Show Notes
Eras:
- Reputation Era
- Color: black
- Years: 2017-2018
- “Villain Era”
- Revenge Album
- Owing her stuff
- “We think we know someone, but the truth is that we only know the version of them they have chosen to show us. There will be no further explanation. There will only be reputation. (Liner notes)
- 2 sides to the album
- City/Revenge
- Love
- Inspired by the fantasy series Game of Thrones, she split the album into two sides; one contains songs about vengeance and drama, and the other about finding love, friendship, and “something sacred throughout all the battle cries”. (From Wiki) https://ew.com/music/2019/05/09/taylor-swift-game-of-thrones-reputation/
- “My entire outlook on storytelling has been shaped by [Thrones]—the ability to foreshadow stories, to meticulously craft cryptic story lines,” she says. “So, I found ways to get more cryptic with information and still be able to share messages with the fans. I aspire to be one one-millionth of the kind of hint dropper the makers of Game of Thrones have been.”
- Disappeared before this album came out
- Social media wiped before album came out
- Said a prayer of gratitude for each chink in the armor/she never knew she needed
- Disappearance Poem from tour: https://lyricstranslate.com/en/taylor-swift-why-she-disappeared-poem-lyrics.html?amp
Reputation Verses- what’s a line on debut that describes your understanding of God?
@Megan
- Call It What You Want To
- I want to wear his initial/On a chain ’round my neck, chain ’round my neck/Not because he owns me/But ’cause he really knows me/Which is more than they can say
@Paige
- End game – And I can’t let you go, your handprint’s on my soul…./You’ve been calling my bluff on all my usual tricks
Kingdom Stories
@Megan
- End Game- Covenant with Jeremiah
- King of My Heart – god as Israel’s king 1 sam 8
- @Paige
- End Game – big reputation – queen Sheba covenant with David
- So It Goes – “Cut me into pieces” Solomon telling the women to cut the baby in half – 1 Kings 3:16
- Also the story where the person is cut up and mailed around the world Judges 19
- I did something bad – half the of the kings
- Gorgeous – God’s ongoing continual seeking of then people of Israel, despite their faithlessness
Prophet Stories
- @Megan
- I did something bad- Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego (Daniel 3:16-30)- might not fit in our timeline and could have a better song later on.
@Paige
- Look what you made me do – God through All the prophets or The adversary in Job
- Don’t blame me – prophetic visions (prof we don’t need drugs, we have prayer)
- This is why we can’t have nice things – prophets, northern kingdom turned over to Assyrians, Babylonian exile
- Ezekiel 5:9-17
- Call it what you want – beginning of exile (first few lines) My castle crumbled overnight / I brought a knife to a gunfight / They took the crown, but it’s alright
Reputation Verses- Is there a verse that describes God in their reputation era
- @Megan- So it goes…
- I’m yours to keep and I’m yours to lose
- @Paige – This is why we can’t have nice things
- This is why we can’t have nice things, darlin’/Because you break them, I had to take them away/This is why we can’t have nice things, honey (Oh)/Did you think I wouldn’t hear all the things you said about me?/This is why we can’t have nice things
- Where is God?
- https://www.christianpost.com/news/taylor-swift-sings-death-resurrection-darker-persona-emerges-watch.html
- What would God’s track 5 story be?
- Taylor’s track five meaning: On every Taylor Swift album, track five has a very specific meaning. The fifth track is always the most emotional, tear-jerking and vulnerable song on the album. It always follows a sad, heart-wrenching story about Taylor’s past, usually about one of her relationships or her emotions and anxieties in life. (https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2020/11/26/track-5-meaning/)
- Delicate
- Solomon and his wives worshiping other gods
- Delicate
- Taylor’s track five meaning: On every Taylor Swift album, track five has a very specific meaning. The fifth track is always the most emotional, tear-jerking and vulnerable song on the album. It always follows a sad, heart-wrenching story about Taylor’s past, usually about one of her relationships or her emotions and anxieties in life. (https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2020/11/26/track-5-meaning/)
- What’s Next?
- Lover
- Weekly Question
- Reputation God Story
- Track Five God Story
- Reputation Verse(s)
- Thank you!
- Swift Psalm- Psalm 120/This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things
- Song
- Psalm 120:
| Lyrics | Psalm |
| It was so nice being friends again/There I was, giving you a second chance/But you stabbed me in the back while shakin’ my hand/And therein lies the issue, friends don’t try to trick you | “Deliver me, O Lord, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue.” 3 What shall be given to you? And what more shall be done to you, you deceitful tongue? (2-3) |
| And here’s to my baby/He ain’t readin’ what they call me lately/And here’s to my mama/Had to listen to all this drama/And here’s to you/’Cause forgiveness is a nice thing to do | Too long have I had my dwelling among those who hate peace. 7 I am for peace, but when I speak, they are for war. (6 & 7) |