Swift rose to mainstream prominence with her sophomore studio album, Fearless (2008), a country pop record with crossover appeal. Aided by the top-five singles “Love Story” and “You Belong with Me”, Fearless was certified Diamond by the Recording Industry Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Swift's third studio album, Speak Now (2010), blended country pop with elements of rock and featured the top-ten singles “Mine” and “Back to December”.
Drawing inspiration from various pop, rock, and electronic genres, Swift's fourth studio album Red (2012) saw her transcending her country roots. She completely moved to pop with her synth-pop fifth studio album, 1989 (2014), and expanded the electropop sound on her next two studio albums, reputation (2017) and Lover (2019), which respectively embraced urban and retro styles. The four albums spawned a string of international top-five singles, including “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together”, “I Knew You Were Trouble”, “Shake It Off”, “Blank Space”, “Bad Blood”, “Look What You Made Me Do”, “ME! (feat. Brendon Urie of Panic! at the Disco)”, “You Need to Calm Down”, and “Lover”.
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Swift experimented with folk and alternative rock on her eighth and ninth studio albums, folklore and evermore (both 2020), whose lead singles “cardigan” and “willow” topped charts around the world. She also released the critically acclaimed documentaries Miss Americana and Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions that year. Swift's tenth studio album, Midnights (2022), marked her triumphant return to pop after two folk albums. The album set the record for biggest first day and first week ever on Spotify, spawned the hits Anti-Hero and Lavender Haze, and sold over 1.5 million copies in its first week becoming not only the biggest debut of the decade but also Swift's biggest debut ever. She would make history by becoming the first artist to occupy the entire top ten of the Billboard Hot 100 with tracks from Midnights. Following Midnights, Taylor Swift announced her eleventh studio album, “The Tortured Poets Department” (2024) which was released on April 19, 2024. She announced this record at 66th Annual Grammy Award Show accepting the award for Best Pop Vocal Album for her previous album, Midnights (2022) in honour of receiving her 13th Grammy.
Additionally, Swift began re-recording her back catalog in November 2020 as a result of a publicized dispute with talent manager Scooter Braun and her former label Big Machine, regarding the acquisition of the masters of her back catalog. In April 2021, Swift released a re-recorded issue of her 2008 album Fearless, titled Fearless (Taylor's Version). It debuted at number one in the US. Swift continued releasing re-recorded versions of her back catalog in November, 2021 with the release of Red (Taylor's Version), a 30 track re-issue of her 2012 critical smash. The album debuted at #1 in the US, spawned the #1 hit All Too Well (10 Minute Version) (Taylor's Version) (From the Vault), and broke the record at the time for biggest first day for a female album on Spotify. Red (Taylor's Version) was a critical and commercial hit, and proved that Swift's ambitious, yet ongoing plan to re-record her first 6 albums was well worth it.
Along with the release of Red (Taylor's Version) came All Too Well: The Short Film (2021), Swift's filmmaking debut. The 15 minute romantic drama was based on the lyrical content from Swift's 2012 fan favorite “All Too Well” starring Sadie Sink and Dylan O'Brien. It had a limited theatrical release in major cities, and Swift held special screenings of the film throughout 2022 at various film festivals. In December, 2022 Taylor announced that she would be making her feature directorial debut with Oscar-winning studio Searchlight Pictures.
Following the release of Midnights, Swift would embark on her first tour in five years, The Eras Tour—a retrospective tour covering the entirety of her discography. During her ongoing tour, Swift would release her next two re-recorded albums, Speak Now (Taylor's Version) in July and 1989 (Taylor's Version) in October of 2023. The former of which would land Swift as the woman with the most number-one albums (12) in Billboard 200 history, surpassing Barbra Streisand. The latter was her sixth album to sell one million copies in a single week in the US, her largest album sales in a week span. “Is It Over Now? (Taylor's Version)”, the lead single for 1989 (Taylor's Version), would peak at number one on the Billboard Hot 100.
At the 66th annual GRAMMY Awards, Taylor Swift surprised viewers by announcing her eleventh studio album, THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT. On April 19, 2024, the album was released globally, breaking records: it became the first ever to amass 1 billion Spotify streams in a week and sold 2.6 million units in its first week in the US. Swift dominated the charts, monopolizing the top 14 spots on the Billboard Hot 100 and securing the top 10 positions on Australia’s ARIA Singles Chart. The lead single, Fortnight, featuring Post Malone, quickly soared to the number-one position on the Hot 100. Additionally, just two hours after the album’s release, Swift surprised fans with a reissue titled THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT: THE ANTHOLOGY, which included 15 extra songs.
Swift has released several songs for film soundtracks. She co-wrote two songs for the Hannah Montana: The Movie soundtrack— “You'll Always Find Your Way Back Home” and “Crazier”, and contributed two songs to the Valentine's Day soundtrack, including the single “Today Was a Fairytale”, which was her first number one on the Canadian Hot 100, and peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100. She also contributed two original songs to The Hunger Games soundtrack album: “Safe & Sound - from The Hunger Games Soundtrack”, co-written and recorded with The Civil Wars and T-Bone Burnett, and “Eyes Open”. “Safe & Sound” won the Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media and was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song. In 2013, Swift recorded “Sweeter than Fiction”, a song she wrote and produced with Jack Antonoff for the One Chance film soundtrack, which received a Best Original Song nomination at the 71st Golden Globe Awards. Swift and English singer Zayn Malik, mononymously known as Zayn, released a single together, “I Don't Wanna Live Forever”, for the soundtrack of the film Fifty Shades Darker (2017). She also recorded an original song called “Beautiful Ghosts”, which she wrote with Andrew Lloyd Webber for the Cats's soundtrack (2019). In 2020, Swift's documentary Miss Americana featured the song “Only the Young” which was written after the 2018 United States elections. In 2022, she released an original song titled “Carolina” for Where The Crawdads Sing (2022) inspired by the novel written by Delia Owens.
With sales of over 200 million records worldwide, Swift is a best-selling music artist. Her accolades include 14 Grammy Awards, including four Album of the Year wins, which makes Swift the artist with the most awards for that category in history, two Brit Awards (including a Global Icon award), an Emmy Award, 28 [https://guinnessworldrecords.com/]Guinness World Records, 32 American Music Awards (the most wins by an artist), and 23 Billboard Music Awards (the most wins by a woman). She ranked eighth on Billboard's Greatest of All Time Artists Chart (2019) and was listed on Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time (2015). Swift has been included in various power rankings, such as Time's annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world (2010, 2015 and 2019) and Forbes Celebrity 100 (placing first in 2016 and 2019). She was named Woman of the Decade (2010s) by Billboard, Artist of the Decade (2010s) by the American Music Awards, and Person of the Year (2023) by Time Magazine.
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Soon You'll Get Better
Taylor Swift Lyrics
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In doctor's-office-lighting, I didn't tell you I was scared
That was the first time we were there
Holy orange bottles, each night I pray to you
Desperate people find faith, so now I pray to Jesus too
And I say to you
Ooh-ah, soon you'll get better
Ooh-ah, you'll get better soon
'Cause you have to
I know delusion when I see it in the mirror
You like the nicer nurses, you make the best of a bad deal
I just pretend it isn't real
I'll paint the kitchen neon, I'll brighten up the sky
I know I'll never get it, there's not a day that I won't try
And I'll say to you
Ooh-ah, soon you'll get better
Ooh-ah, soon you'll get better
Ooh-ah, you'll get better soon
'Cause you have to
And I hate to make this all about me
But who am I supposed to talk to?
What am I supposed to do
If there's no you?
This won't go back to normal, if it ever was
It's been years of hoping, and I keep saying it because
'Cause I have to
Ooh-ah, you'll get better
Ooh-ah, soon you'll get better
Ooh-ah, you'll get better soon
Ooh-ah, soon you'll get better
Ooh-ah, soon you'll get better
Ooh-ah, you'll get better soon
'Cause you have to
The song Soon You'll Get Better is a heartfelt ballad that expresses the pain and fear of watching a loved one battle with illness. The first verse sets the scene with a vivid description of the singer's state of mind - her buttons are tangled in her hair, symbolizing her disorientation and fear, and the doctor's office lighting adds to the sense of clinical detachment. The singer confesses that she didn't tell her loved one she was scared, highlighting the strength and resilience required of family members and caregivers in such circumstances. The line "holy orange bottles" could refer to prescription medication, with the singer desperately praying for the medicine to work and her loved one to recover. The mention of Jesus suggests a deepening of the singer's faith and hope, even in the face of great adversity.
In the second verse, we see the singer's coping mechanisms and the contrasting ways in which she and her loved one are handling the situation. The singer paints the kitchen neon, perhaps trying to shake off the gloom and despair that surrounds her, while her loved one gravitates towards the "nicer nurses," showing a deep need for human connection in times of illness. The singer acknowledges her own denial with the line "I just pretend it isn't real," emphasizing the difficulty of coming to terms with a loved one's suffering. Despite her own feelings of powerlessness, the singer promises to keep trying to make things better, showing a resilience and selflessness that is both inspiring and heartrending.
The chorus is a simple and hopeful message, repeated several times: "Ooh-ah, soon you'll get better." This repetition conveys the singer's deep desire for her loved one's recovery and reminds us that, despite the fear and pain, hope is still present. The bridge shifts the focus slightly to the singer's own feelings of isolation and loss. She acknowledges that this situation is not about her, yet she can't help feeling a sense of helplessness and confusion. Her question - "What am I supposed to do if there's no you?" - is heartbreaking, underscoring the profound sense of loss that comes with illness and the fear of losing a loved one altogether.
Overall, Soon You'll Get Better is a moving and beautifully crafted song that captures the complex emotions of caregiving and the hope and despair that comes with watching a loved one battle with illness.
Line by Line Meaning
The buttons of my coat were tangled in my hair
I was in such a rush to leave and get to the doctor's office that I didn't notice my coat buttons getting tangled in my hair.
In doctor's-office-lighting, I didn't tell you I was scared
I tried to put up a brave front in the sterile doctor's office, even though I was terrified.
That was the first time we were there
It was the first time we went to the doctor's office for this serious illness, and I didn't know what to expect.
Holy orange bottles, each night I pray to you
I put all my hope in the medicine in those orange bottles and pray every night that they'll help you get better.
Desperate people find faith, so now I pray to Jesus too
I'm not a religious person, but I'm so desperate that I've started praying to Jesus as well in the hopes that it will help you recover.
And I say to you
I'm holding onto hope that you'll recover and I'm communicating that to you.
Ooh-ah, soon you'll get better
I truly believe that you'll recover soon and things will get better.
You like the nicer nurses, you make the best of a bad deal
Even in this difficult situation, you're trying to make the best of it by appreciating the kind nurses.
I just pretend it isn't real
Sometimes, it's too hard for me to face the reality of the situation so I just pretend it's not happening.
I'll paint the kitchen neon, I'll brighten up the sky
I'll do anything to try and make your day just slightly better, even if it's just by painting a room bright colors.
I know I'll never get it, there's not a day that I won't try
I don't fully understand what you're going through, but I'll never stop trying to support you and make you feel better.
And I hate to make this all about me
I don't want to sound selfish, but I just don't know who else to turn to or how to cope with the situation.
But who am I supposed to talk to?
I feel so alone and lost without you, and I don't know who else to turn to for support.
What am I supposed to do
I feel helpless and I don't know what else I can do to help you recover.
If there's no you?
I can't imagine a life without you, so I'm holding onto hope that you'll get better and we can continue on together.
This won't go back to normal, if it ever was
Things will never be the same as they were before this illness, even if we do recover from it.
It's been years of hoping, and I keep saying it because
We've been holding onto hope for so long and it's become a sort of mantra to keep us going.
'Cause I have to
I don't have a choice but to hold onto hope and keep trying to make things better.
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Written by: Jack Antonoff, Taylor Swift
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@harjunkuwindo
"Soon You'll Get Better"
(feat. Dixie Chicks)
The buttons of my coat were tangled in my hair
In doctor's office lighting, I didn't tell you I was scared
That was the first time we were there
Holy orange bottles, each night, I pray to you
Desperate people find faith, so now I pray to Jesus too
And I say to you
Ooh-ah
Soon, you'll get better
Ooh-ah
Soon, you'll get better
Ooh-ah
You'll get better soon
'Cause you have to
I know delusion when I see it in the mirror
You like the nicer nurses, you make the best of a bad deal
I just pretend it isn't real
I'll paint the kitchen neon, I'll brighten up the sky
I know I'll never get it, there's not a day that I won't try
And I say to you
Ooh-ah
Soon, you'll get better
Ooh-ah
Soon, you'll get better
Ooh-ah
You'll get better soon
'Cause you have to
And I hate to make this all about me
But who am I supposed to talk to?
What am I supposed to do
If there's no you?
This won't go back to normal, if it ever was
It's been years of hoping, and I keep saying it because
'Cause I have to
Ooh-ah
You'll get better
Ooh-ah
Soon, you'll get better
Ooh-ah
You'll get better soon
Ooh-ah
Soon, you'll get better
Ooh-ah
Soon, you'll get better
Ooh-ah
You'll get better soon
'Cause you have to
@g4bbygs
Lyrics :
The buttons of my coat were tangled in my hair
In doctor's-office-lighting, I didn't tell you I was scared
That was the first time we were there
Holy orange bottles, each night I pray to you
Desperate people find faith, so now I pray to Jesus too
And I say to you
Ooh-ah, soon you'll get better
Ooh-ah, soon you'll get better
Ooh-ah, you'll get better soon
'Cause you have to
I know delusion when I see it in the mirror
You like the nicer nurses, you make the best of a bad deal
I just pretend it isn't real
I'll paint the kitchen neon, I'll brighten up the sky
I know I'll never get it, there's not a day that I won't try
And I'll say to you
Ooh-ah, soon you'll get better
Ooh-ah, soon you'll get better
Ooh-ah, you'll get better soon
'Cause you have to
And I hate to make this all about me
But who am I supposed to talk to?
What am I supposed to do
If there's no you?
This won't go back to normal, if it ever was
It's been years of hoping, and I keep saying it because
'Cause I have to
Ooh-ah, you'll get better
Ooh-ah, soon you'll get better
Ooh-ah, you'll get better soon
Ooh-ah, soon you'll get better
Ooh-ah, soon you'll get better
Ooh-ah, you'll get better soon
'Cause you have to
@kateFGMP
Taylor once said that she can’t sing it live as it’s too emotionally difficult. She also had to leave the room when it played during the Lover secret sessions. And now she has sung it to the world, when we needed the most a message of Hope. Thank you Taylor, I admire you so much!
@elizabethcarmitamanzanero6812
Hey can you please link me the video where she says she won't sing it live?
@1975coucou
she had a secret session for lover?
@tanushrees2592
@@1975coucou yeah she did
@tanushrees2592
@@elizabethcarmitamanzanero6812 she sand it for the one world :together at home performance actually:)
@samayakumar183
she's literally the sweetest person ever
@nancyang3135
"And I hate to make this all about me . But who am I supposed to talk to? What am I supposed to do?"
This line hit me hard.
@beauteafulyou1616
One of the best lines ever
@lilyblossom2
I cant even count the number of times i start to open up and someone calls me melodramatic or narcissistic.
@kendle7879
Same