Do you ever hear a song come on the radio that you can relate
to? Most everyone's favorite songs are songs that they can relate to. If
you ask girls at high schools most of them will say they can or have been able
to relate to the song "Tied Together With a Smile" by Taylor Swift at
one point of their life. Most of Taylor's songs are songs that teenage girls
can relate to because Taylor writes her songs based on things that have
happened to her as a teenage girl.
In the
very beginning of this song it goes "seems the only one who doesn't
see your beauty, Is the face in the mirror looking back at you, you walk around
here thinking you're not pretty, But that's not true, cause I know you.."
This part of the song is meaning that when you look in the mirror you don't see
a pretty face or pretty person but when everyone else looks at you they see a
pretty face and a pretty person. Most teenage girls are very hard on themselves
about how they look and sometimes it can keep them from being happy. When
in reality they are pretty they just don't see it, therefore "tied
together with a smile" and faking happiness.
The Chorus has a
good meaning as well "Hold on baby, you're losing it, The waters high,
you're jumping into it, And letting go... and no one knows, That you cry, but
you don't tell anyone, That you might not be the golden one, And you're tied
together with a smile, But you're coming undone." I take the meaning of
the Chorus that you’re getting so unhappy with yourself that you may be doing
things like self harm or getting depression. Also that you're unhappy and you
cry when your alone in your bedroom but when you're around everyone you fake it
and put on a smile. Most teenagers have had depression at some point of their lives or
will have it so they can relate to that part.
