“Taylor Swift Says Red Is Her Only ‘True Breakup Album’
“It’s all the different ways that you have to say goodbye to someone,” she said of the work as a whole. “When you’re experiencing the ups and downs of a relationship, especially when you’re 22 years old, they all strike you different ways. Every different kind of missing someone, every kind of loss—it all sounds different to me. When you are missing someone, time seems to move slower and when I’m falling in love with someone, time seems to be moving faster. So I think, because time seems to move so slow when I’m sad, that’s why I spend so much time writing songs about it. It seems like I have more hours in the day.”
(Source: Elle)
The covers of “Breaking Up Is Never Easy I Know” by Ed Nolbed work like a game of mirrors with contemporary pop imagery. They are not simply accompanying visuals, but true visual quotations that echo and reinterpret famous album covers in which artists have spoken about the end of a relationship. In this sense, Nolbed consciously places himself within a very specific iconographic tradition, made up of exposed faces, symbolic colors, and poses that evoke vulnerability, loss, and emotional memory.
Listen to Ed Nolbed “Breaking Up Is Never Easy I Know” here.
