Alicia with an C

I've seen so many swifties saying they like TTPD because it's so Taylor, it's the most Taylor she's been in years, this is quintessential Debut-Speak Now Taylor, but I just don't see it. The girl who wrote Breathe does not feel like the woman who write So Long London - and I don't mean that as a criticism, SLL is one of my favourite songs from the album, but it seems like people both have this infantile perception of her (she's the same as she was when she was 19) while insisting that she's actually very matured now and definitely does not have Peter Pan Syndrome (okay, sure), but at the same time don't see that she has changed, and that reflects in her music. Currently for the worse.

okay yes i completely agree and am also very confused by this statement people keep making. there were multiple moments during this album i felt like didn't feel like a taylor album. some songs felt very lacking emotionally, which never happens with taylors songs; her emotions are always at the forefront but i felt like this album... they were kind of muted? and there was a noticeable absence.

i also dont agree with the statement that i've been seeing a lot, which is along the lines of 'this is the deepest, personal album she's ever made' and i personally don't think so? it feels pretty on par with the rest of her works and can only attribute this to her not releasing 'personal' music in a long time, folklore was mainly other people's stories, same with evermore, and then midnights was a retelling of past events. so it's been a while since we got ~fresh personal updates~ that people seem to care about.

and while were at it, i hate hate hate the excuse swifties are using to 'defend' her against people saying this album seemed unnecessary or too long with 'she needed to make this album, she made it for her' like.. if it's for her why did she release it? can she not find a journal? she can even still make the songs but then not release them.... it's basically saying 'oh it's fine that you dont like it, they weren't made for people to like them anyway'

i don’t think there’s anything wrong per se with recapturing certain high school moments. i hated high school but there’s still magic in the memories of the heightened feelings and being young and carefree

that said, “touch me while your bros play grand theft auto” is something that i would have thought was hot in high school because i was a teenaged idiot but now i can see that’s demeaning and super cringe. i can’t believe a woman in her 30s wrote that unironically

the fact that that song is supposed to be a romantic sentiment but is just red flag after red flag... and she's in her 30s being like 'guys!! he reminds me of the guys from high school! isnt that sweet!' like no girl? he's 30?

I’ve noticed a lot of swifties acting like people are academically inferior to them for the simple crime of not liking the album. Every criticism is met with “you don’t get it. it’s meant to be uncomfortable, it’s meant to be too long, the words are so POETIC that your idiot brain can’t understand them.” I’m glad they connect to her art but I hate this smarmy pseudo-intellectualism of the biggest pop star in the world.

oh yeah i've noticed this too. swifties who can not handle any sort of constructive criticism towards taylors work, or just simply can't imagine not loving everything taylor touches, will pull out the condescending 'you just don't get it' line. they've done this for a while but it's everywhere now and it means nothing really. it's just insulting and shows they have some weird superiority complex for having a far deeper understanding of...taylor swift songs? songs that, no offense, are not that deep and layered and doesn't take a lot of analyzing to understand.