Dear Haters,
You love to criticize Taylor Swift for her ability to write multiple songs about eight-week-long relationships, but why? I say props to her for being about to express them so openly. She totally overanalyzes everything and doesn’t care who knows it. However, while some people may think this makes her a loser, I think this is the thing that makes her so relatable. Most, if not all girls, are kind of the same way to some extent. We spend way too much time pining over people who don’t care about us. We trust people too easily. We build up our expectations, only to have them shattered.
The song “Enchanted” from the Speak Now album was written about a guy Swift literally met once. Once. She got three and a half minutes of content from a single encounter. She wrote five songs (not all released) about a relationship that lasted 66 days, shorter than Kim Kardashian’s marriage. Sure, she’s dated a lot of guys, but while her critics are at home watching E! with a giant tub of ice cream, Taylor Swift is putting herself out there, actually living life. Nobody likes getting hurt, but she’s found a way to use it to her own advantage in a totally relatable way.
In the song “All Too Well” from her Red album she says “You call me up again just to break me like a promise./ So casually cruel in the name of being honest.” It doesn’t exaggerate what happened, his intentions, or her feelings. People may see her songs as being “overly dramatic” but I don’t think she’s embelishing anything. She feels exactly how she writes. Maybe this isn’t how everyone feels about their relationship and experiences, but why should we criticize people who see things differently than we do? If you don’t like Taylor Swift’s perspective, change the radio station when her song comes on. If you still don’t like her, why are you even reading this article? Go home, sit in front of your TV, and watch the Fashion Police criticize people’s fashion risks just like you criticize Taylor Swift’s relationships. Players gonna play, haters gonna hate, but Taylor’s just gonna shake it off!
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