Taylor Swift // 1989 

Vintage Postcards (2/2)

**1989 tracks in the style of destination post cards from the 50’s and 60’s. In honor of it being taylorswift’s fav era aesthetically.**

odysseus when the cyclops asked what his name was

most unexpected tea of the album is that jake isn’t an organ donor and openly shares that as a flirting strategy

LIGHTS CAMERA BITCH SMILE EVEN WHEN YOU WANNA DIE

promise to be dazzling.

‘i think some things i never say, like ‘who uses typewriters anyway?’ contender for funniest line on the album

the girls are fighting

yeehaw guess who got accepted for her first choice masters programme 🤠

“i can’t do this anymore” says a girl who is not only going to do it but do it well

tbh, i think what gets under my skin about the speculations of taylor retiring is the assumption that mothers and wives are just going to quit their jobs, take care of the kids, stay at home, and be a proper "wife." and it's this constant idea that women will eventually be stay-at-home mothers and caregivers. their careers are secondary, their goals secondary, their ambitions secondary, their personhood tertiary

im having his baby no im not because i got an abortion #prochoice

if there's one thing olivia rodrigo loves to do it's write a song about being all-consumingly obsessed with another woman!

TRUTH DARE, SPIN BOTTLES. YOU KNOW HOW TO BALL, I KNOW ARISTOTLE. BRAND NEW, FULL THROTTLE. TOUCH ME WHILE YOUR BROS PLAY GRAND THEFT AUTO.

going from ttpd to guts and hearing the lyrics 'now it don't mean a thing, god love's fucking embarrassing, just watch as i crucify myself for some weird second string loser who's not worth mentioning, my god love's embarrassing as hell' ............

The "Free Britney"-movement plus accompanying documentary etc. was crucial in making people rethink the way we view women in the public eye (as part of the general reevaluation of 90s and 2000s misogyny), which is a very very good thing (!), but the specific way in which that discourse has entered Swiftdom sometimes feels a bit ... revisionist? It is not done on purpose, but once in a while I see a post or TikTok screenshot that places Taylor firmly in the “child star” category – where she does belong! – and automatically assumes that she thus has faced all the obstacles of people like Britney or her Disney peers. And it is not on me to say whether or not she has or hasn’t, or – God forbid – whether or not she had it “easier” than them (whatever that would mean), but it irks me when people frame certain choices Taylor made solely as the doing of Big Publicist or Her Overbearing Parents. Those two parties surely played a part in shaping Taylor and her career, and certainly not always in a gentle way that really and truly only had Taylor’s best interests at heart, but Taylor has always been extremely aware of The Culture, the demands of people, what sells and doesn’t sell, and, most importantly: what you should never ever do in the public eye. In the beginning of her career she constantly mentions watching “Behind the Music” and analyzing why musicians failed. Her 2019 Billboard Woman of the Year speech consists entirely of her listing the demands of people and how she responded to them by contorting herself into a shape she herself didn’t recognize. We can all make jokes about Andrea or Paula telling Taylor to not put “I Can See You” on Speak Now, but the reality could very well be that 19-year-old Taylor Swift saw the way her colleagues were getting torn apart for daring to be sexual in public, and chose to spare herself that. (After all, when her manager Paula tried to push the “good virginial pure girl” image on a Taylor who did not want to be that anymore, Paula got fired.) And of course that still fucks you up!!! And it’s still fucking evil!!! But it is not the same as having your entire life dictated by somebody else – for better or for worse: part of what makes Taylor’s musings about fame so interesting is that she is very much saying “this is what you (the public) did to me”, but she is also always grappling with the “and this is how I reacted to it”. I also do not want to insinuate that Taylor was 100% free in her choices and had a smooth and easy ride (because that would be a big fat lie). But she has had a great sense of self-preservation and likely a good deal of autonomy from day one, and it feels strange to try and take that away from her.

souvenir by boygenius who else agrees