{"id":4243,"date":"2022-12-07T09:00:08","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T14:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/?p=4243"},"modified":"2023-09-11T15:57:39","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T19:57:39","slug":"arachnophonia-taylor-swift-speak-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/2022\/12\/arachnophonia-taylor-swift-speak-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Arachnophonia: Taylor Swift “Speak Now”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Editor\u2019s note:<\/strong> Arachnophonia<\/a> (\u201cArachno\u201d = spider \/ \u201c-phonia\u201d = sound) is a regular feature on our blog where members of the UR community can share their thoughts about resources from the Parsons Music Library<\/a>\u2018s collection.<\/p>\n

All links included in these posts will take you to either the library catalog record for the item in question<\/a> or to additional relevant<\/a> information from<\/a> around the web<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s installment of Arachnophonia<\/a> is by student manager Eliana (class of 2024) and features Taylor Swift’s 2010 album Speak Now<\/strong><\/a>. Thanks, Eliana!<\/em><\/p>\n

Taylor Swift<\/a><\/strong>
\nSpeak Now<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\"Taylor<\/p>\n

Taylor Swift<\/a>, one of the biggest artists of the century, has amassed a cult-like following since her self titled debut album. She\u2019s since released 9 additional studio albums and 2 re-recorded albums, all seemingly more successful than the last. Speak Now<\/a><\/em>, her third studio album released in 2010, remains my favorite to date. Let me tell you why.<\/p>\n

When determining my personal album rankings, I consider two factors: general cohesiveness and amount of \u201cskips.\u201d <\/p>\n

In terms of cohesiveness, Speak Now<\/a><\/em> exceeds expectations. Taylor describes it as a loose concept album regarding the things she never got a chance to tell people throughout her life. She calls the songs diary entries, using them to navigate her newfound adulthood. Speak Now<\/a><\/em> perfectly encapsulates all the emotions of a 20-year-old dealing with love, heartbreak, and regret. Every song tunes into those emotions in a slightly different way, creating a wholly relatable album. <\/p>\n

Even more importantly, this is a no-skips album. Each song serves a beautiful purpose in connecting the whole, but also has the ability to stand alone. Of course, this isn\u2019t to say I don\u2019t have favorites. “Back to December<\/a>“, “Mine<\/a>“, “Better than Revenge<\/a>“, and “Last Kiss<\/a>” certainly top my list. Still, even my least favorite songs on this album are always worth a listen.<\/p>\n

You can check out this CD<\/a>, as well as Swift\u2019s 1989<\/a><\/em>, Fearless<\/a><\/em>, and folklore<\/a><\/em> from Parson\u2019s Music Library. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Editor\u2019s note: Arachnophonia (\u201cArachno\u201d = spider \/ \u201c-phonia\u201d = sound) is a regular feature on our blog where members of the UR community can share their thoughts about resources from the Parsons Music Library\u2018s collection. All links included in these … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[61217,15223],"tags":[49694,61217,230861,120807,191391,15334,227064,162669],"class_list":["post-4243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arachnophonia","category-collection","tag-2010s","tag-arachnophonia","tag-arachnophonia-22-23","tag-country-music","tag-eliana","tag-popular-music","tag-speak-now","tag-taylor-swift"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgMV3E-16r","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4243"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4252,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4243\/revisions\/4252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}