✨ONCE AGAIN LETS READ HER OWN WORDS:
“I know, I know. What about Rep TV? Full transparency: I haven't even re-recorded a quarter of it.
The Reputation album was so specific to that time in my life, and I kept hitting a stopping point when I tried to remake it. All that defiance, that longing to be understood while feeling purposely misunderstood, that desperate hope, that shame-born snarl and mischief.
To be perfectly honest, it’s the one album in those first 6 that I thought couldn't be improved upon by redoing it. Not the music, or photos or videos. So I kept putting it off.” — taylor swift
taylor has reiterated a feeling that we have all felt strongly about in the last few years; reputation, for all that it is and was, cannot be duplicated. because in her own words, reputation was born out of deep sadness, anger and her desperate longing to be understood and seen.
the stare in her most iconic cover, the photoshoots, the videos, the production, the angst, the specific defiance — you had to be there. it cannot possibly be duplicated. its an album and an era that keeps giving, that keeps revealing itself to this day.
for those of us who saw her, who continue to see her, that album will always hold a special place in our hearts because for the first time, she opened up in a way that we’ve never seen — showing quiet glimpses of her true story, amongst all the noise. it really was “a love story amongst chaos.” it was rage and it was poetry. she protected what she loved.
she gave us the reputation prologue— the best prologue she has ever written, which we refer back to like its bible because it is. it’s always a good time to reread the rep prologue because it will always be relevant.
and as much as we wanted her eloquent deep dives, interviews and thoughts about reputation, there will still rightly be no further explanation, there will just be reputation.
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