My friend went to see her open for Brad Paisely when she was first starting out. My favorite tracks are “Mary’s Song”, “Tied Together with a Smile”, “The Outside”, “Cold As You”, “Invisible”, and “A Place in this World”. I mean I saw a new fan react to it on YouTube a couple of months ago but it’s underrated. I was around 6 or 7 when this album was released and I didn’t become a fan of her until Fearless but this album isn’t as super meaningful to me as any of her other albums but I do remember hearing the pop version of TOMG on Radio Disney. Screaming I’d Lie at the top of my lungs!!!! Just being a teenager in unrequited love (though that got stronger with Fearless). Making swiftie friends in high school that I still know all these years later. Burning mixes onto CDs and then decorating them with sharpie. What other memories do you have surrounding this album? Basically blasting this on every car ride throughout the first half of high school. It introduces her and her viewpoint as the centerpieces of the album. What would you have named this album or do you like the self title? I think the self title was perfect. What are your favorite tracks? Mary’s Song, TTWAS, TOMG (which started my love for track 3s!) But does it have a universal application to my life now, 16 years later? Not as much, and I’m ok with that! I listen to this and I’m immediately in those teenage years again.
Her songwriting also holds up, because there was so much life she hadn’t lived yet.
I was 14-16 during this era and she captured all of those emotions perfectly.ĭid you discover Taylor Swift during this era, or did you go back to it much later? See above.ĭo you think it still “holds up”? Yes and no! It definitely holds up as a time capsule of the teen experience. What does this album mean to you? Debut means so much to me!! It’s when I became a swiftie, because I saw the album cover at the library and liked it enough to take it home and rip it to my computer (sorry, Taylor!) I recognized TOMD from the radio play and then the rest was history.
I would probably have called her singer-songwriter too. This little discovery led my poor dad having to deal with having his normally alt kid blast Carrie Underwood and Keith Urban for the next two years.Įdit 2: I just want to clarify that we were HUGE Dolly Parton fans in my family, but I truly just thought she was a genre all to herself, lmao. I was baffled by what “country” would entail. I looked at the placard above the shelf, designating its genre and thought to myself: “What the fuck is country?” I was just an innocent, little city-Scandinavian then, who knew Willie Nelson and called him singer-songwriter, and Kelly Clarkson who would be pop. Then one day, as I was leaving my favourite record store a bright turquoise caught my eye from a small shelf, kind of hidden away on the right side of the exit. Fearless had been categorised as pop, so I primarily looked there, but even looked through rock, folk, new releases, sales, and I just couldn’t find it. I was searching for the CD over and over, through all my favourite record shops. It’s a stunning album.Įta: I remember falling in love with Taylor through Fearless and then discovering she had another album (Debut) already out.
It’s short, but really, it doesn’t really have a lot of skips, and songs like Teardrops, Tim McGraw, Picture to Burn, Tied Together, and Mary’s Song could be considered among some of the best country songs of the 00s. I often forget just how good this album is. Just got around to joining the listening party.
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