“You wouldn’t last an hour in the asylum where they raised me” thinking about how comparing growing up in the spotlight to an asylum. It’s hard enough to deal with being a teenage girl transitioning into adulthood without the whole world scrutinizing every single thing you do. At least all of us got to screw up and have emotions without the world watching.

thinking about 2014 taylor working on 1989 and polishing herself and her story up to be palatable and relatable vs. 2024 putting out a record that absolutely lays her entire self bare and dissects her in front of the entire world

All a pretty man has to do is call Buck “Evan” and he’s immediately down bad lol

I think Matty Healy is awful but I’m still proud of Taylor putting “but daddy I love him” on the record.

There are songs on the album about her realising he love bombed her and manipulated her. Realising she fell for all of it, she was never going to fix him, and he was never going to be her saviour. She is scathing towards him, but also towards herself for falling for it. She could have left it at that and maybe copped less criticism. Instead she acknowledges the backlash and the defiance she felt in that moment.

It makes me feel the same way her putting Ours on Speak Now does. Grateful that she is open to sharing her stories even when the muse isn’t deserving of the words she wrote, even when releasing it fans the fires of the “I told you so” crowd.

And much like Ours is not a defence of Mayer, BDILH is not an acquittal of Healy. The phrasing she uses is not “he’s a good man they just don’t know him like I do”, it’s “I’m not coming to my senses” “I’d rather burn my whole life down”. The message of the song is not her trying to convince you he’s a good person (he’s not), it’s about a woman stumbling through a crisis and her desperate need to be able to make her own decisions, and that includes her own mistakes - which she seems to be acknowledging Matty was.

The Tortured Poet's Department the song is so funny she's like why tf are you using a typewriter like an insane person we're not poets we're morons and it's 2024.

Taylor to the fans….

"When this album comes out, gossip blogs will scour the lyrics for the men they can attribute to each song, as if the inspiration for music is as simple and basic as a paternity test," Swift continues.

The fans…

believing that good can happen to you after a life of tragedy is the most painful thing you can choose. but it is necessary. because otherwise there is nothing else. you miss it all hiding

absolutely criminal how falling into bad habits is the easiest thing in the world while developing positive habits feels like fighting a literal war

can you be utterly and madly in love with me for one second

It’s always something to see the general public trash a Taylor album upon its release and then come around to it a few years later. Sorry it didn’t click for you right away like it did for a lot of us.

"This is a Joe Alwyn album" "This is a Matty Healy album" shut up shut up SHUT UP!!!!!!!!!! Swifties are so annoying, this is a TAYLOR SWIFT ALBUM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHY IS YOUR FIRST REACTION TO ASSIGN THINGS TO A MAN!!!!!!!!!!!! I HAVE HAD ENOUGH!!!!!

IT'S TWO OF MY SPECIAL INTERESTS MEETING. all we need is a Taylor swift reference and we'll have the trifecta lmao

Katniss to the Capitol after the berries:

YES EXACTLY. THANK YOU!

TTPD is so Rebecca Bunch coded especially Who's Afraid of Little Old Me

now that i am a real adult i am starting to realise. media lied to me about the availability of rooftops to go hang out on. every day i wish i could be hanging out on a rooftop somewhere looking cool as fuck

Eras Tour surprise songs parallels

7/22/23—Seattle, Washington: This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things / Everything Has Changed