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THE LUCKY ONE

Fame to me certainly is only a temporary and a partial happiness … fame is not really for a daily diet, that’s not what fulfills you. It warms you a bit but the warming is temporary. It’s like caviar, you know - it’s good to have caviar but not when you have to have it every meal and every day. // “Marilyn Monroe Pours Her Heart Out”. Interview with Richard Meryman, LIFE Magazine, August 3, 1962.

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lovestory

IM SO OBSESSED IM GOING TO CRY

aslowmotionlovepotion

sometimes i just randomly think of kidz bop and “i have this dream my daughter-in-law does it for the money” and i chuckle heartily

likethegardens

the weirdest one for me is them changing “we were lying on your couch” in ootw to “sitting on your couch.” LIKE. i just don’t get it, why did that need changed 😭😭

likeadevils

fearless is one of if not the most thematically consistent albums in taylor’s career. like on top of every song circling around the core theme of how much of her childhood idealism to maintain and how much to let go of, she also chooses a handful of motifs to repeat throughout the album— like people made fun of her for always singing about rain, but it’s clearly an intentional artistic choice to return to the same scene in different contexts to show how her mindset is growing and changing, at first romanticizing problems in a relationship and by the end realizing she’s been left alone to deal with the problems her partner has given her that she can now no longer escape from. she does the same thing with the word shine, and comparing her life to a movie, and a million other lyrics that reference another song on the album or tie them all together into one story. and she does all of this without making the album seeming stale or repetitive, in a genre famous for each song sounding the same to every other song. like!! there is an insane amount of technical prowess on display in fearless!! i can’t believe the grammys respect it more than her own fans!! it’s an insanely impressive album!!

lov-eswift

I AM NOT OKAY!

storyofusatragedynow

𝐓𝐚𝐲𝐥𝐨𝐫 𝐒𝐰𝐢𝐟𝐭 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝟓𝟒𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐧𝐧𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐁𝐌𝐈 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬

likeadevils

like it’s insane that people heard this and went “oh hoho teenage girl only sings about kissing in the rain haha” and not “wow what an interesting thematic runner that reflects the album’s theme of trying to live out a storybook romance only to be met with pain and heartbreak”

lanternburning19

Wait do people really not know that the Speak Now dress was red in real life?

taylorswiftpropaganda

I keep coming back to what @likeadevils said about how Taylor kept coming back to her fear of getting older in writing Red but kept cutting it from the album.

The Taylor who wrote Red was coming off back to back relationships with older men where her age was a reason they pursued her AND a reason they ended things. She was also trying to continue a career where her accolades were made to seem more significant because they often came attached to a “youngest ever” label.

This era saw Taylor publicly embrace a more mature persona - abandoning the fairytales and whimsy that were once staples of her brand. And yet privately she wrote about how terrifying getting older was. She was desperate to grow up and stay young at the same time because of the way the men in her life, and the industry feel about age.

Imagine the mindfuck of knowing your naivety and youth are hot commodities to older men but your perceived childishness is the reason they’ll abandon you. Growing up would be a way to simultaneously protect yourself from and prove yourself to these men.

Imagine seeing how hard the women in the industry work to cling to the appearance of youth. How women she grew up admiring fell off the charts as soon as either their 20s or their beauty left them. Conversely starting her career as a teenager and writing about high school and first loves was where her detractors drew from for critique. She wasn’t a real musician to them, she was a child star.

Ultimately the desire to grow up, to be perceived as a woman and a serious music heavyweight won out. Red was her transition out of girlhood made clear and at the time it seemed like she bridged this gap effortlessly, but in the vault and on the cutting room floor she left behind traces of the battle it took to get there and the fear of what she was leaving behind.

imhereonthekitchenfloor

what is your natural hair/eye color combo?

blond hair, blue eyes

blond hair, green eyes

blond hair, brown eyes

red hair, blue eyes

red hair, green eyes

red hair, brown eyes

dark hair, blue eyes

dark hair, green eyes

dark hair, brown eyes

Voting ended onFeb 27, 2023

likeadevils

y’all never shut up about folklore comparing love to films and then turn around and say “how can a person smile like the radio” as if debut doesn’t have a running motif comparing love to a song like. when you think tim mcgraw i hope you think of me he’s the song in the car i keep singing don’t know why i do it’s strange to think the songs we used to sing the smiles the flowers everything is gone our song is the slamming screen door sneaking out late tapping on your window what’s not clicking

#DEBUT I LOVE YOU

dreamingepiphany

#WAIT I LOVE THISSSSSS

gracieabramss-deactivated202305

i think the best way to view joe alwyn as a swiftie is how my dad reacts after i've introduced him to a new friend. he nods, gives a lopsided grin, and says after a moment, "you know, he seems like a good kid." and when i say he is, my dad nods again and changes the subject to how much money i'm spending on sephora. the analogy is running away from me sorry

#REAL #REALEST #yes

midnightrains

A BRIEF INTERRUPTION, A SLIGHT MALFUNCTION

#this is so good oh my gld

lovestory

i was thinking abt this the other day but it’s kinda glaringly obvious that some taylor fans have this inability to just enjoy what’s being given to them in the moment and then years later they look back at that time and feel really nostalgic and sad because they spent the whole time wanting something different

#litolly