Taylor Swift – “Our Song”

I was really pleased when I heard this was her new single–I just think this is an excellent example in songwriting. And that’s where her strength is, not in her singing.

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i love it,i think this is her best yet!

I love this song it is enspering and i think you are the best singer I wish I could see you in concert or in person I know that I can’tThere are imporant to be inspired by you,you do that to me . I love all of your songs. There are more reason tha I think you are a great person there are many people that i know that love your music . you are the best singer that I know do you have any singer that are your friends? you need to know that on 4/1/08 i am having a brithday party at my grandpa’s house my party theme is you .I know that you are very busy but i hope you will return in person on line and keep in chate. i wish you could come to my party i know that you are to buzzy to come. there are y reason that you are my favorite singer. there are times when i feel down so i turn on my cd player and listen your cd our song on it. there are more than gest that song you know that thow. my uncle that is a dg type thing is going to be there and play your songs and we are going to sing to them. i know just about all of your songs .

i love every single song, especially our song! it rocks! i have officially made it me and my boy friends song! thanks so much!

o.m.g taylor i love u are the best singer i have ever heard.the # 3 son’s i love the most is our song,and teardrops on my gutar & tim- magraw.u are starting to get better then carrie underwood but u both are 2 hell a good singer’s na du both are so beatiful young woman keep up the good work.gator-DONE coo,coo,coo yeeeeeeeeeeee haaaaaa cowgirl.can u requrest me as a frind on myspace cuz i can’t my thing is dum this is my eamil.lilkk_hoemonkey561@yahoo.com thank u and keep doing what u are doing it is going to get u in a good spot in your life***********

i love u taylor********************************

One of the lyrics puzzles me – “talk real slow, cause it’s late and you don’t want your momma to know”.

SLOW? She should have said low. I talk LOW when I don’t want anyone to hear me.

Peter said: “I thought the same thing Skip – THANK YOU for proving I’m not crazy (or that we’re both the same kind of crazy).”

We’re not crazy, it’s the world! My 20 year old neice loves the song, and can’t understand the difference between low and slow. I’ve threatened to yell real slow, to see if the light comes on in her head…

the best song in the world hahahaha lol i am in love with nick

Taylor Swift song is amazing second best song of this year. Best teardrops on my guitar. The comment about talk real slow, cause it’s late and you don’t want your momma to know. When people talk slower their voice tend to be lower unless they are repeating what they just said

I luv the songs you sing espeacially our song

Skip and Peter,

I’ve had the same problem with that lyric as well! I’ve made the argument, but nobody seemed to share my confusion. So, I’m excited to read that you guys agree with me…or that I agree with you.

By the way, I liked this song, it’s just that the line really gets on my nerves when I hear it.

which line has the earspliting vocal at the end? i’ve been trying to figure it out but i can’t and it’s been bothering me

Heh, Jeremy, it’s not a front for her fan club, but you would be surprised by everyone that does read The 9513.

i love all of your songs especally take Marys song

you wanted her to win because she looked like taylor? ummm…stupid much?

I have one thing to say about this: awful. Let me point out a few things:

“…one-hand feel on the steering wheel/The other on my… (pause. Yes, this pause is important, because it implies that she is going to be saying something else, something perhaps not as child/family friendly as the actual lyrics imply, which I find rather interesting, as I shall point out later.)… heart.”

“When we’re on the phone and you talk real slow/ ‘Cause it’s late and your mama don’t know”

First, the infamous pause… Why?
“Because it fits so perfectly with the rhythm, duh!”
Oh, forgive me, I was under the impression that she was going to say something else, like maybe he was fondling her. I’m so glad she changed my impression at the last minute.
“She would never say something like that!”
You’re right! Because she talks to God every night, how silly of me. But wait… do Christians sneak out at night to visit their boyfriend or girlfriend, knowingly disobeying their mother and father?
“Uhmm… I guess.”
So, that means she’s a hypocrite? And all the little kiddies that love to listen to her are equally as ignorant.
“Well, that’s…”
And what about that line where they talk real slow?
“Because it’s late and they don’t want to get caught!”
Oh! So they’re, once more, blatantly disobeying their parents. And what’s worse, the songwriter can’t even use her knowledge of the English language to write a line that properly makes any sense at all! What does talking slowly have to do with avoiding being caught by your mother? Nothing. You can talk slow, and still talk loud, but you can also talk really fast whilst maintaining a minimal vocal volume. So, enlighten me, if you will, as to what the hell this line is supposed to mean? If she were any where near a level of decent intelligence, she would have known that she could have used the word “low” and still maintained her rhyming scheme. Thus, (that’s right, Meg, I just used the word “thus.” I guess I’m a wanna-be. Though, I find the insults of one who can’t even spell the word “is” properly to be rather poor in nature.) her lyrics would actually make sense, and I would probably not even be writing this little rant. Get over her. She’s just another rise to the top idol, just the same as you see every year on American Idol, who fade into obscurity two years later. And I’m sure the fact that almost everyone finds her sooo attractive has nothing to do with her popularity at all. I’m sure it’s all because of her songwriting abilities. That’s got to be it!

For those of you who had to actually look up half my words in a dictionary, then I suppose that Taylor Swift is right up your ally. The fact that she appeals to a young group of punk, know-it-all kids is more reason for me to believe that everything I’ve said here was all for naught.

Someone here has an inflated opinion of his own vocabulary.

my big bro is in love wit u

How dare you put teenage “love” in quotation marks. Not like that REAL love grown-ups have, right? The kind where 50% of them divorce? The kind where it all kinda starts revolving around kids and work? The kind where they get all jaded and been-there-done-that and don’t even remember why they fell in love in the first place?

You can’t say all grown-up “love” is like that, because it’s not, just like you can’t say all teenage “love” is the crush-of-the-week.

Also, you say the song’s theme is more “universal” than most of hers, with the implicit idea that anything teen-specific is therefore somehow less relatable to the “general population” (and yes, I put that in quotes, as it’s a concept I’m highly skeptical of) and therefore unlikeable by those people.

What about songs about divorce? Lots of people have never got divorced, guess those are niche songs. And songs about kids? Lots of people don’t have kids either. Or even like kids. Niche songs again. Farmer songs? I know it’s country music, but how many of us ACTUALLY live on a farm? So clearly those can’t appeal outside their target demographic of farm people. War and soldier songs? Well, obviously only soldiers/veterans and their families can possibly relate to those.

I think it’s safe to say that most of the above isn’t true. So why do people write off Taylor so quickly? The fact is, anyone over the age of 13 is or was a teenager, so you’d think it would appeal to much MORE of the population than those farm songs. Grown-up snobbery, that’s what it is.

i think taylor swift is better than miley cyrus…

…jessica simpson…?