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stillgotscars

new heights podcast (august 2025) - taylor swift

maryoliveoil

Taylor Swift in little plaid skirts and boots fall is here. Great Pumpkin right around the corner.

secondstar-acorn

taylor swift stop fucking misunderstanding literature for the purpose of your shitty songs challenge

raelish644

Glad someone else clocked Fate of Ophelia

I need a scene pack from the first season of Slings and Arrows that explains how Ophelia was a child dominated by and/or depended on powerful men and lost her mind due to their influence or loss

how exactly would the nonsensical romantic narrative in that song spell saving Grace other than being tossed into another codependent relationship

and you’re right OP Wendy left Peter (if I’m understanding your point correctly)

spiritxbone

Im trying to decide if the two of you are being purposefully obtuse or not???

Ophelia went mad because of the manipulation and betrayal of the men in her life. Similarly Taylor was controlled since she was 14 by powerful men having little control in her career and losing her life’s work, as well as mental/emotional abuse in relationships.

Taylor has spent the past 5 years singing about suicidal ideation, alcoholism, and being driven insane by the men in her life.

The lyrics describe how having a healthy relationship SAVED HER from fucking killing herself and going mad. AKA she’s not Ophelia but could have easily followed that path.

And to answer your tags about Ophelia not being the eldest daughter and bringing up her brother???

OPHELIA IS THE ONLY DAUGHTER. by default that makes her the eldest. If you don’t understand that, you’re not qualified to be talking about her reading comprehension.

PS: “Peter losing Wendy” aka Wendy left him lmao. Not hard to understand

All these literary references can be googled and explained lmao.

#the fate of ophelia #tloas #taylor swift

Thinking about “I got the place surrounded you’ll be sleeping with the fishes before you know you’re drowning” in regard to having a million people lined up around the block to take their place if they step out of line. If the label stops promoting an artist, they’ll fall off, can’t release music, accumulate debt.

This is touched on in the LWYMMD mv. Eating in opulence yet still caged and surrounded with little freedom

#taylor swift #father figure #LWYMMD #tloas

cages-boxes-hunters-foxes

Cannot believe that she wrote would it be enough if I could never give you peace and his answer was NO??? Actually I want you to give up the career you’ve worked your whole life for to give me peace???? BRO???

please there is actual smoke coming out of my ears

#yeah like… especially leading directly into hoax. These songs are sisters and need to be listened to together!#I’m a fire and I’ll keep your brittle heart warm—> I’m ash from your fire//no other sadness in the world would do #she burnt out as she kept trying to appease him and his melancholy #also like fall from grace to touch your face —> worship this love even if it’s a false god —> your faithless loves the only hoax I believein #anyways I’ve been saying this since 2020 (about peace) ever since Lover I said it about the relationship once her career was doing well #he started throwing fits

cages-boxes-hunters-foxes

I need you to know I just saw a father figure edit to jesus/judas

and people say showgirl is basic and lacks range

thelasttime

i like taylor swift albums bc they are good

#I like them bc they are bad and cringey and petty but so am I

coldasyou

I should shut up about it but the "joe actually wrote folklore and evermore" stuff is just pissing me off so much and what's pissing me off even more is I know if we point out how obviously misogynistic it is people will just say ohhhh swifties think all shit taylor gets is misogyny but well if the "giving a man credit for a woman's writing" boot fits!

holyshitrozanov

If he really was a writer on that level he wouldn't be acting, or he'd be releasing his own music while acting. He explained himself what he wrote and it was scattered parts of folklore that came to him at random that SHE noticed could be expanded on. Then some slightly more focused instrumentation on evermore was the only real progression before he seemingly abandoned the musical interlude all together. To the point of not even wanting to see his co-written songs performed at eras. To me that doesn't suggest someone who fancies themselves musically inclined or views music as a true venture for them. Which is fine if acting is his thing, then it is. I just think if he really was the secret "mastermind" to folklore/evermore there'd be way more evidence of his love for music or songwriting instead of he himself framing it as a random one off interlude.

#yeah I mean obviously. like the fact invisible string melody is just going up and down the strings for each chord on guitar #I’ve always believed he was depressed and distant but stuck in house and she held the guitar and made him pluck out a melody.#so he helped but very much under her direction #also I def could have wrote like timt or mad woman if my cowriter was TAYLOR FUCKING SWIFT

brucebocchi

clancyycat

where’s that personality test where you pick from different colors and then it reads your emotional state for complete filth

clancyycat

for anyone looking to poke emotional bruises

#the read this did on me

praguegirl

version with lyrics (w/out)

cages-boxes-hunters-foxes

also i think father figure is genuinely a career highlight

cages-boxes-hunters-foxes

also while we’re on father figure i think “i can make deals with the devil because my dick’s bigger” is the best swear in her discography. no other words she could’ve used to convey that message in that way

withmatchingscars

Father Figure is rapidly rising in my rankings, it really is That Bitch

#I immediately saw it… everyone else watch out. she’s coming coming for you

sixteenavenue

whose portrait’s on the mantle!!!! who covered up your scandals!!!! mistake my kindness for weakness and find your card cancelled!!! i was your father figure!!!!!!! you pulled the wrong trigger!!! this empire belongs to me!!!! leave it with me!!! i protect the family!!!!