Guys I am going to see Taylor tonight 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
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Guys I am going to see Taylor tonight 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
HELP!!!
Guys!! I am going to SEE TAYLOR AT THE HALL OF FAME INDUCTION!!! How can I get her to notice me?!? I am SO FREAKING EXCITED!! Will anyone else be there?!?
AHHHHHHH
Long story short is holy ground 2.0
The lakes might be taylors most vulnerable song yet 😭😭😭😭😭
So I stumbled through the Barbie aisle at Walmart the other day…
…and y'all, I almost cried. Just look at these. LOOK AT THEM.
So many skin tones!
PLUS SIZED BODY TYPES!
NATURAL HAIR STYLES!!! MULTIPLE SHADES OF DARK SKIN!!!
A WOMAN AS A DOCTOR!!!!!
I’M NOT DONE, THERE IS A PHOTO LIMIT!
LOOK AT THIS PROFESSIONAL LADY!
SO MANY SKIN TONES AND BODY TYPES AND LOOK AT THAT MERMAN!!!
FRECKLES!!!
Y'all, I’m just…so so happy.
I’m 35 years old and I’ve never seen a Barbie that looked like me, and then there I am as a Barbie in a purple sweater with thick thighs and evenly proportioned boobs and pink hair and a cat.
I can only imagine how other girls must feel.
Nicely done, Mattel. Nicely done!
Mattel also just announced some new Barbie dolls who have wheelchairs or prosthetic limbs!!!
Like screw anything calling this “politically correct,” this is what the real world literally is. And the world’s population of children is just as diverse as its adults. Kids deserve to see themselves represented. As a disabled person myself, I can’t tell you how much this would have meant to me as a little girl.
BRO HAVE Y’ALL SEEN THE NEWLY RELEASED ONES
IM SOBBING
YES YES YES THIS IS PERFECT!!!
I only ever saw the one disabled Barbie but their is at least two! And look a ramp!
the OP was made a year ago so for fun I went to check what they’re new dolls were
Guys… Even being confident there would be even MORE added to the barbie range of dolls…. I was not prepared.
I am about to image spam you so forgive but there’s just SO MUCH
holy shit. I’m like… not even a doll person and so many of these I want!
There’s LITERALLY too many to add
(who is she?)
Plus sized Barbie with DIMPLES
They actually have a barbie with albinism and bothered to give her a proper face-sculpt!
This one looks like she could kill me instantly if she made direct eye-contact
This one’s smile is just KILLING me
Nubian girl because we’re not messing around
Also… this doll does not have any name on the product listing nor on the packaging so this might just be me but…. help me out here guys… is this.. ….is this a non-binary barbie? Am I presuming too much or is that what I’m looking at here??
Also final note. Just to REALLY drill this all home, Barbie has some photos of kids playing with the dolls and
Ironically, Barbie did not come to play around.
Also I’m obsessed with this Sally Ride doll
Barbie never played around, barbie played for keeps, why do you think she works so hard in so many fields?
if any of y’all think this is overkill:
i babysat the sweetest little girl who was in a hot pink wheelchair. it was almost brand new, and she was just so excited to finally have a good wheelchair!! the day i walked into the house after she’d gotten it, she wheeled over to me with the biggest smile and said “it doesn’t hurt my back anymore!!”
for her birthday, i got her a barbie doll who looked a lot like her (it was the one with vitiligo) and a little barbie wheelchair and a few other accessories because who doesn’t like accessories?
apparently she’d had a white doll for a while and of course loved her doll but when she saw not only the one with vitiligo but also the wheelchair? and she put that little doll into the wheelchair and pushed her around a bit on the table? she looked up at me and burst into tears, grinning from ear to ear, and murmured to me “she’s like me. i didn’t know there were ones like me” and lemme tell you i nearly broke down right then and there and i gave her the warmest smile and hug i could muster up and her parents called me a few months later (i’d stopped babysitting because they didn’t have money to pay and wouldn’t allow me to babysit for little/free like i offered because i knew they both were searching for jobs and couldn’t be around their kid much bc interviews) and they just thanked me, their daughter was “so happy to have a doll like her that she carried the barbie around with her all the time”. they hadn’t been able to afford the doll and were actually saving up for a wheelchair at least.
this isn’t overkill.
this is giving kids a doll like themself. this is showing them that they aren’t weird or irregular or not normal. this is showing kids that others who are different from them, others who do have a prosthetic or a wheelchair or dark skin or vitiligo, that those kids aren’t weird. if a little girl sees a barbie in a wheelchair, she’ll just think “oh that’s my friend!!” and be exposed to the fact that these “different” kids are kids too, friends and acquaintances and not people to be mocked or bullied.
Also a reminder that the reason “Barbie” is so negatively stigmatized in our society is because it taught little girls that they could be things other than stay at home moms, receptionists, or nurses, and parents Did Not Like That. Barbie was a radical doll when it was released initially and still is way ahead of the game in terms of inclusivity in children’s toys.
And now Barbie is stigmatised by feminists because the original, progressive intent behind making barbie was forgotten. And all these people can see when they see barbie is “it teaches that girls should only be girly thin models who care about shopping and fashion.”
Barbie was always progressive. You guys are just shallow.
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Ok here is my interpretation of the Cardigan video; buckle up I’m going deep...
So, it starts off when Taylor gets a little inspiration and is writing music alone
The she suddenly stops singing while her voice continues in the background; she’s gotten pulled into the story and her imagination.
She follows it into the piano, literally leaving our world and escaping inside of her music.
I also think the gold represents her real love and relationship; it’s constantly there in the music inspiring things, just like there are lines about Joe thrown into the love triangle songs.
So now she’s in this beautiful imaginary world, lost in the fantasy.
The piano turns into a waterfall because she’s so inspired the music is flowing freely and abundantly.
She goes even deeper into the story and climbs into the piano bench.
Side note, this could symbolize someone in a love triangle going to far or letting themselves get in too deep.
Then her fantasy world turns dark, just as her real world was turning dark in late May/early June. I imagine Taylor was feeling like most of us have been, and that’s represented by her being stranded in the ocean.
She finds the music again (represented by the piano) and hangs on tight. The music saves her (just like folklore is now saving many of us mentally).
Then Taylor sings along with the song, while struggling in the water, for ONE LINE ONLY. She says “when you are young they assume you know nothing.”
I think this is a nod to what’s happening in the United States and how the younger generation is getting pushback while trying to revolutionize things for the better. This moment in the video made me feel seen and I teared up.
Then the gold appears again, showing Taylor the way out. She climbs inside the piano.
Music was the way out, but her golden love was what really brought her back to reality.
Once she’s out, we see Taylor getting reoriented and she notices the cardigan—the outcome of all her daydreaming and creating. And the memory of where she went.
And then she sees someone. This is very much like the ending of the Delicate video and I assume she’s seeing Joe.
She has a look of relief and recognition on her face, but she still looks shaken and scared. Because the real world she’s just come back to is still scary and dark. But she’s there with her lover and her music.
Okay but you can’t compliment folklore while dissing taylor’s previous work because it was too bubblegum for your manly brain. The woman who wrote folklore is the same girl who wrote “so i start a fight cause i need to feel something and you do what you want cause i’m not what you wanted”, “I’ve never been anywhere cold as you” at 16 and she’s the same girl who wrote “you paint me a blue sky then go back and turn it to rain. And i lived in your chess game but you changed the rules everyday” about a grown man who dated her when she was only 19. She’s the same girl who wrote “so you were never a saint and I loved in shades of wrong we learn to live with the pain mosaic broken hearts”. I could go on for hours talking about how great she has always been as a writer but i know you won’t listen cause you have a superiority complex, i mean god forbid you like something or someone a lot of “teenage girls” like, right?
Holy shit someone said my tears ricochet is about taylor and big machine/scott and the death of her masters and at first I didn’t understand it but now after really looking at the lyrics it’s so clear. she is a GENUIS at crafting metaphors
In the preface she mentions an “embittered tormentor showing up at the funeral of his fallen object of obsession”… taylor was scott’s prized musical possession, but now he’s bitter because of their falling out and everything masters related. she embarrassed him and he clearly tormented her. he’s also probably bitter about all the success taylor is now having and how she’s not afraid to tell him to fuck himself
“We gather here, we line up, weepin’ in a sunlit room” = funeral for her masters?
“If I’m on fire, you'll be made of ashes, too” = if he’s gonna burn her you better believe she’s fighting back
“Even on my worst day, did I deserve, babe / All the hell you gave me?” = pretty self explanatory….taylor was always good to scott, what did she do to deserve this?
“Didn’t have it in myself to go with grace” = she couldn’t stay quiet and be the good, complicit girl he always tried to force her to be, she had to fight back
“You’re the hero flying around, saving face” = scott running around trying to save his image and make her the bad guy
“If I’m dead to you, why are you at the wake?” = if he’s so mad at taylor why can’t he keep her name out of his mouth and leave her alone?
“Cursing my name, wishing I stayed” = he’s mad at taylor and he knows he messed up and lost what made his label special
“We gather stones … some to throw, some to make a diamond ring” = I could be wrong about this but I’m guessing the stones are her songs? reference to sticks and stones break bones & possibly also how her songs put big machine on the map and made scott money hence the diamond ring?
“You wear the same jewels that I gave you / as you bury me” = taylor made scott and big machine big and now he’s turning around and betraying her by taking the very thing that made him. also jewels because taylor’s music is very precious and valuable to her
“I can go anywhere I want … just not home” = she started with big machine and it was her home, but now after what scott has done she has to leave
“When you can’t sleep at night (You hear my stolen lullabies)” = the stolen lullabies are her stolen masters. wow
It’s also worth mentioning that one of taylor’s first big hits with big machine was teardrops on my guitar. back then, her tears were falling onto her guitar. now, they’re ricocheting off of the guitar and back onto big machine for the pain they caused her
y’all i was watching blake mcclain’s video of him reacting to folklore and he said “1989 was like the sunset, reputation was the nighttime, lover was early sunrise and folklore is the morning, it’s all coming full circle”
the lyric parallels between “spinning in my highest heels, love” in mirrorball and “he didn’t like it when I wore high heels, but I do” in begin again and also “I am still trying everything to get you laughing at me” in mirrorball and “I think its strange that you think I am funny cause he never did” in begin again… wow
All I’m saying is if it wasn’t for big machine forcing Taylor to add more pop songs to Red, I fully believe Red would have been folklores identical twin
But like imagine if we are never getting back together wasn’t pop and didn’t repeat itself and was closer to like haunted lyrics idk I don’t hate the song but I’d pay for that version too
I agree!! Obviously those pop songs were career breaking for her and she loves them too- but I can’t help but wonder if she’s always really really wanted to make a fully poetic album like this.
OMG I THINK AUGUST AND SEVEN ARE RELATED SOMEHOW AND IF ITS AN EASTER EGG WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING ON AUGUST 7TH TAYLOR!?
this is probably something
also Jack Antonoff’s IG post ended with “ps August forever” soooooooo
That MUST be something
oh i bet
It makes me want to scream a little bit thinking Taylor may have wanted to make this kind of record ages and ages ago but was never allowed and that this part of her was suppressed for so long
All I’m saying is if it wasn’t for big machine forcing Taylor to add more pop songs to Red, I fully believe Red would have been folklores identical twin
anyone else still in the “bruh what the fuck do you mean there’s a new album” stage