15 Oct ‘We’re All For The Hall’ Review

This isn’t exactly news or anything, but thanks to Lazeras, I found an amazing review/article written about Taylor’s performance at We’re All For The Hall the other night. It’s seriously an amazing article, really touching and beautiful!

That’s where we were Tuesday night, all 18,000 of us, when Taylor Swift performed.

Not reading from a script, intelligent and schooled, Taylor started riffing. After basking in the adulation she said what she loved about country music is that everybody got to tell their story. And this was hers.

“It’s your freshman year and you’re gonna be here
For the next four years in this town
Hoping one of those senior boys will wink at you and say?
‘You know, I haven’t seen you around before’”

Life. It’s full of hopes and dreams. And victories and losses. What gets you through is your friends and the music.

I’ve seen music become about looks more than sound, I’ve seen music become a sideshow, something that makes people rich, but leaves the audience starving, turning to television and the Internet for fulfillment.

And then I discovered Taylor Swift. Someone who knows it’s about songs, not stardom. Someone willing to keep ticket prices cheap so her young fans have a chance to see her. Someone who’s got the ethos of a star from way back when, as opposed to the sold out creeps who tramp about today.

Music when done right is life itself.

Listening to Taylor Swift Tuesday night, tears came streaming down my face. I couldn’t stop them. On one hand, I was embarrassed. On the other I was thrilled. Just when I’d given up, believing that everything I’d experienced previously had gone, here it was, back.

That rush of going to the show, feeling that there was no place I’d rather be. [Click here to read the full article]