#and it being the first ever album i had on my little pink ipod nano

[alternativeulster]

finding out grace jeanette is a couple weeks older than me has fucked me up forever i think

[callmeupagainswift]

hello @taylorswift

I figured I’d tell you a little bit about my life. The first time I saw you was on the Speak Now Tour. Thankfully I don’t have those fetus pictures on my computer but they include me with a pink poster that says “What would life be like without Taylor? Totally unswiftastical.” Yes, I was quite the imaginative 7th grader. Our story starts with the first picture, taken during my freshman year spring break. I begged my parents to stop in Nashville on the drive home from Florida so I could take a picture at the very place you were discovered. The next picture is the summer after freshman year. Again, I convinced my parents to purchase that turtle float for the sole purpose of me attempting to recreate your photo. Unfortunately, after a solid 4 years my turtle float popped. RIP the turtle float. (Fortunately I also convinced my mom to buy the swan float). That same summer, I made a deal with my mom that if I got a B+ in geometry that I could go see you on tour again in Pittsburgh. My mom, dad, and I all drove 6 hours to see you on the Red Tour. It was my first time with floor concert seats and being the avid fan I am I knew to look out for your mom. I got to take a picture with her, and the other girl in the photo is the girl who had the seat next to me and after the concert we became BFFs. Luckily, during the show you walked through the crowd and I was right on the aisle. The next photo is us twinning. I saved money from my lovely job at McDonald’s to buy that outfit from H&M and I thought I was so cool because every time someone complemented me I said,”I know Taylor Swift owns the same outfit”. The picture is kind of blurry but you can tell by the mess of curls that it’s me as you’re walking by. I think the look on my face says it all. Then during sophomore year I saved up money from my job so I could buy your outfit from H&M and proudly tell people when they complimented me that you owned the same outfit. Next comes junior year. Yes. That is me. Cracking an egg on my head because you followed me and 18 of my friends on tumblr. Long live the eggheadz. The next picture is of the back of the shirt I made for 1989 Detroit during junior year. Then came senior year where I won the superlative of “Most Likely to be Obsessed with Taylor Swift” best award I’ve ever won. The next picture is so exciting because it’s me in college with my roommate who I met because we both love you. If she looks familiar it’s because she was at the Nash Secret Session. Finally, we come to now. The reputation era. I’m starting my sophomore year of college and life is starting to get real. I’m planning my career. I’m taking organic chemistry (EW). Life is changing but through it all, your music has been a constant thread in my life. Your the only music my parents and I can agree upon. When my dad picks me up from college the ride home is spent jamming to your music. We once spent the entire car ride home listening solely to State of Grace. Your music has brought wonderful friends into my life. It’s helped me through tough times with school and boys and just life in general. It’s also been there for me when I’ve had really good times. What I’m trying to say is, you and your music mean a lot to me. I love you a lot and I’m so grateful for the music you make and the person you are. You’ve done a lot of wonderful things for the friends in my life and I’m just so glad that we’ve kind of gotten to grow up together in a way. I’ve been a fan since my brother gave me his original iPod nano and had your debut album downloaded on it (which by the way came out on my birthday). It’s been a long 11 years, and I’m ready for the next 11. Thanks for being a constant in my life when it seemed like everything was being turned upside down.

Love forever,

Molly (twitter: 1989_polaroids and instagram: miss__mollly)

[silenceandpatiencepining]

memories with TS songs

Today I’m thinking about how many memories I have with Taylor songs and imaging how there are even more coming just waiting to happen.

I was in sixth grade when Taylor’s first album came out and I used to steal my older sister’s hot pink iPod nano so I could listen to Taylor on the bus drives to and from school. It’d be me sitting alone, slouched on the seat with my knees propped up, staring out the window daydreaming while listening to Our Song. Or thinking about Teardrops On My Guitar and changing the lyrics to “teardrops on my violin” bc I was an orchestra kid with massive crushes on people who always looked past me.

Every time I had a falling out with someone or a friend that was going through a breakup, Picture to Burn was there with me. On more than one occasion my sister or I brought the small kitchen pot and a lighter to our bathroom and turned on the blower so we could literally burn pictures or notes or letters without starting a fire.

I’m Only Me When I’m With You has been the longtime anthem of me falling in love with my best friends over and over, and them not feeling the same way.

The summer after Fearless came out, I was absolutely obsessed with the album. I was away from home for a month or so and I would listen to it on repeat. Sometimes I’d g-chat (bc it was the newest feature on my new gmail account) with my cousin and we’d watch the You Belong With Me music video at the same time and gush about it.

Fearless was really That Album—so many iconic bops. Hey Stephen was my first favorite on that album. The Best Day made me want to cry and hug my parents and I still think that if I ever get married, that’s gonna have to be my father daughter dance song. I still scream sing the bridge of Tell Me Why every time it comes on. Fearless is the song that got me and still gets me gassed up to shoot my shot (archer pun not intended). Fifteen. White Horse. You’re Not Sorry. BREATHE. Forever & Always became my sign-off salutation and it’s still one I use. The Way I Loved You! I didn’t have the deluxe version of the album (bc I didn’t know there was one) but damn. I still stan fearless.

Speak Now was definitely the album my sister loved the most. It’s a lyrical masterpiece. I don’t know if I’m remembering this right but when Mine dropped with the music video there was this story circulating that it dropped early because Taylor and her team found out that it had leaked while they were on a flight or something crazy so they released as soon as they landed, ahead of the original date. And I remember watching that video and being so in love with all the pictures hanging on strings in the forest. I have so many memories of me playing Speak Now from my CD player and jumping around singing and dancing to my favorites songs or lying on the carpet like a dramatic bitch for the slow ones, especially Dear John. I’m pretty sure the only way I listened to Dear John was lying on the floor in the puddle of tears (imagined and real).

Red came out when I was in high school and everyone was so shook when it dropped bc we were like yooooo is Taylor experimenting with dubstep (back when dubstep had its little hay day). 2012 was such a weird year. It gave us Kony 2012 and apocalypse theories. But mostly, Red is the album that was the soundtrack to my last years of high school. It was sitting in the passenger seat with the music up and windows down, on long drive to the country or to get milkshakes and slushees. It was me falling in love with my best guy friend again, him choosing to date my best girl friend, and then him breaking both of our hearts. It was forbidden moments with him knowing he was dating my best friend. It was me singing “don’t look at me you got a girl at home and everybody knows that” and then being a fucking hypocrit bc all our friends would be over hanging out and we’d be snuggled up, never holding hands or kissing but always being a little too close.

Red was the first concert I got to see Taylor. A relative got me tickets for my birthday. I wore my cowboy boots and favorite hi-low dress and curled my hair. And every drive I took that year, after every pool party, after every movie date with the boy, every last adventure before my friends went off to college, every late night at a friends house was awash in Red.

1989 is the soundtrack of my first years of college. It was me feeling left behind and awkward, and turning that into a fresh start in a new city and trying to shake off negativity. I remember when the Shake It Off video came out and I literally screamed and laughed and cried tears of happiness bc I felt so seen. Loving to dance even though I wasn’t the best at it. I remember late nights walking around campus in the dark in the winter listening to Welcome to New York and letting that feeling of endless possibilities and new beginnings wash over me. I remember countless times I zoned out standing in the shower thinking about Clean. I remember feeling like 1989 sounded like such a mixtape (in the best way—it captured such a specific set of feelings).

Reputation. Where do I even start. I think up until Rep, my love for Taylor Swift and her music was such an internal part of me, but EVERYONE was talking once the singles started coming out and it was when I finally found myself getting defensive over Taylor. I remember literally screaming the first time I watched the LWYMMD music video. My eyes nearly popped out of my head. When the lyric video for CIWYW came out, my best friend and I were staying at this hotel while she was visiting me and I cried and all I could say was that I was just so happy that Taylor found someone to love her whole. reputation was quite literally the only thing I really listened to for MONTHS. I was obsessed with the album. I would have died for that album.

I initially didn’t think I would get a chance to see her on tour because the tickets were soooo expensive but I ended up getting a surprisingly cheap floor seat just 3 days before I saw her in Foxborough night 1. That entire performance blew my mind. I was 5 rows back from the B stage which ended up being the perfect place cause Tay was soooo close while performing Shake It Off (one of my all time faves) and the surprise acoustic song was 22, which made me literally melt because I had just turned 22. I actually danced so hard during SIO that I twisted my ankle and fell back onto my seat during the concert—almost everybody that was seated around me had moved up by that point to get closer while Tay was on the B stage, but my ✌️social anxiety ✌️ was not about that life. I think I lost my voice from singing. And definitely was shooketh to the core when Hayley Kiyoko came on stage. Truly unforgettable.

This era has been such a whirlwind and I cannot wait for the memories it will bring and the lyrics that will destroy me. If Taylor talks at all more explicitly about dealing with family illness or sexuality/identity or the monumental effort it takes to really love yourself, just know that it will probably end me.

ANYWAY I love you @taylorswift

Your music has been the soundtrack to so many parts of my life. I know there are countless fans out there with stories like mine, or even more powerful ones and I just want to share how much your craft and dedication to your fans means to every single one of us whether or not we meet you. In these last couple weeks before the album is released, I hope you see and hear SO MUCH positivity and no more of the drama.

Lol if anyone, if a single one of you actually reads this 1) wow thanks 2) please reblog with some of your #TS song memories or times when #Taylor Swift was there with me AND USE THE TAGS so we can share these awesome memories with each other