#bleachellataylor

[begumsgarden]

flashback when you met me, your buzzcut and my hair bleached

[bybdolan]

“And Bob couldn’t write a pop banger” absolutely tell em!!! but no for real I really agree with you that it’s basically pointless to compare songwriters especially when they’re from such different generations and different genres cause Taylor may have started in country but she’s always written closer to pop in it than most. and on top of that the genres they write in are so different purely because of time as well. Folk and country from Bob Dylan’s peak years also have underwent a lot of changes because of new trends, new techniques etc etc

Let me preface all of this by saying that my opinions on Bob Dylan's songwriting are highly subjective. People more familiar with music theory and poetry have said wiser things about his work than me and they might disagree with my opinions so... All I can say is that listening to his music makes me want to tear my teeth out. And I don't disagree with the original tweet AT ALL, seeing how often people get compared to Bob Dylan, but I have just grown a bit tired of the comparison because a lot of times, it's just made because Bob Dylan is Bob Dylan and He Is The Best.

I understand where the comparison comes from a 100%, both Dylan and Taylor are great at capturing life and pulling you into the world of the song. But times have changed and they both just have different goals with their songs. A lot of Taylor's work is centered around herself and figuring out her emotions about her own life, whereas Bob – though he had songs like that, too – often aimed higher and wrote songs trying to make sense of the overall state of the world. As fictionalized as evermore and folklore may be, it still feels like the root of the stories lies within Taylor. This is not to say that there is no part of Bob Dylan in his storytelling songs, but I don't listen to The Ballad Of Hollis Brown and wonder how much of this is based in Dylan's personal life.

I can listen to Cowboy Like Me and say that it feels very Blood On The Tracks and y'all have seen my parallel posts, so yea, Bob and Taylor sometimes have a similar edge, but at the end of the day, like you said, Taylor has always been very connected to pop and her pop writing is good, even though it isn't Bob Dylan-style writing. And maybe she could actually write her own Desolation Row, it's just that not a lot of people want to listen to 11 minute long songs anymore. But even if she does write it, she's not going to write it at 25. There is a sense of magic and whimsy and fiction and poetry to Dylan that Taylor seems to lean into more now, but she just didn't for a lot of her career because it wasn't her goal. And that's fine.

I could also go on a tangent about how different their public personas are/were and how that ties into their music and writing (Bob Dylan did Not Want To Be Perceived As A Real Person for a good part of his career. He's a jester.), but that is beside the point. Bob Dylan is Bob Dylan and Taylor Swift is Taylor Swift and they share strengths but they also differ quite a lot and at the end of the day, being "the new Bob Dylan" doesn't mean that much as a compliment when it's not based in something.

[studylustre]

Do you, normally, make tart tatin in a pan or in like a pie/cake cast... kinda wanna make one myself. also rip ur tart tatin but maybe u can save it, it'll still taste amazing tho

i usually make it in a cast iron pan for ease!! my parents dont have one though so i just used a regular glass baking dish this time around. it’s still totally do-able, it’s just a bit more of a pain since u need to make the caramel & prep the apples in a separate pan before baking ^^

[heystephen]

Im autistic and I like haven’t really had that before with Taylor songs but i have had it with Arianas songs!!! The production on a lot of songs on TUN is so ARGH to me, it sounds like it’s made in a fishbowl and is echoing and some stuff sounds like car alarms to me, tried to listen to TUN but I get such a sensory overload to me I’m like 😐

omg i definitely get a lot of sensory overload from some of ariana’s songs, like a lot of them just feel like Noise to me and it’s like...... uncomfortable to process 💔💔💔

[falklore]

NOT SWIFTGRON LOVE CONFESSION 😫😂😂😂😂

yes this is exactly what we need, did I mention that Dianna is Betty

[seventeengoingunder-archive]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!! I love u and your edits so much

thank you jack antonoff in disguise ❤

[speaknow]

Folklore is for sad hours staring at the wall, Lover is for dancing and bopping to. I’m glad we have both

AND THAT’S ON THAT!

[jakeperalta]

I get what u said about the rerecordings cause essentially we are just getting the same songs with the same production, her voice maybe will sound a bit more mature but the whole point of the rerecordings is that it sounds exactly like the originals in every way so that the originals don’t matter anymore

I like her original vocals because like her young sounding voice is just fitting for her coming of age type songs and they're just what I'm used to i don't want to let them go 🥺 but also the general public aren't gonna care much about her owning them so it's definitely a good idea to throw in a few bonuses to motivate people to not just carry on listening to the originals