Taylor Swift Research Paper

Julie Leon
WRD 103
Long Live the Queen, Taylor Swift In the past years of the music industry, there has not been quite the artist like Taylor Swift. She is simply a young, brilliant, and stunning singer. Though she might not have as much experience as many other artists, she is making her way to become a huge success. At just the age of twenty, she has released 3 albums all of which have had hit singles. Though it was only a span of 4 years from her debut to her most recent album Speak Now, her music shows how much she has grown as a person and as a singer. Her most successful album, released in 2010 was a major success in the music industry; with each song written so beautifully, it is amazing to believe it was written by a twenty
You can tell just by her emotional tone and lyrics that she has been through a lot in relationships. It is like the more you listen to her music, the more any young woman could relate to. The song is about a breakup which ended horribly, she eventually runs into him later on in life and they both share how they felt about what they once had. With words like, “So this is me swallowing my pride standing in front of you saying I’m sorry for that night, and I go back to December all the time,” Taylor is proving how much of a strong woman she really is. She is simply giving it all she has and is willing to apologize for how things ended. Apologizing is not the easiest thing for anyone. No one likes to admit they are wrong. Clearly for Taylor Swift as she had to go “back to December” she has had quite enough time to think about what she did, find the urge to apologize, and then write an amazing hit single for the world to
She had a song completely dedicated to her mother called “Never Grow Up”. She just reminisces about her experience growing up with her mother. The song has so much meaning, that really anyone could relate to. She proves how we all grow as people, and how our feelings towards our parents change as we grow. When we’re young, we just want to be with them and think that they are so amazing. As we grow into young adults, we begin to get embarrassed by them, and the little things they do. Such as when she wrote, “You're in the car on the way to the movies and you're mortified your mom's dropping you off…but don't make her drop you off around the block,” she is talking about her personal experience with her mother, and she is at the stage where she is embarrassed by her. Though at the time it might have seemed like her mother was the worst person ever, she learned to realize that the more she grew up the more she wanted to stay young. Everything her mother had ever taught her and her words of advice eventually hit in, and made her realize that her mom only meant the best for her; just as any other parent