In particular, the idea that Swift didn’t know who she was supposed to be at 15 sounds like a woman in her 20s or 30s smiling and shaking her head at the many twists her life has taken since then. That sweetly devastating lyric has the feeling of looking back on adolescence after many intervening years. She didn’t know then what she knows now, and that made all the difference.Īnd you just might find who you’re supposed to be
And as she sings, Swift looks back on that period in her life with a kind of bittersweet fondness. (Teenage boys, it turns out, aren’t always the nicest.) They learn lessons about broken hearts and forever friendships. Told in a series of autobiographical vignettes, “Fifteen” follows Swift and her best friend, Abigail, through their freshman year of high school, as the two become friends and date boys who end up treating them poorly. If you read the lyrics to Taylor Swift’s “Fifteen” without knowing anything about the song, you might easily assume they were written by an adult woman looking back wistfully on her adolescence.
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