I’m Doing Better Than I Ever Was...

Dani, 20, New York City Taylor followed 01/31/15

[taylorswift]

*don’t say it, don’t say it OKAY I’m saying it:* I’M FEELIN 32. And Alana is feeling 30. Don’t worry we tested everyone! Thank you so much for the birthday wishes, I love you all so much 🥰🎂

[taylorswift]

Just a friendly reminder that I would never have thought it was possible to go back and remake my previous work, uncovering lost art and forgotten gems along the way, if you hadn’t emboldened me. Red is about to be mine again, but it has always been ours. Tonight we begin again. Red (my version) is out now.

https://taylor.lnk.to/redtaylorsversion

📷: Beth Garrabrant

[loverdeluxe]

the lakes original version is literally what poetic cinema sounds like it’s so dramatic yet so poetic and calm it’s like the soundtrack of that one plot twist scene that stole the all show in a movie

[taylorswift]

It’s been one year since we escaped the real world together and imagined ourselves someplace simpler. With tall tall trees and salt air. Where you’re allowed to wear lace nightgowns that make you look like a Victorian ghost every day & no one will side eye you cause no one is around. It’s just you and your imaginary cabin and the stories you make up to pass the time. To say thank you for all you have done to make this album what it was, I wanted to give you the original version of The Lakes. Happy 1 year anniversary to Rebekah, Betty, Inez, James, Augustine, and the lives we all created around them. Happy Anniversary, folklore. 🌿

https://taylor.lnk.to/thelakesoriginal

[taylorswift]

You wouldn’t be the first renegade to need somebody 🌹

Collage by Graham Tolbert

Photo by James Reynolds

[dailyswiftgifs]

The more that you say, the less I know Wherever you stray, I follow.

[taylorswift]

I got a list of names and yours is in… glittery gel pen with hearts drawn around it 😇

[tayismyfavcat-deactivated202112]

@taylorswift coming to rock the 2021 and 2022.

[taylorswift]

We meet up every Tuesday night for dinner and a glass of wine 🍷

[taylorswift]

Spinning in my highest heels, luv

[it-feels-like-a-perfect-night]

[alltoowsll]

Head first, fearless ✨💛

[bleachellaz]

Idk who needs to hear this but like... Taylor was like a major independent artist her entire career 💀 she had to earn that shit herself, built a label from the groun up herself, paid for her music videos herself

[augustheads]

this is completely true and the most underrated part about her. people instead focus on her dad owning a single digit percentage of the company (which was brand new, so not like... insane amounts of money) taylor WALKED AWAY from a large label because she wanted to release a full LP so bad. she took a chance on a man who left a large label as well. she made that place everything it is today. SHE sat on the floor and sent CDs of her singles to radio. SHE baked cookies and other goods for hosts to promote. SHE wrote her songs. SHE created the themes of her albums, tours, merch designs. SHE decided to use social media HER WAY to interact with fans and authentially grow. Taylor Swift made herself who she is. Yes, she had help from a team as she grew, she had a family with money who supported her, but NEVER, EVER dismiss how much work it was for a TEEN GIRL to put herself out there like that. In a male dominated genre. With radio that is still explicitly sexist.

[peakatseven]

Y'all forget that all of self titled and half of fearless was literally recorded on a basement with shitty equipment. If taylor ever had help of a team later on, its because she earned the money to hire them herself. Big Machine Records was created to release Taylor Swift the album, and it became a Label Group years later.

This is why walking away from the label was such a big decision for her, she wasn't just walking away from her entire musical career which was already hard enough. She was walking away from a mega successful business she built up herself since she was a teen.

[safesoundxswift]

how nice must it have been for 31 year old taylor to re-record fifteen knowing that she and and abigail are still friends after all these years

[bleachellaz]

I should’ve added this to my other posts but like Taylor has been a risk taker every single step of her career yet no one thinks of her like that because her risks always pay off.... she moved to Nashville and placed her bets on a label that wasn’t even really founded yet, she wrote an entire album alone because of criticism, switching to pop was predicted to end her 1M+ first week sales and she was at risk of losing her main audience, writing a letter to Apple Music AND pulling out of Spotify for years didn’t stop her sales or her tours, the Reputation stadium tours slow ticket strategy was predicted to flop yet she sold out every single show, she switched to an indie sound that’s notoriously less played on radio and less consumed yet was the most streamed and best selling artist of the year, she switched to surprise releases instead of strong commercial album rollouts and every single one of these has made her bigger and stronger and the most notable artist of her generation and yet people think she’s some girl who always plays it safe and is backed by big labels. She isn’t, Taylor Swift is the definition of a risk taker

[taylorswifh]

i just think that taylor swift invented spring

[bananaofswifts]