Rob Sheffield Quotes

“Planet Earth is blue.
Blue blue electric blue, that's the color of my room. Put on your red shoes and dance the blues. I never did anything out of the blue. Now my Blue Jean's blue. See these eyes so green, I could stare for a thousand years. See these eyes so red. Oh you've got green eyes, oh you've got blue eyes, oh you've got gray eyes. I'll give you television, I'll give you eyes of blue. I looked in her eyes, they were blue, but nobody home. The blue light was my baby, and the red light was my mind. See these tears so blue. You wouldn't believe what I've been through. It's been so long. And I think it's gonna be a long, long time. It's all over now, Baby Blue.
And there's nothing I can do.”
― Rob Sheffield, On Bowie: A Loving Meditation on the Icon's Creative Legacy and His Enduring Connection with Fans

“She will jump into every feeling with the certainty that it's the last one she'll ever have.”
― Rob Sheffield, Heartbreak Is the National Anthem: How Taylor Swift Reinvented Pop Music

“She's always lived up to "Fifteen", written when she was still south of her twenties, speaking live and direct to her fellow teenage girls, insisting that even the most ordinary girl had a story to tell. Their stories mattered; their secrets were valuable and their friendships real.
An entire generation of listeners has grown up in a world where music's biggest star is also the one insisting that every girl has a song in her heart and a right to sing it.”
― Rob Sheffield, Heartbreak Is the National Anthem: How Taylor Swift Reinvented Pop Music

“One of the central paradoxes of Taylor Swift - and this woman is nothing BUT paradoxes - is how she writes songs about the tiniest, most secretive agonies, the kind you wouldn't even confess to your friends.”
― Rob Sheffield, Heartbreak Is the National Anthem: How Taylor Swift Reinvented Pop Music

“Taylor is incapable of saving anything for the next song. That "leaving like a father" line in "Cardigan" sneaks up at the end - it's almost finished, then she drops that "leaving like a father" and moves on. She makes it sound like someone putting their all, every feeling, every love, every hate, into the one song they have in them, like this song has to contain all the other stories they won't get to tell. This is my first song, my last song, she seems to say. I'm not holding back a thing for any next song. This is it.”
― Rob Sheffield, Heartbreak Is the National Anthem: How Taylor Swift Reinvented Pop Music