Metalhead reacts to Taylor Swift - This is me trying hits HARD!

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11 ай бұрын

For the past 20+ years, I've listened mainly to Metal and Video Game music. My wife on the other hand, is a Swiftie. One of her biggest bucket list items was seeing Taylor live. With the Eras Tour coming to Europe, that dream is now becoming a reality. And I'll be going with her!
In the spirit of this, I've been challenged by her to become a Swiftie by May 2024. That's in 300 days.
I've heard a lot of Taylor Swift songs around the house and in the car, but I've never really PROPERLY listened to her music. Hearing it and listening to it are two very different things after all.
A comment on my first video suggested This is me trying from the Long Pond Studio Sessions. good call! This one hits hard, especially with my background of mental health issues and my little sister losing her life to mental health in 2021.
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10 ай бұрын

Update! Just had a listen on the "normal" version of this song. You guys really knew what you were doing recommending me the long pond session! The much more mellow instrumentals make the vocals punch so much harder! The lack of drums in the long pond version enhances this feeling of mental health struggles so much. Less is more, as they say. Brilliant!

@annag236 9 ай бұрын

Listen to "seven". Beautifully sad

@isabellezversion 10 ай бұрын

i mean “pouring my heart out to a stranger but i didnt pour the whiskey’ is genious as fUCK.

10 ай бұрын

Perfect line

@ewertonluizsantospereira1987 10 ай бұрын

I'm not an English native speaker(I used to learn it in the school) so I never understood that line on the song. It's a sort of metaphor I can see, but I didn't get the meaning of it. But I often see people reacting to that line and I wish to understand that someday.

@michellemadison2539 10 ай бұрын

@@ewertonluizsantospereira1987so pouring out my heart to a stranger means talking to a stranger about their emotions. So Taylor is saying is poured her heart out but didn't pour the whiskey. Which a lot of people drink to escape their feelings and not talk about it. I hope this helped.

@ewertonluizsantospereira1987 10 ай бұрын

@@michellemadison2539 now I see it. Thanks.

@itsonlysound 11 ай бұрын

I'm so sorry about the loss of your little sister x. Mental illness is so hard for everyone concerned and it's a genuinely debilitating physical illness. A lot of people don't realise that. Trying is all we can do sometimes.

11 ай бұрын

@ZATennisFan 9 ай бұрын

@ My condolences….

9 ай бұрын

@@ZATennisFan thank you. It's been 2.5 years now, so I've found my way to a new normal, but it's hit my mental health hard and it's a lot of work still. The first 6 months I wasn't really functional, but by now, I function normally with occasional dips 🙂

@ZATennisFan 9 ай бұрын

@ That song must have you hit you really hard… Taylor is a master at really cutting to the bone sometimes. For me the best song on Folklore is Epiphany. My Dad was a military man is own life and I know he had his demons.

9 ай бұрын

@@ZATennisFan yeah, I thought it didn't show but I think it did 😅

@carked5707 5 ай бұрын

My favourite line is "I was so far behind the curve the curve became a sphere"

@ZATennisFan 10 ай бұрын

To anyone who has ever suffered from this this song cuts very deeply.... It's another example of her genius at cutting right to the heart of the matter.... Especially those of use who suffer from low self esteem...

@TheStepmonkey 10 ай бұрын

Taylor just makes cheap pop songs...🤦🏻‍♀️ You called her a "genius", but is she on the same level as people like Kurt Cobain, Steve Nicks and Freddie Mercury? 🥴

@ZATennisFan 10 ай бұрын

@@TheStepmonkey Cheap pop songs? Hah!! What have you actually listened to?

@simmerdownem2100 10 ай бұрын

@@TheStepmonkeydid you even watch this? 😮😢

@crystalkadletc1944 9 ай бұрын

Ignore that person. They are miserable

@ZATennisFan 9 ай бұрын

@@TheStepmonkey She is at that level absolutely….

@OrlandoMarrero 10 ай бұрын

Great reaction! I'm a Heavy Metal musician and that Album ( FOLKLORE) turn me a Proud Swiftie! We Metals like to Feel music with great lyrics...and She's the best songwriter/storyteller of these times!! And Also a Musician and much etc..but Warning, if You choose to dive into her Music....You will fall in love with Her Golden Heart 💛, because She will help You find lost places in Your Heart that You never imagine !! She will Penetrate your bones to your ❤and Soul !!!!! It will be worth the Journey and You will remember my words!!!

@FC-qb9wp 10 ай бұрын

Why you get scared with the up beat production of her pop songs? It’s Taylor and you can also cry while ur dancing 🕺

@gretatoth8759 10 ай бұрын

If you prefer lower registers, I think her lowest song is Right where you left me, great song!!

@Ayanislucky 10 ай бұрын

Taste!!!

@pegmama8 10 ай бұрын

Yes yes yes

@chelcbarnett 10 ай бұрын

Definitely need lyrics up when listening to Taylor, shes a story teller.

10 ай бұрын

100%

@bagleybadger2867 10 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing the story of your sister, may she be in peace. So sorry for your loss. Also sorry for the problems you yourself have dealt with and appreciate hearing someone acknowledge mental health. Cool to hear you do a fundraiser annually. Love to all 🫶

10 ай бұрын

Thank you

@laurabella13 11 ай бұрын

This is one of my favorite songs of hers

11 ай бұрын

I can see why!

@dominicsdailyvlogs178 2 ай бұрын

I’m a metalhead to, but I have to say Taylor Swift is my favorite modern day artist, she has a great voice, she’s an artist that has actual meanings to her songs. I’m proud to be a swiftie and a Metalhead ❤️

@siennabeaton9292 10 ай бұрын

I think you would love would've could've should've, especially if you're into metal. Its a deeply powerful song lyric wise and the tune is incredible

@isabellezversion 10 ай бұрын

dealing with mental health is the worst part of my life. been in and out of treatment, meds, clinics etc for the past 14 years, since i was 13 years old. i’m still not functional enough and it takes everything in me to fight against it. this song hits so hard i cant even

10 ай бұрын

I feel that! Much love to you and your friends and family. I hope things are getting better cause it sure is a hell to live through. I don't think I have words to send you other than much love and hugs that would be helpful but let me know if there is anything this internet stranger can do you you! Though it may not always feel like it, you've got this!

@cfor8129 10 ай бұрын

I'm a lyrics person so watching a music / instrument person react gets me to pay attention to things I otherwise would miss! This is great

@catsinwonderland7473 10 ай бұрын

Swifties always recommend the fan favorites, but honestly you really have to listen to all of it to get your own conclusions and discover what you like the most. Also what happened to your sister is really why mental health awareness is super important. Like you finally see someone open up, and all everyone responds with is "go gym" or "it's not real go outside and take a walk." And it's all fun and games until their loved one commits suicide, and dumbbells and hiking didn't fix it, it's all fun and games until they actually have to try and understand others and have some empathy. It's sad. Also, I don't really know what else to say besides I'm sorry for your loss. Ik, you hear that all the time and it doesn't sound genuine, but yeah man, that really sucks. :(

10 ай бұрын

Yeah, you get used to the new normal over time, but you never get used to the loss itself. February is always rough on my own mental health as a result of her death day, so I make myself busy doing a charity streaming event around then. Partly for her memory but mainly to keep my mind on other things. And I can't believe it took me 4 months to seek help for myself when it happened. It's HARD to reach out, even when you KNOW you should and need it. So yeah, I get not getting to it

@brenzo2224 11 ай бұрын

Taylor is known to be an albums artist so I’d recommend potentially checking out an album and listening to the songs in order. You could listen to her newest one Speak Now TV, it’s an entirely self written album. Otherwise I’d recommend her out of the woods or wildest dreams Grammy performances. Thank you and great reaction ☺️

11 ай бұрын

That is a good idea. Maybe we can do a full album as a live stream some day soon!

@greta3370 11 ай бұрын

Don’t start with Speak Now, I’ll never understand why people recommend that album for a first listen, it’s a great album and I, as a fan that grew up with her, adore it, but she wrote that at 18, it is her most teenage and dated album, her old music is an acquired taste, much easier to appreciate when you know her and where she comes from. Start with Folklore (and after that, it’s sister album, Evermore), it’s where every new listener should start, it’s all about the storytelling and showcases all her strengths that have made her the artist she is today.

@brenzo2224 11 ай бұрын

@@greta3370 no no no I disagree it’s better to start with her roots imo, people that start with folkevermore have a completely skewed opinion on her music, yes it’s fantastic but she’s a country/ pop artist at the end of the day and those two albums are neither. Maybe not Speak Now but Red is probably the best place to start when it comes to her music. Imo her best album and it’s quintessential Taylor Swift.

@thejobbernowl 11 ай бұрын

@@brenzo2224I would recommend Red as a starting point. To me, I think it’s a good introduction to everything Taylor offers as it’s multi-genre and a very emotional album with both highs and lows and good storytelling in it.

@brenzo2224 11 ай бұрын

@@thejobbernowl I agree, I also think it’s just generally her best album (other than maybe folklore or 1989)

@ragecleaner 10 ай бұрын

and it's hard to be at a party when i feel like an open wound just hits home so hard. all those times i've been around people and just felt like i am walking around with a huge cut but somehow nobody knows that. I love this song. thanks for the great video!

10 ай бұрын

Yeah, I've felt that too at times ❤️

@georgiab46 10 ай бұрын

I’m so very sorry for the loss of your sister, and for your own mental health struggles. I hope you’ve been able to find healing and peace💛

10 ай бұрын

@georgiab46 10 ай бұрын

@ her legacy lives on through you, and I’m sure she’s thankful and proud of everything you do💛

@alisong826 10 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing your story and your sister’s story. I’m a newer swiftie; her vivid lyrics won me over. She has substance!

@Starbuck-dr7yl 11 ай бұрын

Hahaha. Everyone here is going to tell you to listen to the songs in a different order or in a different way. Its all just personal preference. I started my journey in 2020 and I didn’t really go in any order. But, I will say that a lot of her songs reference her other songs or lyrics or events, etc. So, some of the context is lost if you don’t know the previous songs/work. Sometimes. And she takes a lot of care in picking the order of the songs, in particular the 1st and last song (the bookends) and the 5th track on each album. The first song introduces not only the album but the era, the new sound and what is going to come. The last song is the message she wants to leave the listener with. The 5th track is usually her most emotional or most personal/heart wrenching song on the album, or the most meaningful to her. So, if you don’t listen to all the album, or in order you miss the messages that she is trying to convey with the 1st and last song, and the track 5. AND, how some of the songs reference each other. But, I didn’t follow any order and I still enjoyed my journey just fine.

@Bea56601 10 ай бұрын

I love that you replayed the one part. Very relatable. I do this with so many of her songs and especially her bridges

@Mravenrocks 10 ай бұрын

It's easy to see how much you love music, your comments show your experience with instrumentation. When the Folklore album came out in 2020 and I suddenly found myself crying while listening to "This Is Me Trying" and "Mirrorball" it was obvious I was in a bad mental place again and luckily it made me feel motivated to go to therapy again. It can't be really hard to know that you need to ask for help and getting out of depression is incredibly thought.

10 ай бұрын

@melindatintle9728 10 ай бұрын

Looking forward to watching your journey

@xmoomoo9158 10 ай бұрын

She looks and sounds so beautiful ❤️

@Ricky48888 11 ай бұрын

There is exile on Folklore which she has Bon iver as a feature.

@ChivyDCom 10 ай бұрын

This song hits me so hard .

10 ай бұрын

Same!

@isabellezversion 10 ай бұрын

on her rerecord of the álbum red she relesead a song about a friend who commited suicide, its called “forever winter” you should def listen to that!

@nubiaferr 10 ай бұрын

Check "evermore" later, it's another take about mental struggles and a beautiful, beautiful song. Great reaction!

@justcutiecats2733 10 ай бұрын

Illicit affairs next. I like the studio version, but live version is so much better. Wish she would release that live version.

@carsten1989 3 ай бұрын

This song hits hard ❤

@justcutiecats2733 10 ай бұрын

This song is so sad, but i really like it.

10 ай бұрын

Some of the best ones often are! ❤️

@gjh9299 3 ай бұрын

I hardly get out of bed no one knows anything about me, her lines about going off verbally on to someone close to her resonates with me I cant have close relationships because of my fear of abandonment, im sorry for the loss of your sister

@soniclyqaulan 10 ай бұрын

im so sorry for your loss

10 ай бұрын

Thank you ❤️

@tammycombs167 10 ай бұрын

Was looking to spend the day watching Taylor Swift reaction videos. I am a fan of her whole body of work. I stumbled onto your channel. Hit the like and subscribed. I’m very sorry for your loss. That’s a very hard road to travel. My son is still with me be he has died twice. Mental health and addiction are in need of serious attention in our world. 🥰💙🙏🏻

10 ай бұрын

100%! We know very little about how to deal with mental health and mental health care is severely underfunded.

@Yankeesnapper 10 ай бұрын

Hi, I’ve never seen your channel before, but I am also a super metalhead turned into a Swifty! How are you doing my brother?!❤

10 ай бұрын

Just getting started! Welcome!

@tomenrico6199 6 ай бұрын

Great reaction. Along with others here, I want to offer my condolences on the loss of your sister. Like you, her and so many others, I have struggled for years with depression, anxiety, OCD, attention deficit, etc. The whole smorgasbord you might say. Luckily for me, my problems never led to alcoholism or addiction, which is a blessing. I'm also blessed with a strong supportive life partner in my wife, who I am certain saved me from my worst impulses more than once. Speaking from that experience, I have to say this song feels very authentic and hits hard. When I am out in the world, dealing with the daily ups and downs, and perhaps seeming to be doing quite well, I sometimes want to explain to people how draining it is. How just getting from one moment to the next sometimes takes so much focus. It's important to remember that you never know what kind of internal struggles others are facing, day by day, moment by moment. We all need to be kind to each other.

6 ай бұрын

❤️❤️❤️

@Violet316 11 ай бұрын

You can do it, You should try reacting to some of her Reputation Era, Ready For It, I Did Something Bad, and Don't Blame Me, (do the live performances) would be great starters. I just subscribed and am ready to help your journey, you only have 10 albums to get through, and then a few songs here and there floating around.

11 ай бұрын

Recorded a reaction to ready for it right after this one actually 🥰 just need to edit it 😅

@donnaeasty1816 10 ай бұрын

I'm so sorry for the loss of your sister, my own mother took her own life when I was 7 years old. My three siblings and I will never get over the loss, its fourty years later and the hurt is still there. Sadly the help back then was minimal, with a lot of damage done to my Mum. Taylor's music has helped me so much, I know one day we will meet again, and hopefully my Mum found the peace that she deserves.

10 ай бұрын

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

@truckeelove3696 8 ай бұрын

I’m sorry for your loss

8 ай бұрын

❤️❤️❤️

@aloevoice 10 ай бұрын

Swiftie Songwriter here - learning a lot about arrangement here from your commentary :O

10 ай бұрын

Oh really?! 🥰 That's so cool! I suppose my nerdiness of video game music has given me some confidence to pretend I know what I'm talking about 😅 If you're interested, I host a video game music podcast over on my gaming channel once a month (ish) where we share one song each with each other, listen and talk about it. This time we'll be joined by MarcoDMeatball, an opera singer and voice actor (and youtuber) who's got some great insight of music. You might pick up on some cool stuff there too! We'll be live on Tuesday at 4pm EST

@jackclifford4270 10 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing your story ❤

@k-avocado395 10 ай бұрын

I’m so so sorry for your loss of your sister 😔🩷and that’s amazing you do that fundraiser. That’s so awesome 👏🏽

10 ай бұрын

Thank you! Figured it was a nice way to turn something hard into something good. Maybe we can do a live full eras tour setlist listen for the event this time! Or something else! Open to ideas! On top of the many gaming streams of mine and others! My goal is to have participating creators help me fill 72 hours with constant streaming for charity. And possibly get some bigger names joining as well, that would be awesome!

@ana_lynn_w2959 10 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for being vulnerable with sharing your and your sister story with us. Many hugs to you. As for the song… when you kept rewinding that one part.…. Let’s just say I did the same thing until I was listening to the song about 10 times in a row and crying. The song is so vulnerable but also validating.

@shannonsaunders6336 10 ай бұрын

This one is my favourite of her entire catalogue. Exile is 2nd in line. Beautiful work on this album.

@isabellezversion 10 ай бұрын

please do the whole folklore and evermore! its ABSURD how good she is

10 ай бұрын

I'll do them all! But one song at a time, for simplicity's sake! 😅🥰

@catherinebeckyclaire 10 ай бұрын

listening to this bridge 3 times in a row is so real

@lara7353 10 ай бұрын

i’m sorry for your loss. hugs x.

10 ай бұрын

❤️❤️❤️

@nuggetdoja871 11 ай бұрын

Omg I'm only 10 seconds in and laughing my ass off at the goat lmao

11 ай бұрын

It's a classic 😅 never gets old!

@nuggetdoja871 11 ай бұрын

@ I've never seen that haha! Enjoyed your reaction too, will watch more!

@MC-bj6kr 10 ай бұрын

This song is so beautiful and uplifting.

@lynnramadan9855 10 ай бұрын

Her AMA PERFORANCE-I DID SOMETHING BAD. I swear u won’t regret it !!!

@CoastDreamz 11 ай бұрын

These Long Pond versions are shorter than the original album version.

11 ай бұрын

Huh! Interesting! I did like the talk about the song leading up to it though. Added a lot for me as a bad lyric listener. But I'll check out the original version on my own then!

@taracat7723 10 ай бұрын

Folklore and Midnights❤

@christinagranados503 3 ай бұрын

❤️❤️

@shironekotranslate 10 ай бұрын

You should listen to the studio version of this song from the album, I think it is even better than the version of this session because they use more intruments and it enhances the experience and the feeling

10 ай бұрын

Will do!

@mussoletart8485 10 ай бұрын

great reaction! there os another one, forever winter, that really hits deep in the same sentiment. but while i am excited to watch your journey, i would also suggest going by albums. taylor is great at structuring them. also, what kind of metal are you into? blind guardian fan here.

10 ай бұрын

My favorites are probably Sabaton, Within Temptation, Machinae Supremacy, Amaranthe, In Flames and recently I've been discovering a bit of Falling In Reverse. :) I'll take a look at Forever Winter soon! Love the name. Might fit better for wintertimes?

@LPloppG 10 ай бұрын

@ also was about to recommend Forever Winter after seeing this! It doesn't really have to do with winter so you can definitely check it out now!

@orangeis01 10 ай бұрын

You should listen through all of the long pond - then you’d have folklore under your belt. Then you gotta listen to all too well 10 min. It’s the greatest song of all time in my opinion (and many swifties:) Here are some of my personal faves Peace Dear John Evermore My tears ricochet Epiphany (especially bc I was a nurse in a hospital through COVID)

10 ай бұрын

My wife agrees regarding All Too Well 10 Min 😅 she said I should get some more Swift under my wings before I tackle it

@orangeis01 10 ай бұрын

@ I agree - you’ll appreciate it more that way- it’ll be something to look forward to - also, you may have already heard the song wildest dreams, but she has this really great, stripped down, live performance of a few songs, where it’s just her and and electric guitar that you might like - lemme find it

@orangeis01 10 ай бұрын

@ I agree ! You’ll appreciate it more if you wait a bit. Also, I just thought of a life performance that I really like it’s just her and an electric guitar singing wildest dreams it’s mellow, but I love it. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ha10nspkts-unZ8.html

10 ай бұрын

@@orangeis01 sounds great! Will take a look tonight before I sit down to edit my Haunted + Haunted Live reaction 😊