Covered with bright lights and festive decorations, your house has become a Christmas spectacle for passing vehicles and watchful neighbors. Cookies and sweets covered with red and green sprinkles seem to make their way into every meal. You find yourself consumed by the holiday shopping experience yet exhilarated by the winter air and the first signs of snow. Though you’re not a huge fan of Christmas music and the holiday classics played on repeat for over an entire month’s time, there is one artist that catches your attention: Taylor Swift. While others fill their holiday albums with merry, bright, and classic Christmas carols, T-Swift goes above and beyond. Folks, heartbreak does not stop just because Santa’s at the mall.
Her album, “Sounds of the Season”, released in 2007, features two songs with a unique T-Swift spin to the Christmas season. Opening “Christmases When You Were Mine” with cheery lyrics, she immediately grasps the listeners’ attention: “Please take down the mistletoe, ‘Cause I don’t wanna think about that right now.” Pulling a classic Taylor, she’s unafraid to spill the truth about something as universally pleasant as a holiday mood. Her heart, filled with the sadness of an ex-boyfriend whose M.I.A. , has no room for the warmth of the holiday spirit. For those of us who simply can’t bring ourselves to smile with friends and family around the holiday time for whatever reason, Swift’s music is more easily identified with. Surrounded by such things which should make us smiley and bright, it’s easy to feel depressed when they have no effect on us. Embracing that concept, T-Swift provides listeners with a holiday comfort and lyrical company.
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I like how Taylor Swift isn't the average musician. As you said she puts a different spin on the joyous holiday so other people can enjoy it. Her blunt ways has obviously proven her a great singer and song writer.
ReplyDeleteListening to conventional christmas jingles and then listening to a T-Swift rendition truly is interesting. To hear the differences between hers and a usual xmas song allows me see that she is a very unique artist.
ReplyDeleteZach: lol her songs are definitely different...but I wouldn't recomend them for the holiday season unless you're reallly upset. I listened Christmas Eve and not even Santa himself could cheer me up.
ReplyDeleteHeartache doesn't go away just because Santa's at the mall--great sentence!
ReplyDeleteLacey, do you know Elvis's "Blue Christmas"? or "I'll be Home for Xmas"?--that's about WW2 soldiers NOT being home for Xmas.