— Taylor on Who's Afraid of Little Old Me?
TAYLOR SWIFT. "Midnight Rain" - The Eras Tour.
every time I see a post about taylor lyrics I can't help think that she's being funny on purpose but ppl don't think women can't be funny. like tortured poets department is a funny name like that could be a douglas adams bit and ppl keep taking these "cringe" lyrics out of context and saying how dumb she is to think she's a tortured poet. I don't think she thinks that I think maybe she is funny on purpose...
Happy Halloween! 🎃💀🍂
i attend christmas parties from outside. how can i ever try to be better nobody ever lets me in. don't want money just someone who wants my company let it once be me. who could ever leave me darling but who could stay? i've never been a natural all i do is try. i'm alone on my own and thats all i know. fell behind all my classmates and i ended up here. to a house not a home all alone cause nobody's there where i pace in my pen and my friends found friends who care. i tuck myself in and turn my nightlight on i wish i'd never grown up. ones i loved tried to help so i ran them off and here i sit alone behind walls of regret. when my depression works the graveyard shift all of the people i've ghosted stand there in the room. i hate it here so i will go to secret gardens in my mind people need a key to get to the only one is mine. you're on your own kid you always have been.
@taylorswift: A fortnight til Paris 🤍
"He tried to-"
"Oh, baby girl... It's okay. It's okay. It's okay now."
I TOOK THE MIRACLE MOVE-ON DRUG, THE EFFECTS WERE TEMPORARY
promise to be dazzling.
Thoughts on The Albatross today?
i think it's a really big song that covers a lot of ground. she discusses her reputation as a curse, a scandal, destruction, but she asserts that she's also salvation. she knows the truth: that the vilification is foolish, hypocritical, and a form of control that is not limited to just her.
i'm thinking of the criticism she's received for her love life, for being an outspoken woman, her experiences being raised up and down the flag pole of public opinion without apology, how she's said other artists will call her when they're "cancelled," how we saw powerful men openly viciously talking down to her when she said she was upset that scooter had purchased her masters, how everyone turned on her after the kim/kanye call, and so on and so forth.
"wise men" are misogynists, powerful execs who want to maintain control... but also the public, fans, the "vipers dressed in empaths clothing" (bdilh.)
as the albatross, she's attempted to warn everyone that no one is truly safe - associating with her is dangerous, but, imo she's also pointing out that she isn't the only 'albatross.' "you couldn't conceive it / you were sleeping soundly / when they dragged you from your bed / and i tried to warn you about them"... she would know, having been figuratively shot multiple times, yet continuing to survive.
ik i said it before but the way taylor has slowly been deviating from typical song/album structure and conventions (since with INTHAF) is something im obsessed with rn on ttpd because i think this idea of paving her own path and throwing out all the rules is also symbolic of how she has also been approaching her career as a whole since > the lover album too. two new albums in 4 months? do it. announce album in acceptance speech? why not. 3 hour concert with 431 costume changes? it's doable if you want it to be. 10 minute song holding peoples attention, topping bb100? yup. telling people off? dropping late night editions to albums? no lead singles? no big radio friendly hits? throwing out the idea of 'eras' and burning that house down? songs about possibly unpalatable topics? throwing herself off the pedestal by her own admissions? largely unedited 31 song album? YOLO, baby.
oh my god you hate TTPD? it killed your love of taylor? oh my god. i’m so sorry. here let me take your eras tickets off of your hands i’m so sorry-
Florence Welch for Gucci
definitely not the first person to say this but i am obsessed with taylor offering up an extremely long album that takes a minute to digest in the era of short content and instant gratification