Taylor Swift, may madamdaming liham sa fans
NAGLAKIP ng inspirational letter si Taylor Swift para sa kanyang fans sa special edition ng kanyang bagong album na Reputation para sa U.S. retailer na Target. Naging pamoso ang
Made You Do hitmaker dahil sa kanyang direkta at may common sense na payong ibinabahagi, partikular sa mga kabataang babae, at ang kanyang bagong awiting Prologue ay hindi naiiba rito. Nagsisilbi itong pambungad sa kanyang personal poetry, at libreng regalo sa kanyang fans, na makukuha nila kapag bumili sila ng hard copy ng kanyang album.
“Here’s something I’ve learned about people,” panimula niya sa piyesa, na tumatalakay sa popularidad, social media, at sa mga pagsubok na kinakaharap ng kanyang henerasyon.
“We think we know someone, but the truth is that we only know the version of them they have chosen to show us. We know our friend in a certain light, but we don’t know them the way their lover does. Just the way their lover will never know them the same way that you do as their friend... “We may hear rumors about a person and believe those things to be true,” patuloy ni Taylor. “We may one day meet that person and feel foolish for believing baseless gossip.” Nagbigay din siya ng saloobin hinggil sa pagpo- post ng litrato online, “to curate what strangers think of us, only to later realise that the reality is more about cracks and scars and blemishes”. Wala siyang sinabing panghuhusga at iginiit na “humans are intrinsically impossible to simplify” at “never just good or just bad”. Naging tapat din si Swift na naaapektuhan siya ng social media, at sinabing ang kanyang, “heartbreaks have been used as entertainment” at ang kanyang songwriting ay laging itinuturing na “oversharing”. Tinapos niya ang kanyang liham sa paguulit ng kanyang orihinal na pahayag:” We think we know someone, but the truth is that we only know the version of them that they have chosen to show us. “There will be no further explanation,” pagtatapos niya. “There will just be reputation.”