Tell me why by taylor swift2/10/2024 It's familiar ground for Swift, whose discography has always felt like it was written by and for people who grew up on demented Disney-fied fairy tales, movies and other entertainment about rescuing and being saved by the hero/ines of our affection. Most of these 18 songs are pleasant, warm reflections on different kinds of love, soundtracks to which the listener might dance or cuddle. So I am excited by the show rather than tell songwriter Taylor Swift is becoming on her new album, Lover, turning phrases that obscure as much as they reveal. Whatever form it takes, the art, for me, comes from the friction between these opposing poles of desire: The songwriter always wants to show while the performer always wants to tell. ![]() Make art, don't read the news to everyone. ![]() As a songwriter, I am an introverted interior designer trying to install a curtain (a nice looking curtain, a compelling curtain) around the extroverted performer as she carries on (and on, and on, it sometimes feels like), telling everyone everything. I love to entertain the audience, who I want to make happy, angry, sad, excited, etc. ![]() But I know about being a performer who is also a songwriter, and how the desires of the performer-self can directly contradict those of the songwriter-self. So the expectations, the audience size and paychecks for Swift and me are all quite different.
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