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new account for lowkeyfangirl. I got locked out :'(

[pizzaback-deactivated20201011]

it’s 2020

[7elevn]

i feel like i made myself up

[lonelystarbuckslover13]

Concept: Taylor performs Mad Woman live and when it gets to the lyric “does she mouth “fuck you forever”” she moves the mic away from her face and directs it at the audience so that she literally is just mouthing “fuck you forever” and in the absence of Taylor’s own voice everyone instead hears the voices of the thousands of women in the audience screaming that lyric and for a brief moment the collective anger of mistreated women engulfs the stadium and it’s as if Taylor opened her mouth and the cries of thousands of “mad women” escaped her lips

[a-marvelouzz-time-deactivated20]

Dancing with our hands tied (2017) // illicit affairs (2020)

[timilina]

Also I've been picking up the pieces of the mess you made - All you had to do was stay (2014)

[yourorganicshoes]

I will not rest until every person in this fandom understands that ...Ready For It? is a masterpiece of SATIRE.

What has been Taylor’s public narrative for almost her entire career? That she is a serial man-eater.

This song is literally her admitting that she has found someone to step in as a long-term partner to a) change the narrative and b) protect what she really has.

The verses contain line after line about finding a dude to “join the HEIST” aka join this elaborate joke on the media & the public. It is a GAME and she asks if all players are ready to begin.

My favorite lines are: “Every love I’ve known in comparison is a failure / I forget their names now / I’m so very tame now”

You think the bitch who wore a snakeskin outfit on the anniversary of ~the phone call~ and pissed on a 🛴 sign is happily admitting to being tame?! Do you even know her?!

These lines are Taylor preempting and mocking the narrative that followed after she entered into a serious, long-term “relationship” about her finally settling down.

Another favorite: “I keep him forever like a vendetta”

You think that’s a cute way to talk about a partner?! That you’re dating him to get back at someone?! Her vendetta is against the people who have called her a serial man-eater, and she’s basically admitting that she’ll keep him around for a long time to take revenge on them.

Also see: “He can be my jailor”

Y’all. That is not how you would talk about someone you actually love. He is the jailor that prevents her “gold cage hostage” feelings from making it out into the world. He is HER BEARD.

In the chorus, she sings about what she is protecting by playing this game. Remember the original lyrics? “That’s when I get to be with you...”

Isn’t it interesting that she spends the rest of the album singing about a secret love?

LET THE GAMES BEGIN.

Like seriously kids, spelling is fun! How much more does she have to spell it out for you?

[whatiwillsay]

this image gives us anxiety

[juanikuz-deactivated20210427]

5 whole albums in one pic

[sibyllebair]

[marianhalcombes]

“We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory.”

— Louise Glück, from “Nostos” in Meadowlands (via merulae)

[rylandgraces]

taylor’s control of language always sends me into oblivion when i hear some of her songs. there’s this super sexy thing in linguistics called topicalization where you put the a phrase at the beginning of the sentence instead of its canonical position further right in the sentence to emphasise the an action or feeling over the thing. it appears in cruel summer when she says “it’s new, the shape of your body / it’s blue, the feeling i got” and again in invisible string when she says “bold was the waitress on our three year trip / cold was the steel of my axe to grind / gold was the colour of the leaves / hell was the journey but it brought me heaven” however she usually uses this for emotions instead of actions. she doesnt want to emphasise what happened, but how it feels. she creates such sensory in her songs but not of a sound or a sight but an emotion and thats neat

[thecalmthatkeepsyouawake]

this is gonna be one of the best listening experiences ever considering it’s one of the first we’ve ever had where there were no secret sessions, no pre-release songs, nothing. we’re all gonna experience this album front to back for the first and discover everything at the same time and i’m going to implode.

[brittany]

Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had set their books out into the world like ships onto the sea. These books gave Matilda a comforting message: “You are not alone.”

Matilda 🌼 (1996), dir. Danny DeVito

[girlnumbersix]

ladies we need to start frantically and obsessively reading books in less than 24 hours again..remember how happy we were

[jonismitchell-deactivated202410]

when robin scherbatsky said “i am scared of how much i like you.” when taylor swift said “i love you ain’t that the worst thing you ever heard.” when margaret atwood said “if i love you is that a fact or a weapon.” when virginia woolf said “yes yes i do like you. i am afraid to write the stronger word.” when richard siken said “the enormity of my desire disgusts me.”

[roseoilz]

honestly…. us girls? us women ?? we always out here . knowin

[nocompassnosign]

does she know that 1 in 13 black Americans have lost their right to vote because of felony convictions. which is also because of systematic racism since the whole prison system is garbage and racist

[thebeautifulkind]

Maybe because of the number 13 she'll pay attention to it now?

[spelldealer]

me when i fucking breathe

[0v9]

good post if you ever breathe

[verytamenow]

I’m starting to get the idea I’m the only trans swiftie on tumblr that isn’t pressed about Taylor playing Tyler. And I get why for some people, it may be touchy depending on their experiences. But I don’t want anyone to see those posts and think that’s a universal opinion and every trans or NB person thinks Taylor was inconsiderate and disrespectful.

Taylor playing Tyler was literally The. Point. The Man, by its lyrics and her own words, is at its core “this is what my life would be like if everything was the same but I had been born a cisman.” And she’s right. There’s not a male equivalent of her success. If Taylor actually were Tyler, they’d be calling Tyler Swift an actual god descended from the heavens to save the music industry.

If the role had been the protagonist was NB or trans, I could see why people would be upset because there’d be a host of amazing people who could authentically be themselves on a major platform. But that wasn’t the point. The video and premise of the song all hinge on Taylor but if she were a man. There was not going to be a way to do that effectively without getting hamfisted (and people sounding off she didn’t go deep enough on a fun song that yes it political but is also a pop single is another topic altogether) or convoluted.

Taylor took that premise to its natural conclusion - flipping her genetics and yet still winning the damn lottery (which we’ve all seen Austin so that fair). Male with dark hair, dark eyes, and now average height instead of ridiculously tall is in fact her opposite genetically. And she did it well. I’m impressed. It’s an impressive show of special effects makeup work and whether it was her or the team that researched binding and packing - it was clearly good research and executed well.