“This Love” by Taylor Swift
The story of a rekindled lost love is truly captivating and magical. On “This Love”, TayTay has managed to capture our hearts and feelings as we walk into her portrayal of this vivid event.
Lyrics of “This Love”
Taylor begins by comparing a dead romantic relationship to ocean waves crashing in. In the process, she sheds a brief light on how their relationship started unexpectedly. Just as fast as the waves crash in, they also sweep back out equally quick. This sums up how this love affair was like a whirlwind to her.
When in love, the last thing that one would think about is the end of it. This is the exact same situation Swift herself in at the beginning of the said relationship. Even in her “wildest dreams”, she didn’t think the connection between her and her ex-beau would die out, only for it to do so unexpectedly.
Post-breakup, she does her best to move on “with someone new”. However, this act leaves her in a more sorrowful state as she’s constantly haunted by memories of her previous significant other. One could assume that Swift is simply trying to fill that emptiness inflicted by the breakup with someone else, or rather, just to subdue her broken heart with physical acts.
Unfortunately, no matter what she does, the love for her ex doesn’t die out. It keeps growing brighter like a “lantern, burning”.
When all hopes seem to be lost, the song takes on a ‘happily ever after’ feel in the form of the love she thought she had lost coming back alive “from the dead”.
Takeaway
At the end of the day, it can be said that “This Love” centers around the popular quote, “if you love someone, let them go. If they return, they were always yours.”
Release Date of “This Love”
The re-recorded version of this song (“This Love (Taylor’s Version)”) was released on 6th May, 2022 by Republic Records.
Originally from Taylor’s fifth album titled “1989” released in 2014, this is the second re-released track from this album following the masters of her first six album being acquired by talent manager, Scooter Braun. The first song from that album to be re-released was “Wildest Dreams (Taylor’s Version)” (which was re-released in 2021).
Prior to her re-release of “This Love”, it was first promoted on the trailer of Amazon Prime Series’ “The Summer I Turned Pretty”. Later that day, at midnight, the full song was released. Swift had posted the trailer up on her Instagram page as a teaser to the full song.
Writing Credits
TayTay had solely written this track.
In fact, it all started as a “really really short poem” she had written in her journal in 2012. It wasn’t until she heard the melody of it in her head that she decided to transform it into a song.
Are there any difference between “This Love” and (“This Love (Taylor’s Version)”)?
Yes, there are slight differences! Taylor’s version features a more mellowed tone with clearer, less processed vocals as compared to the original. Further to that, it is also infused with an indie-vibe.
Taylor Swift’s “1989” Album
“1989” is an album by American singer and songwriter, Taylor Swift. It was released as her 5th studio album on the 27th of October, 2014. The album marked the beginning of Taylor’s switch from country music to mainstream pop. She named the album after her birth year, 1989 to represent her rebirth as a pop singer.
Big Machine Records, an American record label with a reputation for working with country and pop singers, was the record label through which the album was released.
After the release of “1989”, Taylor embarked on a seven-month world tour with the title, “1989 World Tour” to create awareness for the album. The tour grossed over 270 million US Dollars, with over 2 million tickets sold. It became the most successful world tour of 2015.
Success of Album
“1989” sold over a million copies within its first week in the US alone. It became the singer’s third album to cross the 1 million sales threshold in an opening week, making her the first artist to achieve that in the US.
The album peaked at the apex of the Billboard 200 in the US, spending a total of 11 weeks there. Aside from the US, “1989” was No. 1 in several other countries, including the UK, Switzerland, Norway, New Zealand, Belgium, Netherlands, Australia and Canada.
In addition to the album’s commercial success, it received a lot of accolades from several publications and music critics. For example, it appeared on Rolling Stone’s “500 Greatest Albums of All Time” list in 2020.
In 2016, the album won the award for “Album of the Year” at the 58th edition of the annual Grammy Awards. This win made Taylor the first female artist to win the said award twice as a solo artist. Her first win was in 2010 with her second studio album, “Fearless”, released in 2008. At the same event in 2016, “1989” took home the award for “Best Pop Vocal Album”.
“1989” recorded global sales of over 10 million copies by close of 2016.
Singles birthed by “1989”
In all, Taylor’s management released 7 songs as official singles from this Grammy winning album.
- “Shake It Off”
- “Blank Space”
- “Style”
- “Bad Blood”
- “Wildest Dreams”
- “Out of the Woods”
- “New Romantics”
