Taylor Swift's Illicit Affairs - My Personal Touch Point
Sometimes I struggle to see myself in Taylor Swift’s lyrics, something that I need to connect and love a song or artist and it's because my experience in the world has been so very different for a lot of reasons. Though ‘Reputation’ was my first “I really love this” album, Swift's ‘Folklore’ has become one of my favorite albums because so much of it is about life and shared experiences and feelings. I didn’t have to live Taylor’s life during lockdown to feel the emotions from a lot of our shared worldwide circumstances as well as her desire to tell stories that weren’t 100% autobiographical anymore. I can see how that approach has made her such a strong artistic talent. I hope to see more of her Folklore Era in new music because she really did something there that was beautifully unique within her legacy of music. ‘Illicit Affairs’, which I first heard in its entirety on the Eras Tour movie, touched me in a way that I wasn’t prepared to deal with, not because I was ever inv