💬 | Taylor Swift honoring Nashville in her Songwriters Hall of Fame speech:
“I started writing songs when I was a little kid and I knew from the time I wrote my first song that even if it couldn’t be my career, it would be my passion. It would be what I centered my entire life around. Nashville is the place that I went to in my middle school daydreams. It was the place where all the wisdom that I wished to acquire existed in one place. All the lessons that I wished to learn existed in this magical place for me. And it ended up being all of that and more. It ended up being everything (…)
I think back to when I first got to Nashville and I started writing on Music Row. I was lucky enough to get a publishing deal with Sony Publishing when I was 14 and I just hit the ground running. I started writing every single day. I learned so much. I was like a sponge and I have really curly hair and it was yellow, so I kind of looked like a sponge too. But I learned by repetition. I think you truly learn a craft when you do it over and over and over and that is what the magnificent songwriters that work in this amazing town do. There is no music community like this music community. I know. I checked all the communities. There’s no one doing it.”
Can’t believe it’s been one year of Lemonade already! Thank you so much to everyone for all the support as always!
Can’t wait to be back on stage in a few weeks. I’ve missed it. See you soon!
About a year ago, you guys did a truly unfathomable thing. Something that completely blew my mind… You gave The Life of a Showgirl the biggest first week for an album in history. I took a trip to Sweden to celebrate with Max and Shellback, my two collaborators on this album. Really we just wanted to reflect and take in how grateful we were for the moment we were in, but there was a studio there and we did what we do when we feel anything at all: We wrote more songs. I hope you love them, because they were born out of pure gratitude for your exuberance for and celebration of the album we made. The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore including four new songs is out on Friday and available to pre-order and save now at https://t.co/bWaNOQ6OmT ❤️🔥
📸: Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott
I’ve been impatiently waiting to tell you that my brand new single “Patient Zero” will be out on September 25 (!!!!!!!!!!!!) and it’s available to pre-order now at https://t.co/zSHpnhUTAJ for 24 hours. 0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣
16 fucking years of One Direction!!! Blows my mind. Thank you for changing all our lives and the love and passion you all still show is unmatched! Tonight’s going to be a special show.
Spending the rest of the day listening to all the bangers and reminiscing! Thank you for all the memories.
And to my brother I Miss you every day but especially on days like today. I know we’d have been celebrating today together!
Thematic parallels in Little Mix’s solo music:
Toxic friendships:
JADE – Natural At Disaster
Leigh-Anne – Friends
Perrie – Same Place Different View
Mental health:
JADE – Before You Break My Heart
JADE – Glitch
JADE – Tar
JADE – This Is What We Dance For
Leigh-Anne – Best Version of Me
Perrie – Me, Myself & You
The music industry:
JADE – Angel Of My Dreams
JADE – IT girl
JADE – Use Me
JADE + Rose Gray – Angel Of Satisfaction
Leigh-Anne – Best Version of Me
Leigh-Anne – Dead And Gone
Leigh-Anne – Revival
Family (relatives):
JADE – Best You Could
JADE – Unconditional
Leigh-Anne – You ARE a star
Leigh-Anne – Heaven
Perrie – Put You First
Sisterhood:
JADE – Beg For Me
Perrie – If He Wanted To He Would
Perrie – Goodbye My Friend
Lust/sex:
JADE – Dreamcheater
JADE – Fantasy
JADE – Lip Service
JADE – Midnight Cowboy
JADE – Use Me
JADE + Kesha – BOY CRAZY.
JADE + PinkPantheress – Tonight
Leigh-Anne – Anticipate
Leigh-Anne – Been A Minute
Leigh-Anne – Burning Up
Leigh-Anne – Forbidden Fruit
Leigh-Anne – Goodbye Goodmorning
Leigh-Anne – Most Wanted
Leigh-Anne – OMG
Leigh-Anne – Sunrise
Leigh-Anne – Talk to me nice
Leigh-Anne – Tight Up Skirt
Leigh-Anne + AMARIA BB – Closure
Love/relationships:
JADE – Silent Disco
Leigh-Anne – I’ll Still Be Here
Leigh-Anne – Me Minus U
Leigh-Anne – My Love
Leigh-Anne – Nature
Leigh-Anne + Sigala + Jonita – Hello
Leigh-Anne + Jon Batiste – Running Away
Perrie – Absofuckinglutely
Perrie – Cute Aggression
Perrie – Where You Are
Perrie – Woman In Love
Relationship anxiety:
JADE – If My Heart Was A House
JADE – Plastic Box
JADE – Self Saboteur
Perrie – Bonnie And Clyde
Perrie – Rollercoaster
Perrie – You Go Your Way
Relationship conflict/breakdowns:
JADE – FUFN (Fuck You For Now)
Leigh-Anne – Don’t Say Love
Leigh-Anne – Goodbye Goodmorning
Leigh-Anne – Stealin’ Love
Perrie – Miss You
Perrie – Rocket Scientist
Healing:
JADE + LA SSERAFIM – HOT
Leigh-Anne – Dead And Gone
Leigh-Anne – FREE
Leigh-Anne – Revival
Perrie – Baby Steps
Perrie – Forget About Us
Perrie – Tears
Personality traits:
JADE – Headache
Perrie – Passenger Princess
Perrie – Punchline