleidoscope of loud heartbeats/Under coats".  You walk around and there are so many people, so many different stories, and everyone has life, everyone. Driving there is also as intimidating. The first time I drove there it was crazy, but after a few scary moments I got used to it. I'm glad she knew, "It's been waiting" for her.  I felt like it was waiting for me too. I loved it. I was able to do so many fun things there, the Macy's thanksgiving day parade, Broadway shows, eat lots of good food, stroll Central Park, and meet Taylor. I love New York city.

She wrote this song about her love for New York and within two weeks they asked her to be the ambassador for New York City. Only Taylor Swift. Even better she announced on the view that she is donating all proceeds of the sale of "Welcome to New York"  will go to New York public schools. When I heard that I got all ready eyed inside. It truly touched my heart. 

I'm glad Taylor is enjoying New York City so much. She's been able to take her "broken hearts/Put them in a drawer," and that the "lights never" blind her.  It is truly a magical city. I hope she has many happy memories there for years to come.

Click here for lyrics to the song, "Welcome to New York".

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Taylor Swift Digital Music

Are you missing some of Taylor Swift's music? Now that she is no longer on Spotify make sure you have all her albums in one place, your music library. All these are available on iTunes.

Albums/EP's
1989 Album
Red Album
Speak Now Album
Speak Now World Live Tour
Fearless Album
Fearless Platinum Edition
Taylor Swift Holiday Collection
Itunes-Live from Soho
Taylor Swift Album (Bonus Tracks)

Soundtrack Songs
Sweeter Than Fiction
Ronan
Hunger Games 1 Soundtrack
Love Story Pox Mix
Valentine's Day Soundtrack
Crazier

Collaborations
Half of My Heart (featuring Taylor Swift)
Both of Us (featuring Taylor Swift)
Two is Better Than One (featuring Taylor Swift)

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