It takes me a lot longer to get into music these days. Seeking something new, something inspiring, but something slightly nostalgic too, I recently landed on this Taylor Swift song, which I’d first heard a few months ago with its whimsically sweet video. The beginning is just the slightest bit reminiscent of a fuzzy Mazzy Star song, and a rather sweet nugget for the holidays. Hey, if ‘Diamonds & Pearls’ can be in my holiday canon, then so can this.
WE COULD LEAVE THE CHRISTMAS LIGHTS UP ‘TIL JANUARY
AND THIS IS OUR PLACE, WE MAKE THE RULES
AND THERE’S A DAZZLING HAZE, A MYSTERIOUS WAY ABOUT YOU, DEAR
HAVE I KNOWN YOU 20 SECONDS OR 20 YEARS?
I don’t anticipate it lasting the decades, but you never know what will stick and what may stay. Some of the most trifling bits of pop informed such key moments of life that they are classics, if only in my mind. These days it’s harder to have such moments. Too quickly, the weeks blend into each other, and too easily I give up the fight to mark them.
CAN I GO WHERE YOU GO?
CAN WE ALWAYS BE THIS CLOSE?
FOREVER AND EVER, AH
AH, TAKE ME OUT, AND TAKE ME HOME
YOU’RE MY, MY, MY, MY LOVER.
Christmas lights, 20 years, dazzling and mysterious ways… we need a new holiday. Who’s with me?
