Eeekkkk!!!!! I’m not sure what I’d do if you actually read this, and if you do, thank you, because I’m about to ramble on for I don’t even know how long. Taylor, you are my inspiration, and you never fail to impress and amaze me. I love the new album, but what has really spoken to me recently has been your poems that you’ve put out. I used to write a lot of poetry, because middle school was never particularly easy for me, because like O’Malley from Grey’s Anatomy(one of my FAV shows, along with once upon a time, ncis, doctor who, friends, I’m just a Netflix nerd) once said, “School sucks for anyone who’s the least bit different; but then there’s college, and then out in the real world, you’ll find where you belong.” This has held very true for me, through middle school and high school, I had only a few close friends, everyone else either walked away or found other things. Books were my main escape, I know music was your escape, but for me, books were. Books allowed me to escape to another world and worry about someone else’s problems, and go on adventures and travel the world and live out the best fantasies where I could be a princess in a far off kingdom, or my favorite, wandering a castle as belle in one of many retellings of beauty and the beast. (I’m sort of slightly, kind of a lot into beauty and the beast, and the fact that beauty is found within) Life has never really come easy for me, my dad died when I was 8 and not too long afterwards my mom made some poor life choices, and well, that’s not really something I like to talk about anymore. When I was in high school, I had my first romance, and my first heartbreak. All because I wouldn’t give up my beliefs for him, and turns out I am much better off without him. What really got me through that breakup was the entirety of your fearless album, and dancing in my room alone to your songs, and sometimes laying on my bed with a tissue box thinking that nothing was ever going to be right again. And then I went to college and fell for a few people who didn’t feel the same way, and your music through the years continued to get me through that, and most sad moments where I felt lost and alone. And then I fell in love. And for the first time in my life, something went right and someone wanted me, not for who they wanted me to be, not for who they thought I could be, but ME. And I’m hopelessly in love with him, I hope if you haven’t found it yet that you find it soon, because it’s a WONDERFUL feeling.
When I saw the poems that you’ve released, I was excited, because it was extra stuff outside of the album, but what floored me was reading them. Never has a poem spoken to me than your poetry. PLEASE keep releasing it, actually, you should publish a book of poetry. I think you are a beautiful word writer, and in your poem “If You’re Anything Like Me”, the first verse speaks to me because I’m such a people pleaser, and I really like making other people happy but don’t really think about making myself happy most of the time. And recently I’ve been afraid that the person I was in college was a much better person than who I am now, someone who is filled with anxiety and suffers from migraines. Your music helps me not feel like that, it’s the best kind of music to dance alone in your room to, or to sing along to when you’re alone in the car, not caring if the person next to you at the set of lights cares or not.
I really hope that someday I get to meet you, I’ve been to see you in concert every time you’ve come to Gillette, and I think my favorite time I went to see you was when it rained nonstop for about half the concert; I was so nervous that the concert was going to be cancelled, but you continued to sing through the rain, and that made it incredibly magical! I haven’t written you anything before because I never knew how to phrase exactly what I wanted to say, but I finally decided to put it down into words and hope for the best! Love you taylor!!!