I read your complaining comment about how your not on abigails top 8. well, how could you be? I’M THERE. TAKING YOUR SPOT HAHAHAHAHA. (evil laugh, you know the drill). Well, anyway, listen my queer fellow. I thinketh we shall hangeth out sometime soon, eh? yes, i do believe i am growing fond of this idea. drive over in your sex van and come pick me up. farewell knave.
-T-

October 31, 2005: Taylor posts a comment to Myspace. (source 1, 2)

I’m in England and this whole country is weird.

They’re all weird. Except for me. Who, as you know, is completely normal.

Hey man we need to hang out when I get back. How about we combine me, my car, grand wood’s house, shelby, some boys, lily and perhaps whitley, some drinks because you might get thirsty, and new years eve.

yeeeaahhhhhhh

-T-

December 21, 2005: Taylor posts a comment to Myspace. (source)

Hi :-)

I’m 18– and a half.

I’m the girl who is best friends with a guitar and writes songs about everything and everyone that happens to me. Names included. ;-)

Class of 2008.

In my spare time, I like to conduct random baking experiments in my kitchen and write letters to people.

I really love people who like my music. They’re number 1 on my favorite things list.

I’m not a big deal. At all.

I love people who are nice to me, I’ve never been one to say things like “All you people think you know me, well you don’t”.

Because I’m not that complicated. My complications come out in my songs. All you need to do to be my friend is like me.

My middle name is Alison.

And I’m extremely tall. Like, I’m that really tall person that is blocking your view at a concert. On behalf of all of us, we’re sorry.

My ideal outfit is a sun dress and cowboy boots.

I love surprises and hardwood floors.

I like people who are excitable. I think it’s endearing when people cry when they’re happy. I’m pretty excitable too.

I’ve never been the kind of girl who needs a boyfriend. Plus, guys don’t ask me out because they know I’ll write songs about them.

But I’m also the girl who still believes prince charming exists somewhere out there– fully equipped with great hair and an immature sense of humor.

I wear too many bracelets and I can’t concentrate on the conversation if the TV’s on.

I grew up on a Christmas tree farm. Seriously.

I’m fascinated by black and white pictures, I have them hung up everywhere.

I like people who can be sarcastic and laugh about tense situations.

I never assume someone’s not being honest with me.

I like to read up on weird medical problems, so if one of my friends ever complains of a headache or stomach ache, I’m probably going to spout off 12 different things that could be wrong with them. Because I’m way paranoid.

I think Keri Russell and Ellen DeGeneres are the coolest celebrities ever.

I don’t like making decisions when I don’t have to. So right now my toenails are painted 5 different colors.

I will never straighten my hair to impress a guy ever again.

There’s never going to be a time when I’m annoyed by compliments about my music.

I need everything to be organized. All the time.

I think little kids are awesome.

I’m a thinker and an over-analyzer. I’m not jaded.

I’m a fan of fans. You are absolutely wonderful to me. I’ve got your back, just like you’ve had mine. To anyone who has gone out and bought my CD, or come to a show, or even turned my song up when it came on the radio, all I can say is thank you.

Oh yeah.. My name’s Taylor.

July 26, 2008: Snapshot of Taylor Swift’s archived Myspace profile, highlighting what she looks for in a partner. (source 1, 2)

June 26, 2008: Taylor explains how she found success on Myspace through authenticity. (source)

“What cheers me up when I’m sad? And I’m being completely honest right now. When I’m having a bad day, my mom comes up to me and she goes, ‘You know what you need to do, right?’ and I was like, 'Yeah’, and she’s like, 'Go on your MySpace and read everything. Read your messages and read your comments, read it all because that will make you feel better.’ And that absolutely makes me feel better because you guys are so nice to me, thank you. You know when you’re having a bad day and you feel like everybody is saying mean things, everybody’s criticizing you, everybody thinks that you know, is thinking negative things. And that’s only when you’re in that moment, that’s what you have to realize. It’s just that moment, and it’s gonna pass, and you’re gonna feel good again. And um, usually the thing that brings me out of it is going to my MySpace.”

November 13, 2008: Taylor admits to reading her MySpace when she’s feeling down. (source)

“Not being invited to the parties and sleepovers in my hometown made me feel hopelessly lonely, but because I felt alone, I would sit in my room and write the songs that would get me a ticket somewhere else. Having label executives in Nashville tell me that only 35-year-old housewives listen to country music and there was no place for a 13-year-old on their roster made me cry in the car on the way home. But then I’d post my songs on my Myspace and yes, Myspace, and would message with other teenagers like me who loved country music, but just didn’t have anyone singing from their perspective.

Having journalists write in-depth, oftentimes critical, pieces about who they perceive me to be made me feel like I was living in some weird simulation, but it also made me look inward to learn about who I actually am. Having the world treat my love life like a spectator sport in which I lose every single game was not a great way to date in my teens and twenties, but it taught me to protect my private life fiercely. Being publicly humiliated over and over again at a young age was excruciatingly painful but it forced me to devalue the ridiculous notion of minute by minute, ever fluctuating social relevance and likability. Getting canceled on the internet and nearly losing my career gave me an excellent knowledge of all the types of wine.”

May 18, 2022: During her commencement speech for NYU, Taylor mentions finding solace in other teenage country fans on Myspace when she was just starting out, and shares how those spectating her love life taught her to guard her private life fiercely. (source 1, 2)

July 15th, 2023: Taylor mistakenly sings “myspace” instead of “my face” while performing ‘Bejeweled’ at the Eras tour in Denver, Colorado. (source)

“I had the ability outside of Myspace, which we did put our music on and stuff like that, if we had the ability to like put stuff on Spotify and hope that it catches an algorithm or something like that, we… the 17-year-old me would have done that.”

November 2022: Matty mentions having put his old music on Myspace when he was seventeen. (published August 2023: source)

December 23, 2008: Snapshot of Drive Like I Do’s archived Myspace page. (source)

// we’re pretty much the lost boys. both neverland and california types. i’m rufio. george is corey haim //

November 30, 2012: Matty likens himself to Rufio of The Lost Boys from the movie Hook. (source)