13 Things We Learned from Taylor Swift's Lover Diaries
13 Things We Learned from Taylor Swift's Lover Diaries
By Carson Mlnarik
In case you've been living under a rock, here's some news: Taylor Swift released her seventh album, Lover, on Friday (August 23). Because the LP marks a milestone in her career — 13 years since her debut album — the singer used the new release possibility to take her patented candidness up a notch. Fans know Swift's music comes from a deeply personalized place, so she let them in even further.
On each of four different Target deluxe editions of Lover, Swift included 30 pages from diaries she's kept her entire life. Furthermore to being a nice callback to the secret messages trim plant in her earliest albums — remember "Date nice gentlemen? — It's however another way she keeps the relationship with her fans feel increasingly like a friendship. In light of her big night at Monday's 2019 VMAs, we took a look at the volumes to be able to see what secrets she spilled in between bops.
Hiding her relationship with Joe Alwyn was especially stressful
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"I'm essentially based in London, hiding out attempting to protect us from the nasty world that just wants to ruin things," Taylor writes in January 2017, immediately following the two had been with each other for three months without anyone finding out. "It's senseless to worry about someday not being happy Whenever I am happy right now she resolves. Trim return that year with Reputation.
Some album tracks are a lot older than others
A Swift song can typically feel like a diary page, so it's fitting that in between entries are handwritten lyrics for some of her biggest hits. One surprise is the initial draft of "This Love" from 2014's 1989, which was written on October 17, 2012, just five days before Red hit shelves. Even on the eve of a release, she was still finding new inspiration.
Taylor was confident that Red would win a Grammy
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"Never have I felt so good about our chances. Never have I wanted something so badly as I'd like to hear them mention 'Red is the Album of the Year,'" Taylor wrote the night before the 2014 Grammy Awards. Whenever she was up for four awards that night, trim leave empty handed, inspiring her sonic transition later that year.
She was at Taco Bell any time while she got her first record deal
At 13, Taylor wrote about dining at America's preference Mexican fast food chain in 2003 any time once she got big news from RCA. While the developmental deal didn't lead to a release, it inspired her to take a risk whenever Big Machine Records came along years later. The rest is history, although we have to wonder, did she get a Baja Blast?
There are still so several songs we haven't heard
While writing for Red, the singer mentions a unreleased track called "Nothin' New." The lyrics describe the uneasiness of growing up, and knowing "everything at 18, and nothing at 22." It sounds like a precursor to "22," and we're dying to hear it. This isn't the opening time a Red demo has resurfaced visualize "Babe" by Sugarland), so perhaps we'll visualize more one day.
Becoming OK with her body was a journey
Taylor wrote openly about dieting as a teenager over the years. "It's so weird how fast I can increase or lose body fat she mentioned in an entry soon after Thanksgiving 2006. "I'm going to lose some right now This year, she addressed body confidence in a piece for Elle, stating she’s learned to "stop hating every ounce of fat" on her body.
Her first Met Gala was mind-blowing
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While 2016's Bleachella marked her first time as co-chair, Swift made her debut at "THE party of the year" in 2008 wearing Badgley Mischka. She described the frenzy of paparazzi on both sides of the stairs and seeing "every celebrity ever created," including Scarlett Johansson, Beyoncé, and Jon Bon Jovi, who discussed to her.
It took a while to be OK with critics
Tay oozes confidence, however at age 20, she called criticism of her efficiency "the biggest source of pain in my life." On the heels of the Fearless tour, she wrote about experiencing stage fright every time she performed as a result, and later addressed critics directly in "Mean."
"All Also Well" was originally even more detailed
one of the greatest sells for Swifties was the promise of original lyrics for the Holy Grail track on the deluxe editions. Both the initial and final drafts reveal extra specifics like childhood photographs sitting on the fireplace and the last seen location of the storied missing scarf: on an ex's sister's banister.
Tay went through an astrology phase
As a Sagittarius, Tay's strengths include generosity and idealism. In 2010, the singer, who wrote in an earlier entry that she hadn’t kissed a boy in 209 days, muses over a horoscope predicting someone new would come into her life. With a lack of romantic prospects, she retorts, "Maybe I'll get an email or call. From someone wonderful (...) Or perhaps I won't. That's more likely."
She really didn't know where music would take her
Most of Taylor's early entries are about fear of failure in the industry and her big dreams. Next to doodles, she practices her autograph, noting, "That would be worth cash someday!! Just kidding hehe." Right after writing "The Outdoor at age 14, which appeared on her debut two years later, she notes, "I don't know if it'll go anywhere, however it made me feel better."
The regular days" are the perfect ones
Taylor has been open about mental health, and her diaries reveal the importance she places on excellent time with family member. She describes in detail a carefree day antiquing with her mom to find a chandelier for the foyer and doubts she'll ever look back at any No. 1 party as "fondly" or as "frequently."
She worries about the social-media generation
In a 2013 entry, Taylor described the feeling of being "hunted" as a celebrity and voiced concern about future generation's obsession with posting pictures so they could "spend all day checking the comments." She critiqued the "level of possession," adding, "They will never truly experience a moment without trying to capture it and own it."
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