Taylor Swift

  Well I am going to have to eat crow on this chick.  Every time I've seen her sing "live" I was just never impressed with her vocals.  However, I bought her latest album "Fearless" to check out her songwriting and, well, I'm hooked!  She's a great songwriter for her age and has some severely catchy tunes, I must say!  Her song "15" actually makes me remember back when I was 15, except in HER song she is a freshman and I was actually a sophmore at 15.  I was a young pup... late July birthday! :)  Not that anyone really cares, just a side note. 

  Anyh00...now I want to go buy her 1st album to check out the other songs she has written.  Pretty wild stuff to write like that at that young age.  When I was 16 or 17 I was writing pretty stupid songs, however, I did win the talent shows at my school b/c no one else was writing anything! So crap songwriting is better than no songwriting, eh? :) (kidding).  Hey!  My mom liked them!!  Woo hoo! 

 Actually in 7th grade I was in  a talent show and played a song I wrote called "butterfly's dream".  yep... great title, huh?  I was beat by a dumb girl who threw her baton around to "we got the beat" by the go-gos.  Like THAT's talent to throw a baton.  Actually (cough cough) it's pretty hard to twirl a baton so I must give the chick props. :)  My song was stupid, anyway.

Some of my old college buddies might remember some of the funny tunes I wrote back then.  I would sneak into the chapel and play the piano on the stage late at night.  I came up with some pretty goofy stuff.   Maybe a few serious tunes, but most were hilarious tunes making fun of some of the guys on campus.  (especially the ones that didn't like me although I had a crush on them...pretty common for me, actually!)

Anyway...I deviate from my original post.  I really like Taylor Swift now and I can see from her songs how she has drawn such a hugonic fan base.  Her songs are relatable and people "get" them.  I think that's the secret to any good song, for me anyway.  I have to "get" it! :)