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Honey

DAY 6

"Honey"
by Taylor Swift

While we're on the topic of The Eras Tour from my last blog entry, I might as well get my obligatory Taylor Swift entry out of the way. The Life of a Showgirl has proven to be a somewhat divisive album for her, with a lot of people thinking it's a great as per usual, but a not-insignificant number of fans who feel like it's a bit of a miss.

If I'm being honest, I'm probably more in the second camp.

Granted, the problem with having such an extensive and great catalog of music is that everything inevitably gets compared to the absolute heights of what she's been able to achieve. And the truth is, just like even the best hitters in baseball can't possibly hit home runs every single time they have an at-bat, it's statistically impossible for Taylor Swift to have every album be Reputation or 1989 or Lover, where almost every song is an absolute banger.

For me, this is probably the song on her new album that I bop along to the most often. There's some other good songs on the album (and some eyebrow-raising ones like "Wood"), but this one has the right combination of melody and lyrics that just hit right.