say you'll remember me—

Taylor applauding Beyoncé’s record-breaking 28th Grammy win

Taylor be like: (^з^)-☆ ​​​​

Soft~

Taylor Swift, The ARTIST OF THE DECADE, performs onstage during the 2019 American Music Awards at Microsoft Theater on November 24, 2019 in Los Angeles, California.

last kiss - ts

I think what really GETS me about Miss Americana is that the lyrics do really have double meaning.

If you’re not paying attention, you’d be like, ‘oh, yeah, it’s about high school love’... but then you listen closer with the context of her singing about AMERICA, or rather, TO AMERICA and it’s politics. “You know I adore you, I’m crazier for you, than I was at 16, lost a film scene.” This is really obviously symbolism of, ‘I was so caught up in my own life and being distracted by my career I didn’t really notice you, American politics, needed my attention.’

I now kind of read the chorus in two ways, too. She could so easily just be singing to the Heartbreak Prince as a love interest, saying, “It’s you and me,” and that the rest of the world doesn’t approve of her being with him... but the chorus is so much more layered when you approach it from the singing about her society / her country angle. It’s like she’s saying to America, ‘remember when I was known for my 4th of July parties? You were my whole world’, but then the Republicans claimed her for their own in her silence, and people were bullying her and talking about her, so ‘they whisper in the hallway she’s a bad bad girl.’

So when she says, “the whole school is rolling fake dice”, (which is !!!!!) This is her saying she realises the new America she lives in is run by those who manipulate the system, (just like she said in that Guardian interview as well??!). Then she’s like taking a dig, like, if ‘you’re doing to play stupid games with power, then your prize isn’t a real prize, either’.

This analogy is made even more clear and easier to see in the second verse with, “my team is losing / batteries and bruising / I see the high fives between the bad guys,” and “American stories, burning before me / boys will be boys then, where are the wise men?’ Because guess who said, ‘boys will be boys’ famously???? A certain President.

The whole analogy is genius when it’s then mixed with the American high school symbolism as well? Because to anyone who isn’t American, the MOST American thing is movie vision of ‘high school’, of cliques, of cheerleaders and bleachers.

And there ain’t nothing more cliquey and high school than two party politics at the moment, huh?

Can we also talk about the brilliance of the "Go! Fight! Win!" Chat incorporated into the song. That is a common American cheer

Go! Fight! Win! is so well done, it would make the song a hit for me even without the other, incredibly important messages. Proud that Taylor is taking a stand

and also, the fact she says that she starts out saying that it’s a hopeless fight but then in the final round of ‘GO! FIGHT! WIN!” she says, “This is a fight that I know we’re gonna win” because love and tolerance has to win in the end. 

me at the gym

you’re my, my, my,… lover

Taylor Swift, Lover (2019)

guys ... her mind fucking

YES YES YES YES

WAIT IT GETS BETTER

everything that happens in those rooms is literally the narrative of those albums.

Red room (red): her man makes her jealous/maybe cheating, the Taylor from the yellow room (fearless) is out of place, lots of friends

Black attic (rep): she holes up with just her lover and private time with nobody else

Pink room (lover): she's happy and close with him but also has happy time to herself here, a balance, happiness

Blue room (1989): when her fame spiked and her life became a fishbowl of voyeurs and any lover she had entered the fishbowl alongside her

Green room (debut): he's just putting up a frame showing they just began, she just plays instruments innocently enjoying her time with her lover, no real understanding of love yet

Purple (speak now): SHE IS JUST IN IT ALONE SINGING & PLAYING PIANO BECAUSE SHE WROTE IT BY HERSELF (they also have the cute dinner and dance in here, like the love she fantasized about on this album)

Yellow (fearless): playing board games and living life upsidedown - this one is the only one im not sure about? maybe that's the era where her life literally turned upsidedown from fame???

TAYLOR DID I GET IT RIGHT

Taylor Swift | Lover

Lover track list as butterflies (based on species names & behaviors)

Lover.