All the King's horses and all the King's man

Murmur, Cameron Barnett

why should i care about taylor swift when the killer remains at large

#girl… put 2 and 2 together

Taylor Swift watching her ex on a location app because he forgot to turn it off I'm obsessed with you admitting that to the entire world.

Taylor swift in "Down Bad"

the similarities in the production of i can do it with a broken heart and bejeweled is scaring the shit out of me

icdiwabh is basically bejeweled except this time it's also talking about how difficult being bejeweled can be. they are the same song sorry

very apt time for this

this one too

i have not stopped laughing at this

ttpd is like... this fucking sucked... it was my fault... fuck joe... this also fucking sucked... fuck matty... i thought i was gonna die... straight up commit me to an asylum... FUCK matty... fuck joe... no one knows me... fuck kim kardashian... i created every problem and every consequence i have to face... please see me as human... i am exposing my flaws so you see me as a real person... fuck jake gyllenhaal... if you're gonna be so up my business you better realize how fucked up my business is... also hi killatrav ily... there is nothing redeeming about this chapter of my life... hi mom ily... this ALSO fucking sucked... there may be good in the world... here is every sin i have ever committed... i was promised love and forever repeatedly and no one ever delivered... my reaction to trauma was awful... i made so many bad decisions... if you're gonna crucify me do it for good reasons... are you not entertained?

the thing is that for many years, it was always thrown in taylor's face that she "couldn't keep a man", that her relationships were short and intense and didn't warrant the way she wrote about her muses. "who could stay?" then she finally finds someone who is willing to stay with her, but not marry her; eventually, staying becomes boring and complacent and being stuck in an endless loop of sadness together with no trying. "you're losing me". feeling a sense of wasted youth and wondering if it's prophesied that she can never have the things she wants most. and after walking away, her first call is to someone who was there for the making of her last album, that KNOWS ALL OF THIS, uses it to feed her exactly what she wants to hear, but leaves her high and dry shortly after. just wow. what an incredibly detailed and vulnerable picture has been laid out for us, the people who judge her mood and state of mind based on paparazzi pictures and surprise songs. i'm overwhelmed with emotion.

in peter, taylor spends the song talking about how she thought if she would just wait, the goddess of timing would fix things up and their time would come. he would grow up and come back to her, he would keep his promise of dealing with his shit and being there for her. in so much of her previous work, she talks about how he knew her so well, and now she is wondering if he can still read her. he was high above everything and could see the whole forest (her and her life) for what it was, but now he is so far high above that he can’t see it (her and their relationship) anymore while she’s still in the thick of it alone. they’re in the same difficult time, but their minds are working differently. same page, but on different lines.

she sings how she was fine with letting the lamp burn and waiting, she didn’t wanna come down, she kept her hope up, and she was okay with him being absent because she thought they’d gain perspective when he came back and it would’ve made their love better and it’d be worth it. but then she just realized that she doesn’t want that. she doesn’t wanna be betty, waiting 20 years of her life, thinking if he’ll ever be there. she wants more and she wants better. in their time together, he never grew up, so now she’s turning out the light and leaving.

Thinking about how Taylor is both the girl screaming at the sky for her person and the bolter, thinking about about how The Bolter sort of feels like a joyful reclamation of being the bolter after breaking down how spending years trying not to bolt nearly killed her. She wants the right thing but not if the cost is losing herself trying to make the wrong thing fit.

one last thing about the whole jack hate on tiktok and twitter is that they'll say shit like he is too repetitive and taylor needs to work with someone else - MEANWHILE all of the songs they list as their favorites are produced by.... JACK

god remember when we thought the lyricism on folklore was dark and tried to be gentle talking about it fjdksjdjd now she’s experimenting with killing herself every two songs

Thinking about "when I was shipwrecked I thought of you" in evermore and "you said I abandoned the ship but I was going down with it" in so long london

me screaming along to but daddy i love him knowing damn well i was one of the sarah’s and hannah’s begging her to come to her senses

My brain is like — IIIIIII’m having his baaaaby, no I’m not but you should see your faces …. FLOR I DA…. You don’t. Get to. Tell me. About. Sad….. my boy only breaks his favorite toys toys oOOooh OOOohh…. Pleeeease I’ve been on my kneeeeees….. I’m working late! Cause I’m a singer!… you know how to ball, I know Aristotle….another fortnight lost in ameeeeerica…..I’M SO DEPRESSED I ACT LIKE IT’S MY BIRTHDAY….i founded the club she’s heard great things about….