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@anotherdimeinthejukebox
ruby, he/she, butch, 19, autistic
mixed race and mixed nationality
current obsessions are TC and TS- I've been a tomfan since TGM, but I'm a very new swiftie. Very hyped for TLOAS
pfp: Young M.A / header: Joan Jett
they're both lesbians and so am i
"""tom cruise and ana de armas set to marry in space""" literally why and how do you get this information.
wow i just hit 100 posts. taylor album release season will do that to you i guess lol
bro i keep seeing posts that are like "will this album END taylor swift's career?????" "is this THE WORST thing she's ever written????" "is everyone finally SICK OF HER???!!"
and then i see a post from an OG fan that's like "guys it's like this every time. they claim that the album is terrible and will end her career every. time. there has never been an album that was universally praised, every time there were people going 'this is a wrong move, she should've stuck to (whatever style the previous album was)'. her career is not over because some people don't like this. there are people who don't like it every time, and she's still fine"
like bro. some people not liking it doesn't mean anything. for example, i don't like SC. that's the worst thing about the album to me. but my gripe with the album is not gonna end taylor's career (especially because there's apparently only like 4 people in the world who don't like SC for reasons that are not slut shaming her, and i'm one of them).
and about the "this is cringe" complaints, claiming that her career is over because she said "memes" in a song is like.... even I was aware of the backlash against her "cringe" lyrics in "me!" and "shake it off". and that came from two of her most successful albums, in the public eye and in terms of praise by fans, and folklore is also loved and praised despite "no one was around to tweet it".
she'll be okay, her career is fine i swear. i feel like this "she's OVER!" stuff is just wishful thinking from people who don't like her
also tloas is not my favorite, especially bc like i said i really don't like SC, but i wouldn't be caught dead giving this album the same treatment that i know people gave MY favorite album, ttpd.
people are saying that there's a perspective shift at the end (the key change) of father figure (apparently corroborated by taylor herself?), so i guess i wasn't totally right, and it does sort of change what i thought, like, "this empire belongs to me, leave it with me" at the end represented, to me, the nail in the coffin of someone taking credit for taylor's work and taking it away from her. but her reclaiming her empire at the end makes sense too, and "who covered up your scandals" makes sense too as the perspective of the protegé/taylor, it just hit me harder as a lie like "well i made your career, i kept your reputation good". but it also makes sense as taylor saying "i stood by you, and you stole from me and betrayed me anyway".
and anyway. the rest of the song still isn't her saying that this is who she is. using the mafia metaphor from the song, she is michael, not vito. she's "my dear protegé"/"my dear boy", not "your father figure", for most of the song. just the end with the switch in perspective is her turning it around, with the protegé saying, "i was your father figure", which is think is saying "i made ("fathered"="created/grew"? your success, you didn't make mine, give me back my songs/money/empire"
also it still works as a music industry🤝hollywood song (which makes it a taylor🤝tom song)
i really thought ophelia was gonna be my favorite, but i think that i had the wrong idea of the theme. it wasn't really about the actual story of ophelia, it wasn't trying to be accurate. it's like love story, both of them take a shakespeare story and make it into a lens to see the relationship from, but they're not necessarily tying it strongly to the themes from the original, taylor makes it her own by changing the story and incorporating the relationship she wants to talk about.
i thought that fate of ophelia would be more about not having control, being betrayed, questioning your sanity (maybe not so extreme, but like questioning yourself), grieving, and coming out of it alive. but like i shouldn't have thought that it would be so much about the actual (depressing) subject matter, even with a "but i survived tho" resolution, because it's not ttpd, it's not meant to be long and introspective and poetic. taylor said it's meant to be an upbeat pop album, so it makes sense that it was written more as a song about leaving solitude behind, simplifying the real story (you kinda have to if you want a tight upbeat pop song) and that she also incorporated the rapunzel thing (with the mention of being alone in a tower) because i think she's incorporated fairy tales a lot throughout her work.
so yeah, like i said in another post, the theory videos maybe set up impossible expectations for me. like you can't fulfill all the interesting ideas that might come from the song titles.
i really think that elizabeth taylor is the best song on tloas. it fits the theme (of the title of the song and of the album) so well. not just the lyrics, but the music itself too. it really sounds like hollywood. i think a big part of that is the strings, that reminds me of old hollywood soundtracks. especially that part at about 2:25, it also sort of reminds me of the part in oops i did it again where it sounds like they're playing a part of a movie. which is exactly the perfect vibe for this song obviously, its about a movie star.
and the beat drop with the piano is sooo good and dramatic, really represents the turmoil suggested in the lyrics and the theme.
overall i think the first 4 songs are the best, and especially elizabeth taylor really is the perfect song for this album.
i wish the music video was releasing at like noon so that people from timezones that are not eastern time would actually be able to watch it (at a reasonable time)
like why does it have to be at 7 PM eastern time... can't it be at like 1 PM or even in the morning... do they realize how inconvenient some of the releases are for people who live in a timezone that's UTC plus something
the only good part is not having to wake up at midnight for album releases lol. but when something is at a normal (not midnight or something like that) time in the US, but it's past early afternoon US time, then it's really rough for me bc of the huge time difference
father figure is growing on me more and more (and more and more i actually love it)
the first listen i didn't really feel what i feel about it now, because it just seemed comedic to me, because come on putting the word "dick" in a song makes it seem funny
and then i listened to the clean version (btw from the ones i've listened to, the clean versions are seamlessly changed as always, really great), and then i listened again and again and again and the explicit version started growing on me too bc i really understood the song
also ttpd will always be my king and my #1, however father figure might be joining the ranks of certain ttpd songs specifically as a perfect tom🤝taylor song
come onnn like the manipulation in this song... the hollywood thing that makes him (the narrator, who is NOT taylor, this is taylor playing someone else, its obvious, this is not her saying she is/wants to be/ would be the father figure, come on guys this isn't The Man) sound like he's pretending to be an agent mixed with the mob boss thing (i'll kill you if you're not loyal).... the "i made your career" attitude..... come ON.... the way that "you left to fulfill your dreams" is framed as a slight against him, as a betrayal... come ONNNN
both of them have dealt with many people talking to them like this, especially early in their careers (i mean i think we all think of one specific person for each of them as the guys who took advantage of them and screwed up their careers, but they definitely both knew a LOT of people who wanted to use them, with the industry they work in you can't escape it)
also the key change at the end woowww. made me need to catch my breath fr. and "whose portrait's on the mantle, who covered up your scandals"???? DUDE that's what i mean when i say manipulation... "i did all this for you, and you leave like this"... and i think it's clear that we're supposed to take him saying all the generous things he did as fake, i mean come on are we supposed to forget "this love is pure profit" from a minute ago??
"father figure is the new the man, father figure is her telling us to call her daddy lol" NO! FATHER FIGURE IS THE NEW MY TEARS RICOCHET!
the man is like "i wish i wasn't treated unfairly by the public, i wish i could get away with things". it's NOT like that with father figure!!!! Father figure is NOT aspirational!!! it's her imitating how people have talked to her!!! it's about people in the industry who take advantage of you!!!
THE "I/ME" IN FATHER FIGURE DOES NOT REFER TO TAYLOR OR WHO SHE WANTS TO BE! Obviously!!
man now i'm thinking about whether i like ophelia more than opalite... i had really high expectations for ophelia, as like the most ttpd song. based on the title and also the piano at the beginning really had me like yeahhhh this is exactly what i wanted (and then the piano disappeared, rip)
but it makes sense for her not to dwell on the actual story of ophelia, it makes sense that it's more of a "man i'm grateful for what i have now" song instead of a "things sucked before" song
something i realized that i think is kinda weird is that the point in the song is that she was alone and then he found her. and not that she was wronged but he's right for her. bc the point of ophelia is that she was treated badly by him and then he dismissed her, not that she was sad that she was alone as a fact by itself
nitpicks really though, i just had different expectations bc of the story of ophelia
i think i have to listen again to have a clearer idea
rb with your top 3 after the first listen of the life of a showgirl
father figure is growing on me more and more (and more and more i actually love it)
the first listen i didn't really feel what i feel about it now, because it just seemed comedic to me, because come on putting the word "dick" in a song makes it seem funny
and then i listened to the clean version (btw from the ones i've listened to, the clean versions are seamlessly changed as always, really great), and then i listened again and again and again and the explicit version started growing on me too bc i really understood the song
also ttpd will always be my king and my #1, however father figure might be joining the ranks of certain ttpd songs specifically as a perfect tom🤝taylor song
come onnn like the manipulation in this song... the hollywood thing that makes him (the narrator, who is NOT taylor, this is taylor playing someone else, its obvious, this is not her saying she is/wants to be/ would be the father figure, come on guys this isn't The Man) sound like he's pretending to be an agent mixed with the mob boss thing (i'll kill you if you're not loyal).... the "i made your career" attitude..... come ON.... the way that "you left to fulfill your dreams" is framed as a slight against him, as a betrayal... come ONNNN
both of them have dealt with many people talking to them like this, especially early in their careers (i mean i think we all think of one specific person for each of them as the guys who took advantage of them and screwed up their careers, but they definitely both knew a LOT of people who wanted to use them, with the industry they work in you can't escape it)
also the key change at the end woowww. made me need to catch my breath fr. and "whose portrait's on the mantle, who covered up your scandals"???? DUDE that's what i mean when i say manipulation... "i did all this for you, and you leave like this"... and i think it's clear that we're supposed to take him saying all the generous things he did as fake, i mean come on are we supposed to forget "this love is pure profit" from a minute ago??
it's actually so isolating (and just grating) being a swiftie who doesn't like SC at all, their fandoms overlap so much, especially now, i bet i won't be able to get very far trying to find swiftie posts that aren't also about SC or by fans of hers. it's like people expect swifties to also be "carpenters" (or whatever). but (until recently.......) their type of music is not even that similar except for both being pop. but types of pop can be very different. and taylor has made songs that have not been what most consider pop (on ttpd, folklore, evermore). and before that, the country stuff.
it also sucks being a swiftie who isn't a gender-conforming straight white woman. with the way that some of you talk... buuuut that's beside the point.
one thing that i will say is that even tho the album isn't quite what i was imagining (i shouldn't have watched so many theory videos lmao), and despite the sabrina carpenter of it all, the instrumentation, beats and melodies on each song are amazinggg, they really stand out. they really fit the flashy theme of the album. taylor wasn't lying about the catchy melodies
something i noticed about a few of the songs is the bass is really prominent, i like it a lot
also the sound during the elizabeth taylor chorus (or refrain?). hellll yeah. someone on reddit said that it reminds them of the succession theme, which i agree with, and i like it because i always loved that theme
i'm confused about opalite because it had nothing to do with the fact that opalite is the artificial version of opal (something that i kept seeing people mention in videos about the tracklist and theories). i was expecting something about how people don't see who you really are if you're famous, or how famous people have to create an artificial image to present to the public
i know its probably a reference to travis' eye color, but why not just opal? i guess "the sky is opal" doesn't flow as good lol
but that's really a nitpick, i think the song is good, it's fun
saw a clip from one of the radio interviews where she explains that opalite is man-made and it's supposed to represent that you can make your own happiness. that's really sweet
i saw someone say that "actually romantic" is an attack on charli xcx and that it's just "more of taylor being petty" and dwelling too much on people who don't like her, then they compared it to thank you aimee.
okay first of all how can you be sure it's about charli xcx. she's definitely not the only person who's mentioned taylor in a song. second of all even if you think it's petty and that she's making a big deal out of charli mentioning her in a song, thank you aimee was absolutely not making a big deal out of nothing. what kim kardashian and kanye west did to her deserved a lot more consequences than a song about it. both of them, especially him, are actual horrible people who do actual harm, it's not just "drama". and taylor has every right to dwell on it. especially because of how west is a fucking nazi who is harming real people by promoting hate speech. he's not just some person who doesn't like taylor swift. and kim is not just some person either, she still chooses to support west which makes her at LEAST willfully ignorant. at LEAST.
also neither actually romantic nor thank you aimee are diss tracks. like at all. they're not revenge songs. she's not attacking them (even though kardashian and west absolutely deserve to be attacked), she's talking about not letting the hate bother her. in actually romantic, it's literally like if sabrina carpenter wrote shake it off. and thank you aimee is about coming to terms with what they did to her, she's not forgiving, she calls kim out, but she's saying that going through that harassment motivated her to be more successful, that "there wouldn't be this if there hadn't been you".
which i guess is kind of similar to how actually romantic is like "thank you for hating me, you're paying attention to me".
(thank you aimee is just a lot better to me, but whatever that's beside the point)
i'm confused about opalite because it had nothing to do with the fact that opalite is the artificial version of opal (something that i kept seeing people mention in videos about the tracklist and theories). i was expecting something about how people don't see who you really are if you're famous, or how famous people have to create an artificial image to present to the public
i know its probably a reference to travis' eye color, but why not just opal? i guess "the sky is opal" doesn't flow as good lol
but that's really a nitpick, i think the song is good, it's fun
