As Taylor Swift prepares to release her 10th studio album, midnightnext month, it’s fair to say that the songwriter has become an expert at writing hit songs. What songs of love, breakups, writing music for film and television This is many other topics in between , wrote a lot of amazing music for the Swifties Life soundtrack. When the singer received a major award at the Nashville Songwriter Awards, she revealed the secret way she has categorized all of her music for years.
Swift received the Songwriter-Artist of the Decade award on Tuesday and during her acceptance speech, she shared that there are three genres for which she personally arranges each of her songs. In the words of Taylor Swift:
I’ve never talked about it publicly before, because, well, it’s stupid. But I also have, in my head, secretly established gender categories for the lyrics I write. Three of them, to be exact. They are affectionately titled Quill Texts, Fountain Pen Texts and Glitter Gel Pen Texts. I know this sounds confusing, but I’ll try to explain. I created these categories based on the writing instrument I imagine I was holding when I scribbled it, figuratively. I don’t really have a pen. I broke it once when I was angry.
Oh don’t worry Swifties, the singer didn’t stay enigmatic this time. (I’m watching you, Very good .) during his speech (via Scoreboard ), Taylor Swift has broken down each of his lyric genres with some sample songs belonging to him.
What are Quill’s lyrics?
The first of Taylor Swift’s custom genres is her “Quill Lyrics”. Here’s how she defined it:
If I was inspired to write it after reading Charlotte Brontë or after seeing a movie where everyone wears poet’s shirts and corsets. If my words sound like a letter written by Emily Dickinson’s great-grandmother as she sews a lace curtain, I’m writing in the Quill genre. I’ll give you an example of one of my songs. [‘Ivy’] I’d like to archive Quill.
Okay Swifties, now it’s up to us to present more of your songs in the Quill genre. Personally, I would rate many of their new songs from folklore Yes More and more each time like Quill’s lyrics. Next…
What are the letters of the fountain pen?
Then there is “Fountain Pen Lyrics”, in which Swift shared “most” of her lyrics. In her words:
The style of the fountain pen means history or modern references, with a poetic touch. Take a common phrase and reverse its meaning. Trying to paint a vivid picture of a situation, down to peeling paint on the door frame and incense dust on the vinyl shelf. Locate yourself and the person listening to you right there in the room where it all happened. Love, loss, everything. The songs I classify in this style sound like scribbled confessions sealed in an envelope, but too brutally honest to send.
Taylor Swift’s main example of these songs that the singer gave was Very goodwhich he re-released last year as a ten minute song which he then has he directed a short film with Dylan O’Brien and Sadie Sink . I imagine many songs from Bold Yes Red They fall into this category because many of them seem focused on a particular narrative.
What are the letters of the glitter gel pen?
Finally, Taylor Swift explained “Glitter Gel Pen Texts”. Before comparing “Shake It Off” as part of the genre, the singer said this:
Frivolous, carefree, fiery, perfectly in tune with the rhythm. Glitter gel pen letters don’t care if you don’t take them seriously because they don’t take themselves seriously. Glitter Gel Pen lettering is the drunk girl at the party who tells you you look like an angel in the bathroom. It is what we need from time to time in these troubled times we live in.
These seem to be the happiest songs in Taylor Swift’s library. I imagine “22”, “Welcome to New York” and “ME!” are part of this collection. Although Swift called her method “stupid”, learning more about the singer’s songwriting process and the things she thinks about when she releases music is really creative and interesting. I honestly can’t wait for Swifties to hang on and try to figure out which songs are which.
Before midnight due out on October 21, Taylor Swift is starring David O. Russell amsterdam . The next movie 2022 will be released in theaters on October 7th.
Source: Cinemablend
