{"id":5563,"date":"2020-03-11T15:12:36","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T15:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etereman.com\/remanu\/?p=5563"},"modified":"2020-03-11T15:16:04","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T15:16:04","slug":"shake-it-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/etereman.com\/remanu\/2020\/03\/11\/shake-it-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Shake It Off"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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I\u2019ve never liked Taylor Swift. (Bear with me.) When she first arrived on the music scene, she was a little bit country, and I was a lot-a-bit rock \u2018n roll. As she got bigger and poppier, my musical tastes became more esoteric and indie (yes, I\u2019m kind of a snob). I heard \u201cShake It Off\u201d in 2014 during a performance of the teachers and students in the elementary branch of the school I worked for and thought it was a cute song \u2013 I didn\u2019t even know it was Taylor Swift, and if I had known, I would have probably liked it less. I had a bit of a fixed mindset about the pop star.<\/p>

Fast forward through arguments about if 1989<\/em> is actually a good album, through little understood references to her beef with Kanye West, through minor scandals and public heartbreaks, and my opinion has changed little. I don\u2019t know Taylor Swift the person. The music though? Hard pass.<\/p>

My son is almost two. He likes cars, dogs, dancing, and visually stimulating videos that happen across our TV or phone screens in small doses. Thus, it happened that my spouse played a Taylor Swift video for my son (shrug emoji), and it\u2019s been a whirlwind romance since then.<\/p>

I think everyone who has known a young child in the modern age learns that they get really into some video, movie, or song and demand that thing be played over and over and over and over.<\/p>

Over the last couple of weeks, I\u2019ve watched a series of four or five Taylor Swift music videos over and over and over and over. (In case you\u2019re curious, he likes \u201cDelicate\u201d, \u201cShake It Off\u201d, \u201cMe!\u201d, \u201cCalm Down\u201d, and \u201cLover\u201d best.)<\/p>

I\u2019m proud that, at first, I was simply a good sport. He wants to watch these and dance cutely for my amusement? What\u2019s the harm? Then there was the insanity phase where I didn\u2019t think I could tolerate more TSwift in one sitting. I couldn\u2019t shake it off. Then a tolerance developed. Bedtime dance parties became a regular thing. And before long, I was singing all the words, finding all the Easter eggs in the music videos, and expressing opinions contrary to my norm: \u201cI like this song.\u201d \u201cThis is my favorite line.\u201d We watched the Taylor Swift documentary on Netflix, and I teared up no less than three times (Did you know Kanye started the beef when Taylor was only 19 years old?!).<\/p>

I find myself rethinking my view of Taylor Swift, and while this is an inconsequential opinion to have, it feels like a titanic shift of my preconceived notions. A chipping away at the cynical shield I wear day to day.<\/p>

When you view things through the eyes of your child \u2013 when it\u2019s only joy, excitement, enjoyment, and innocence, it\u2019s difficult to hold onto your ill-founded grudges. Because he enjoys it, I enjoy it. And through that lens, there\u2019s a base for my very own liking of some<\/em> of what Taylor Swift does.<\/p>

It\u2019s widely prescribed to go into something with an \u201copen mind\u201d, but it\u2019s nearly impossible to do that when you already have an opinion. I think it\u2019s worth leaving the small, confined space of your comfort zone every now and then and challenging the opinions you formed in a different time and place.<\/p>

I may never get over the absolute lyrical train wreck that is the song \u201cLove Story\u201d in which she makes inaccurate allusions to both Romeo and Juliet<\/em> and the The Scarlet Letter<\/em>, but I was an English teacher and she was 19, and she was probably like a lot of my students who didn\u2019t get it, either. Maybe I can forgive her because she\u2019s 30 now and (most) of her lyrics are better\u2026 right?<\/p>

It doesn\u2019t matter. My son likes her, and not just because of that, but because of her very own merits and my will being cracked through repetition, I like her a bit, too.<\/p>

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