Which Taylor Swift song is your favorite?
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I don't want to seem rude but this is a history website not a Taylor Swift fan site. Nothing against the lady but I don't think you are likely to find your target audience here.

None of them.

I don't seem to know any Taylor Swift songs either and echo LIR's sentiments. There was a Pink concert here in Dunedin, NZ and the whole town went wild for her concert, but again I couldn't name a single song of hers. (We did put up my niece, a friend, their three-year-old daughters for the night so they could be close to the venue.) 
I can't see how to make this historical unless I relate it to the Beatles reception here in the 1960s. I was an avid pop fan in those days and used to keep a book of every song I heard. Unfortunately it got lost.

Caro wrote:

I can't see how to make this historical unless I relate it to the Beatles reception here in the 1960s. I was an avid pop fan in those days and used to keep a book of every song I heard. Unfortunately it got lost.

This could be said to be the very essence of history itself. It’s about how we relate to the past. Paul Ryckier touched on this with his thread Time perception difference between young and old.

How we appreciate the past and at what age we are when we do this is truly fascinating. It’s said that it is at about the age of 7 years when many people begin to register or record public affairs in their minds. What this means is that although some people have memories which go back way before 7 years of age, those memories tend to be about life in the home or at school etc. What happens after the age of 7 is that people begin to appreciate the world and its events (i.e. beyond home and school) and register these as chronological memories. For instance someone might remember a news report picked on the radio or on the television or in a newspaper or online or even an overheard conversation of strangers, ranging from, say, a major sporting or cultural event such as an Olympic Games or a World Cup Final or Eurovision Song Contest or else a public affairs story (often relating to political strife or a war) or the release of a film or a pop song or a memorable climatic event such as a severe storm or a flood or a drought etc. Crucially, this information will likely be received independently of parents or teachers as such.

At the other end of the human life experience is the concept of living memory. This relates to human longevity with the upper limit being around 120 years of age. The oldest ever verifiable age recorded was that of Jeanne Calment of France who lived to 122. The oldest person currently living is 117 and when one factors in the 7-year starting age for historical memory, then human living memory is around 110 years ago – i.e. 1914. In other words, the oldest person alive today should remember the outbreak of the First World War as a public historical memory although they may well have other older memories of private home life before that.

On the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War in August 2014, Taylor Swift released the single Shake It Off from her album 1989. The album title relates to the year of Swift’s birth which was momentous in terms of human history seeing the fall of the Berlin Wall, although Taylor Swift wouldn’t have remembered that event as it occurred a month before she was born. What she might remember, however, were events from when she was 7 years old in 1996-1997. These would include such items as the re-election of William Clinton as U.S. president, the passage by Earth of the comet Hale-Bopp and even the singing of the Star-Spangled Banner by 8-year-old Christina Skleros (only 1 year older than Swift herself) at the final game of the 1996 baseball World series. Another event widely reported in the news media at that time would have been reports on the death of Jeanne Calment.

We should just talk about music 

Vizzer

my eldest sister was born in 1941 and does have some memories of WW2 that could be deemed to be 'outside the family' but then it could be argued that Ww2 was a fairly momentous event.  My earlies memory that is not related to the family was Sputnik one in 1957 when I was six.

regards

Tim

Davidtrancc wrote:

We should just talk about music 

Actually we do  discuss music here and many facets of it. So I'll talk about music  Currently I am having a bash at Janacek's stuff again. For many years I was taken by the compositions for small ensembles being unlike anything else I had ever heard. But there is more yet not performed in UK as far as I can tell and taken on by few conductors anywhere. He is described as being the first minimalist composer - which jars  a bit with my impression of complexities.

He may be a composer whose work will fade for a while to be revived when found to be relevant to current trends. Just a thought.

I was 6 when the last polio epidemic raised its head in New Zealand - June Opie was the face of it; she was in an iron lung for 2 years. A site I found says (in part; it is a very long article): "While she was looking for work, Opie wrote a book about her time recovering from polio at St Mary’s Hospital which was published in 1957 as Over my dead body. Written to thank the St Mary’s staff, the book chronicled her battle against polio and the many people who helped her during her recovery. It became a best-seller in 10 days and was translated into several languages, transcribed into Braille, dramatised on the BBC and serialised. She was deluged with fan mail and requests for interviews from journalists around the world."

Priscilla wrote:

Actually we do discuss music here and many facets of it. So I'll talk about music. Currently I am having a bash at Janacek's stuff again.

One of the great things about this site is that even in the most obscure corners one can still be introduced to gems one never knew even existed. I have no interest in Taylor Swift but nevertheless through this unpromising introduction I have now discovered Janacek. I was of course familiar with his name but I don't think I had ever really listened to his music before. What a a breadth of work there is, with so much to explore and enjoy, so thankyou P. Most people are familiar with the works of Dvorak and Smetana but there were many other composers from Mitteleuropa who I have clearly rather overlooked.

Chapeau, P, for opening that door to me.

However that comment of yours also brings to mind another of your posts from a couple of years ago, something about 'music of the soul', or something like that. I don't think you got much response at the time but I have nevertheless been thinking about it - at least from time to time - ever since. I may now very well respond with my own suggestion.

Was I a tad harsh saying we might not be mega-Taylor Swift fans here?   Sometimes things come out wrong.  I sometimes listen to Dr Ludwig's German music channel.

I do not have any favourite Taylor Swift songs and so instead:

Fake Plastic Trees

Let Down

Idioteque

Ma'am, this is a history forum not a taylor swift fan club.

Davidtrancc wrote:

We should just talk about music 

 Hate to break it to you, but this is a history forum, however i do like Dvorak's symphony no.9 part IV.