Not to say that intrigue doesn’t often play a role in her music - easter-egg hunts and lyrical investigations are a large part of what’s bound her fans so closely to her over the years - but those inquiries have traditionally been into who a song is about, rather than just what it is in the first place. The effect of all of this is to give “Friend” a sense of mystery rarely found in a Taylor Swift love song. Even the song’s title - also the closest thing it has to a chorus - is a red herring of sorts, suggesting a platonic bond that isn’t revealed to be more until the second verse’s “Something gave you the nerve to touch my hand,” a moment that jolts you like static electricity once it finally arrives. But “Friend” shifts “Mary’s” perspective from a third-person framing - just 16 at the time of her debut’s release, Taylor has since lived enough life to now present such a narrative as her own - and dials down both the sentimentality and the direct storytelling, instead telling the tale in such intimate time-spanning snapshots (“Video games, you pass me a note,” “Light pink sky, up on the roof”) that at first it’s not entirely obvious what kind of relationship is being described. Visit podcastchoices.The song itself is not atypical fare for Swift, telling a love story that starts in grade school classrooms and ends with a weekend in bed together - a romantic arc from childhood to adulthood that echoes “Mary’s Song (Oh My My My),” from her 2006 self-titled debut. Head over to /once and use code once to learn all about Outschools’s summer programs and save fifteen dollars on your child’s first class.Download your new favorite getaway, BEST FIENDS, for FREE today on the App Store or Google Play.Listen to SCAMFLUENCERS on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music or listen one week early and ad-free by joining Wondery Plus in the Wondery app.“The Last Dance”, 48 Hours, May 4, 2006, retrieved from “A dancer’s secret life and savage murder, Keith Morrison/, Jan 15, 2006. Paul Cortez, New York Court of Appeals filing, April 8, 2013. Unable to let her go, Paul Cortez commits a shocking crime. Instead, she meets a young man who becomes obsessed with controlling her life. A young girl leaves her hometown of Ohio for the Big Apple with her heart set on a career as a Broadway dancer.
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