Day 2: The Taylor Swift Cinematic Universe

I don't think I realized at first just how much music Taylor Swift has made. Her debut album, Taylor Swift, came out in October of 2006 when she was 16 years old, which makes me feel both very old (I'm 5 years older than that wtf), but also very young (I was 9 years old when that album was released hmmm). Including that album, Taylor has published 6 albums total, one every 2 years up until her most recent album, Reputation, which was released 3 years after 1989 (which comes out to 2017, not 1992). These six albums contain 82 songs, totaling to about 5.5 hours of music, enough to listen to four times in one day (something I will very likely do at some point in the near future). Of course this doesn't include smaller projects like her Christmas album and movie roles, which I will undoubtedly talk about eventually. For those of you who don't know, the 2012 cinematic version of The Lorax stars Taylor Swift, Zac Efron, and Danny DeVito which is actually my dream come true. The only way this movie could get better is if it was live-action.

You go Danny

But I digress. These topics will all have their time, for now I need to decide the format that this blog is going to have. The experiment will last 100 days, but will there be a post every day? Right now, it's looking like yes, but if it gets to be too much I may change it. I would expect the general format to be relatively uniform; I choose a subset of Taylor Swift's work and talk about it critically for as long as I feel is necessary. Who knows how long the average post will be, but I imagine that this one and the previous post will be generally good landmarks for the average post length. 

So let's get right into it! Yesterday and today I have mostly been listening to 1989 and Red, just because those are the albums I am most familiar with, and right away I've started to notice some things. First off, the songs that have captured me most aren't the ones that I've heard most before (Blank Space, We are never getting back together, etc), but the ones that I've only heard a couple times. For now, I plan on talking more about 1989 in particular for the next few days so here's something to listen to in the meantime.

Oh my god, look at that face

That's all for today.

See you tomorrow,

-C