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#im rediscovering some very nostalgic music
foulserpent · 2 years
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my favorite part of a road trip is when i mass download new music in preparation for the drive. idk its so fun
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carpisuns · 2 years
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rambling about taylor swift 🤪lol
i know people would probably call me fake or a bandwagoner or whatever lol but i actually think my relationship w taylor's music over the years is cool and it makes me a little emo to think about tbh haha. i was a big fan during the fearless/speak now era when i was in my early/mid teens. then my music taste kind of developed in a bit of a different direction and by the time red dropped (when i was a senior in hs i think) i wasn't as interested and actually never got into that album and wasn't even familiar with the songs other than the most famous ones.
1989 dropped when i was in my sophomore year of college and i had a brief resurgence of interest because it was a great album but i was really just listening like casually and didn't get to know it that well other than the most popular songs. reputation came out after i graduated and i wasn't a fan of the vibes at all so i was like :/ guess i'm officially done with ts? her music and image seemed to be going in a very different direction than i was. as is true for most people haha my music taste had changed a lot between my early teen years and my 20s and altho i enjoy various things, my main vibe is like folk pop/acoustic indie i guess? so when lover dropped i listened to the entire album that night and enjoyed it, but i wasn't super attached.
fast forward a bit. im listening to some acoustic vibes playlist on spotify and there's this song i really like. i look at it and do a double-take bc it's taylor swift?? i had been like vaguely aware that she'd dropped an album during the pandemic (maybe 2? this may even have been after evermore idr haha) but i hadn't listened to it. so i checked it out and i was like. holy cow. this is my EXACT vibe. i love every song. this aligns with my music taste perfectly. same with evermore. i got excited because i did not expect to be a taylor swift fan in 2021. her earlier stuff would always be nostalgic to me, her middle stuff would be decent (of what i'd heard of it at that point), but now i was excited about her music again. because somehow, after all this time, our tastes had aligned again.
i listened to folkmore and evermore on repeat. all day at work. in the shower. while i did the dishes. while i drew. when fearless (taylor's version) dropped, i was kind of iffy because i didn't really see the point of it or understand the hype since we had the originals already and it seemed kind of money-grabby to me. but i had some close friends (anna and abby!) who were very enthusiastic about it and they explained the purpose of her taking ownership of her earlier music. so i listened to the album—and i was surprised by how emotional i got!!!! because these were all the songs i had loved so much when i was younger, but now they were a little more mature sounding, and i felt like i was revisiting and honoring my past the same way taylor was. i fell in love with it all over again and that made me want to familiarize myself with the albums i'd kind of missed. and i fell in love with those too. reputation still isn't my vibe as much as the others but it has some gems i really like. and now i adore lover and red and listen to them all. i was thinking about it recently and decided that after folklore and evermore, red is my favorite album. so im so happy that we have taylor's version of it now!! all these beautiful songs remade!! 10 MINUTE ALL TOO WELL ARE YOU KIDDING!! and all these other new songs aaaaaaa im in love i love this album. and all of her albums. after a whole decade, taylor swift is again one of my favorite and most listened to artists.
idk when i think about the whole thing it makes me a little emotional because i was like an OG taylor fan but then my music taste changed and so did hers, in a different direction from mine, but eventually they converged again, just in time for me to return to my Roots with fearless and then rediscover what i'd missed and fall in love with all of it both for the first and second time simultaneously. idk, im turning 27 soon and it just makes me think about growing up and getting older and at the same time remembering the good things about your younger years and recapturing the nostalgia while still looking forward. it makes me feel hopeful. like there are good things behind me mixed in with the not-so-good things, and the same is true of what's to come. maybe im just someone who's always late to the party lol but it's been special for me find all of these things that spark joy for me this year. and since im ML trash lol all of this intricately tied to that. i got into ML right after lover dropped, and when i got into taylor again i of course applied the love square to every song lol and now i've been hugely inspired creatively by taylor's music in my fanwork as well as just in general. idk it's just special to me to enjoy things and feel things and feel connected to other people through them! i am grateful for taylor and ml and annascribbles and abby (sha-nwa) for getting me back into taylor and also just being wonderful people! heart is v full tonight and im literally just rambling about personal stuff that no one will read but idc bc what else is a blog for!!! lol
anyway stream red (taylor's version)....it's delicious and im emo
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udurghsigil · 3 years
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tyoma’s “im suddenly awake and want 2 talk abt stp” corner core is a fun album because i don’t remember if i ever actually listened to it as a kid but i do definitely remember some songs off of there having a nostalgic impact on me. dead and bloated is very familiar with the “i aaaam smellin like a rose” thing. it’s really cool! it makes me feel warm and happy despite the general dark vibe purple has impeccably good vibes like. if you end the album with a song called “my second album” which has the line “this album cover looks similar like johnny mathis. for mathis lovers, this album has his style” youre immediately on them 500% good vibes. you would not believe how much i treasure tiny music. every track on there makes me feel so at peace and i remember listening to it all the time in the car rides to school back when i was barely a person hehe. me and my grandpa sing lady picture show together when i play it. and ride the cliche forever brings me unspeakable amounts of joy, i should relearn it on my guitar... i think i listened to no. 5 when i got older and rediscovered stp in middle school. it has some emotional resonance for me in that sense but otherwise i don’t have much feelings on it. alot of the songs go hard and just generally fuck buuuut thats about it. although atlanta really makes me wanna cry. i associate alot of songs off of shangri-la dee da with my exes and the bad feelings i felt around them but it really holds a soft spot in my heart for keeping me company and helping me feel safe back then. i can listen to it and not feel triggered or anything but i do end up crying a bit every time a song comes on from there. unless its like. the song hollywood bitch which i have no strong feelings for skadjfnlsadf aaannnd finally thank you. the compilation album. that was the album mom always played alongside tiny music and it has alot of strong emotional resonance for me. the cover art played alot into my love for sunflowers and i based alot of my art in my teenage years on it. lots of ocs too were directly influenced by it! what’s crazy is that i don’t remember days of the week at all even tho its on the album. i also don’t remember all in the suit that you wear. guess i was too busy asking mom 2 replay vasoline over and over again nsakdjfldsaf
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