Song Review

Review
Taylor Swift - Speak Now :‘Mine’

Taylor Swift’s lead single 'Mine' in Speak Now talks in the perspective of a girl falling in love with a boy who proved her wrong about relationships; as her parents’ bad relationship influenced her thoughts of love being not worth it. This song highlights a sense of maturity due to the way she interprets love which is a change in Taylor Swift’s songs; therefore it is loved by many people. With the first song revealing change, the listeners will therefore be looking forward to the rest of the album. I really enjoy listening to this song because the melody is catchy and most of all the lyrics are quite interesting with the story it tells. It demonstrates strong feelings of love when the boy had illustrated change as he expressed to her “I’ll never leave you alone” after they had argued. I felt touched by this as he proved to her that they were different from her parents who were a bad example to her with their mistakes in their relationship. Furthermore the song starts off slow which reflects on the negative interpretations of love made by the girl. However the beat starts to become faster as it gets to the chorus representing the happiness when she was with the boy. When the boy said that he will stay with her the music then slows down and becomes quieter eventually to nothing. This highlights very well how the girl had felt quite shocked and surprised at how the boy had reacted to the argument. Then towards the end, the beat of the song increases again display a happiness.
As a whole I think that this song is very interesting in the way it presents how people can sometimes feel love to be quite negative, due to the influence of a bad example from their parents. The meaning and catchy beat makes it a song to love no matter how old it is.