{"id":323,"date":"2022-02-10T05:49:16","date_gmt":"2022-02-10T05:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/?p=323"},"modified":"2022-02-10T06:02:23","modified_gmt":"2022-02-10T06:02:23","slug":"blog-post-4-wildest-dreams-taylors-version","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/2022\/02\/10\/blog-post-4-wildest-dreams-taylors-version\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Post 4 &#8211; Wildest Dreams (Taylor&#8217;s Version)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A song that I consider to be \u201cwild\u201d is Taylor Swift\u2019s song \u201cWildest Dreams (Taylor\u2019s Version),\u201d which she released unexpectedly just last year. Taylor Swift is an American singer-songwriter who writes in many different genres. \u201cWildest Dreams\u201d was initially featured on Taylor Swift\u2019s synth-pop album <em>1989<\/em>, which she released on October 24, 2014. However, after losing her ownership rights to most of her music due to Big Machine Records, she is rerecording all of her previous albums and re-releasing them under her own name as \u201cTaylor\u2019s Version.\u201d Therefore, when Taylor Swift surprised the world with the rerelease of \u201cWildest Dreams (Taylor\u2019s Version)\u201d on September 17, 2021, no one was expecting it due to her plans of rereleasing <em>Red (Taylor\u2019s Version) <\/em>on November 12, 2021.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think that the release of \u201cWildest Dreams (Taylor\u2019s Version)\u201d and its lyrics are both \u201cwild\u201d in nature. Taylor Swift has recently surprised her fans by dropping albums unexpectedly or sprinkling hints across her social media platforms. However, releasing a song to the public without warning and her reasoning essentially being the fact that the original song was trending on social media is extremely \u201cwild.\u201d Furthermore, the lyrics of this song are \u201cwild,\u201d with the song title including \u201cwild\u201d in its name. For example, Taylor Swift sings, \u201cI can see the end as it begins,\u201d which is an inherently \u201cwild\u201d statement due to this breaking normal bounds. It is impossible to see the end of something before its beginning and suggest \u201cwild\u201d abilities. Furthermore, the emotional turbulence of lines such as \u201cHe&#8217;s so bad but he does it so well\u201d and \u201cSay you&#8217;ll see me again\/\/Even if it&#8217;s just in your wildest dreams,\u201d conveying the \u201cwild\u201d emotions that Taylor Swift is depicting within this song. Additionally, it is wild for Taylor Swift to assume that her partner will see her in his dreams, considering neither he nor she has any authority over their dreams. This suggestion of controlling the uncontrollable is another \u201cwild\u201d aspect of this song.\u00a0<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/CUr_UwUUXzU\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/CUr_UwUUXzU<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-Juliette Chartier<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A song that I consider to be \u201cwild\u201d is Taylor Swift\u2019s song \u201cWildest Dreams (Taylor\u2019s Version),\u201d which she released unexpectedly just last year. Taylor Swift is an American singer-songwriter who writes in many different genres. \u201cWildest Dreams\u201d was initially featured &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/2022\/02\/10\/blog-post-4-wildest-dreams-taylors-version\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-welcome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions\/329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}