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Female celebrity fans will be like ‘Taylor Swift releases another album??? Clearly she doesn’t give a shit about the carbon emissions from two sets of vinyls and doesn’t care about her fans’ and male celebrity fans will be like ‘no he didn’t rape her and even if he did I don’t care’

sunjaesol

love how the king in another life would just be a millennial food blogger

thedeathdeelers

they really started this drama with a “yup, that’s me. you’re probably wondering how i ended up in this situation” 😭

sleepdeprivedreads

I feel like the actor for the king was chosen mainly for his lips and how orgasmic his face expression can be while eating lmao

dylan-rodrigues

Aight they gotta tone down the "she reminds him of his mom" angle

myprettymyfunnymytouch

in retrospect, making the theme of an album "about the things that keep you up in the middle of the night" and most of them are about how u started dating ur current partner was a huge red flag that she was unhappy as fuck with joe.

Sherlock Holmes - Jeremy Brett

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wavesoutbeingtossed

Randomly thinking about “tolerate it” (narrator voice: it was not random) and how under the cloak of fiction it is ostensibly inspired by works like “Rebecca” (which Taylor said she read during the 2020 lockdowns I believe?), with the line of “you’re so much older and wiser” indicating that the speaker is significantly younger and inexperienced compared to the person she’s speaking to and a pretty direct reference to the plot of the book.

But I saw something somewhere once that stuck with me about how it might not be referring to relative age between the characters but chronological age as in the passage of time in a relationship. And that made me think about how in a contemporary context, it might not necessarily be referencing an actual age gap between the two characters, but rather a sarcastic or cynical response to the man’s claims that he has matured (“you’re so much older and wiser [than you were before/than you were when we met/etc.]”), which then made me think about that line in relation to the woman. And that it could be taken like, “you act like you’ve matured so much in our time together and like you know everything, while I’m supposedly still stuck as the girl I was when we first met.”

Which then made me think of the “right where you left me” of it all and did you ever hear about the girl who got frozen time went on for everyone else she won’t know it and the bit in Miss Americana where she talks about how celebrities get frozen at the age at which they got famous, and how she’s had to play catch up in a lot of ways not just in her emotional growth but kind of in general. (Which also made me wonder if she’s ever been called out for immaturity/lack of curiosity/lack of education about things in her life…)

Which then made me think about the rest of the song, and @taylortruther’s posts yesterday about “seven” and “Daylight” and the way Taylor idealizes her youth yet contrasts it with an almost sinister reality in its wake, and the line, “I sit by the door like I’m just a kid,” because the discussion raised that her relationship let her recapture some of the childlike joy and wonder she’d lost. So this line is a double-edged sword: the speaker sits by the door with childlike hope that the person will come home and cherish her, but on the darker side, feels like the child dealing with the monsters she doesn’t have names for yet and the feelings of isolation she felt as she aged.

I’m not saying the song is necessarily autobiographical; like most of the songs on folkmore, it’s clearly a fictionalized story based on media she’d consumed and created, but we know a lot of the fictional songs were infused with her own feelings and experiences and… This idea swirling in my head picked up steam and now I kind of can’t stop thinking about it. Sorry but I’m a little obsessed now.

Like maybe it might start to shed light on why she identified so strongly with the novel in the first place…

wavesoutbeingtossed

Ok not completely on the mark at times but between “you said you’d come and get me but you were 25 and the shelf life of those fantasies has expired” and “holding tight to your quiet resentment” and “In the age of him, she wished she was thirty and made coffee every morning in a French press, afterwards she only ate kids' cereal and couldn't sleep unless it was in her mother's bed” and “She thought about how he said since she was so wise beyond her years everything had been above board, she wasn't sure” etc. I was kinda cooking with this…