Taylor Swift

Her fourth album Red came out last week and since it’s been out I’ve been listening to bits and pieces of it each day and have a couple of tracks which I particularly love:

Begin Again

We are never ever getting back together

Everything’s changed ft. Ed Sheeran

I have always loved Taylor Swift. I know I’m probably a bit older than her average fan base but her music is just easy to listen to and she always writes about things that I can relate to – young love, heart break and hope. I love her soft country pop sound and the fact her lyrics just speak honestly and openly about what means most to her.

These three tracks stand out to me at the moment. Begin Again is a great song about hope. It’s about moving on and finding love after heartbreak. It’s a great song for me at the moment. We are never ever getting back together is just a great fun anthem for girls!

Everything’s changed is my favourite at the moment. It’s been on replay all night! As I write this, it’s playing in the background right now. I’d never have put Ed Sheeran and Taylor Swift together. The same way that I’d never have put Dolly Parton and Norah Jones together but somehow it just works. Although they both tend to write about similar themes of love and heart break their styles are very different. But here their voices just work so well together and the song is just beautiful. The sound is very Ed Sheeran. You can hear Taylor swift do all the little tricks that Ed Sheeran does with his voice. There’s a particular bit in the song when Taylor sings “And all I feel in my stomach is butterflies the beautiful kind. Making up for lost time, taking flight, making me feel right” where you can hear Ed Sheeran’s style coming through. This bit is my favourite and gets me every time.

But it just works so well. It’s such a cute song. The lyrics echo that attention to detail that both artists have when it comes to writing about love. They have that way of making your heart melt with their words.