i meet you where the spirit meets the bones

pascal | 20 | he/him | uk | lgBT

[sunsetbabe]

Folklore + Evermore

It feels like we were standing on the edge of the folklorian woods and had a choice: to turn and go back or to travel further into the forest of this music. We chose to wander deeper in. There was something different with folklore. In making it, I felt less like I was departing and more like I was returning. I loved the escapism I found in these imaginary/not imaginary tales. I loved the ways you welcomed the dreamscapes and tragedies and epic tales of love lost and found into your lives.

[tvventystitches]

[thursd4ys-deactivated20241130]

— taylor swift, from cowboy like me (2020)

[thedamnseason]

♡ I love one woman and one woman only ♡

[graciesabram-deactivated2023040]

and I’m sitting on a bench in coney island wondering where did my baby go?

[enchantead]

And my words shoot to kill when I’m mad I have a lot of regrets about that I was so ahead of the curve, the curve became a sphere Fell behind all my classmates and I ended up here Pouring out my heart to a stranger But I didn’t pour the whiskey

                                                              T.S.

[sophisticatedswifts]

Taylor’s eras felt like: Debut. Fearless. Speak Now. Red. 1989... 1989... 1989... Reputation. LoverFolklore

[loveisbraveandwild]

hi! i made small playlists inspired by each of taylor’s albums so i thought i’d share them! enjoy!

three summers back, inspired by debut

in my best dress, inspired by fearless

drop everything now, inspired by speak now

lost in translation, inspired by red

staring at the sunset, inspired by 1989

secret moments, inspired by reputation

it’s brighter now, inspired by lover

lost in the memory, inspired by folklore

[holygraund]

Back when we were still changing for the better Wanting was enough For me, it was enough;

[seventeengoingunder-archive]

A tale that becomes folklore is one that is passed down and whispered around. Sometimes even sung about. The lines between fantasy and reality blur and the boundaries between truth and fiction become almost indiscernible. Speculation, over time, becomes fact. Myths, ghost stories, and fables. Fairytales and parables. Gossip and legend. Someone’s secrets written in the sky for all to behold.

[falsedeusa-deactivated20201028]

Taylor Alison Swift, "august".

[cardigantay]

seven, taylor swift // sappho, trans. anne carson

[snoopysfriendwoodstock]

please meet my newest quarantine project: taylor swift playlists categorized by the development of my favorite motifs and themes in her songs!

can you see right through me? : songs about seeing others and being seen or known.

this is a big world, that was a small town : the romanticization of city life from her younger songs, the fresh new excitement of moving to a big city combined with the loneliness, the realization that the city has only become a fishbowl as more eyes are on her, her lover as the city.

i pace like a ghost : songs about being haunted or feeling like a ghost

2 a.m. who do you love? : staying up late, her most romantic moments happening first late in the night because she can’t sleep, then because it’s the most private time she has

i don’t wanna keep secrets just to keep you : beginning with the romanticization of a secret relationship until she realizes just how draining it is to keep secrets

oh, i remember : for better or worse, she’s always remembering!

it rains when you’re here and it rains when you’re gone : ALL the songs mentioning rain!

love’s a game, wanna play? : love as a game, mostly sarcastically

the worthwhile fight : the passion and fighting in her earlier relationships, until she realizes the person she loves is involved in the fight with her not against her.

in dreams i meet you in warm conversation : meeting her lover in dreams

we can follow the sparks, i’ll drive : he drives, she drives, her mom drives. everyone’s driving

would you run away with me? : asking someone to run away with her, find privacy somewhere. first, in fantasies, then asking someone to genuinely follow her around the world

i don’t want you like a best friend : taylor’s take on the friends to lovers trope

up in my room and our slates are clean : taylor’s room starts as a very childish place, and somewhere she goes to fantasize about love. it then becomes the only private place she has between her and her lover, it becomes a sanctuary. 

[snoopysfriendwoodstock]

updated all of these to include folklore and made more inspired by themes in folklore!

go! fight! win!: taylor’s high school experience both lived, reflected on, and reimagined.

the rumors are terrible and cruel: both rumors that are told about taylor and that taylor tells, as well as the constant feeling that someone is watching and talking behind her back

but i stay: the constant questions of who will stay? who will leave? who will come back? (i’m BEGGING someone to stay)

all i do is try, try, try: the constant feelings of trying to fit in, trying to seem normal, and being rejected by your peers.

no one likes a mad woman: what a shame she went mad! letting herself be as angry as she wants to be (and maybe a little mean sometimes)

i hit my peak at seven: both experiences she had as a child, or others’ childhood experiences, and the fallout she experienced because of growing up.

no other shade of blue but you: the motif of blue and gold from reputation through folklore

lost in a film scene: romanticizing the love you’d find in a movie before realizing the love she’s experiencing would never be shown in a movie

[eva-mei-10]

𝖗𝖊𝖕𝖚𝖙𝖆𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓 𝓛𝓸𝓿𝓮𝓻 𝒇𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒍𝒐𝒓𝒆

𝖗𝖊𝖕𝖚𝖙𝖆𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓 𝓛𝓸𝓿𝓮𝓻 𝒇𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒍𝒐𝒓𝒆

[yourheartbeatonthehighline]

reblog this and tag which lyric from folklore hit you the hardest while first listening to it

[cardigantay]

i personally think it's really interesting how the naivety of youth is treated in cardigan vs. betty, esp when you compare the narrator's position towards it in the lyrics

in cardigan it's constantly a thing the narrator is somewhat juxtaposing themselves against, but the treatment changes in the choruses vs the bridge

in the chorus, with the line "i knew you", it's the narrator not outright combating the concept, but anchoring themselves towards the other person; stating that although that may be true they do know this person, and by extension, this love

in the bridge this changes, with the lines "i knew you'd linger like a tattoo kiss / i knew you'd haunt all over my what ifs / the smell of smoke would hang around this long / cause i knew everything when i was young" it's the narrator actively combating the concept of that supposed naivety and transcending into a wider wisdom; simultaneously it's a noticeable break from anchoring themselves to that one person, and moving towards a wisdom that focuses on self-awareness, and wider awareness of the narrator's place in the narrative. there is a definite transgression and growth there.

in betty, the narrator doesn't combat this concept at all; on the contrary, they identify with it. "i'm only seventeen, i don't know anything / but i know i miss you" has that same anchoring to the other person despite this young naivety that the chorus in cardigan shows, but the perspective is radically different: the naivety isn't something that's stated to be assumed by others, but it's something the narrator themselves admits. and this doesn't change: those two lines in relation to the narrator repeat all the way through.

maybe this represents a growing rift, or maybe it's a statement about the love triangle's resolution (given it isn't actually explicitly resolved in any of the songs - we don't know if the original couple got back together)

i just think it's interesting.

[illicitafair]

call it what you want // peace