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August

Jeanette Winterson, from Written on the Body / Mary Oliver, from The Pond / poem titled An August Longing by Amber Khanzadeh / August by Taylor Swift.

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couldnt get this idea out of my mind every time i listened to should’ve been me by mitski so....

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Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Taylor in black rimmed glasses; 2010/2025

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Taylor swift is bringing it all back home in Thunderbird (2026).

In her anticipated twelfth record, Taylor is on her way home to country rhymes and a letter she tucked away under her pillow 20 years ago.

🌼 Hushed away from the world since the tour de force , The Eras Tour and buying back her older catalogue in a million-dollar deal, she’s now singing of her honeysuckle childhood that honed her preternatural ambition (in the fan favourite song Guitar Lessons), of a woman who fears her ambitions are eating her alive (in Burning Chairs), and of a lover’s early years in Practice Sessions (a sing rumoured to about her boyfriend who plays for the Kansas City Chiefs). Thunderbird is an album that swings to and fro between country-pop&indie— Shania Twain is featured in the country ballad No Regrets and Folk legend Joan Baez makes an appearance in Simple Woman, [produced by T and longtime collaborator Aaron Dessner] humming with T a solemn siren song— still an influence cannot be ignored: Rock.

The lead single, Thunderbird exceeds expectation of the those who would claim the genre is at cross with Taylor’s amorous reputation. Penned firstly with Stevie Nicks, whilst at a dinner party commemorating Tortured Poets Department (2024), the song was stacked away in a drawer in her New York City home along with others— Balthazar, Bringing it All Back Home (namesake inspired by the Bob Dylan album), Burning Chairs; before the verses coming back to life in Electric Studios, New York last year in a shell shock self discovery we’re all thankful for. Taylor keeps re-writing her ways and musical history along the way.

Four editions of the album are available.

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all’s fair in love and poetry.

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“I don’t give Taylor advice about being famous,” Stevie Nicks tells me. She doesn’t need it.

| Taylor Swift is Time Magazine’s Person of the Year.

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Spiritually the Taylor that wrote and performed Hey Stephen