I think I am going through an identity crisis right now… I think it may also be because my birthday is coming up soon.
Taylor Swift’s “Nothing New” reflects her feelings of growing older. She describes the “Red” album as resembling a “heartbroken person.” In her announcement of the re-release on Twitter, she wrote: “It was all over the place, a fractured mosaic of feelings that somehow all fit together in the end. Happy, free, confused, lonely, devastated, euphoric, wild, and tortured by memories past.”
I’ve been married for so long, who will I become once my divorce is finalized? Do I change my surname back to my maiden name? I have three educational degrees, and various licenses & certificates. It took me a long time to change those names to my married surname, and now I gotta do that all over again and change them back to my maiden name?????
This may seem like a small detail in the process of getting divorced, but somehow, that is triggering an identity crisis within me now.
Who was I before I got married? Who was I during my marriage, and Who will I become after I’m divorced? Who Am I? Which one is the real me???
Nothing New
~ Taylor Swift
They tell you while you’re young
“Girls, go out and have your fun”
Then they hunt and slay the ones who actually do it
Criticize the way you fly when you’re soarin’ through the sky
Shoots you down and then they sigh, and say
“She looks like she’s been through it”
Lord, what will become of me
Once I’ve lost my novelty? I’ve had too much to drink tonight
And I know it’s sad, but this is what I think about
And I wake up in the middle of the night
It’s like I can feel time moving
How can a person know everything at 18 but nothing at 22?
And will you still want me when I’m nothing new?
How long will it be cute
All this crying in my room
WhΠ΅n you can’t blame it on my youth
And roll your eyes with affΠ΅ction? And my cheeks are growing tired
From turning red and faking smiles
Are we only biding time ’til I lose your attention?
And someone else lights up the room?
People love an ingΓ©nue
I’ve had (I’ve had) too much to drink tonight
How did I go from growing up to breaking down?
And I wake up (wake up) in the middle of the night
It’s like I can feel time moving
How can a person know everything at 18 but nothing at 22?
Will you still want me when I’m nothing new?
I know someday I’m gonna meet her, it’s a fever dream
The kind of radiance you only have at 17
She’ll know the way, and then she’ll say she got the map from me
I’ll say I’m happy for her, then I’ll cry myself to sleep
Oh, whoa, whoa
Oh, whoa, whoa, oh, whoa, oh
I’ve had (I’ve had) too much to drink tonight
But I wonder if they’ll miss me once they drive me out
I wake up (wake up) in the middle of the night
And I can feel time moving
How can a person know everything at 18 but nothing at 22? And will you still want me
Will you still want me
Will you still want me
When I’m nothing new?
Source(s): The Real Meaning Behind Taylor Swift’s Nothing New Featuring Phoebe Bridgers