#me @ any taylor release: how can i make this about pacey/joey

[kayascodelorio]

kayascodelorio's 3.5k celebration 💌 for @laylakeating (insp.)

[austennerdita2533]

I am absolutely in love with your blog! Books, klaroline, taylor swift and so much more that you post! I wish I had a friend like you in real life! I am curious though what is your favorite TS album? And song? Do you have a ranking?? Do you associate any song with your favorite book? I am always associating songs with favorite characters and make scenarios about klaroline in my head (embarrassing I know!)

Dawww, you are so sweet! I’m really touched by that, thank you. 🥰 I’m glad you like it here and that I haven’t scared you away with my spam posts or my tag nonsense yet (because there’s a lot of both haha). I think it would be awesome to be friends with someone like you irl. Since we seem to enjoy so many of the same things, we’d probably never run out of things to talk about. It’s a shame so many cool people live far away, isn’t it? We can be virtual besties, for sure, though! I always have room in my life another lovely person. ❤️

Oh gosh, it’s so SO hard for me to pick a favorite TS album. I’ve been a Swiftie since the beginning. I’m the same age as Taylor - both of us are born in 89 - so I almost feel like I grew up alongside her and her music. A lot of what she was writing about feeling in her songs I was experiencing myself at the exact same time so whenever I hear certain ones, like You Belong With Me, for instance, I can close my eyes and drift back to that particular time in my life. It’s like I’m there again. But then there’s also this sense of wistfulness, too, you know? Because I’ve grown into myself more and changed a lot along the way but I still remember how it felt to be my younger self. To feel the potency of everything - heartbreak, disappointment, infatuation, butterflies - so acutely. I love her music for being to do that, you know? Push me forward while also reeling me back.

On the whole, though, if I had to pick, I think I’d say Folklore and Evermore are my favorites. I’m a lyricist at heart and I just loved seeing how much her writing and poetry blossomed in those albums. Her story telling was just exceptional, it was on another level. And lately, like everyone else on the planet, I’ve been re-obsessed with Red. The initial release of that album in 2012 helped me get over a terrible heartbreak, my first love, so obviously that one holds a special place for me. That whole album is like a goddamn open wound. Still. After all these years. I REMEMBER IT ALL TOO WELL MYSELF. 😄😭

I don’t have a ranking for her discography overall, though. Not a favorite song, either. I’m very much a mood listener so I tend to gravitate toward certain songs or albums depending on where I’m at emotionally. Or, you know, if I’m writing and need/want to get into a particular headspace. I also jam to her faster-paced stuff at the gym while I do cardio a lot. I love running to The Man, I Forgot You Existed, You Need to Calm Down, I Did Something Bad, Blank Space, etc. And when I’m feeling nostalgic and want to reeeeally sink into it I will listen to songs from Fearless and Speak Now that remind me of VERY particular people from my past. Sometimes to remember, other times to torture myself lol. I will also love Teardrops on my Guitar and Tim McGraw into perpetuity. There’s such an innocence to those songs, it reminds me of my own as a teenager.

Oh honey, take heart. Associating songs with favorite characters, ships, or books is a favorite pastime of mine as well and I am constantly composing little stories for them in my head. So fear not, you are not alone! I definitely have a treasure trove of TS songs I associate with Klaroline, too. And Literati from Gilmore Girls. And Pacey and Joey from Dawson’s Creek. And Jaime and Brienne from GoT. And Jisbon from the Mentalist. And Shirbert from Anne of Green Gables. And Darcy and Elizabeth from P&P. And so on and so forth. (You see the problem here. 😆)

How about you? Do you have a favorite song or ranking of her albums? I’m super curious! :)