![]() ![]() Appropriately, she donned the cowboy boots to match. Her self-titled debut album, featuring soon-to-be hits including the wistful “Teardrops On My Guitar” and “Tim McGraw,” was buoyed by the Nashville twang she worshipped growing up-and adopted to fit in. In the beginning, the teenage Pennsylvania native known as Taylor Swift was a country darling through and through. Getty Images/Leah Romero Taylor Swift (2006) Below, we’ll examine each of the artist’s so-called “eras,” keeping in mind the only obvious truth: Swift is just happy we’re paying attention. None or all of these theories could be true. So when did Swift the human become Swift the icon? Or, perhaps, when did Swift realize she could be both? Different critics and fans will tell you different stories: that she found herself during the launch of her first solo tour that she peaked years ago that she’s at her most artful today that she didn’t have true control until she started reclaiming her old songs. (They refer to the periods surrounding her albums as their own “eras.”) With each release, Swift morphed and evolved, retooling herself while wrestling to reveal more truth. ![]() ![]() Each of the singer’s 10 main studio albums have arrived packaged with their own “aesthetic,” as many of her fans are eager to dissect. It’s worth exploring, then, how the course Swift has charted both shaped and stifled this love. As she sings in a track off her newest album, Midnights, “No one wanted to play with me as a little kid / So I’ve been scheming like a criminal ever since / To make them love me and make it seem effortless / This is the first time I’ve felt the need to confess.” The trick is she wants us to feel in on the not-so-secret secret. Even her frequent use of “ Easter eggs” in lyrics, music videos, album artwork and her own wardrobe invite fans to pay witness not just to her genius, but to the lengths she’s gone to prove it. Swift is not inauthentic, but neither is it difficult to notice her maneuvers behind the scenes. These traits make her a fascinating, complex celebrity, but an undoubtedly masterful storyteller. As much brand as flesh and blood, as much an inventor as historian (and, lately, re-inventor), Swift typically understands how she’ll be perceived better than those tasked with perception. The difference is Swift, unlike so many her age, seems to thrive on this cycle. In this sense, she’s also the consummate millennial: taught from youth to craft a persona, only for human emotion to blow it up. Swift is the consummate skin-shedder, forever toeing the line between self-expression and self-creation. Abigail proposes to leave and Taylor says: "You know what? I'm over it." They drive away and thow a burning picture of Taylor and her ex out of the car window.When did Taylor Swift become Taylor Swift? It’s not an easy question to answer. They're still in the car next to the ex's house Taylor just imagined everything. ![]() The ex repeatedly says Taylor's name and it transitions in Abigail saying Taylor's name. They enter the house and find the house all messed up. The ex-boyfriend and his girlfriend come home Abigail notices and tries to warn Taylor. In between, there's a scene of Taylor dancing in front of a shower of sparks. The band starts throwing darts at a picture of the ex-boyfriend, spray painting 'loser' on a mirror, throwing around toilet paper, licking the cutlery, using his mouth wash and spitting it back. In the house, Taylor is sitting on a couch. Next, her band is seen entering a house with flashlights. In between this scene, Taylor and Abigail are seen watching the ex and his girlfriend from their car. As the ex-boyfriend and the girl kiss, the video transitions to Taylor playing electric guitar and singing with her band behind her. Offended, Taylor states: "He lets her drive the truck? He never let me drive the truck!", to which Abigail says that it's messed up. Taylor tells Abigail: "Would you look at how happy we were back then? I can't believe he turned out to be such a jerk." Abigail then sees the ex-boyfriend arrive in his truck with a girl and reveals that the girl is driving his truck. The video starts with Taylor and her friend Abigail looking at a picture of her and her ex-boyfriend. Taylor's ex-boyfriend is played by football player Justin Sandy. The music video was released on March 14, 2008. It's about Taylor's high school boyfriend Jordan Alford, who dated and later married one of Taylor's former friends after their breakup. ![]()
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