Taylor Swift: ‘I’ve secretly based genres of my songs on the type of pen I’m using’
msn.comTaylor Swift has secretly based the genres of her songs on what type of pen she is using to write. The singer, 32, says she thinks it’s “dorky” she has three different types of tune that have been written using a quill, fountain or glitter gel pen.
She said in a long essay for The Times on Saturday (08. 10. 22) about her creative process: “I’ve never talked about this publicly before because, well, it’s dorky.
But I have secretly established genre categories for the lyrics I write. “They are affectionately titled Quill Lyrics, Fountain Pen Lyrics and Glitter Gel Pen Lyrics. “This sounds confusing but I came up with these categories based on what writing tool I imagined having in my hand when I scribbled it down.
I don't have a quill. Anymore. I broke it when I was mad. ” She says words written in “the ‘Quill’ style” contain words and phrases that are “antiquated”, which she may have been inspired to write “after reading Charlotte Brontë or after watching a movie where everyone is wearing poet shirts and corsets”.
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