The simplest way I can think to explain the song is pure, acoustic beauty. Just like the rest of the album.
Hi, everyone! I’m Lisa, Spinnaker Radio General Manager, here with another 5-minute read on Taylor Swift in my segment of the Spinnaker Radio Newsletter, Listening with Lisa.
After letting Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) simmer for almost a month now, I think it’s time to talk about one of the new songs Taylor Swift added to the album’s line up: Timeless.
The simplest way I can think to explain the song is pure, acoustic beauty. Just like the rest of the album.
Changing the pace of each phrase between the verse to pre-chorus to chorus continuously pulls my focus. Even if I’m listening to this song as background music while I’m working, each transition distracts me and I can’t help but soak up every lyric, chord, and harmony.
Something Taylor incorporates with each song she releases is the perfect blend of simple sentences, metaphors, and stories she has fantasized. I find it ever-so fascinating to unpack each lyric Taylor lays atop the simply beautiful chord progressions she’s put together.
Timeless tells a few stories of Taylor and a man. First, they live in a different time period. Then, a fairy tale before we learn the reality of how they met. She explains that no matter where or when they met, they would be “timeless.”
Taylor has an incredible ability of composing albums with cohesion, and making those albums completely different from each other. The edgy, rebelliousness of Reputation with Look What You Made Me Do and This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things makes me want to scream-sing and jump up and down, making me look like a deranged kangaroo. On the other hand, Speak Now is the album I put on when I want to be enchanted into an acoustic trance with a fall candle lit on my nightstand.
A hint of Taylor’s country roots shine through her rhymes. Although a new track on the Speak Now album, the slight southern kick in Timeless wraps the album in a nostalgic, purple bow.
Overall, Timeless is one of the many songs on Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) that may not draw tears from your eyes the first time you listen to it, but once you follow the tale Taylor tells, I suggest grabbing the tissues.
