When Taylor Swift sings about love (when she sings) cars inevitably enter the picture. On her first album cars are happiness, comfort, nostalgia. In Tim McGraw she reminisces about being in the passenger’s seat of an old Chevy truck; in Our Song she contentedly rides shotgun with her hair undone in the front seat of his car; in the similarly idyllic Mary’s Song she sings, “2 am riding in your truck, and all I need is you next to me.”
(On a tangential note, Taylor really likes the time 2 am, this is one of like five references in her work, more if you count 2:30 am and 1:58 am. Also note the trucks, this is the only album that mentions trucks afaik. In her most recent work, the model of the car is not usually specified, but you get the feeling it’s expensive.)
so it happened?
we can follow the sparks, I’ll drive