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25 • NC

[lookliketaylorswift]

very apt time for this

[atattookiss]

you wouldn’t last an hour in the asylum where they raised me

[longlivetv]

I just…people still really don’t get it. We don’t get to direct the lives of public figures. We don’t get to tell them who to be, who to date, what causes to be vocal about. Because public figures are still just people. Real people. And internet keyboard warriors not only don’t see it they don’t give a fuck that bullying these real actual human beings does nothing to further whatever agenda they have but does wound the real person behind the persona. All they care about is the illusion of moral purity and that just. Isn’t real. No one is morally pure. Do your best but it’s not black and white. You’re fucking up too, just like whoever you’re attacking.

[idsb]

I’m so struck by how Taylor has retold the story of 2016 so many times and I’m so many ways because as time passes and things happen and things change it reframes and reframes and reframes in her mind because the pain never goes away, the way it looks just changes with the light

[idsb]

I’m so struck by how Taylor has retold the story of 2016 so many times and I’m so many ways because as time passes and things happen and things change it reframes and reframes and reframes in her mind because the pain never goes away, the way it looks just changes with the light

[jakeperalta]

I am very intrigued by the idea of this album being focused on taylor herself as the artist/writer/creator.... I think signing off the announcement as "the chairman of the tortured poets department" very much puts herself at the forefront (as both a creative and a boss), as opposed to other album descriptions which maybe emphasised the stories or a specific emotion or concept. the line about "my veins of pitch black ink" reminds me of ts eliot referring to poets "turning blood into ink" (often misquoted as "the purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink"). also the play on words in "all's fair in love and poetry" suggesting a connection between poetry and war immediately makes me think of king by florence & the machine saying "you need to go to war to find material to sing". in fact the whole excerpt reminds me of that song — the line "the very thing you're best at is the thing that hurts the most" feels very fitting. I just love the idea of an album about the act of creation and writing itself (and how this shapes and is shaped by experiences like heartbreak).

[dreamaboutwhathappens]

thinking about clara bow and how her art defined that era but then married her husband who denied their marriage and then she never acted again and ariel who lost her voice after chasing the man she loved and how masie peters says in her song wendy "if i'm not careful, i'll wake up and we'll be married and i'll still flinch at the sound of the door" and "you could take me to neverland baby, we could live off of magic and maybes, but i know the girl that you want and it scares me, behind every lost boy, there's always a wendy" and "lose the world that you live in, pretend that it's what you wanted, it's a life i could have, i know" and "what about my wings? what about wendy?"

and i'm just feeling like the theme of the tortured poets department is going to be: what about my art? what about my voice? what about my wings, what about wendy?

[reputayswift]

Let's. fast. forward. to. three. hundred. awkward. blind-dates-late-r. if. she's. got. blue. eyes. I. will. sur-mise. that-you'll-probably-date-her. you. dream. of. my. mouth. be-fore. it. called. you. a-ly-ing-traitor. you! search! in! every! model's! bed! for! somethin'! greater—baby

[anamericansinger]

i will never forget the day that the snake video dropped on her feed. i will never forget the day i listened to lwymmd for the first time. I’ll never forget the day the lwymmd video premiered on the vmas. i will never forget the day we had to watch a football game to listen to a tidbit of rfi. i will never forget the day she dropped gorgeous. i will never forget the day she dropped ciwyw. i will never forget listening to reputation for the first time. i will never forget listening to reputation on repeat every single day on my drive to work. i will never forget watching a shaky livestream of the first night of the tour.

[1989taylorsversion]

It's so funny to me that every industry expert thought Taylor's re-recording process would be mediocre at best but every single Swiftie on earth knew it would be exactly what it is today from the moment she announced her intention to embark on this process

[halfmooneyes]

rb and put in the tags your ONE favorite vault track from each rerecord. no ties, choose only one from each!

[cages-boxes-hunters-foxes]

“Reputation, at this point, is fucking goated. It’s the fucking shit – I just love that album to the fucking moon and back. I remember making that [album] and loving it. I feel like that album was met with some amount of cynicism, then cut to a few years later, it’s like, nope, everyone loves it. Taylor and I do talk about that a lot: You make what you make, because you believe in it, and sometimes you get your flowers right away and sometimes it takes a minute.”

— Jack Antonoff to The Face on reputation (x)

[cages-boxes-hunters-foxes]

a crying today

[selenastaylors]

15 years ago today taylor swift and selena gomez were on a double date with the jonas brothers and they left the restaurant holding hands and the rest is history

[ofbetterbodies-deactivated20250]

What's your Taylor album big three?

[tswiftslyrics]

[onawishingstar]

darafeller: She was born…in 1989!