Taylor Swift ‘Mine’ Cover Art
Music | Aric Mitchell | July 31, 2010 at 2:30 am
It’s good to be Taylor Swift. While the lyric in her song “Love Story” that states, “You were Romeo, I was the Scarlet Letter,” makes no sense whatsoever to anyone with even a remote understanding of English literature–I mean, come on, the Juliet-like protagonist is being compared to an adulterous whore from a Nathaniel Hawthorne novel, did the girl even read the book?–Swift’s audience doesn’t seem to mind, and they certainly reach far beyond the teenage crowd. Everything the 20-year old does turns to gold, and that includes a recent duet with John Mayer. Now we’re that much closer to her third studio album, which will no doubt continue the starlet’s success.
Speak Now will be in stores on October 25, and in addition to the title cut, other songs include the previous title cut, “Mine” (pictured above), and “Sparks Fly,” with Swift writing each and every one of the tracks without any help whatsoever. Hopefully, if she plans on using any more classics of literature, she’ll at least read the Cliffs Notes first.
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Taylor in “love story” said she was a Scarlet Letter because she was running away with a boy “romeo” with which she was not supposed to be with, “My Daddy said stay away from Juliet” Much like the Scarlet Letter’s Hester prince is not alowed to be with her love (Dimmesdale). When Taylor and her boyfriend are not allowed to be together in the song it makes her feel like she is wearing a “Scarlet Letter” because her father is not allowing it, if you think about Romeo and Juliet actually is close to the story of the Scarlet letter. Maybe you should re-read the Scarlet Letter before you start righting anymore snarky reports on Taylor.
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Woo! Go Christopher, exactly what I was going to say…before I read your comment! ….So to the writer of this article, the world isn’t as uneducated as you thought!