The affecting melody concerning faithfulness is the fifth selection on The Life of a Showgirl.
Not even Taylor Swift is exempt from oldest daughter tendencies.
In her newly dropped 12th studio record, The Life of a Showgirl, the famous singer delves into the characteristics of firstborn females in the appropriately named “Eldest Daughter,” which occurs as track five—a notable placement, considering that Swift herself has acknowledged allocating her most exposed and intimate songs as the fifth on any album’s set of songs.
Swift depicts the protection that eldest daughters figure out how to conceal themselves within, even at the cost of relinquishing their own gentleness: “Every eldest daughter / Was the first lamb to the slaughter / So we all dressed up as wolves and we looked fire.”
In spite of facing a severe truth that encompasses “so many traitors, smooth operators,” Swift still pledges to uphold her personal virtue as a true and committed individual. That promise could be viewed as a pledge to safeguard a younger relative, yet it might also be inferred to signify something more sentimental. Given the reports of Swift’s commitment to Travis Kelce, it’s completely conceivable that the refrain (which contains verses like “I’m never gonna break that vow / I’m nеver gonna leave you now, now, now”) may have been composed bearing nuptials in mind.
Swift is, herself, the senior offspring in her family; she has a younger sibling, Austin Swift, aged 33. While Swift usually respects the solitude of her close family by seldom mentioning them in interviews, she lately spoke freely about Austin’s crucial part in assisting her to reacquire her master recordings.
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“I wanted to buy my music outright. It was a long shot,” she expressed during an August guest spot on Kelce’s podcast, New Heights. “Rather than send lawyers or management, I sent my mom and my brother, who I work with, to L.A. They sat down with [the owners], Shamrock Capital, and told them what this meant to me. They told them the whole story.”
Austin also earlier presented a scarce remark regarding Swift’s profession during a 2017 discussion with Vanity Fair. “She found singing, and I knew from very early on that that was her direction,” he communicated to the magazine. “She was never going to quit; that was her thing, that was her life.”
Christopher Polk//Getty ImagesTaylor Swift with her younger brother, Austin Swift, at the 2011 People’s Choice Awards.
In the meantime, Kelce is the youngest kid of his own kin (he has an older brother, Jason Kelce, aged 37, and also an NFL player), a detail that Swift apparently alludes to at the conclusion of the song’s progression: “Every youngest child felt / They were raised up in the wild / But now you’re home.”
Peruse the complete verses below.
Everybody’s so punk on the internet
Everyone’s unbothered ’til they’re not
Every joke’s just trolling and memes
Sad as it seems, apathy is hot
Everybody’s cutthroat in the comments
Every single hot take is cold as ice
When you found me, I said I was busy, that was a lie
I have been afflicted by a terminal uniqueness
I’ve been dying just from trying to seem cool
But I’m not a bad bitch, and this isn’t savage
But I’m never gonna let you down
I’m never gonna leave you out
So many traitors, smooth operators
But I’m never gonna break that vow
I’m nеver gonna leave you now, now, now
You know, thе last time I laughed this hard was
On the trampoline in somebody’s backyard
I must’ve been about eight or nine
That was the night I fell off and broke my arm
Pretty soon, I learned cautious discretion
When your first crush crushes something kind
When I said I don’t believe in marriage, that was a lie
Every eldest daughter
Was the first lamb to the slaughter
So we all dressed up as wolves and we looked fire
But I’m not a bad bitch, and this isn’t savage
But I’m never gonna let you down
I’m never gonna leave you out
So many traitors, smooth operators
But I’m never gonna break that vow
I’m never gonna leave you now, now, now
We lie back
A beautiful, beautiful time-lapse
Ferris wheels, kisses, and lilacs
And things I said were dumb
’Cause I thought that I’d never find that beautiful, beautiful life that (Ah)
Shimmers that innocent light back
Like when we were young
Every youngest child felt
They were raised up in the wild
But now you’re home
’Cause I’m not a bad bitch
And this isn’t savage
And I’m never gonna let you down
I’m never gonna leave you out
So many traitors, smooth operators (Ah, ah)
But I’m never gonna break that vow (Never gonna break that vow)
I’m never gonna leave you now, now, now
Never gonna break that vow (Ooh)
Never gonna leave you now, now
I’m never gonna leave you now