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"It’s about how horrible being famous is.” (taylor before playing "the lucky one" in arlington, texas)

clara bow - the last great american dynasty - nothing new - the profecy - the lucky one

what's so clever about Clara Bow is that when she references her own name at the end, she's not talking about the present but the future, quoting the inevitable way people are going to one day talk about her, imagining it will only be in regards to the woma(e)n who surpass her. because there will be someone who surpasses her, eventually. that's the cycle of fame, isn't it? we're simultaneously captivated by the alluring trick of the past while looking for the next big thing. we compare current stars to the lights that shined before them, "you look like taylor swift." but we're also constantly waiting for someone new and greater to take the crown and captivate us anew, "you've got edge she never did." And half the song is about acknowledging that being revered is hell on earth for the people who are in it, because you're always trapped between what came before and what will come after. you're only safe insofar as you remain shiny. But the real beauty of the song is that it never succumbs to this dichotomy, but embraces it. It's Taylor acknowledging she wouldn't be who she is were it not for the women who came before her, who shared the same dreams, and recognizing her place in the chain of the women who will come after. The future's bright, dazzling.

eristarion

I BROKE MY OWN HEART CAUSE YOU WERE TOO POLITE TO DO IT??????

how dare she put this in a song

homewithmycats

The trivialization of my songwriting as if it were a predatory act of a boy crazy psychopath

I had to make it stop because it was starting to really hurt

If I only hung out with my female friends, people couldn't sensationalize or sexualize that, right? I would learn later on that people could and people would.

You, who heard the wink and humor in "blank space" and maybe even empathized with the pain behind the satire.

You, who knew that maybe a girl who surrounds herself with female friends in adulthood is making up for a lack of them in childhood (not starting a tyrannical hot girl cult)

boniver

she really hid her heartbreak in the 1989 vault

boniver

not even just heartbreak but emotion period. she was trying in life and in her image during 1989 to be cool and level-headed and not even publicly dating (and it may have helped her feel more sane too) but it also didn’t reflect how she was feeling and idk hearing her scream “i love you” or that say she’s gonna hurt herself to get attention (not actually do it) idk i just??? it’s so real of her. and i get why she locked it away. it’s harder. especially when the world is listening. but i’m so happy we get to hear it.

topguncortez

WHY CAN I PICTURE HIM LIKE THIS

antiticketmaster

Not the official ESPN account posting this😭

midsnights

FAVORITE TAYLOR MOMENTS / ∞

im-dead-and-i-move

“Hey, I found your blog on Tumblr-”

taylorswifts13

directed by Taylor Swift

thatwasthenightthingschanged

British Vogue interview (2014) // Dancing With Our Hands Tied (2017) // This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things (2017) // Lover music video (2019) // folklore long pond studio sessions (2020) // peace (2020) // Lavender Haze (2021) // Lavender Haze music video (2022)

harritudur

I don’t care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching -they are your family.

—Jim Butcher, Proven Guilty

triptoyourshore

the way her fishbowl went from being a confined, claustrophobic space to an infinite universe is so sweet. she’s really found so much peace in her life since the lover era and it makes me so 🥹🥹🥹🥹