{"id":560,"date":"2015-04-15T23:01:33","date_gmt":"2015-04-16T03:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/blog\/?p=560"},"modified":"2023-12-20T10:59:16","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T15:59:16","slug":"blank-space-has-a-bit-more-meaning-than-taylor-swifts-usual-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/blog\/blank-space-has-a-bit-more-meaning-than-taylor-swifts-usual-songs","title":{"rendered":"Blank Space has a bit More Meaning than Taylor Swift&#8217;s Usual Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Even if you don\u2019t listen to her, you can&#8217;t escape from <a title=\"Taylor Swift\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/artist\/taylor-swift\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Taylor Swift<\/a>. Unless you literally never leave your house, you&#8217;ve probably heard her latest song, &#8220;<a title=\"Blank Space Lyrics by Taylor Swift\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/song\/taylor-swift-blank-space-lyrics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Blank Space<\/a>&#8220;. Even if you don&#8217;t pay attention to the lyrics, you should realize that this single seems to have a bit more meaning to it than her usual songs.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Taylor Swift - Blank Space\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e-ORhEE9VVg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Meaning of &#8220;Blank Space&#8221;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Swift herself, <strong>Blank Space<\/strong> started as a joke, where she&#8217;s taking on the persona of how the media portrays her. This is evident by the lyrics <q>Ain&#8217;t it funny rumors fly\/And I know you heard about me<\/q>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The media depicts Taylor Swift as this girl who can never keep a man, and the evidence is that she has had many boyfriends in the past few years. <q>Got a long list of ex-lovers\/They&#8217;ll tell you I&#8217;m insane\/Cause you know I love the players\/And you love the game<\/q>,&nbsp;the song quotes.&nbsp; The <q>blank space<\/q>&nbsp;in the songs seems to refer to the book of love, and she&#8217;s about to write the potential man&#8217;s name in there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, Swift is young, and it&#8217;s natural for some people in their twenties and even thirties to serial date before settling down. As the song depicts, she and her date are&nbsp;<q>young and reckless<\/q>.&nbsp;This could be her way of telling her critics that many people her age do this, but they aren&#8217;t covered like she is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Later on, it becomes more personal. During one verse of the song, Swift seems to self-deprecate herself. Calling herself a <q>nightmare dressed like a daydream<\/q>&nbsp;who gets <q>drunk on jealousy<\/q>,&nbsp;she almost seems to call herself out. It&#8217;s been argued that she really does feel this way about herself, and her claiming that it&#8217;s a character she&#8217;s playing is just her denying it. However, no one can know this for sure unless you personally know her, and we&#8217;re going to assume that most of our readers don\u2019t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is what makes the song interesting. It&#8217;s up to the listener to decide if she&#8217;s playing a character, or being self-aware.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even if you don\u2019t listen to her, you can&#8217;t escape from Taylor Swift. Unless you literally never leave your house, you&#8217;ve probably heard her latest song, &#8220;Blank Space&#8220;. Even if you don&#8217;t pay attention to the lyrics, you should realize that this single seems to have a bit more meaning&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/blog\/blank-space-has-a-bit-more-meaning-than-taylor-swifts-usual-songs\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":563,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[85,29],"class_list":["post-560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-song-analysis","tag-blank-space","tag-taylor-swift"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}