Swift Song Club: Meeting #6 Prompts
I am excited for the next meeting of Swift Song Club to start this Sunday, the 2nd of August! We are reading the 1989 vault track Is It Over Now? and for anyone who has found them helpful I have written some prompt questions to help get some discussions started below and my ask box is open if anyone has any questions!
1. What do you think the narrator means when they ask "is it over now?"
2. Throughout Is It Over Now? the narrator repeats "oh Lord" - what do you make of this repetition?
3. Do you believe the relationship between the narrator and the muse to be "over now"?
4. What do you interpret the "one thing" the narrator wants the muse to say to be?
5. The narrator repeatedly refers to the muse dreaming of them - what do you make of this?
6. Do you interpret any significance to the lyrical motif of "three hundred takeout coffees later" / "three hundred awkward blind dates later"?
7. The narrator states "I think about jumping off of very tall somethings just to see you come running" - how do you interpret these lines and how do you think it connects to Taylor's discography as a whole body of work?
8. The lyrics of this song pair sexual desire and a desire to hurt oneself - what do you make of this connection and do you see it anywhere else in Taylor's discography?
9. Canonically Is It Over Now? is the ultimate end of the narrative of 1989, and Welcome To New York is the beginning - what do you think of the journey the narrator takes between those two songs?
10. Are there any other pieces of art that Is It Over Now? makes you think about?
