Today's blog post will be about the third track on Taylor Swift's Fearless album. Love Story is a song that really blew Taylor up in the UK and this is the song that a lot of my friends fell in love with. I'd been a fan of Taylor beforehand but Love Story is what made me love Taylor even more as a song-writer and singer.
I have no personal times in my life that I can connect this song to, but it's the story in which this song is based on which gives me so many memories of when I studied Drama at school. When this song was released, I was in a small production of Romeo and Juliet and this play is one of my all time favourite Shakespeare plays. Love Story was released in the UK at the same time and I remember everyone was so much in love with the song that we had to include it into the play.
This play was one where I had so many fun memories. Whenever I studied Shakespeare at school and at college was when I was the most happy because Shakespeare plays just give me so much passion. I love the words in the script and how they can come to life in so many ways. The language may not be one that is easily understood, but it is what is in between the lines that makes the story come to life.
I really enjoy wondering about what would happen if Shakepeare plays changed from what they originally were; if alternate events happened to the characters than what was in the original text. How could it have changed events at the end of the play? Would it be the same ending or would it be totally different? A lot of Shakespeare plays end in sadness. heartbreak and tragedy but there is also happy endings as well which is what Taylor loves. Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy but I love how Taylor has turned the story around to have a happy ending. It related to her outlook on love at that time, she has this fairytale idea of love and incorporated it into tragedy which is what I love. We all experience tragedy, but it is our own actions and reactions to the tragedy that defines what happy ending we have.
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