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it’s kind of mind blowing how much people can’t seem to grasp that Taylor’s feelings for Matty were real in the moment hence these songs but she’s also clearly telling us they were a result of mania and basically a breakdown!! Two things can be true at once. It felt like love as it was happening but now she knows it was the idea of it tied up in his broken lies and promises.
yes! like, they were both real and not real. schrodinger’s situationship.
just read this on reddit and... wow (can send you the link to the thread if you want to)
"I think the summary of it all comes down to this. She knows she has to leave Joe, and she takes “miracle move on drug” (Matty) to do so. She doesn’t think she can leave Joe unmedicated, and the alternative path is leaving Joe with nothing in her hands, and nothing to show for the six years she spent. Instead, she thinks it’s better to leave him for someone who can offer her the same ending – only to discover that the drug was a placebo, with side effects similar to poison. And now she has to cope with the heartbreak and depression of leaving her almost-marriage, of the shame of falling for a con-man, and of the utter self-loathing of being so foolish to think that fate was real."
yes, this feels like the extremely clear takeaway from the album. except that it also made her crazy, in the most literal sense of the word.
I literally can’t stop thinking about how the literal FIRST lyrics we ever heard about Joe were “Knew he was a killer first time that I saw him” and then spends every song on TTPD about how loving him was literally killing her. Idk idk idk
Matty as a spaceship and Joe as a sailboat ship is also something I fear we will be unpacking for years to come
Taylor Swift watching her ex on a location app because he forgot to turn it off I'm obsessed with you admitting that to the entire world.
the album is brutally honest, satirical, a bit cringe here and there, depressing and experimental at the same time, I would not side eye anyone for saying "I don't understand this" or "this isn't my cup of tea" or even "what the fuck is this" because it's obviously not a 1989 or midnights kind of album for everyone. I understand why she said she "had to put this out" but while she is at the peak of her career, she released an album that is not for beginners nor really for overall critics, it's knees deep into the taylor swift lore and probably the most herself an album has ever been, that does not mean it is a masterpiece but it makes it so insanely special
Guys I found a thing
&& this transition from the Karma music video
By the way, You’re Losing Me further proves that everything we needed to know was already there on Lover. The fear she had of losing him from Cornelia Street and MAATHP, the blind faith in the future from False God (we thought a cure would come through in time), the fact that she was willing to stick with him even if it made her sad from Paper Rings (I gave you my endless empathy / and all I did was bleed), the awareness that nobody could ever leave her and nobody could ever stay (I’m the best thing at this party / I wouldn’t marry myself either), the dichotomy between light and darkness from Daylight (remember looking at this room, we loved it ‘cause of the light / now I just sit in the dark and wonder if it’s time), the discourse about marriage and locking it down from Lover, Paper Rings and ITHK… it’s all there already in Lover. Lover is THE blueprint.
Barbie + text posts
so much to be said about new york in the taylor swift lore universe. her first three albums, she’s on the outside but thinking about it. “this is a big world, that was a small town, there in my rearview mirror disappearing now.” and “someday i’ll be living in a big old city.”
red opens and she’s on the streets of new york and falling for her first big adult love and it’s exhilarating and horrible and passionate and beautiful, but it belongs to him, “your brooklyn broke my skin and bones,” “i bet you’re sitting in your chair by the window looking out at the city and i hope sometimes you wonder about me,” and “feeling on new york time,” a hundred miles an hour, and “new york, be here,” come back.
then, perhaps as part of healing from that first huge, car-crash love, she moves to new york and “took our broken hearts, put them in a drawer” and she owns the city, maybe to heal, maybe to grow up. she opens her album and tour with “welcome to new york, it’s been waiting for you…the lights are so bright but they never blind me.” but there is a sort of tension throughout the album, loving the freedom of the city and being a single twenty-something but “the lights and noise are blinding” and “let’s get out of the city, away from the crowds” and she knows places to hide from the flashing lights. but she pretends it’s fine and i think she really does love it and is growing into owning the city.
then her world falls apart but she finds love on the rooftops and hanging out in underground bars and dodging cameras, finding her own little night city oasis. then part of her heart and the city is defined by this love that began there, “i hope i never lose you, i hope this never ends, i’d never walk cornelia street again.” she’s still sneaking in garden gates in the big city, she rents a place, but it’s her home, “you’re the west village,” sucks for you if you’re “staring out the window like i’m not your favorite town,” but you created a home across the sea, “back and forth from new york, sneaking in your bed.”
and in a haze of folklore and fantasy intertwining with reality, “your heartbeat on the highline, once in twenty lifetimes, i knew you” and “you know i left a part of me back in new york” and “i can go anywhere i want, just not home” and how the city scarred her as much as it created her in her adult, multifaceted form. and that she came out stronger because of them, and she is still bejeweled. that the city in all its chaos and glory is her. the relationships and betrayals that make home, home. and it really all does come back to the line i think she is embracing, back on the streets of new york as a full adult, who has friends for life, who’s been through hell and back, who’s still here.
“staring out the window like i’m not your favorite town, i’m new york city.”
bejeweled and anti-hero existing on the same album is a great lesson on the duality of self love — we can simultaneously be our biggest fans and own worst critics. confidence ebbs and flows; it’s not always there but when it is it SHIMMERRRSS
put this into words that i couldn’t
meet me at midnight
ATTN: Swifties
We’re bringing you a new custom theme to celebrate the release of @taylorswift’s upcoming album, Midnights, out tonight at....midnight.
It’s super easy to use. Just log into desktop web, head on over here to our Themes page, hit “Install,” and then gaze upon your Tumblr now dripping in it's Midnights shimmer!
Love, Taylor & Tumblr
Lost in the lavender haze over this new custom Midnights theme. 💜
Tonight we’re dressing comfy to ring in the release of Midnights. Show up in your PJs to match those bags under your eyes and meet us on Twitter at midnight! 🕰️
anyways im once again thinking about sadie's natural hair when they're on the drive alone together and then the shift to straightened shiny Adult Hair to impress him + his friends vs taylor suddenly straightening her curly hair in 2011. breaks my heart actually
Joe and Taylor leaving the afterparty in a rush.
The running in those heels was already impressive but also considering the amount of alcohol in her system at this point in the night…this woman might be super human
this video of taylor 🥺 x
