Red (Taylor’s Version) is taking me straight back to days of middle school angst. The music has recalled old friendships and memories that I hadn’t thought about in years. My top tracks combine the tunes I loved circa 2012 and additions from the vault. I’ve based this primarily on the songs I listen to the most.
Begin Again
This song takes me straight back to 7th grade. I remember being fascinated by the love story in the music video and aesthetic shots of Paris.
Favorite lines:
“But you start to talk about the movies / That your family watches every single Christmas / And I want to talk about that / And for the first time / What’s past is past.”
All Too Well
I could listen to this gut-wrenching ballad a million times in a row. Her new music video for the song is a beautiful work of autumn-inspired art.
Favorite line(s):
And you call me up again / just to break me like a promise / So casually cruel in the name of being honest
Nothing New
Her vault collaboration with Phoebe Bridgers really speaks to me as a woman in my 20s trying to figure my life out.
Favorite line(s): How can a person know everything / At eighteen, but nothing at twenty-two?
Come Back…Be Here
I don’t think I ever listened to this song when I was younger. I enjoy it now for its city-living imagery
Favorite line(s): This is falling in love in the cruelest way / This is falling for you and you are worlds away / In New York, be here / But you’re in London, and I break down