I have decided to pursue a new venture this year: explore media I have otherwise ignored. It's easy to get snobbish when you prefer to only listen to the music you have curated for yourself. "Wow, this song is incredible! It's too bad nobody else listens to this. I guess that means I have taste," I think to myself after listening to a song by a band that has been popular for fifty years now. They are currently 115th in the topmost listened-to artist in the world on Spotify, and I can safely say that the song I have listened to is in fact one that many people have already heard at least once in their life. I have decided to forgo the pretentious ego that is infesting my mind and choose an artist that I know everyone has heard of. She is also the same artist that I declared a long time ago that I would never allow my ears to come in contact with any of her albums. This musician is Taylor Swift, Grammy-award-winning, best-selling, most-iconic, and considered the greatest female artist in the 2010s. She is now part of my 2021 project which consists of listening to every single one of her albums. Now, I do not mean that I will merely yell at my Google Home to play "Red" at low volume while I watch a nature documentary on Netflix. I will digest each of her albums thoroughly, to the point that I know all the lyrics to each song and create a review of it right here in this blog. I will also choose my favorite song from the album of the week and create a cover of it to my liking. The reasons for this change in my musical taste include: to humble me; to find beauty in songs that are far from my taste; to disallow myself to ignore someone's passion; to promote the philosophy that every song deserves to be heard. If I hope to spread this message to all then it is best for me to become its first follower. That is my mission statement. Now, it is time to queue up "Taylor Swift" by Taylor Swift.
