
“The guys in our school aren’t even worth worrying about,” she wrote.

Take another part of that same 2003 entry that made me sad for young Taylor, then suspicious of current Taylor.

It’s unclear how cynical to be about the diaries’ contents. How else could Swift justify what seems like little more than a cash grab-a way to get fans to spend more money on the album, or even multiple copies of the album, to collect them all-than with the promise of such intimacy? The deluxe editions, which are only available at Target, come with one of four different booklets containing reproductions of what are marketed as real diary entries Swift wrote between the ages of 13 and 27. Swift isn’t encrypting messages in her liner notes anymore, but the journal excerpts show that she hasn’t lost her penchant for marginalia. Each new Taylor Swift album used to bring with it a lyric booklet sprinkled with “secret” messages, characterized by capitalized letters that spelled out clues about the songs’ hidden meanings or whom (read: which ex-boyfriend) they were really about. The Tasti D reminiscence comes from an exclusive booklet that accompanies some deluxe editions of Swift’s new album, Lover. Taylor Swift Has Led Her Fans Down Another Gay Rabbit HoleĪn Interview With a 13-Year-Old Whose Anti–Jake Gyllenhaal Protest Earrings Have Swept Her Middle School Should We Give Taylor Swift the Benefit of the Doubt on Her Lyric “F- the Patriarchy”?

Did Taylor Swift Just Make Billboard Chart History?
