wonderland

~~ vee // 22 // mostly my awful sense of humour, Academy Award winner emma stone + Grammy Award winner taylor swift // ~~

[lovesickallovermybed]

you’ll do things greater than dating the boy on the football team

[taylornation]

Can you believe it’s been a week since the flashback started and Love Story (Taylor’s Version) came out?? 😱 We can’t wait to listen to Fearless (Taylor’s Version) in its entirety!

Remember to pre-order the album here! 👉 taylor.lnk.to/fearlesstaylorsversion

[taylornation]

taylor’s 8th album folklore is OUT NOW!!! http://taylor.lnk.to/folklore 🌟

[itspileofgoodthings]

okay but—the thing I’ve always loved about Taylor is that she HAS always been pop. (Yes, even when she was country she was pop.) in my own personal (correct) opinion very, very few people, if any, have used the pop structure and format better than her. And certainly no one showcases its potential for meaning and feeling and heart like she does. And the reason I’ve always loved her pop is because it has all those things—meaning, feeling, heart—bound together in a perfectly constructed FORMAT that is obvious but deeply satisfying. Because the Pop format IS satisfying, it’s just usually, alright often, soulless and empty.

I’ve also loved Taylor’s pop because it always had these WEIRD edges to it, these throwaway lines, these hints at bigger stories she wasn’t telling. And so in addition to the immaculate lines of a pop song came personality and quirk, tiny little magic darts interspersed with the basic, straightforward story of a pop song. “Yes I remember what you said last night” “a careless man’s careful daughter.” These are hints at a bigger world or more complicated back story. Her pop songs stick with classic stories as well as formats. They are good and real and true and beautiful and enduring, I think, beCAUSE they are classics but they are not complicated. The hints at bigger stories add richness to them, making this a “best of both worlds” situation. You get the fun of a big obvious pop chorus that gets into your head and your bones, that you can sing along to, that captures the rush of an overwhelming feeling. And you get detail. Personality. Specificity.

Now. folklore is not a pop album, at all. of course it’s indie-folk/alternative- okay I don’t fully understand the genre or all its distinctions— but I also mean it isn’t a pop album even in spirit. It’s not straightforward, it’s not diaristic, it’s not telling classic Taylor narratives. What it IS and what I love about it so much is that it is an album that takes the “outer” moments of her pop songs, the tiny little darts, the hints at bigger stories and blows them up into songs and stories of their own, that may or may not be hers but which exist as their own entity. She’s gotten smaller and smaller in a sense, narrowing in on her moments but THIS TIME narrowing in with the intent of building worlds out of the moments. And not just crystalizing the moment or immortalizing it but building a world out of the moment that has its OWN moments. A million worlds. A million moments.

Listening to it, you are asked to bend yourself down and fold yourself in to fit through the crack of Taylor’s previously brilliant throwaway lines so that you can stand up to find yourself in a whole, new, brilliant world that isn’t just Taylor’s anymore (although of course it is.) I am blown away.

[stonenonbrien]

I am going THROUGH IT with Taylor’s new album oh my god

[bybdolan]

Lover  as movie posters {1989}

[stellarboystyles]

here is a list of black owned etsy shops ✨

[tonystank]

hard same

[paprika]

[whitepeopletwitter]

[bitchesgetriches]

Dolly Parton haters can fuck right off.

[uncle-beanbag]

Dolly does more for people than anyone else.

[im-on-the-bleachers]

Not a lot going on at the moment ✨ drawing by me of @taylorswift 💘 my twitter is @loveraimee13! This took me like nearly a week to do as I was procrastinating when I’d finished drawing certain areas, as the eyes and teeth were the hardest to draw lol

[itspileofgoodthings]

in the bridge of style taylor sings “take me home” and she means hER home as in she wants out of this tangled mess of a relationship because in the second verse she sings “takes me home, lights are off, he’s taking off his coat” so when they get to the bridge they’ve already been to his house and so in the bridge when she sings “take me home” she means she wants to go home-home, in this essay i will

[myreputation]

𝔟𝔩𝔢𝔞𝔠𝔥𝔢𝔩𝔩𝔞 𝔰𝔱𝔯𝔢𝔢𝔱 𝔰𝔱𝔶𝔩𝔢

[prettymysticfalls]

How on earth am I going to access this Lynchburg, Virginia, kind of Appalachian working-class, very Southern, uneducated, pure-of-heart? How do I even begin to think about that?

[tayloralison]

[cauldroncreations]

friends: how was work

me:

[flawfulbelle]