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sandra

@back2december

“the stars in your eyes shined brighter in tupelo”
24. Tennessee, USA.
taylor swift, coca cola & criminal minds enthusiast. english major. overly opinionated & often accused of having no chill.
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folksyswift

Okay, stop saying your car doesn’t have a CD player! I know one of you had a crappy 2003 Honda Civic! This is your time to shine babe!

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taylor saying haunted and long story short as she spoke before the song but then playing red was so funny to me

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"We have, on this tour, constructed the exact folklore cabin that I had in my imagination, and we’ve taken it to Foxborough, Massachusetts! This was a pandemic album—this was actually an album that I started about two days into the world as we knew it shutting down. And we were all looking for methods of escapism during that time, and I mean, I’m not going to be like, ‘Oh, I wrote an album, I wrote two albums, and I did only constructive things,’ because that’s not true. I watched about 9 billion hours of TV and went through like—there was wine, there was a lot of wine. Yeah! But I also made a few albums. And folklore was one where I tried something new in that, you know, I’ve always kind of liked creating characters, creating fantasies, sort of telling other people’s stories, but with this album, this was the first time I really leaned into it fully as a concept album. And so I was like, you know, I want to create, sort of these fictional characters, and I’ll infuse my emotions into them because of course, but it was really fun to kind of take a break from the constant like, excruciatingly autobiographical songs. Like after awhile, when you put out an album, it just starts to feel like a public autopsy that’s livestreamed on the internet. You just kind of put out on album and you’re like, ‘Okay. I hope you like it, I’m just going to….’ It just feels vulnerable. So with folklore, it feels cool to create characters, and I created a character arc that I affectionally called the teenage love triangle. Do you know about this? If you don’t know about this, but it’s so cool if you do, it’s basically, there’s this teenage boy named James, and one summer, probably in the month of August, he really screws thins up with the love of his life, And he has to get her back, and he has to apologize, and he has to show up at this party she’s at, and he has to lay his feelings bare and tell the truth and say he’s sorry, and well, her name is Betty."

— Taylor before playing betty in Foxborough, MA on May 20th

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“When I wasn’t writing, I was just glad that Aaron was keeping us in the Zeitgeist. Taylor inhabited that character [based on my wife Carin]. She’s always been really interested in how Carin and I write together. [Swift has collaborated on songs with her former partner, the actor Joe Alwyn, and asked Berninger and Besser what the experience was like for them. The advice they often give is to be careful but to stay true: the disaffection and self-loathing and pettiness—it all has to be in there.]”

— Matt Berninger on Taylor’s work with Aaron during the pandemic and how it led to The Alcott (x)

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pamm-beesly

i love that matt and aaron can't say enough that taylor is the greatest songwriter ever/of all time/of our time jdkaksjskak it's like "yeah taylor, the greatest songwriter of all time, just tapped right into the opposite perspective" and "taylor, the greatest songwriter of this generation, just sent me this voice memo with the completed song" like yes kings you're so right she is the greatest songwriter of all time hammer it into everyone's heads you are doing the lord's work

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i said this sometime in the week of midnights’ release but i think it’s much truer now. the most interesting lyric in all of the album to me is “one day i’ll watch as you’re leaving and life will lose all its meaning for the last time” because midnights is at its very core stories of all the times her life has felt like all meaning is gone forever. surviving the loss of her girlhood, the rubies that she gave up, her constant loneliness (both self inflicted and wrought upon her), the depression, the eating disorder, the loss of someone bigger than the whole sky, the wars between lovers and the wars in her head, etc etc — midnights proves that time and time again she has had to make new meaning where it felt like there was none left. and she does every time! long story short she survived! she rose up from the dead, she does it all the time! so to me, anti-hero’s panic that if he leaves life will lose all its meaning is simply that - panic. the depression’s graveyard shift. life was never and will never lose all meaning to her because she has always been brave enough to find new meaning. & not to be corny but i do think we all have that ability within us too

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