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alix | 27 | england | she/they | f1 sideblog @brakingpoint
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Anonymous asked:

im curious why you liked thank you aimee and didnt like cassandra, because i felt the complete opposite

i mean a lot of it is just kind of what i said in my post, thank you aimee to me feels like she’s having more fun and being more creative with the broad concept of “writing a song about the kimye drama” whereas cassandra feels like a desperately earnest attempt to plead her case which is sort of. when i feel taylor’s songwriting tends to suffer a bit just in general. like i think the more seriously she takes herself and the more she views her songwriting as a way to make other people understand her pov by any means necessary the weaker her lyricism becomes because she’s focused on proving a point rather than crafting A Song (obvs i can’t read her mind, but that’s what cassandra feels like to me and that’s why i don’t enjoy it based on that interpretation)

i also think, ironically considering it has the more explicit references to kim, thank you aimee stands on its own better as a standalone song? like the high school bully metaphor is so consistently woven throughout that you can still get a really coherent narrative out of it even if you don’t know the context, whereas i feel that cassandra obfuscates itself more with mixed metaphors throughout and i just enjoy that less. like i said re: but daddy i love him, i think because of her country background taylor works best as a songwriter when she picks one story/metaphor to serve as a backbone for her song and sticks with it throughout, and i think thank you aimee is a great example of that. she even brings back the country time shift paradigm just like in bdilh!!!

(finally i just personally prefer the sound of thank you aimee - it stands out more among the sonic background of the rest of the album whereas to be perfectly honest cassandra feels to me like a b side to mad woman, which is a song i’ve never enjoyed much either lmao)

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i think my biggest takeaway from ttpd is that taylor is at her best when she’s having a little fun with it. the most obvious application of this is thanK you aIMee vs cassandra, two songs about the exact same situation but one feels like she’s genuinely reminiscing about a painful time in her life but with enough distance to see the good that came from it and the other feels like she is setting forth her defence in a court of law where every single word choice will be dissected by people reading it in the worst possible faith. and you can guess which of those i think is the better song

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"A lot of the songs on The Tortured Poets Department deal with the idea of heartbreak, or loss, in a metaphor of something else. The metaphor in Down Bad is that I was comparing sort of the idea of being like, love-bombed, where someone like, you know, rocks your world and dazzles you and then just kind of abandons you, as an alien abduction, where you were abducted by aliens, like this girl was abducted by aliens, but she wanted to stay with them. And then when they drop her off back in her hometown, she's like, 'Wait, no. Where are you going? I liked it there! It was weird but it was cool. Come back' and so she's just like, the girl, the character in the song, just felt like, had just been exposed to a whole different galaxy and universe she didn't know was possible. How can you just put me back where I was before?"

— Taylor on Down Bad

#this too is the passenger (2023)#taylor swift
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need scientists to study the level of terminal swiftieism that gets some people SO RILED UP at any completely reasonable criticism coming from a fellow fan!! no nobody is FORCED to buy every single variant but when you posit each new edition as a unique thing that gives you exclusive access to a single new taylor swift song you MUST be aware of what your superfans are going to do. like we can call a spade a spade, it was a deceptive money grab, i know it seems this way from her songs sometimes but taylor isn’t actually going to shrivel up and die if you criticise her

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Anonymous asked:

who the hell is actually voting for jesus on your poll???? remember when this webbed site had a sense of humour...

well you see you vote for taylor swift if you want to get one over on christians and you vote for jesus if you want to get one over on swifties. this is why the poll is so close. it's precision engineered to appeal to two of tumblr's most vocal hater factions in equal but opposing measure. this is my design

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i actually do love the chloe or sam or sophia or marcus line tbh... there's something almost sondheimesque about it which is not something i can say about a lot of other lyrics on this album. like i have to imagine taylor took a break from frantically penning this record to watch the raul esparza company proshot on her private jet between tour stops and she pulled up that notes app SHARPISH like AND ANOTHER THING

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Anonymous asked:

With the massive caveat that I am (redacted) years old and not a 1975/Matty Healy guy. I’ve been down a Matty Healy rabbit hole today and he’s obviously Not Great but I feel slightly bad for him that he has a drug problem that she has chosen to draw attention to

didn't even couch it in SAT words and mixed metaphors like she did every other fucking thing in this album she just went L + ratio + you're a drug addict + you're bisexual like girl???? 😭😭😭

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