Taylor Swift has always been known to write and compose songs filled with depth and brevity. Her inspiration to her lyrics has always been rumoured to be her ex-boyfriends and their failed relationships. Most teenage girls can relate to most of her debut songs such as “Teardrops on my Guitar” and “Our Song”. This was that certain period of Taylor’s life when the world saw her as a simply humble country-music girl wearing vintage dresses, pouring all of her feelings out into paper and then singing her heart out with her best friend, her glorious guitar. For years, her name has been up in the lights as the seeds of her fame and stardom continued to disperse among different continents. People from around the globe - from different races and age groups - have been part of Taylor’s musical history. As the years passed, Taylor’s music has had a slight alteration. Her music shifted more into “pop” side as it became farther away from the “country” genre. This was evident in her albums “Red” and the most recent one, “1989”. The latter I think, was a new sound to listen to because all of the tracks in the album are combinations of electronic and pop.
There was no trace of country music anywhere. As an avid listener of her songs, I was quite taken aback but the beautiful element of poetry from her songs still flourish. Personally, my favourite is her fourteenth song in the album which is “Wonderland” in which she alluded from Lewis Carrol’s “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.” In this upbeat song, she tells how lovers can unconsciously become insane because of falling in love too much. She wrote the chorus saying: We found wonderland. We pretended it could last forever. You and I got lost in it and life was never worse but never better. This is simply a statement of being too hooked up on love. Maybe “wonderland” is the comfort and happiness that lovers share and experience together, and sometimes just like what happened to Alice, they also get lost and fail to see other aspects that come with the idea of love. And we went on our way, too in love to think straight. This line expresses how our hearts can cloud the correct thinking of our minds. Taylor’s song can be the perfect theme song for fickle and immature youngsters who burn with passion and fervour.
Taylor Swift’s “Wonderland” is a different way to view the usual “wonderland” that is automatically generated in our minds (especially for those who have watched the movie and read the book). It gives listeners the enjoyment of a song with a false sense of happiness accompanied by reality trips down the memory lane and warnings of one fiery emotion, love.
Be wary while in Wonderland, as the song expresses you might end up mentally wounded.
