How Taylor Swift defined my college years

As Taylor Swift's album Red (Taylor's version) I was released in November 2021 and was a first semester at the University of Miami. I can vividly remember to take part in a “release party” (who was only eight girls from my dormitory from one of our rooms). As a casual Swift fan in front of the college, I didn't know at the time, but in every phase of my college experience I would find comfort through Taylor's songs and create so many amazing memories with their music -and it all started that night.

That night I heard the song “Nothing New” (with Phoebe Bridgers) about the bitter sweet feeling of aging for the first time, and there was a poetry that was immediately liable to many fans. I remember that I was in conflict at the time because when I was admitted, I had the feeling that I found everything out, but six months later I was completely lost and feared that I made the wrong decision. I couldn't shake the pit in my stomach that I was 1,500 miles away from home and all alone at 18. I had to commit myself with such blind self -confidence that it would be an amazing experience from the racket, and I was frustrated how much I had to struggle with the transition.

Now, when I was 22. And Graduate College, I will not be sure where I will go next, I refer to this poetry from the other side of the spectrum knew that I was still unsure at the beginning, that everything worked out and the college full of heights and deep, great people and self-discovery was-and I was able to say the 18-year-old that I should slow it down and to systems.

In the spring of my first year, things turned around a corner. I joined a sisterhood, met a number of new girls and friends with some of them who also comfort music in Taylor's music and found the consolation. I always thought that Taylor Swift's critics, who complain that their music focuses on men and exen, simply does not listen very carefully because she always wrote about friendships, personal fights and inner thoughts. midnight Is an album of introspective songs from her entire career, which fell in 2022. In my apartment in the second year it was constantly to be done in which I shared with one of these sisterhood friends that I connected to Taylor for the first time – one of my best friends today; The album became the soundtrack of our friendship this year.

During the entire college I found a lot back through Taylor's old albums because she really has a corresponding song for basically every emotion or situation. When I one summer folklore Album, finding the indie folk instrumental and fictional love triangle a suitable representation of what I went through. When my second year continued and he and I had another war to admit our feelings, I often sang to Taylor's fearful songs from her teenagers, such as “The Story of Us” and “Forever and Always”. When we finally spotted it and officially go out the following summer, I played “Our Song” from her debut album, and now when it comes to Shuffle, it takes me back at that moment.

When the Eras tour (a huge, high, 21 -month tour, the music from all different albums and “Eras” by Taylor, was announced in the autumn of my second year, I knew that I had to be there. I not only had to go back to the Eras tour in my home state, New Jersey and in Florida, both unforgettable experiences that I cannot expect To shake future children. Taylor's Miami show in the last stage of the tour was a suitable final for this chapter of my life in the fall of my last year (in addition to friends, some of which I took due to a common love for their music.

Overall, my college experience Taylor has released two new albums, three Taylor's version Albums, music videos, a short film and a tour film – quite a few content that can pack up in four years. But when I think back to the college, I will not remember exactly which albums came out, as or how many bonus tracks were. Instead, I remember how her music framed such a moving, exciting time of growth in my life and how it was the backdrop for so many important relationships that I plan to stay forever.

On the abyss of 22 and the college, I won't be sure what will come next to me. Maybe the song was able to know nothing – but something I am sure that Taylor, wherever I go, will come with me.