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YOUR KINDNESS IS FAKE

YOUR PAIN IS MANIPULATIVE

Whenever ppl are trying to stretch shit to hate on Taylor they always have to bring up her looks... calling her tayble and whatnot. Also the whole “I hate her but I don’t know why lol I just do” it’s like... tell me you hate women and reduce them to items that should be pleasing to you without telling me that you hate women and reduce them to items that should be pleasing to you.

goldtiedmetoyou

Wow people who never listens to Taylor Swift’s music really think they have the power to cancel her eh? What you gonna do, keep on not listening? Her numbers and sales didn’t need your support last week why do you think she needs it today?

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Congratulations! If you’re reading this, you made it to the last 24 hours of the Trump presidency! One more day to go

heartbeatsonthehighline

Thank God.

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Taylor swift actually wrote tolerate it about how the music industry and general public treats her and everything she, as a once in a generation, possibly once in all of music history artist, puts into her music and career.

How she knows what she does, her talent and creativity and ability and effort should be universally celebrated- but no matter what her glistening accomplishments are she has to watch the general public tolerate her and the space and time she takes up while refusing to acknowledge her place in the story of the life of music- forcing her to draw hearts in the byline hoping one day she will be fully seen and appreciated for what she truly is.

Change my mind.

leninisms

not to be loud but YOUR MIDAS TOUCH ON THE CHEVY DOOR NOVEMBER FLUSH AND YOUR FLANNEL CURE THIS DORM WAS ONCE A MADHOUSE I MADE A JOKE WELL IT’S MADE FOR ME HOW EVERGREEN OUR GROUP OF FRIENDS DONT THINK WE’LL SAY THAT WORD AGAIN AND SOON THEY’LL HAVE THE NERVE TO DECK THE HALLS THAT WE ONCE WALKED THROUGH ONE FOR THE MONEY TWO FOR THE SHOW I NEVER WAS READY SO I’LL WATCH YOU GO SOMETIMES YOU JUST DON’T KNOW THE ANSWER ‘TIL SOMEONE’S ON THEIR KNEES AND ASKS YOU SHE WOULD HAVE MADE SUCH A LOVELY BRIDE WHAT A SHAME SHE’S FUCKED IN THE HEAD THEY SAID BUT YOU’LL FIND THE REAL THING INSTEAD SHE’LL PATCH UP YOUR TAPESTRY THAT I SHRED

heartbeatsonthehighline

Taylor swift actually wrote tolerate it about how the music industry and general public treats her and everything she, as a once in a generation, possibly once in all of music history artist, puts into her music and career.

How she knows what she does, her talent and creativity and ability and effort should be universally celebrated- but no matter what her glistening accomplishments are she has to watch the general public tolerate her and the space and time she takes up while refusing to acknowledge her place in the story of the life of music- forcing her to draw hearts in the byline hoping one day she will be fully seen and appreciated for what she truly is.

Change my mind.

heartbeatsonthehighline

Taylor swift actually wrote tolerate it about how the music industry and general public treats her and everything she, as a once in a generation, possibly once in all of music history artist, puts into her music and career.

How she knows what she does, her talent and creativity and ability and effort should be universally celebrated- but no matter what her glistening accomplishments are she has to watch the general public tolerate her and the space and time she takes up while refusing to acknowledge her place in the story of the life of music- forcing her to draw hearts in the byline hoping one day she will be fully seen and appreciated for what she truly is.

Change my mind.

heartbeatsonthehighline

Taylor swift actually wrote tolerate it about how the music industry and general public treats her and everything she, as a once in a generation, possibly once in all of music history artist, puts into her music and career.

How she knows what she does, her talent and creativity and ability and effort should be universally celebrated- but no matter what her glistening accomplishments are she has to watch the general public tolerate her and the space and time she takes up while refusing to acknowledge her place in the story of the life of music- forcing her to draw hearts in the byline hoping one day she will be fully seen and appreciated for what she truly is.

Change my mind.

heartbeatsonthehighline

Taylor swift actually wrote tolerate it about how the music industry and general public treats her and everything she, as a once in a generation, possibly once in all of music history artist, puts into her music and career.

How she knows what she does, her talent and creativity and ability and effort should be universally celebrated- but no matter what her glistening accomplishments are she has to watch the general public tolerate her and the space and time she takes up while refusing to acknowledge her place in the story of the life of music- forcing her to draw hearts in the byline hoping one day she will be fully seen and appreciated for what she truly is.

Change my mind.

Taylor swift actually wrote tolerate it about how the music industry and general public treats her and everything she, as a once in a generation, possibly once in all of music history artist, puts into her music and career.

How she knows what she does, her talent and creativity and ability and effort should be universally celebrated- but no matter what her glistening accomplishments are she has to watch the general public tolerate her and the space and time she takes up while refusing to acknowledge her place in the story of the life of music- forcing her to draw hearts in the byline hoping one day she will be fully seen and appreciated for what she truly is.

Change my mind.

#listen from that perspective and then go get angry and cry for her #no seriously do it #taylor swift #evermore #evermore theories #tolerate it

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thinking about how we don’t really realize how big the legacy of taylor’s 2020 is going to be and how these two albums will forever be thought of as some of the defining pieces of Pandemic Art

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Okay I’m gonna go to sleep but I have to post this.

The characters in willow are REINCARNATING into the same doomed love story over and over again throughout time. I’ve believed that folklore had reincarnation themes since:

“Your heartbeat on the high line once in twenty lifetimes” on Cardigan.

The string is literally the string of fate.

First she’s a medieval woman from the 1400s or so who just sees his face in the lake. Major Swan princess vibes

Then she’s in like a really 1500s Renaissance era. Shakespeare is thriving.

Then it’s very much the late 1600s and she’s literally a character in young Goodman brown/ the Salem witches era.

Then its the 1700s and she’s a pioneer woman having a forbidden love affair.

Betty in cardigan is just one of her incarnations and James is the guy from the video in every lifetime.

The thread through all of it is stories about their star crossed love and the lifetimes they live together but something always keeps them apart! *looks directly at champagne problems and cowboy like me*

It’s KILLING me that more people aren’t discussing this so like I just really need it to catch on so I have someone to talk to about it.

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Current theory: cowboy like me girl is the one singing willow. She’s the little girl in the tent and the one playing the instrument in the MV.

I think her reincarnation in the pioneer prairie dress at the end is the one who sings ivy.

I also think she eventually becomes Dorothea - Taylor says “there’s not a direct continuation of the betty/James/august story- but I like to think Dorothea went to the same school as Betty, James, and Inez” she didn’t say “went to school with” just “went to the same school”. I know a lot of people that went to the same school that their parents and grandparents did. So going to the same school can happen in different times, even different lifetimes.

Dorothea sings tis the damn season. Whoever is her star crossed lover over the centuries is the one singing dorothea.

Taylor used one person for the love interest in every scene in willow - to give us a visual understanding of the continuation of the same story. But that doesn’t mean that every reincarnation they looked exactly the same.

If you look up reincarnation- it’s believed that the same soul can incarnate into different cultures, families, genders, appearances, etc. All different unique people- same soul.

But by showing us the same characters in different time periods connected by a single golden string (of fate) shes depicting the concept of reincarnation- and two lovers that fall in love again and again in each lifetime- although there’s many lives where something keeps them apart (ivy, tis the damn season, champagne problems, etc)

So: cowboy like me singer is the one performing in willow. The girl in the tent. ivy is the one at the end in the prairie dress. They walk into the woods in the end “the folklorian woods”. (You can see this in the behind the scenes video on YouTube). dorothea is a future incarnation (possibly the girl from champagne problems?) that went off to Hollywood (to perform (like the girl in willow, just different eras) -but had a fling with her highschool sweetheart/crush/best friend etc in tis the damn season

How does all this tie into folklore? I think you can see from the cardigan/willow MV that betty is another incarnation of the singer from willow.

I know Taylor is going through her eras in the opening of cardigan “vintage tee, brand-new phone, high heels on cobblestone... sequin smile, black lipstick, sensual politics” but she could also be going through eras in time. Once again referencing the reincarnation theme- just like “your heartbeat on the high line, once in 20 lifetimes”.

I also think that it’s possible the current, very last incarnation (so far) is meant to actually be Taylor. Which is how invisible string (clearly about Taylor) ties in to the whole narrative- one single thread of gold (throughout the entirety of history) tied her to her lover.

Theory on how the other songs in both evermore/folklore fit still in process! Please add any thoughts you have on the concept!