The bridge of "This Love" is something else 🥺 "Your kiss / my cheek / I watched you leave / your smile / my ghost / I fell to my knees" — half of those lines aren't even full sentences, but they convey PARAGRAPHS of emotion, in flashes of heartbreak. It's incredible. @taylorswift
when 1989 came out I remember an article saying that it sounded SO different and new but also EXACTLY like a taylor swift song ... and sometimes I realize ... 1989 is not even pop like... it's it's own genre of music? and reputation is it's own brand of edgy synth percussion that sounds like modern music but also not at ALL like modern music? and RED was a country-rock-magic mix that exists nowhere else? NO other artist could get away with this and be successful EVERY TIME and that's because it's NOT about song and genres it's about TAYLOR SWIFT songs and the genre is ... taylor swift
“I also was falling in love with someone who had a really wonderfully normal, balanced, grounded life. And we decided together that we wanted our relationship to be private… I wasn’t happy in the way that I’d been trained to be happy. It was happiness without anyone else’s input. It was just, we were happy.”
guys.... you know how we're thinking something might happen on 5/22? Well I just multiplied the number of lines per each stanza in Cruel Summer with the number of the stanza and added them up and
i absolutely cannot wait for the next TS era, but does anyone else feel like Lover sounds like a happy ending to a gorgeous 7-part series? like... [BREAKABLE] HEAVEN FORBID, if Taylor decided that Lover would be her last album, it would be a beautiful way to close out the journey. daylight wraps it all up so well 😭
with that said, please continue blessing us with your work @taylorswift, you're the soundtrack to my life
it's crazy how barely we can fathom future Taylor Swift eras. the melodies and lyrics that we'll be belting out for years to come might exist right now, or maybe they haven't even been written yet. the jokes, the references, the aesthetics of a brand new era are brewing somewhere in the future. we're going to fall in love with things we don't even know yet ❤️
Why is the lyric "I'm not dying" and not "I'm not buying"? The latter implies that they have other options (vending machine), but Tay for one is "not buying" any. It also has a double meaning of "I don't believe you," which underscores the uncertainty of their relationship. In this essay I will
i know this was a while ago but... the fact that she smiled right after this and made a joke of it is so relatable for many women out there. you get hit with a sexist remark out of nowhere but are so heavily socialized into being "likeable" that you smile as a defense mechanism. someone implies—to your face, during a live interview at an event where your accomplishments should have been center stage—that your dating history is abnormal and that your past significant others have been akin to trophies, but it's expected of you to take it as a joke. a response as calm and lighthearted as Taylor's is beyond what should be expected, but we all know she'd have been criticized if she had done anything less.
I wrote this some time ago while listening to All Too Well by @taylorswift, based on something I was feeling at the time. It was about an ending I thought I was facing in my relationship—an ending I had worried about way back in the beginning (Wildest Dreams?). While I don't feel this way anymore, and I'm happy about that, I'm also glad I created this record of it.
The feeling this poem conveys is different from that of All Too Well—it turned out more as though it could have been from the perspective of the person Taylor sings about. But that song is filled with such raw emotion that it tends to put me in my feelings enough to write about them, whatever they may be.