I think Matty Healy is awful but I’m still proud of Taylor putting “but daddy I love him” on the record.

There are songs on the album about her realising he love bombed her and manipulated her. Realising she fell for all of it, she was never going to fix him, and he was never going to be her saviour. She is scathing towards him, but also towards herself for falling for it. She could have left it at that and maybe copped less criticism. Instead she acknowledges the backlash and the defiance she felt in that moment.

It makes me feel the same way her putting Ours on Speak Now does. Grateful that she is open to sharing her stories even when the muse isn’t deserving of the words she wrote, even when releasing it fans the fires of the “I told you so” crowd.

And much like Ours is not a defence of Mayer, BDILH is not an acquittal of Healy. The phrasing she uses is not “he’s a good man they just don’t know him like I do”, it’s “I’m not coming to my senses” “I’d rather burn my whole life down”. The message of the song is not her trying to convince you he’s a good person (he’s not), it’s about a woman stumbling through a crisis and her desperate need to be able to make her own decisions, and that includes her own mistakes - which she seems to be acknowledging Matty was.

Jake was literally telling 20-year-old Taylor he could see her having his babies and people were like, "why would that dumb little girl think a three-month relationship was 'the one real thing [he'd] ever known'"

I think TTPD is so intentionally vague and then she’s like btw Kim k this isn’t over I hate you and your daughter is my biggest fan and you will never escape me and the consequences of what you’ve done, also my mother who wouldn’t hurt a fly also hates your guts, now back to me escaping into daydreams because I’m depressed

Everyone is so exhausted and flaggergasted I haven’t even seen any edits going around 😭 I haven’t seen this fandom being so speechless like ever

#This is probably the funniest running joke we have had in years

quote of the year

first listen favorite from the tortured poets department - go

Taylor Swift in the studio the day her and Jack Antonoff made 'Down Bad'

— June 29, 2023

“I’m having his baby! No I’m not, but you should see your faces!”

this is the only thing i’ll say on who inspired the songs because it’s not the point of the album, but in the end i think joe and matty are far more alike than we could ever know & that’s why the songs hurt so bad- the same kind of person wrecked her twice

@cam1lla your mind