My Featured Song

Red by Taylor Swift

Loving him is like driving a new Maserati down a dead-end street

Faster than the wind, passionate as sin, ending so suddenly

Loving him is like trying to change your mind once you're already flying through the free fall

Like the colors in autumn, so bright just before they lose it all

Losing him was blue like I'd never known

Missing him was dark grey all alone

Forgetting him was like trying to know somebody you never met

But loving him was red

Loving him was red

Touching him was like realizing all you ever wanted was right there in front of you

Memorizing him was as easy as knowing all the words to your old favorite song

Fighting with him was like trying to solve a crossword and realizing there's no right answer

Regretting him was like wishing you never found out that love could be that strong

Losing him was blue like I'd never known

Missing him was dark grey all alone

Forgetting him was like trying to know somebody you never met

But loving him was red

Oh, red

Burning red

Remembering him comes in flashbacks and echoes

Tell myself it's time now, gotta let go

But moving on from him is impossible

When I still see it all in my head

In burning red

Burning, it was red

Oh, losing him was blue like I'd never known

Missing him was dark grey all alone

Forgetting him was like trying to know somebody you never met

'Cause loving him was red

Yeah, yeah, red

We're burning red

And that's why he's spinnin' 'round in my head

Comes back to me, burning red

Yeah, yeah

His love was like driving a new Maserati down a dead-end street

I. About the Song

"Red" is a song recorded by American singer-songwriter, Taylor Swift.
 It was released on October 22, 2012 in the USA and on October 24, 2012 in Japan. So it served as the album's fifth single on June 21, 2013 in the USA.The album was a critical and commercial success, and debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 with first-week sales of 1.21 million copies. This marked the highest opening sales in a decade, and made Swift the first female to have two million-selling album openings, a record recognized by Guinness World Records.
It was part of the tracks released during the four weeks preceding the release of the album. Musically, "Red" is a country song, and its lyrics uses colors and metaphors to describe an intense and tumultuous relationship.

Works Cited （参考文献）

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_(Taylor_Swift_song)
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AC%E3%83%83%E3%83%89_(%E3%83%86%E3%82%A4%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B9%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A3%E3%83%95%E3%83%88%E3%81%AE%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AB%E3%83%90%E3%83%A0)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Swift

II. About the Songwriter: Taylor Swift

Taylor Alison Swift was born on December 13, 1989, in Reading, Pennsylvania, and grew up in the suburban Philadelphia area.

At the age of nine, Swift became interested in musical theater and performed in four Berks Youth Theatre Academy productions. She also traveled regularly to New York City for vocal and acting lessons.Swift later shifted her focus toward country music inspired by Shania Twain's songs, which made her "want to just run around the block four times and daydream about everything". She spent her weekends performing at local festivals and events. After watching a documentary about Faith Hill, Swift felt sure that she needed to go to Nashville, Tennessee, to pursue a music career.

She has many friends and is called "She has a sweet heart" by many people,So she was chosen as the first place of "100 women who are the hottest in 2015" that British MAXIM announces. So, she laid emphasis on contribution to society activity and, in May, 2012, according to RBBTODAY, contributed 4 million dollars (approximately 320 million yen) to "country music palace Museum" in hometown Nashville.

In addition, she takes office as a global welcome ambassador (sightseeing ambassador) of New York in the autumn of 2014 and contribute all the profit of single "Welcome to New York" to the public school building in the city. It is picked by "The star who contributed to charity most" whom organization "Do Something" supporting a youth chooses.




Works Cited （参考文献）

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Swift

IV. My Reaction

A. Reaction Point - Point of view （物語は曲の歌詞に語られ、そこからの視点）

• Point of view is the perspective from which a story is told in a song's lyrics.
• The point of view is 'loving him', that of a woman in love.
• From this song, the word appears on lyrics many times. It understands that it appears her intense heart for him. I felt whether Taylor wanted many people to tell strong love song that all women have.

B. Reaction Point - Lyrics （歌の歌詞）

• Lyrics is the words to the songs.
• Losing him was blue like I'd never known

  Missing him was dark grey all alone

  Forgetting him was like trying to know somebody you never met

  But loving him was red

  Loving him was red
• In this song, there are many colors. By using color, it expressed the emotion in love clearly. From this thing, I knew that it songs the regret for parting him and the good old memory with him in contrast, so color show it too.

C. Reaction Point - Song genre （ソングが作成され、実行されるスタイル）

• Song genre is the style in which a song is created and performed.
• country song and love song
• Taylor Swift is famous for song that compose it based on her experiences. "Red" is disappointed love song. I thought she expresses heart's voice for things she liked a boyfriend very much but parted him. It will make many people,in particular women in love sympathize.Her song's charm is to gain the sympathy of many in the audience.

D. My General Opinion

The clue that I listened to this song for the first time and liked it is because my favorite color is red. When I knew the lyrics is word related to disappointed love because the music is pop, I was surprised. I think that this contrast is very good and I like it. I recommend many classmates to listen "Red" in this season because there is a word of season, fall.