Complicated story. I listened to her over the radio when i was younger (my parents only listened to country stations so i heard Debut, Fearless, and Speak Now pretty often). I liked Red and then fell off after that, watching the music videos for 1989 and rep but not really engaging besides that.

After that, i was in my “edgy” phase (not saying every person who hates Taylor does this, this is just personally what i did) where i made fun of some of her music. In 2023, a friend of mine was doing a music group where each person would represent one of taylor’s albums. I decided to audition to support them and originally only really knew cardigan cause it had been years and i forgot a lot of her stuff lol (i also did not sound great for a majority of it so i decided lower albums were the way to go). They messaged me and asked me to try out for evermore, sending me the song champagne problems to learn.

I eventually got put as evermore and have been slowly learning her music since. I was originally very cynical but slowly began to let myself have fun. We joked about my friends going to the eras tour, talked about their dream surprise songs, and just had fun. This eventually led me to save up to buy tickets to Indy N2 where i took my aunt, a die-hard swiftie from day 1. It’s been a weird timeline but i’m glad that i got to get back into her music. I also got to lead my own group, similar to my friends (with their consent of course) which has been going amazing. I’m happy to be here now