Red Taylor Swift Analysis

Pop stars today get a negative representation in the media because of the appearance that they put on. Most young celebrities turned drug addicts, teen moms or even alcoholics by the time they are 19. However, there is one star who only gets made fun of for her love life, Taylor Swift. She shows no mercy when it comes to her songs. She openly discusses her love life and breakups thorough the lyrics of her songs and has gained millions of fans from it. Taylor’s dramatic lyrics is what makes her who she is.
Love is the focus of most songs in our era. Many artists sing about love because that is what most hormone-full teenagers relate to. Taylor’s song “Red” describes the love she has for a certain boy in a very detailed way.

She begins the song with the line, “Loving him is like driving a new Maserati down a dead end street.” This is used to compare her love to an expensive, deluxe sports car, showing that she once had it all. However, it turns out it was all a waste because it comes to a dead end. As the song goes on Taylor uses colors in her lyrics as a source of imagery. She says, “losing him was blue… missing him was dark grey… but loving him was red.” The color blue portrays the sadness and emptiness that she felt after her break-up with the mystery boyfriend whose name we aren’t told. The color red portrays the intense passion and warmth she felt while they were together. Taylor uses her lyrics to convey her feelings to her enormous audience of love drunk teenage girls. She has a strong and steady past of dating a guy, breaking up, and writing a song about him. To a lot of people this comes off as extremely annoying. Yet, teenage girls are in love with her music, because all of her songs are very relatable to the typical teenage girl life.
Taylor has allowed girls to have an outlet when they are either in their first love or going through their first breakup. Every girl has been sitting in their room listening to Taylor, eating a whole box of pizza, and crying on their best friend’s shoulder at one point in their life. Taylor is so successful because she writes about her real life problems and refrains from only singing about partying like the average pop star. She doesn’t release a single video that doesn’t get millions of views.
Taylor Swift is over course well-known in the media for her theatrical personality when handling her love life and her split-ups. She has without question no humiliation when talking about her former lovers. Her songs are at all times talking about her ex-boyfriend who crushed her heart into pieces or her new boyfriend who she could drop everything and get married to today. She doesn't have a care in the world about what other people think because it is her and who she is. She knows more than anyone that she can be a little over-dramatic at times, but it is just who she is. Besides, the media wasn’t making millions and selling out records by the time were just 18 years old so what does their opinion really matter anyways?
Taylor Swift has always been known through the public’s eye for her love life; not for drugs or partying, she seems to keep away from that type of lifestyle.

However, the media always desires to find something wrong with a person, so the only thing left for Taylor is her relationships. Taylor does not care what the media thinks about her because her songs are for her and her fans. Her message to young girls is that she wants them to know boys are thoughtless, and that they will break your heart. She wants them to know that they may even go crazy after a breakup and that’s okay but it may be too much to go overboard. It's okay for her to do so because you know, she is Taylor Swift and

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If there was ever a better time to come out with her music video, it was the summer of 2014.

As we all have seen Taylor grow up she has gotten more famous, her track record for the amount of boyfriends has been definitely more than one would’ve anticipated. Her list of boyfriends grow because she has not really ever been in a steady relationship for over a year, but it would be hard dating someone way more successful than you… it would just be too much pressure. The media has constantly been picking on Swift for her boy crazy personality. Since her new album has come out, Swift FINALLY decided to take the opportunity on her new album to fight back against the media and their ideas about her. She plays up her boy crazy personality and mocks herself for her previous

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Taylor Swift also has many resources to help deliver her message to the media. For one, she is Taylor Swift, she is an international pop star who practically every person has heard of. Her fans are extremely supportive of her and the decisions that she chooses to make. Taylor not only has the means to get her message across to her immediate audience but her rhetorical audience as well. Her songs routinely become number one hits before they are even out for a week. Her videos are able to go viral through the use of the internet and her fame. Taylor’s fans love more or less every song of that she releases. In her videos, her fans allow her to perform the way she wants and give the media a message because they support what she does and who she is.
Ultimately, Taylor knows that the media can’t phase her or the way her fans think of her. Taylor Swift remains one of the most well rounded pop stars today. Regardless of all the jokes and cuts made at her for her dramatic love songs, her songs have way deeper meaning than those of the typical pop star. She shows this well through “Red” and her use of vivid comparisons and imagery.