The Taylor Chronicles: Codes

Another proof that Taylor Swift is not just your typical singer-guitarist-songwriter are the codes inserted in the lyric sheet of her albums. Yep, she is also goddamn smart.

It may be her idea, or that of her marketing team, but regardless whose it is, that additional feature is an irresistible lure to fans to buy the physical album despite the downloadable version (free or otherwise). No wonder her albums are multi-platinum!

Above is a sample lyric page of her second album (Fearless) and the song is Love Story. The codes are letters that are CAPITALIZED in the lyrics when they shouldn't be. Example (see the letters marked/encircled in the pic): we were both young when i first Saw you. "S" in "saw" is out of place, and that's the letter to look out for. The whole story: S-O-M-E-D-A-Y *** I-L-L ***F-I-N-D ***T-H-I-S. I can't be sure but I'm guessing that what she means is she hopes to find a love like the one in the song... someday.

Another sample:
*Song - Hey, Stephen
*Code - LOVE AND THEFT (Stephen, about whom she wrote the song, is a member of this band)

Itching to get a copy of the album now? =) =) =)

Love Story

I caught about three-fourths of this 1970 classic at IBC 13 when I was about 13 years old. I felt so sorry for the girl who died and the guy she left behind that I cried buckets, as if it was I who lost somebody I deeply loved. Unfortunately, the channel no longer showed the title of the movie when it ended so I was not able to know what movie it was that really touched me.

But perhaps serendipity truly happens?

Fast forward to one fine day in college: my classmates and I were at a gazebo, waiting for our next class. Then here comes Ariane, returning a book she borrowed from Liza. The latter did not yet want the book returned though because there were a lot of things she was already carrying at that time. I nonchalantly asked what the book was about and finding that the plot interested me, I volunteered to take the book home with me. The book was Erich Segal's "Doctors" (which to this day remains one of my top faves).

The connection?

Erich wrote Love Story, the movie I saw many years back, which, till that day, I never knew the title of. But how was I to know that one of the novels listed in one of the pages of Doctors was the movie I saw years ago?

I don't exactly know. Perhaps there was a short description of it in the book, but I don't remember it being the case. I do remember, however, that something in me just knew that that was it - the movie I saw long ago was Love Story and none else.

I checked the book out and yes, I was right. That movie I fell in love with many years back, was the movie adaptation of the book which I was then reading.

Life really knows how to fix things that were left hanging.

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Lifted from my old blog dated 14 July 2004.