Taylor Swift – Our Song
If this inclusion turns you away from this site for good, then you’re so beyond the point of what we’re doing here. This song is one of a very small handful that very adequately define 2 things at the same time: the American South & my generation. The reigning duchess of pop began with a bang & when everything else from this century fades away, I’m convinced her biggest breakout hit will remain on top. The storytelling of course is key. The chorus is one to repeat walking through cornfields & cow pies, silo stills & pig sties; it’s the epitome of the spec enlarged, of the human condition simplified the way it should be. Play closest attention to the articulation of the third chorus; put on headphones; plug in your speakers. This is not art for art’s sake, it’s hardly art at all. And this makes it one of the most important tunes we have to live by.
You just have a crush on Taylor Swift.