Taylor Swift

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

My first real impression of Taylor Swift beyond her youth was Kanye West's ridiculous behaviour at the '09 VMAs. With time I did hear her songs and they are sweet as is she.  A girl's perfect packet of angst, puppy love and loss. 

I was...am that little girl in the fairy tales of my youth I have not forgot. All little girls have dreams and hopes and princes on white chargers - any modern version will do.  At some point we question whether a prince will come or the dreams but hope never dies and the little girl inside yearns, waits, creates.

Taylor Swift is every girl and her songs are the whimsy and pretty of cotton candy landscapes where girls tuck away memory keepsakes.  Her fans know every lyric, little girls and young women live them - the boys we love who disappoint, the tears cried, redemptive dreams. The stuff of fairy tales bonds and brands us girls.


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