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saw this tweet and now im confused did this actually happen please help
https://x.com/ellie_elizabet/status/1797045150331597027
we don’t actually know if she did or did not
I’m pretty sure the song is about Idina Sackville. So, I don’t think Taylor almost drowned when she was six in frigid water. Not ruling it out (Taylor did have a marvelous time ruining Watch Hill!), but:
this sounds like some of my mutuals
okay wait i'm starting to see a connection between the mentality of "every thought i have should be kind and supportive and nonjudgmental and understanding about every possible aspect of every possible issues even about strangers even if i never say it out loud my inner world must reflect an ideological perfection" and "i can't believe taylor could be this mean she's so petty i don't know if i can keep supporting her what about joe's side". like you are combing your own thoughts constantly for any sign of deviation from what you consider to be a purity of emotion and feeling and you are angry when your idols aren't doing the same because it means somehow they are evil and bad and wrong. i see i see. i don't like it but i get it
There is almost nothing I hate more than ideological purity. It’s so boring.
i have an interesting thought experiment. do you think it scares people that taylor is willing to be visibly wounded, damaged, angry?
Of course it does. People are terrified of women telling the truth. As Muriel Ukeyser writes:
“What would happen if one woman told the truth about
her life?
The world would split open”
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I don’t think Aaron was ever particularly close to Joe, especially not at the time Long Pond was recorded. They wouldn’t have spent much if any time together in person or one on one.
they had vacationed together by then i think (and he knew him enough to get a thank you when folklore won AOTY)
I have a feeling Joe fangirled at least a little bit. And no one likes that when you’re just friends and equals.
You’re absolutely right that they’re not saying this about anyone else. Would these anons say the same thing about Megan Thee Stallion regarding the “power imbalance”? Or how about Shakira? Shakira’s fanbase is MASSIVE and she has far more reach and money than her ex but everyone was uplifting her for speaking her truth (as is her right). And what’s more frustrating from a perspective of someone who works in a field where these conversations are brought up, the idea that because a woman is successful, powerful (in a certain lane) means that there is a power imbalance between her and Joe or the women mentioned above are not taking into consideration other factors that contribute to a power imbalance in the first place.
it’s literally just because she crafted an image of him that was so pristine that they cannot bear to let go of it. but i also think the album they’ve created in their heads - 16 diss tracks - isn’t the album they’re going to get. this is HER story. he’s just a character.
I wonder if taylor likes the killaearrings (I suspect yes)
she shouldn’t
The earrings kill me. And not in a good way!
I actually agree with you 100% on all long-term relationship breakups being pretty much the same. When you've loved someone for so long, it means they're also part of your routines, part of your comfort, part of your home and part of your family. Their family becomes your family, their friends become your friends, their hopes and aspirations become things you care about as well as their struggles. The reasons why the rs starts falling apart aren't as simple as one or both parties no longer "being in love", but rather a combination of issues: career ambitions intolerable to the relationship for various reasons, incompatibility of personalities or of extended families, growth at different paces, the goals and wishes agreed at the start of the rs changing with time, loss of trust and connection, etc. I thought of this the other day when an anon mentioned the movie Blue Valentine, and I think the reason why that film feels so realistic (and devastating) is because all long term relationships slowly desintegrate in similar manners to what happens to the couple in the movie. And piggybacking off the discourse we had on The Alcott, it's quite desperating and frustrating to slowly realize that things that once were profoundly sacred have come to feel like a curse; you no longer feel like you're choosing everyday to be with this person out of love, but rather that you're emprisioned to them.
What we know about TTPD department so far makes me think this will be explored but not in the way many fans seem to be expecting (not you guys lol but I have seen ppl that expect the songs to be sassy, petty, and accusatory). Instead, I think we will see her show and deconstruct all the ways she fought for it to work, compromising, committing, twisting herself into a pretzel, and making herself smaller, not because he was "forcing her" like some fans think but rather from her own decision bc that's just how much she loved him. Which is even more devasting if you think of it: she locked herself away, tried to dim her shine, beared emotional burdens alone because of her own conviction and desire to make things work, not as a result of him "making her" do all of that. So imo one of the reasons this album will be particularly devastating is bc we will learn in a very raw manner just how much she loved this man and how much she was willing to give up for him, and how much regret she probably has about things she did for him that at the time felt like a no-brainer but in hindsight seem ridiculous (which is a very common thing for everyone bc that's simply what you do when you love someone; love isn't usually rational). And this will undoubtedly be very relatable for ppl who have been in ltrs that ended bc, as you say, most of them end in the same way and most of us realize how much we actually sacrificed for it only after the fact.
i agree!!! also, we know taylor never does anything by halves. we know love is basically a religion of drug to her. we know she felt that he believed in her and loved her for her at a time when she felt she was distinctly unlovable. we know she fought hard to deal with her baggage. we know she was reflecting on fame, how fickle it is, and why she wanted it so badly (miss americana doc, mirrorball, midnight rain, to name a few.) we can look at midnights to see the things that were haunting her and they were things like: dealing with fame, choosing the hard way, reckoning with loss of self, wanting to protect love that felt fragile, blocking out noise, the empowerment and loneliness of relying on oneself. midnights feels like a very honest and logical progression past folkmore, which discussed those topics as well as infidelity, taking up space, confronting depression and pain and other sticky human desires. ttpd feels like it will further touch on these complicated and sticky and dark topics, with the added "bonus" of the specter of a breakup, and the breakup itself, haunting them. anyone whose ever lost a part of themselves to try and save a relationship of any kind will understand, i think. love is a beast that way.
this isn’t related to anything but evermore is actually so different from folklore sonically. idk. i feel like most of the key songs on the two albums are not interchangeable.
i think. and i’m not certain if i’m gonna phrase this right but. i think ttpd will illuminate taylor in a way that will be more difficult for more surface level fans to process. everything i’m getting about ttpd sounds so nuanced and fraught and for lack of a better term ugly. and i feel like a lot of fans, especially those who came long after 2016, won’t understand the taylor that’s being revealed to us, and instead of appreciating the vulnerability required to be authentic and ugly, they’ll resent it. the fans who like the pre-packaged taylor they’ve crafted in their heads won’t enjoy the reality check. so they’ll make their gossipy tiktoks and ignore the person taylor has presented herself to be - a real person - because taylor was always merely content to them.
when getting a blood draw, what do you do?
faint.
purposefully look away the whole time
purposefully look away for part of it
vibe. look anywhere
purposefully watch for part of it
purposefully watch the whole time 👀
never had a blood draw
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I am so good at blood draws. The trick is to just relax.
Okay hear me out—
Taylor is great at rhyming, we can all agree?
So wtf is this:
Cursed doesn’t rhyme with “yours” and it kind of cramps my ears when I hear these two words play off one another in the verse.
What does rhyme with “cursed” AND happens to be a word that I accidentally sing every time this verse appears?
“hers”
Hers???
We all know (maybe) that I believe that this song is about a baby girl, so click the fuck off if this doesn’t resonate. But for everyone else, just wanted to share how much this bothers me.
Do people not know what a slant rhyme is?
“I’m a little bitch sometimes. But you come after my friend Taylor, you’re toast to me. Questioning [her] songwriting is like challenging someone’s faith in God. You just don’t go there.”
— Jack Antonoff to the Los Angeles Times on Taylor’s detractors (x)
high infidelity truthers let me hear you make some noise
Sometimes I wonder yk if YLM was never released, would the public perception of Joever be very different today?
I remember a lot of people were actually buying the 'mutual breakup' theories before that bombshell of a song dropped, and ever since then everyone's jumped on to the "Joe Alwyn is the villain" bandwagon.
Obviously that might be true, we don't know anything as of yet...but that's exactly it, we don't know ANYTHING, and we're making vast assumptions based on that one song.
A lot of people will tell you on here that Taylor doesn't like us speculating who and what her songs are about, but in the case of YLM I think she very obviously meant to send a clear message.
The song wasn't even widely available, and she knew that only die-hard fans would have access to it before she fully released it. I think Taylor really wanted US to know, and that's it. There's really no other explanation for it. The wound was still fresh, and she didn't want to make a spectacle out of it.
You pointed out that she hates being misunderstood, and that's a great point. Ig she was seeing all these ludicrous theories floating around about the breakup...and decided to immediately tell her side of the story to put it all to rest.
She was also closing the Midnights chapter with that song which is very interesting to me for a different reason. You see, Midnights as an album was essentially supposed to document the stories of 20 sleepless nights spread out through her life. We all know this. Now the popular theory is that each of these 20 songs are referring to periods of her life in the PAST. They're juggling themes of lost love, growing up, revenge and clarity and finally her happy ending with Joe.
If you hadn't heard of the breakup, you wouldn't be able to tell it happened just from hearing Midnights. I feel like each and every single song in Midnights is related to a phase in her life chronologically preceeding YLM.
Regardless of when YLM was actually written, the song itself documents the twilight of a once great love story that's currently fraying at the seams. Taylor was in the Lavender Haze throughout all her previous nights, eyes closed, world blocked out...YLM was her waking up.
It's the most recent night, and maybe even the one she was living through when the album came out. The rest of the album is her processing her past, and YLM is the bleak reality of her present. In this context it's safe to say that she was holding onto the glory of the relationship through songs like Paris, Sweet Nothings and The Great War...other sleepless nights of her life and juxtaposing it with her current one.
I don't think Midnights would feel complete without YLM. I think she desperately needed to get that one out.
this was a really enjoyable read from start to finish, anon, thank you for sharing! i agree that our communal perception of joe would be different without YLM. she knows that. that's why it felt so pointed! it really, strongly feels like taylor is sending a message with YLM (some may disagree ;)) and i think it's very much her way of saying, "now that homeboy's not my homeland anymore, i have nothing to defend. here's the truth."
hot take and this is unrelated to anything but honestly the reason so many sad songs (by taylor or otherwise) seem to describe joever is because most breakups are the same
(cinderella anon from before) i had a weird interpretation of "read my sentence out loud" before i realized it was supposed to be a prison type thing. i initially took it as an actual sentence, like words. my brain connected it to the character in the song having her "golden notebook" and being a writer. so i interpreted "read my sentence out loud" as sort of an act of betrayal, like he's putting her intimate feelings on blast. and also probably disrespecting her craft. i'm totally sure that's not what it really means but it's what i think of lol. to me that whole section is the two vocals in dialogue with each other, where he's saying he'll ruin it, and she's saying the ways he ruins it
oooh i love how much interpretation we all have on this song!
i personally think both meanings were intentional! i didn't interpret it as a betrayal, more of a, "you want to break into my golden thinking? read my golden notebook? okay, i'll read my sentence out loud!" and that could be romantic but edgy, or it could skew more negative (the "tell you the truth" part of the song felt almost like a warning or hard thing.)
for me, the voices almost seem to be playing both parts. he ruined it, but she ruined it too. but as we've established, i don't know what the hell is going on in the alcott, so i could be very very wrong here.
