mad woman is so underrated it viscerally pains me
everyone loves reputation’s sass and camp flair, but no one talks about how mad woman is what happens after reputation, when the hands that buried your old self have calloused, when you’re not snarling you’re just bitter, when the confetti from the reputation tour has been swept up and you’re standing barefoot on concrete, when you’re screaming “THIS IS UNFAIR” to the empty stadium because no one is listening to you anymore, when the way people hate you is no longer something you can summon a witty retort to, when you’re tired tired tired, when you realize there will be people who hate you forever and you’re just going to have to live with that, the knowledge of it leaving bruises that aren’t pretty purples or blues, just ugly and dark and formless.
