You're on Your Own, Kid

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I think that it didn't mean I grew, and it was funny because for so many years I thought, like, you know that line, uh, I can't believe I'm gonna do this, but, like, by Taylor Swift that's like, like, I could be changed by a perfect k- like, where she's like, she's w- in the You're on Your Own, Kid, where she's like, "Starve my body thinking that I would be, like, changed by a perfect kiss" or something?

Yes.

Are you kidding? Yes.

And I, I, and again, I, I had to make time for so much Taylor music.

I really like this, and I, I have a hunch that I could see this song going the way of- You're on your own, kid.

How You're On Your Own Kid, like, it debuted in my top 10, and then it, like, moved up.

I forget what it's at right now, but, like, it's, it's, like, in the top five

There's something, too, with Is It Over Now? Before we get into your rankings, I wanna mention, um, we mentioned that it's a vault track, so it wasn't on the original 1989 track list, probably because of some of the things she says in there.

I think that's why I really like it

... because it's giving, uh, You're On Your Own, Kid.

And at first, I listened to it in the car when I first...

I've listened to it twice now, actually.

expensive first date it

was an expensive first date but worth every penny was so great um and so and like since then i don't want to know i have i have done friendship bracelets at frank turner shows i have done friendship bracelets at book events i have made friendship like there's like a lot of other things that like spanned out from it so my friendship song here is you're on your own kid um by taylor swift it's song number five off the midnight's album which is such a great album and yeah no it was five you're on your own kid and she's telling this story about being brave and there's this line make the friendship bracelets and it really it's about the swifties said okay yeah basically it's really about like be your authentic self

yeah

and those relationships will develop with you and it's beautiful how much it has rippled out into the world and i just i love the song and it's so it is both sad and happy and inspiring and nostalgic and hopeful um and that's a lot of like how girlhood felt And the idea that like we're going to stand together in our girlhood and like claim each other with the friendship bracelets.

Yeah.

All right, let's hear it.

You're on your own, kid.

From Tay Tay.

Like, that know- looks inside their heads.

Mm-hmm, and the narrator understands the need to get out, which is why I'm like this is the You're On Your Own Kid, which was also an omniscient narrator being like, "Look, you have all the tools you need to get out and become something, even if people leave you.

Like, remember you, you have you." Versus this song is like, "You have you, but you refuse to look out.

You need to do both in order to, like, like, open your eyes.

Open your eyes.

Open your eyes."

Oh, I feel like well, You're On Your Own Kid does have I, so it's kinda more like a-

Mm-hmm

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I'm becoming, uh, obsessed with You're On Your Own, Kid.

And-

Period.

Mm-hmm.

So it goes from number four to number three.

So the new top 10 is Blank Space, Shake It Off, You're On Your Own, Kid, Opalite, All Too Well (10 minute version), The Fate of Ophelia, The Prophecy, You Need To Calm Down, My Tears Ricochet, and Lover (tiny desk version), and then that's followed by Getaway Car at 11, Mirrorball at 12, and now The Black Dog at 13.

And I've got a playlist you guys can follow along if you want to see it.

Um, But I love that.

And Prince, as well as this next artist, I mean, both had work situations that they weren't happy with, right? Prince famously battled with his recording label, and so did this next artist, because track 11's You're On Your Own Kid by Taylor Swift.

There's just

one who could make me You're on your own, kid.

You always have been.

Yes.

So take the friendship bracelets, take the moment and taste it.

You've got no reason to be afraid.

I've told Omin this before.

Her song, You're On Your Own, Kid, That has connected with me.

Oh yeah, I'm literally wearing a shirt with lyrics from that song right now.

I connected with that song so, so much when I listened to it the first time.