Red - Taylor Swift Analysis
Tanerica Moton
Mrs. Winham
English IV Honors
12 August 2013
Love is the topic of many pop songs in the 21st century. Singers such as Justin Bieber, Demi Lovato, Nicki Minaj, and Taylor Swift, sing about love because that is what most hormone-filled teens can relate to. Taylor Swift’s song, “Red,” describes the love she has for a boy in such a vivid way, that it fills the minds of the teens tuning in with a mental image of her emotions.
Taylor Swift starts off the song with the statement, “Loving him is like driving a new Maserati down a dead-end street,” which compares her love for this boy to a new Maserati, a high powered sports car. When Taylor compares her love for him to driving the car down a dead-end street, she suggests that her love for him is so powerful, yet it is a waste because it ends so quickly. She fell hard for this boy, and the relationship was short-lived.
The song goes on to say “loving him was blue…missing him was dark grey…loving him was red.” Taylor uses the colors as a form of imagery. The color blue portrays a feeling of sadness, a lonely empty sadness. When the relationship ends, Taylor feels awfully gloomy about it all. She wants her audience of love drunk teen girls to understand her emotions when she sings.
Taylor uses her lyrics to convey her feelings of gloom and despair to her audience. In today’s time, most teens are driven by love. Whether it is a love for food, sports, or another person, an abundance of teenagers are motivated to dress, act, or talk a certain way because of their most powerful emotion, love. Taylor’s lyrics can relate to her audience because many of her listeners understand the emotions that are exerted from them.
Through her use of literary devices such as similes and imagery, and her ability to connect with the audience because of her empathy and knowledge of the times, the listeners understand Taylor and feel all her emotions as they are meant to be portrayed from her lyrics. “Loving him was red,”
Mrs. Winham
English IV Honors
12 August 2013
Love is the topic of many pop songs in the 21st century. Singers such as Justin Bieber, Demi Lovato, Nicki Minaj, and Taylor Swift, sing about love because that is what most hormone-filled teens can relate to. Taylor Swift’s song, “Red,” describes the love she has for a boy in such a vivid way, that it fills the minds of the teens tuning in with a mental image of her emotions.
Taylor Swift starts off the song with the statement, “Loving him is like driving a new Maserati down a dead-end street,” which compares her love for this boy to a new Maserati, a high powered sports car. When Taylor compares her love for him to driving the car down a dead-end street, she suggests that her love for him is so powerful, yet it is a waste because it ends so quickly. She fell hard for this boy, and the relationship was short-lived.
The song goes on to say “loving him was blue…missing him was dark grey…loving him was red.” Taylor uses the colors as a form of imagery. The color blue portrays a feeling of sadness, a lonely empty sadness. When the relationship ends, Taylor feels awfully gloomy about it all. She wants her audience of love drunk teen girls to understand her emotions when she sings.
Taylor uses her lyrics to convey her feelings of gloom and despair to her audience. In today’s time, most teens are driven by love. Whether it is a love for food, sports, or another person, an abundance of teenagers are motivated to dress, act, or talk a certain way because of their most powerful emotion, love. Taylor’s lyrics can relate to her audience because many of her listeners understand the emotions that are exerted from them.
Through her use of literary devices such as similes and imagery, and her ability to connect with the audience because of her empathy and knowledge of the times, the listeners understand Taylor and feel all her emotions as they are meant to be portrayed from her lyrics. “Loving him was red,”