I think it’s about time I listen to some Taylor Swift.
The project shares something with Taylor Swift’s rerecording her old albums. I look at some of these younger artists, and it’s not that I worry for them, but I just wonder if they had to grow up too fast.
The big impulse of looking back at the teenage years was to actually put them in the past you get to notice all the distance, and that’s very comforting to me. With perspective I can be like, Oh, that’s what was going on. But I’ve come to really distrust my journals. I thought for sure that what you think in the moment must be the most true because you’re the closest to the moment at hand. How does a 26-year-old writing about her teenage experiences differ from an actual teenager writing about them? I didn’t have anyone in my life who was making music, so I never thought that people can actually do that. I loved “Fergalicious” and “Big Girls Don’t Cry.” But even then, it wasn’t about me. I had the sense that music got made long ago. I grew up listening to Bruce Springsteen and Prince, and I remember listening to the Beatles and Led Zeppelin and not knowing when they were from. I don’t remember it being that way when I was a kid. So many of the pop stars that young people listen to right now are young themselves - Billie Eilish and Olivia Rodrigo, for example.
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