Taylor Swift has been making waves since she released her first hit, “Tim McGraw.” Everyone has his or her opinion of this country-turned-pop star.  She now has four albums and, if we're lucky, she’ll be releasing a fifth one sometime in 2014. Regardless of her constantly failing relationships and her super awkward dance moves, I just cannot get enough of her. I’ve loved Taylor Swift from the start because she:

Just gets me. And by me, I mean every girl from ages 13 to 22. All of her songs are relatable, even if we sometimes don’t want to admit that we felt like we would never ever ever get back together with that one guy.

Is actually a talented songwriter. Say what you will about her voice, her dance moves or her stage presence, but her songs are actually good. She uses the right words and the right chords to make you feel like you’re in a certain moment. The girl can make you feel things.

Never pretends to be something she’s not. Her songs are about what she’s going through. If it’s a really lame break-up that ended in 28 seconds on a cell phone, she’s going to write about that. And yeah, she’ll use your name, too. Why sugarcoat it? It is what it is and she’s going to tell the world all about it.

Hasn’t gone crazy. Okay, she might be boy crazy, but at least she hasn’t gone all hair-cut-and-foam-finger-at-the-VMAs on us. She may date around, but she’s still just a quirky and honestly kind of weird 20-something trying to figure it all out.

Red. That’s really all I have to say. If you haven’t heard this album, you are hurting yourself. I’m sure you’ve heard the mainstream tracks from it, but go listen to the whole thing. It’s good. My favorites are the title track, "Red," and "All Too Well." Go watch her Grammy performance and you will understand.

 

Maybe that’s not a lot of reasons, but they are the important ones. I would defend Taylor Swift to the death. You can hate me for that if you want. You can tell me I’m stuck in the mindset of a 15-year-old girl who’s still waiting for that guy to send her a text about that party that might be happening if his friend’s parents are out of town. And that’s okay. Taylor’s first album came out when I was in eighth grade, so I kind of feel like we grew up together. We’re best friends, but she doesn’t know it. So Taylor haters, you can keep on hating, but we probably won't be friends. Meanwhile, I’ll keep her albums on repeat until a new one comes out.