Taylor Swift has just premiered two lyric videos simultaneously for her songs 'it's time to go' and this one, 'right where you left me'. Both tracks are lifted from the newly enhanced, 'deluxe version' of her album, 'evermore'. Each track features at the end of the new 17 track release that came out on January 7th this year.
Taylor Swift delivered not one but two highly regarded albums last year with both 'evermore' and 'folklore' gaining both lavish critical acclaim as well as the endorsement of her sycophantic fans. The highly accomplished singer-songwriter continues to deliver well crafted songs that have become synonymous with great story telling. Swift has a well honed knack of concisely imparting a fantastic narrative in a succinct song whilst also being a pretty fabulous vocalist.
'right where you left me', her latest release, is one of Swift's more traditional and familiar sounding compositions but still packs a punch. The song still has a proper story with a beginning, a middle and an end and as you listen you can't help but be drawn in to find out what happens.
Taylor's new song is tragic in many ways, not for it's quality, it's performance, arrangement or production; it's tragic because of the utterly devastating lyrics. The poor girl who's been dumped at the restaurant seems all too real, "Friends break up, friends get married, Strangers get born, strangers get buried, Trends change, rumours fly through new skies, But I'm right where you left me" sings Taylor in a brutal depiction of relationship failure. There's no happy ending, no hope really just a sad reality for the "the girl who lives in delusion".