AYE…BUT IT’S THE PRETTY ONES WHO ARE MOST LIKELY TO BE IGNORED OR BE USED AS OBJECTS OF DESIRE…NOT NECESSARILY LOVED FOR THEIR INNER SELVES!
We had too much of Taylor Swift’s broken heart in English class just to fully embrace the elements that make a piece of writing a ballad. What is interesting to note is that ballads that are as old as time, tracing back to the Middle Ages, tell of the same heartaches commonly caused by unrequited love. Which I can’t help but wonder: How can somebody as pretty as Tay feel so unloved?
But that is not really the point here. The point is, the ballads in Taylor Swift’s songs are the same stories of tragedy out of love that is never meant to be, lines in question and answer format just to get a heartbreak across, loads of repetitions to stress pain, and a depth of emotions from conventional phrases-elements that make poems ballads.
Dissecting the traces of heartbreak began with a sing-along to the music of The Script…
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