the thing about reputation that gets me is like. so it’s supposed to be the same story told twice, right. and that just makes every song pairing absolutely heart wrenching. like you got ready for it and gorgeous, where ready for it is cocky and experienced and gorgeous is just a fucking mess. and then you have end game and getaway car, both expressing the need to get away from the world and the belief that the relationship is doomed but end game carries this desire not to hurt the other person and wanting to make the relationship work and then getaway car being the only breakup song on the album??? and i did something bad vs king of my heart might as well be the thesis statement of the whole album, one thats bombastic and unrepentant but a little hurt while the other is building this tender love in private, truly the public image vs her private life through 2016 and 2017. and then don’t blame me and dancing with our hands tied just guts me, with don’t blame me being so over the top and dramatic and boy crazy and then dancing with our hands tied peeling that all away, and instead of her love making her crazy it’s the rest of the world and she’s found her only solace, or maybe not, maybe that’s what makes her crazy, that she’s willing to face the rest of the world for one person, but it’s not intensely possessive like her image, it’s insecure and always waiting for one of them to leave. and then you have delicate and dress, which flips everything on its head, with delicate showing a crash of insecurity, all new love and impermanence, just like all her loves before, just like the narrative always goes, while dress is slowly building trust and security!! lwymmd and tiwwchnt are probably the easiest parallels, but ones more bitter while the other celebrates the growth and good things that’ve come alongside the whole Incident. and then the parallels close of with so it goes and ciwyw, with so it goes showing a relationship from the perspective of its lies and limelight and magicians and illusions, while ciwyw is from the other side of the curtain peeking out, realizing that their reputations will always be there but it doesn’t have to matter.
stormborns
dededos
izzy806
tangentwithtanner
snowghoul
