Fearless (Taylor’s Version) is Taylor Swifts new album. It is a rework of her previous album Fearless that she released as a young girl in 2008. She rerecorded this album and named it Taylor’s version because she wanted control over her music as well as how her music was produced. In the past she was always instructed on what to do and had little say in the way her music was produced and how they were distributed. Taylor repeatedly states that this album was her taking back control of her music that she has lost over the years. Taylor swift’s music producers and the people she “trusted” were subalterns and did not allow her to have say in her own work. This relates to this class on a various amount of ways. They looked at her gender and used that as an excuse for mistreatment.
I think this example is one that closely correlates to a lot of things we learned in this class. I think Taylor’s career is a fantastic example of a single story. She is an artist who has been in the spotlight since she was a young girl and every boy seems to have an expectation from her and expect her to do certain things. As she got older we have seen how seen more into her life and seen how our misconceptions are extremely toxic and how we were quick to assume. We have also seen in her career that men have controlled her and treated her poorly. In the past year she has spoke up about this mistreatment and advocates through her music so that nobody else will have to deal with it as well. This album spe
aks to what we learned in class because it is an example of pursuing what you want while living your most authentic life.