Comments on: Taylor Swift - “Love Story”

By: T J

T J — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:02 +0000

Awesome is what Love Story has done as far as sales on itunes and the cd Fearless just went multi-platinum!! Over on CMT Love Story has just set the record for the most weeks at the Number One spot!
The fans are speaking and they are speaking loud and clear…Love Story and the cd Fearless are outstanding successes!

By: Stormy

Stormy — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 03:49:47 +0000

Beth: For future reference–Romeo and Juliet were not really in love, they were two kids trying to escape their controlling families. At the time he meets Juliet she is curious about meeting her future husband, Paris and he is despondent over Rosiline. They marry the next day.

Now, the part of Romeo and Juliet you might want to learn before you emmulate them–to escape thier parents and avoid Juliet’s hastened nuptials she borrows a drug to fake her own death. Romeo finds her, thinks she actually died, kills her bethrothed and then himself. Juilet’s drug wears off and upon awakening she stabs herself. Everyone dies. In all of Shakespeare’s tragedies everyone dies. The man racked up higher body counts than Rambo.

Mataraca Berg, upon seeing the play, penned the following:
Matraca Berg/Gary Harrison)

Juliet waits at the border
Of a creek without a corner
Gazes into the dark
Was it the moon or only
Her fear of being lonely
That gave her leave of her heart?
Oh- oh-oh

Oh Romeo (Romeo)
Who would lay down her life? (Romeo)
Swallow the poison, pick up the knife
Maybe I cried (maybe I cried)
Just a teardrop or two (tear or two)
I would not die for you
I would not die for you

Just another romantic depressant
Giving in she becomes obsessive
Maybe this time I’ll learn
Life’s like a box of matches
Sometimes the whole thing catches
And all you can do is watch it burn
Oh-oh-oh

Oh Romeo (Romeo)
Who would lay down her life? (Romeo)
Swallow the poison, beck of the night
Maybe I cried (maybe I cried)
Just a teardrop or two (tear or two)
I would not die for you
I would not die for you

By: Bella

Bella — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 03:35:03 +0000

I LOVE THIS SONG…DON’T MAKE FUN OF IT!
When she puts “Romeo” and “Juliet” and “Scarlet Letter” in her song, it makes it very good and made me look up some stuff..

I LOVE THIS SONG!

By: T J

T J — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 02:55:56 +0000

KID, I agree with you on the fact that this song is light and airy with not a lot of substance to it.
Taylor does hit a demographic with her songs and it is the young teenage girl(and her boyfriend) because the boyfriend must like what his girlfriend is listening to or be on the outs with her somewhat.
I hear tons of complaints about Taylor’s off key singing, weak vocals and anything that pertains to bad singing seems to be attributed to her. All the negative stuff does not seem to diminish her popularity and sales and successes. Rolling Stone’s Jody Rosen just wrote a glowing article about Fearless the cd, this is the cd that Love Story is on. Fearless will go multi-platinum just like Taylor’s debut did. Taylor Swift has an audience and it seems to be growing. Her debut cd has now been selling in the top 5 on country charts for 2 years straight, add to that a Guinness Book of World Records entry and I see her around for a long long time.

By: kid

kid — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 13:41:29 +0000

Yeah, my apologies for the typo there. I’m not saying that Swift would be embarrassed, I’m saying that the song simply doesn’t hold up when placed in context with a song like “Modern Day Romance”. Of course she is thankful for the position in which her fans have put her, she’s been charting with just “Love Story” for the past seven weeks and just sang the National Anthem at the World Series this year (and did an excellent job I might add). That’s not the point. The point is that the song simply doesn’t hold up. She writes down to her fans rather than expecting them to step up to a better work. I agree that she puts real emotion into her music, but to paraphrase what Sam Phillips told Johnny Cash when he first come to the studio, “Go live a little and get back to me.” I liked “Picture to Burn” and “Our Song” wasn’t bad, but “Love Story” just isn’t very good. This of course is ignoring attempt to reference Romeo and Juliet and the Scarlett Letter. Beth’s statement that teenagers don’t care about Romeo and Juliet and that all she knows about it is that they were in love is my point exactly. She’s writing for her audience but at the same time ignoring the works she’s actualy referencing. Her voice, which ordinarily is pretty good, sounds strained and she has to contort it and stretch certain words way to long in order to make them fit.

By: شات

شات — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 00:15:14 +0000

But she is amazing at songwriting and puts that emotion in her singing

By: T J

T J — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 20:17:40 +0000

KID says:
Placing the inaine self indulgent drivel of “Love Story” next to a well written, well sung, musicaly inclined band like the Dirt Band was just embarrassing for the Taylor Swift song.

You don’t know Taylor at all - the last thing Taylor would get is embarrassed. Taylor knows who her fans are and she is VERY thankful for the position they have put her in. Many times she has said “Without you (her fans) she would not be where she is today.”

note: inaine is spelled inane.

By: Beth

Beth — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:14:19 +0000

I’m a teenager, and this is one of my favorite songs. I’ve listened to it over and over again. I don’t care if the song goes with the play of Romeo and Juliet. The majority of Taylor’s fans are teenagers and most teenagers don’t care much about the play Romeo and Juliet. All that I know about that play is that Romeo and Juliet are in love. And that’s what the song is talking about, so why should I care? It’s a great song and lots of people can relate to it. Two of my friends can relate to it very much. And why do so many people think she doesn’t fit into the Country genre??? I think that she does sound country, it’s just modern country. I don’t see love story as being anything but country..

By: Kid

Kid — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:02:16 +0000

This song made me realize why country radio refuses to play classic artists anymore. It came on one night and was immediately followed with Nitty Gritty Dirt Band’s “Modern Day Romance.” Placing the inaine self indulgent drivel of “Love Story” next to a well written, well sung, musicaly inclined band like the Dirt Band was just embarrassing for the Taylor Swift song.

By: Billy

Billy — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 15:09:46 +0000

Anne described it perfectly.