TAYLOR SWIFT HISTORY PART 4: The Red Era

[@kroneland]

RED era is simply iconic. I was in college at the time and I wasn't a Swiftie yet but I was a casual fan who enjoyed the singles. Every song she released perfectly captured the feeling of being college aged in 2012. I Knew You Were Trouble was my favorite. I wish I had gone to the tour but it just wasn't on my radar yet.

[@jakehart7264]

IVE BEEN LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS CANT WAIT FOR THE RED TV VIDEO!!

[@stardustmelody2709]

I'm so glad this showed up on my feed this morning. Now, I have something to binge-watch this weekend. Thank you for all the research.

[@brandonbooth2851]

I honestly always thought I Knew You Were Trouble was about John Meyer. She straight up says “flew me to places I’ve never been, til you put me down” which sounds a lot like super man. I was so confused when I heard people thought it was about Harry.

[@bensaunderson7273]

Omggg I legit love these videos!! You always introduce me to some craziness that I’ve never seen before, like that video of the condom falling out of Zac Efron’s pocket will haunt me forever 😭 also the stories about the origin of starlight and her time with the Kennedy’s, Taylor’s entire life is a movie I swear. Red is definitely a top 3 album for me I am in love with it ❤❤️ It’s almost impossible to choose a favourite song but if I had to narrow it down to few I’d say treacherous, holy ground, sad beautiful tragic, atw, red and the last time. I also love the more fun songs on this album 22, wanegbt and stay stay stay they’re just the best to sing along too in the shower. In conclusion, please keep making these video they’re so good!! Also I feel like we should start some sort of campaign to get you eras tour tickets because no one deserves them more than you 💗

[@sacredsunflower8930]

“Lucky One” is about Joni Mitchell btw she was learning a lot about her at the time she wrote red & was super inspired by Joni’s album Blue along with the rest of her work I’m sure… Joni was a very popular folk singer in the 60’s hence the line “so overnight you look like a 60’s queen” people have said that Taylor looks like Joni I believe she was even considering auditioning for the role of Joni Mitchell in a bio pic but I can’t really remember I just know that Joni said some very not nice things about Taylor‘s ability to sing. That was kind of lame and hurtful I’m sure. But yeah… those are the rumors!

[@sacredsunflower8930]

My thoughts on treacherous are that it is about harry styles if you go through 1989 you will notice that so many of the songs talk about driving being in a car having headlights turned off or on etc. etc. tons of parallels (pretty sure come back be here is about him and the very first night if we account for the vault tracks) and yeah basically I think this was her for telling the dangers of this relationship that would end up being completely iconic forever -haylor STAN

[@sacredsunflower8930]

And I also don’t care what anyone else says because if you watch the music video there’s no way you can tell me that I knew you were trouble is not about John Mayer it is not about Harry it’s about John. Period. Lol no one can change my mind haha

[@kaydence1313]

@@sacredsunflower8930 treacherous is about Harry and so is IKYWT. the secret message for treacherous is lyrics that Harry said tattoo on him, Taylor kept telling him they were the wrong lyrics, so when she met the band she asked them to write down the lyrics for her (confirmed by the band). Also the references to the car. So treacherous is clearly about Harry and by default so is IKYWT because Taylor said they are about the same person, treacherous being the before and IKYWT being the after. Also Taylor didn't know John mayer was trouble when he walked in, she actually thought really highly of him and thought he was a good person, she was a fan and also the songs like ours and Superman. Her and Harry always knew the relationship was doomed. It is completely possible that Taylor and Harry dated before we ever publicly saw them. We know they were really on and off again. They could have got together for a little bit before red came out then broke up and then found their way back to each other after red.

[@vysop2560]

I was really wating for this moment my whole swifitie life, thank you very much for this academically renowened project of Swift's history

[@ABookstan]

OMG I’M SO EXCITED IT’S FINALLY OUT ❤❤❤❤

[@rominaflorenciamuto9524]

hope you continue on doing these videos, you are great, and I love all the info that you bring. Please review all her eras, and I think it would be awesome if you talk about the taylor version's as well. thank you

[@rrrrreaderrrrr9609]

Don’t know why these videos aren’t more known in the fandom!! There Literally the best video’s ever made!! I want them in physical form so that I will never loose these

[@cosmoslady]

I have to admit, Red is one of my least favorite albums of hers. I'm two years older than her so I didn't start liking Taylor until around 1989. She had to grow up a bit for me to relate to her. Out of her first 4 albums I think Speak Now is the best. While Red has some amazing songs on it, it's just a really weird album. Yes, All Too Well was ( one could argue it's not anymore but once was) her magnum opus, which is why I don' like All Too 10. It's too bloated and boring. Don't mess with perfection! I don't think I'll ever "get" Red, but I know a lot of you love it so I try to respect it for what it is.

[@andreagutierrez4078]

IM BINGING ALL YOUR VIDEOS I LOVE THEM SO MUCH SLAY QUEEENNN

[@jrus690]

RED is what got me into Taylor, it was the first album I had on CD and now record; I love this combination of country and pop. None of my favorite songs are here, but I still listen over and over. The Last Time is not even my favorite song on the album but I love the style and the movement in the song. IKYWT has the beautiful mix of country, pop, alternative and sort of signifies this album for me. WANGBT is that hilarious song with the hilarious music video, not sure how else to describe it.

[@unirarhissa7697]

As someone who is both a swiftie and a directioner/larrie, let me just say that the whole Haylor thing just screams PR stunt Just saying lol, the timing of the relationship is just too convenient for it to be genuine

[@jaxg80]

Thank you for these videos!! I'm enjoying it ahead of the Eras Philly!! I cannot believe there aren't more comments! You give great info, articulate yourself extremely well, and you don't "ummm" and "uhhh" your way through it! You make the rest of us Swifties proud!!💜😻

[@Starbuxlvr1313]

Holy Ground supremacy

[@samblakley4865]

Next is 1989🎉

[@sacredsunflower8930]

My favorite era… nothing is more iconic than being 21 when red came out. I listened to 22 on repeat from Oct to Aug waiting to turn 22. It was my anthem and this album was really there for me when my on and off boyfriend of many years we’re going back and forth. I even have this core memory of posting the lyrics to wanegbt on Facebook, he actually got kinda emotional about it and I still see the memory on FB every once in a while LOL we have been broken up almost 8 years and I’m now married to by one and only! Lover came out at just the right time. We got married March of 2019, so having that album be a part of my timeline just feels really special…

[@sacredsunflower8930]

I went to the Eras tour as Taylor from the 22 music video complete with heart eyeglasses, black bowler hat, bright red Ked shoes and the red letterman‘s jacket she featured on the red tour performance of 22. I was super proud of how everything came together. I even felt inspired to buy a pack of light up kitty cat ears m, so we all wore those during the concert 🎵 it was super cute and so so much fun 😻

[@ambremth8401]

going to the hollyday house is such a life goal

[@Sophie_elize]

I love this video❤❤

[@enricadirado4236]

yeees! thank you!!❤❤❤

[@meggzilla009]

Omg yesssssssssss can't wait to get more Julia history 🎉❤

[@boetvdberg]

This is probably my favorite series here on KZbin. 🧡

[@sacredsunflower8930]

Julia is so good 😽

[@imthemma]

i have to thank RED for blessing me ears as a 6 year old kid. was i maybe to young to be singing about breakups yes. but they were catchy and i’m much more familiar with RED than i used to be 🧣❤

[@sstewart907]

Yeeeeeeees 🥰🥰

[@zoeelora]

This was great!! Thank you ❤️

[@tomiokasvfx2060]

AAAH YESSS IM SO EXCITED

[@goobablo7]

please make a 1989 vid soon🙏

[@juliaslaughter2665]

coming soon!!! :)

[@zachattackproductions7400]

RED IS ICONIC!!! This was the album that solidified me as a Swiftie. The Red Tour was the very first (first of 4 ) tours I went to.

[@carol0906]

I've just binge watch this video and now I'm an orphan again. Best content in youtube, lots of love from brazil! 🧡

[@lolalove28]

We are Never ever getting back together was the first Taylor Swift song I ever heard… it was such a good time

[@valeriaacevedo7869]

these is my favorite series on youtube right now i’ve literally watched all of these all the way thru never stop

[@raulreyes3063]

A TIMELINE OF THE WRITING OF RED: PART 1 June 16, 2010: The Story Of Us is the last song Taylor writes before having a writer’s block that ended 6 months later. “There’s a kind of bad that gets so overpowering you can’t even write about it. When you feel pain that is so far past dysfunctional, that leaves you with so many emotions that you can’t filter them down to simple emotions to write about. That’s when you know you really need to get out.” Late December 2010: All Too Well is born during a Speak Now Tour rehearsal. [Interview with Pop Dust] The lyric I’m most proud of on the album is from ‘All Too Well’: ‘And you call me up again just to break me like a promise / so casually cruel in the name of being honest.’ That was something I came up with while ranting during a soundcheck. I was just playing these chords over and over onstage and my band joined in and I went on a rant. Those were some of the lines I thought of. I was going through a really hard time then, and my band joined in playing, and one of the first things that I came up with, just, like, spat out, was ‘And you call me up again just to break me like a promise, so casually cruel in the name of being honest.’ [Taylor to Amazon Music] “The first song that was written was All Too Well, and it was a day when I was just like a broken human walking into rehearsal just feeling terrible about what was going on in my personal life. And I walked in and I remember we had just hired David Cook … I think it was his first day meeting me, and I think I ended up just playing four chords over and over again and the band started kicking in, like Amos Heller on bass, and people started playing along with me. I think they could tell I was really going through it. And I just started singing and riffing and sort of ad-libbing this song that basically was All Too Well. And it started with ‘I walked through the door with you, the air was cold’ - like it literally just was that song, but it had probably seven extra verses. And it included the f-word, and I remember my sound guy was like ‘Hey, I burned a CD of that thing you were doing, in case you want it.’ And I was like ‘Sure!’ February 2011: All Too Well is reworked. This is probably the Ten Minute Version. First week of March 2011: All Too Well is edited thanks to Liz Rose. [Liz Rose to Rolling Stone] When we wrote the song, I hadn’t heard from her in awhile. She hadn’t really been writing. I was in Nashville one day, slowly moving the last bits of junk out of my garage so I could move to Dallas. […] I was in my driveway and my phone rings, and it’s Taylor saying, ‘Man, I’ve got this thing and I really need you to help me with it. Can you write today? What are you doing today?’ [I later] drove over to Taylor’s. It was the first song she wrote for that record, I think. She had a story and she wanted to say something specific. She had a lot of information. I just let her go. She already had a melody and she started singing some words, and I started writing things down, saying, ‘Ok, let’s use this, let’s use that.’ She mentioned a plaid shirt, and I wrote that down in a corner, and when we got to the end, I said, ‘Let’s put the plaid shirt in there.’ That turned into one of the best lines. […] It was the most emotional, in-depth song we’ve ever written. March 19, 2011: While in her hotel room in Madrid, Taylor writes Better Man. [Taylor talking about it] Transcript: The song Better Man is one that I originally wrote for the Red album. I remember I was on tour, and I wrote it alone in a hotel room. And I remember standing in front of a mirror-I think the first thing I thought of was, ‘I wish it wasn’t 4am, standing in a mirror, saying to myself, ‘you know you had to do it.“ That was an actual visual from my life that ended up being the first thing I wrote, and then I expanded outward from there. And it was a song that I really thought belonged on the album and there were just too many songs I loved that I had written in that period of time, so some of them had to be left off. I think I chose All Too Well over Better Man. I think that was what happened. I was either going to put on All Too Well or Better Man, and then I left off Better Man. [Taylor in May 2011] "I was in Madrid, and I was in my hotel room all day. And I was going through this crazy, emotional thing and I wrote a song about it and it’ll probably be on the next record. I’m telling you that. I’ll tell you the title afterwards.” Speculation: Taylor posted a picture of her guitar, saying “Writing a song all afternoon in my hotel room. Dublin, Ireland”. This matches the Better Man origin story, placing it on March 27th. On this note, in Madrid Taylor was hanging out with her backing singer and close friend Liz Huett. Liz tweeted about their Madrid afternoon during 1989 era, I don’t think that Taylor holed up in her room to write. I’ll still leave it on March 19th, since it’s what Taylor said.

[@raulreyes3063]

June 11, 2011: Taylor says, during a show in Detroit, that she had written 10 songs, all of them sad. [New Yorker Interview] “In Detroit, Swift seemed somewhat melancholy. Once in a while, I had the feeling that she was on the verge of bursting into tears. She said that she had recently decided that life is “about achieving contentment… You’re not always going to be ridiculously happy.” She had written about ten songs so far for her next album. Asked to characterize them, she said, “They’re sad? If I’m being honest.” The most recent one, she said, “is about moving on.” I think that the songs written were: All Too Well, I Almost Do, The Moment I Knew, and Better Man. “I Almost Do’ is a song I wrote about the conflict that you feel when you want to take someone back, and you want to give it another try, but you know you can’t. And you can’t because you know it’s hurt you so deeply that you know that you couldn’t bear to go through that again. So you’re sitting there and wondering where they are and hope that they think about you and that you’re almost picking up the phone call, but you just can’t. I think I needed to write this song in order to not call that person actually. I think that writing the song was what I did instead of picking up the phone.” June 17, 2011: [From a Lover Journal] Taylor mentions "feeling blissfully happy” especially since she wrote “those 2 songs”, which she will record after flying back to Nashville after the show in Pittsburgh, PA. One of them may be State Of Grace. [On Good Morning America] “I wrote this song about when you first fall in love with someone - the possibilities, kind of thinking about the different ways that it could go. It’s a really big sound. To me, this sounds like the feeling of falling in love in an epic way.” June 24, 2011: Taylor meets up with Lori McKenna at her house in Boston. They write I Bet You Think About Me. [Taylor on Amazon Music ] “‘I Bet You Think About Me’ is a song I wrote with Lori McKenna, who is one of my favorite singer-songwriters ever. I’d always wanted to work with her. And I wrote this with her at her house when I was playing Foxboro Stadium on the Speak Now Tour. We wanted this song to be like a comedic, tongue in cheek, funny, not caring what anyone thinks about you sort of break up song, because there are a lot of different types of heartbreak songs on Red. Some of them are very sincere, some of them are very stoic and heartbreaking and sad. We wanted this to be the moment where I was like, ‘I don’t care about anything.’ And we wanted to make people laugh with it, and we wanted it to be sort of a drinking song, and I think that that’s what it ended up being.” [Lori Mckenna Interview] “That song was about 11 years old,” she pauses before adding, “We think.” Swift happened to be in the Boston area playing two sold-out shows at Gillette Stadium not too far from McKenna’s house. On the day of the second show, she visited Mckenna, they ate lunch and then planned to write together. “She had this little nugget of a song which was ‘I Bet You Think About Me,’ she knew that was the hook.” Swift had asked her if she should lean in the folk direction (which they did) and after that, the rest flowed blissfully as McKenna recalls, “I don’t remember anything other than sitting here watching how incredible she is. She knows what she wants to say and when she says the right thing, she remembers it. She didn’t write anything down. There was no recording of the song.” McKenna was writing the lyrics on her computer but Swift never looked at her screen. “If the line is right, she knows it’s right, and she remembers what it is,” she says. Later that night, McKenna attended Swift’s show with her kids and when she was backstage, Swift played the song they had written together. “I’m like, how is this woman gonna get out there, do a completely choreographed show for 60 thousand people, and she’s singing the song that she just wrote two hours ago,” McKenna exclaims as she revisits the memory. For her to bring back something that was 10 or 11 years old and be true to a song that she had in her heart that long ago is pretty cool. It’s something that a lot of artists don’t get to do.” [From Lori McKenna Twitter] @taylorswift13 came to my house to write 1 day before 2 sold out shows @Gillette. (My neighbors famously called police bc of the security) Still she was as sweet, human, unassuming & TALENTED as any writer who has ever been here.

[@raulreyes3063]

June 30, 2011: [From MySpace] Lately, I’ve been writing a LOT. Like, all of a sudden, everything I’ve wanted to say, express, or just let out for the past several months has just recently become a song. I’m really excited about that. It’s a freeing feeling when all of a sudden one day, you’re able to verbalize exactly how you feel in a verse, chorus, verse, bridge, chorus pattern. July 2011: Taylor writes Starlight. Originally, the demo was more country. This is mostly based on this Rolling Stone article where Taylor says she has read a 900-page book about the Kennedys, called The Kennedy Women. She also visited JFK’s grave on August 4th, and had a Robert Kennedy quote on her arm during the August 4th show. [Washington Post] I get a lot of style inspiration from the 1960s, so I’ll go and look at black and white pictures, and look at photos from the ‘50s and '60s, and I came across this picture of these two kids dancing at a dance. It immediately made me think of like how much fun they must have had that night. It was back in the late '40s. I ended up reading underneath that it was Ethel Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy. And they were, like, 17. So I just kind of wrote that song from that place, not really knowing how they met or anything like that. Description of the Starlight Studio Demo: “3:37 minutes long. This demo is much rougher sounding than the released version. The verses are acoustic guitar-driven, there are less spacey sounds, and there are much louder background vocals as the song builds.” September 8, 2011: [From Lover Journal 1] Taylor writes Red on a plane on her way to Nashville. Taylor and Nathan Chapman record the demo in the evening, at the Pain in the Art Studio. A second demo exists. These demos are NOT produced with Dann Huff, unlike the album version. [VH1’s Storytellers] “This relationship that I had that was, like, the worst thing ever and the best thing ever at the same time. I was writing this song and I was thinking about correlating the colors to the different feelings I went through. You have the great part of red, like the red emotions that are daring and bold and passion and love and affection. And then you have on the other side of the spectrum, jealousy and anger and frustration and ‘you didn’t call me back’ and ‘I need space.” September 9, 2011: [From Lover Journal 1] She’s in the studio to record again. October 4, 2011: Taylor writes Sad Beautiful Tragic on her ukulele, while on her tour bus, while reminiscing about a relationship that had ended months ago. [From Twitter] “Leaving Little Rock, headed to New Orleans. Writing a song on a moving bus.” Billboard Interview: “‘Sad Beautiful Tragic’ is really close to my heart. I remember it was after a show and I was on the bus thinking about this relationship that ended months and months before. The feeling wasn’t sadness and anger or those things anymore. It was wistful loss. And so I just got my guitar and I hit on the fact that I was thinking in terms of rhyming; I rhymed magic with tragic, changed a few things and ended it with what a sad beautiful tragic love affair. I wanted to tell the story in terms of a cloudy recollection of what went wrong. It’s kind of the murky gray, looking back on something you can’t change or get back.” “‘Sad Beautiful Tragic’ is really close to my heart. I remember it was after a show and I was on the bus thinking about this relationship that ended months and months before. The feeling wasn’t sadness and anger or those things anymore. It was wistful loss. And so I just got my guitar and I hit on the fact that I was thinking in terms of rhyming; I rhymed magic with tragic, changed a few things and ended it with what a sad beautiful tragic love affair. I wanted to tell the story in terms of a cloudy recollection of what went wrong. It’s kind of the murky gray, looking back on something you can’t change or get back.” Sad Beautiful Tragic is a demo and it was recorded once. Speculation: The secrete message is “While you were on a train” and it might be a reference to Jake Gyllenhaal joining Mumford & Sons in late April in their Railroad Revival Tour… on a train.

[@raulreyes3063]

October 19, 2011: “I have written 25 songs so far.” Some of these 25 songs include: State Of Grace, Red, All Too Well, I Almost Do, Stay Stay Stay, Sad Beautiful Tragic, The Moment I Knew, Girl At Home, Better Man. All of them are solo written and produced only by Chapman, which resembles the process in Speak Now. Others songs are I Bet You Think About Me with Lori McKenna and Cannon Balls with Justin Bieber, so 11 songs in total and 14 are missing. It’s possible that Cannon Balls wasn’t counted since it was supposed on Bieber’s album. “ The song ‘Stay Stay Stay’ is a song that I wrote based on what I’ve seen of real relationships, where it’s not perfect, there are moments where you’re just so sick of that person, you get into a stupid fight. It’s still worth it to stay in it. There’s something about it that you can’t live without. In the bridge it says, ‘I’d like to hang out with you for my whole life’ and I think that’s what probably the key to finding the one, you just want to hang out with them forever.” According to a Reputation Secret Sessioner, Girl At Home is a demo. October 21, 2011: Maya Thompson, Ronan’s mother, is invited by Taylor at her concert in Glendale. She tells Maya that she has just written a song about Ronan. [From Maya’s blog, Rockstar Ronan] “My calmness soon turned to complete and utter frozen shock when these words came out of her mouth. 'I wrote a song for Ronan.’” Thompson added, addressing her late son, “'The tears started pouring down my cheeks as soon as I heard her say those words. But her words didn’t stop there. Not only did she write a song for you, but she wanted to know if it would be alright to perform it on the nationally televised show.” December 2011: Taylor writes Begin Again. ‘Begin Again is a song that I wrote about getting through a breakup, and still being sad about it, and feeling a little insecure about all the things that relationship made you feel are wrong with yourself. And after months, and months, and months, having the courage to stand back up, dust yourself off, and go on that first date. And it’s about, kind of, the vulnerability involved with that, and the idea that you realize that, 'wow, this could be great.’ The song is supposedly for Will Anderson from Parachute. On November 27th, they were photographed together eight months after Taylor had broken up with Jake for good. Additionally, the white dress she wears in the single cover is the same one she wore at his birthday party on May 5, 2012. December 13, 2011: Taylor turns 22. She’s in the studio to record, wearing a pair of bright red shoes.

[@raulreyes3063]

Late December 2011: Taylor reworks Starlight. While Red and Begin Again have the same credits, Starlight has others mixers, musicians and so on. My guess is that Dann Huff was called to work on Red because Borchetta didn’t like the two demos (Interview with Time), then he worked on Begin Again, likely on the same session as Red, and shortly after on Starlight. I bet that the guitar in the Starlight Demo was played by Chapman because in the Starlight credits you see “Electric Guitar Solo - Conceived by Nathan Chapman, Played by Dann Huff”, which I think confirms Huff’s involvement at a later date.I think after this recording session Borchetta was satisfied and wanted to wrap up the album. January 2012: “With Red, [Scott Borchetta] came to me in January and said, 'I think the album’s finished.’ This time, I said, 'No, it’s not - I need to keep writing.’ At that point, she went to Chapman and told him she wanted to work with other producers, too.” January 2012: Shortly after hiring Max Martin and Shellback, Taylor starts writing a sad piano ballad called 'Trouble’, that will become I Knew You Were Trouble. She’ll email Max Martin about it, but they have to put on hold the song for around 6 months. January 19, 2012: Taylor meets Rory Kennedy (Conor’s aunt), at the Sundance Film Festival, where a documentary about Ethel Kennedy premiered. January 21, 2012: Taylor meets Ethel Kennedy. “When asked how the odd-couple friendship came to be, Swift said her acquaintance with the daughter led to an introduction to the mother. “I had read up on Robert F. Kennedy and his wife, and I asked Rory if it would ever be possible for me to meet her mother. She said, ‘Here’s her number.’ Ethel was kind enough to have lunch and spend a few hours talking with me, and ever since then I’ve been so inspired by how full of life she is and the way she tells her story.’’ February 2012: [From a Lover Journal] Taylor writes Holy Ground. [Taylor to Daily Motion (video interview)]: "The song ‘Holy Ground’ was a, a song that I wrote about the feeling I got after years had gone by and I finally appreciated a past relationship for what it was, rather than being bitter about what it didn’t end up being. And I was sitting there thinking about it after I’d just seen him and I just, I was just like, “You know what, that was good.” It was, it was good, having that in my life, and I wrote the song and I immediately heard Jeff Bhasker’s production. I hadn’t ever worked with Jeff, but he has done some amazing work. I, I love what he’s done on Fun’s record, and I love his diversity. He’s just so talented, and so I called him and I said “I wrote this song. I really want you to work on it with me.” And I played it for him and he was like, “Let’s go! This is great!” And, and he did such an amazing job on it.”

[@raulreyes3063]

February 2012: While Taylor is in LA promoting the Lorax, she and Pat Mohanan from the band Train team up to write Babe. This is speculation, but it’s mostly based on Train’s timeline for their album California 37 [Pat Monahan interview] “When [Pat] told Taylor that he wanted to collaborate with her on a song for Train’s next album, she asked him to write a song with her for her album, Red. "It’s a song called 'Babe,’” continues Pat. “So it’s her song; I was just lucky enough to be a part of it with her, and I’m gonna ask the same of her in the future. She’s very talented, she’s a no-nonsense young kid. I’m not going through different relationships and breakups and all the stuff that young people do, so her perspective is very fresh,” he says. “And I think that that’s what I admire the most [about her].” March 2, 2012: [From a Lover Journal] Taylor writes Nothin’ New and The Lucky One, both in Australia. They have similar themes and were allegedly inspired by Joni Mitchell and Kim Wilde. The ‘Lucky One’ is a song I wrote while I was in Australia. It kind of talks about some of my fears through telling the story of other people that I was inspired by. More than their stories being told, I’m pretty much singing about what I’m scared of in that song, ending up kind of caught up in this whole thing and lonely and feeling misunderstood and feeling like when people think you’re lucky that you’re really not. It kind of expresses my greatest fear of having this not end up being fun anymore, having it end up being a scary place. Some people get there, some people end up there. It’s a story song and it’s something I’m really proud of because it kind of goes to a place that I’m terrified of. […] There’s the microscope that’s always on you. The camera flashes, the fear that something you say will be taken the wrong way and you’ll let your fans down. You’re scared of a lot of things for a lot of the time, but the trade-off of being able to get on a big stage and sing your songs - it’s worth it.“ April 11, 2012: Taylor has a writing session in LA with Dan Wilson. The first song they write is Treacherous. and Come Back… Be Here in two days. [From Taste Of Country] “I wrote ‘Treacherous’ with Dan Wilson, and we came up with a way to say, you know, ‘This is dangerous and I realize that I might get hurt if I go through with this, if I move forward with you. But… but I want to.’ You know? It’s like that kind of conflicted feeling of it being a risk every time you fall in love - especially with certain types of people. [Laughs] That was a song that I’m really proud of, because it’s got this bridge that sounds like a second chorus. It’s got all these big vocals, and it’s kind of the intensity of that moment when you’re deciding to let yourself fall in love with someone.” [From a Dan Wilson Interview] “With Taylor, we had been kind of circling around, very much aware of each other’s work for a while. We figured out these two days to work together and she came to my studio super excited and said, “I had an idea in the car.” And she sang me the first three or four lines of it and said, “I want to call it ‘Treacherous’ and maybe the chorus can go like this.” And we were writing the song in 10 minutes and she was just so full of excitement.” The drums are credited to Wilson in the Treacherous Demo, not to Aaron Sterling like in the final version. April 12, 2012: Taylor and Dan Wilson write Come Back… Be Here. Taylor posts a picture on Instagram with the caption ”Recording for the next album. So happy.“ They are recording the demos for Treacherous and Come Back… Be Here. [Red Release Party] "It’s a song I wrote about this guy that I met. You know, you meet someone and then they just kinda happen to go away and it’s, like, long distance all of a sudden. And you’re, like, ‘b-b-but, but, come back, be here!’ So it’s a song that I wrote about having distance separate you, which is something I face constantly.” A description of Come Back… Be Here Studio Demo (not in circulation): “3:55 minutes long. A gorgeous bare-bones studio demo with drums, acoustic guitar, and Taylor’s rough vocals with a few pretty harmonies added.” I bet this demo was recorded with the Treacherous one, just Taylor and Dan

[@midnightsbabe]

Love this