Taylor Swift: Music Analysis

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Taylor Swift: Three Strike Your Out? Taylor Swift became a breakout artist at the age of 16. Four years later she has 3 successful albums, her most recent breaking a record for the number of albums sold in the first week of release. Swift’s hit “Tim McGraw” broke her into the industry from her first album Taylor Swift in 2006. Her time in the industry Taylor has made her way through relationships. She has dated John Mayer, Joe Jonas, Taylor Lautner, Cory Monteith and is now currently dating Jake Gyllenhall (OneIndia Living). Before she was in the industry she probably dated other guys who became the subjects of songs from her first album like, “Picture to Burn.” Her album Speak Now reveals a lot about her past relationships and her life in general, but do some of the songs take it too far? In all of her albums, she has posted secret messages within the lyrics of the cover album booklet, only this time she made it known that there were messages. Taylor Swift’s break up with Joe Jonas could be classified as a bad one. On the Ellen show in 2008, Taylor dishes that Joe Jonas broke up with her in a 27 second phone call and also for Camilla Belle (Celebglitz). Probably not a way you would want to be broken up with. After the break up, her album Fearless was released with a song called ‘Forever and Always.’ The hidden message for this song was, “If you play these games, we are both going to lose.” She told Ryan Seacrest that she did a last-minute recording session of the song she wrote about the breakup, "Forever and Always," in order to get it on the album (MTV News). Adding the interview with the song, you can know that this song was for sure meant as a stab towards Joe Jonas. Joe Jonas didn’t take this song very lightly. Soon after this album was released his band, The Jonas Brothers, released a song called “Much Better.” In the song, there is a line that without a

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