Taylor Swift (born 1989-12-13) is an American singer-songwriter.
Swift has covered the Jimmy Eat World song The Middle live with Jim Adkins as part of the Speak Now World Tour. [1][2][3]She surprised fans throughout the tour with special guests, and they performed a duet with Swift with guest stars varying from Justin Bieber to Nicki Minaj to Hayley Williams of Paramore to Tim McGraw to James Taylor. Swift also appeared in a commercials for Apple Music which featured her "Getting ready to go out..." for the evening while lip-syncing to The Middle. [4][5]
During the North American and Australasian Speak Now World Tour legs, Swift wrote different song lyrics, and occasionally quotes from famous speeches and movies, on her left arm for each performance. She has said that the lyrics should be viewed as a nightly "mood ring" [9] and The New Yorker has cited the practice as an example of Swift's "keen understanding of what fuels fan obsession in the first place: a desire for intimacy between singer and listener". [10] This included the following Jimmy Eat World songs: [11][12]
Taylor Swift Arm Lyrics from Speak Now World Tour “I was only there to sing your song. What were you protecting yourself from?” from Jimmy Eat World's Mixtape at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey, USA on 2011-07-23.“I was only there to sing your song. What were you protecting yourself from?” from Mixtape at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey, USA on 2011-07-23. These lyrics can be partially seen here [13]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjKsWikRu3U and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDs9ocHVZ-g and clearly seen in this photo.
Taylor Swift Arm Lyrics from Speak Now World Tour “Little girl, you’re in the middle of the ride.” from Jimmy Eat World's The Middle at the Energy Solutions Arena in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA on 20211-09-28“Little girl, you’re in the middle of the ride.” from The Middle at the Energy Solutions Arena in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA on 20211-09-28. These lyrics can be partially seen here [14]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4GmuY1jKy0 and in this photo. [15]
Taylor Swift Arm Lyrics from Speak Now World Tour “Can you still feel the butterflies? Can you still hear the last goodnight?” from Jimmy Eat World's For Me This Is Heaven at the United Spirit Arena in Lubbock, Texas, USA on 2011-10-14.“Can you still feel the butterflies? Can you still hear the last goodnight?” from For Me This Is Heaven at the United Spirit Arena in Lubbock, Texas, USA on 2011-10-14. Which can be partially seen here [16]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hjakfk8dDKY here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=helhN5QCYlE and here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElSIoKg9TAg and clearly seen in this photo.
↑Obenschain, Philip (July 23, 2013). "Jimmy Eat World cover Taylor Swift once again, this time for 'Conan'". Alternative Press. Archived from the original on July 26, 2013. Retrieved December 24, 2017. https://www.altpress.com/news/entry/jimmy_eat_world_cover_taylor_swift_once_again_this_time_for_conan
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Taylor Swift's Arm Art is a Mood Ring – The Country Vibe News,
Becca,
2011-08-11,
Thecountryvibe.com,
2021-04-20,
Taylor Swift’s Arm Art is a Mood Ring
By Becca
Taylor Swift
When Taylor Swift kicked off the U.S. portion of her Speak Now Tour, she introduced a new nightly tradition of writing song lyrics down the side of her left arm. It turns out the tradition started as a pick-me-up that Taylor did for herself one night. She says, “One day at rehearsals I was having a rough day, and I wrote a lyric by my friend Selena Gomez on my arm: ‘You’ve got every right to a beautiful life.’ It looked cool, so now I put lyrics on my arm every night. It’s like a mood ring.”,
2013-08-07
