50 days of taylor swift

50 Days of Taylor Swift, Day 7: “I love John Mayer.”

The blog (this blog, the one you’re reading) that brought you 100 Days of Julianne Hough and 50 Days of Addison Rae now brings you 50 Days of Taylor Swift. 1, 2, 3… Let’s go, bitch! Photo by Dwight McCann

During a TIME Magazine interview when asked who she would like to do a duet with, Taylor Swift responded with Taylor Hanson from the band Hanson.

Then someone from behind the camera chimes in that she usually answers that question with John Mayer.

“I love John Mayer, but I say that in other interviews,” Taylor said. “I say that in like every interview, so I figured I would switch it up.”

50 Days of Taylor Swift, Day 6: The Sexism in You Belong With Me

“You Belong With Me” is one of my favorite Taylor Swift songs, but the inspiration behind the song is absolutely bananas. And sexist.

“… one of my friends and I walked by and he was talking on the phone with his girlfriend and she was screaming at him, just yelling at him,” Taylor said during a 2009 interview. “So loud that I could hear her voice coming through the phone, which is never good. … I felt so bad for him because it turned out that she was yelling at him because he said that he would call her back in 10 minutes and instead he called her back in 15.” Taylor then gasped sarcastically.

In 2013, Taylor said in an interview that she’s never yelled at an ex-boyfriend because she doesn’t throw fits.

50 Days of Taylor Swift, Day 5: All The Evidence She Is Married

A follower on Instagram asked me to write out all the evidence that Taylor Swift is married to Joe Alwyn. I would be happy to.

There are plenty of pieces of evidence but these three should convince you.

The Lover album. It’s quite literally an album about getting married. First you have the song “Lover,” where she sings a bridge about getting married. And then you have “It’s Nice To Have A Friend,” where she sings about rice on the ground, he carries me home, and church bells play in the background. Swifties love Easter eggs and this is the most blatant one.
Her album covers. Since the Lover album, Taylor Swift’s name has not appeared on any of the album covers. Could this be because she owns them all? Or could it be because her name isn’t Taylor Swift? It’s Taylor Alwyn.
The wedding cake in “I Bet You Think About Me.” In the music video for “I Bet You Think About Me,” Taylor is standing next to a giant wedding cake and the design in the cake includes an upside down V. At one point, she takes her finger and picks up icing and licks it. When she scraps the icing from the cake, the upside down V makes an A, symbolizing Alwyn.

What more do you need? The bitch is married.

50 Days of Taylor Swift, Day 4: Playing A Guitar At A Party

In 2014, Taylor Swift was on Late Night With Seth Meyers, where she and Seth reminisced on her hosting SNL in 2009.

For her monologue, Taylor wrote her own, which was a musical number called “Monologue Song.” Seth, who was SNL’s head writer at the time, explained that when Taylor approached him with the song, she pulled out her guitar and played it to him.

“Can I sit in a really close space with you and play a song,” Seth said, playing out the situation, telling Taylor it had potential to be his worst nightmare. Taylor replied, “Dude, oh, I know, I understand.” The two laughed.

But during a special on GAC Shortcuts, a 16-year-old Taylor does just that.

The scene is obviously set up, especially with the perfectly placed ad for Oscar Mayer in the corner, but at a high school campfire, Taylor played guitar and sang “I’d Lie” to a handful of people. Was Taylor lying on Seth Meyer’s show and this is actually something she enjoys?

Yes.

In 2020 while on Jimmy Kimmel’s show, Taylor admitted she likes when she’s asked to play music at parties.

“It’s weird,” she said. “It’s almost like we like music.”

In 2018, Dave Grohl told a story on James Corden’s show about being at a Paul McCartney party. After Paul played a few songs, everyone looked to Dave to play music next. When Dave realized there was only a piano and left-handed guitars at the party, instruments he can’t play, Taylor volunteered and started playing a Foo Fighters song.

“She saved my ass,” Dave said.

Fun!

50 Days of Taylor Swift, Day 3: Delicate Music Video Drama

After Taylor Swift released the music video for “Delicate,” she was accused of ripping off a commercial with the same plot.

The “Delicate” music video essentially follows Taylor at a fancy event, first feeling down and then realizing she is invisible to everyone around her. Once she figures this out, she dances throughout the event until she makes her way to a dive bar, ending the music video with Taylor presumably smiling at someone. Joseph Kahn directed the music video, a director Taylor had worked with a few times before.

The commercial she is accused of copying is a perfume ad starring Margaret Qualley and directed by Spike Jonez. The plot and concept is basically the exact same thing.

Taylor never directly acknowledged the plagiarism accusation, but since then, she has directed or conceptualized every single one of her music videos. If you can’t trust others, you just gotta do it yourself.

50 Days of Taylor Swift, Day 2: VMAs Response

Roughly 13 years ago, the Earth shifted on its axis when Kanye West stormed the stage at the VMAs while Taylor Swift was accepting the VMA for Best Female Video.

You know what happens next, pls don’t make me write it out, it’s Day 2 and I’m already tired.

The backlash was swift (HAHA!). Dozens of fellow musicians and celebrities quickly came to Taylor’s defense. Let’s take a look at some of the responses:

Tim McGraw said Kanye needed an “ass whoopin’.”

Pink tweeted: “Kanye west is the biggest piece of shit on earth. Quote me” and allegedly “got in his face” during a commercial break after it happened.

John Rich of Big and Rich said, “The night I saw Kanye pull the mic out of her hand, I felt like somebody had just disrespected my little sister. I went it, You know what, if I had been in that room, I would have whooped his ass. I would have tried.“

President Barack Obama called Kanye a “jackass.”

Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood poked fun at it while hosting the CMAs, singing, “Mamas don’t let your babies grow up to Kanye,” they sang. “Let them pick guitars and drive them old trucks, ’cause cowboys have manners, they don’t interrupt.”Mamas don’t let your babies grow up to Kanye. Let them pick guitars and drive them old trucks, ’cause cowboys have manners, they don’t interrupt.”

Taylor Lautner karate-kicked a mannequin of Kanye.

Donald Trump said to boycott Kanye.

Kelly Clarkson dedicated a blog post to Kanye, asking if he was hugged as a child.

Katy Perry tweeted, “FUCK U KANYE. IT’S LIKE U STEPPED 0N A KITTEN.”

And that’s just some of them! Wow! 2009 was crazy.

50 Days of Taylor Swift, Day 1: Guess How Old She Is!

In 2006, I came home from being out with friends (I was very popular) and my dad immediately told me to sit down and watch a music video. He then played “Tim McGraw” by Taylor Swift and made me guess how old she was.

“I don’t know… 25,” I said.

“Wrong! She’s 16,” my dad said back to me (I was also 16).

My dad was amazed that she was so young and so talented. I don’t think my life has been the same since (ha-ha, dramatic, but kind of true!). My dad and I immediately became Swifties and a few months later, we saw her play in Dallas when she was on tour with Brad Paisley.

So if my math is correct, I’ve been a Swiftie now for 16 years (HALF MY LIFE???) and I’ve consumed every piece of Taylor Swift content known to man (minus her movies because not even Taylor Swift can make me go see bad movies). I’m constantly having intrusive thoughts of random things she’s said and done over the years. Remember when she said she’s never seen The Price is Right??? That’s mainly what 50 Days of Taylor Swift is going to be. Deep nuggets of information I spend a lot of time thinking about.

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