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#but it's extremely funny to me today to see all these swifties listen to the national for the first time for the most part
whiskeyswifty · 1 year
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#i swear i'm not being a pretentious asshole about it i genuinely enjoy it#but it's extremely funny to me today to see all these swifties listen to the national for the first time for the most part#and the resounding thought is oh! it's like folklore!#and i just heheheheheheheheheh i laugh! i chuckle!#cuz it's like..... everyone KNOWS that folklore is a lot of taylor just writing to instrumentals aaron already made and sent her#and she had little to do with the melody of half the album at least#but i don't think people actually reckoned with that information irl before now like folklore is yes a new direction for taylor#but it's par for the course for the national! they're QUITE LITERALLY reject tracks!!#i don't mean this to demean folklore nor to be reductive towards taylor i'm being totally serious i love watching#swifties slowly come to the realization and connect the dots like#oh...... this is the sound of the national.... THEY sound like that#folklore is mainly a national album with taylor writing and singing.....#and i'm like DING DING DING DING AND THATS WHY IT FUCKS SO SEVERELY#SAD BOY SUPREME MEETS SAD GIRL SUPREME AND THEIR ALBUM OBVIOUSLY IS INCREDIBLE#i try not to like indie-splain my pretentious indie music to the pop girlies or the kiddos so im just really thrilled that#taylor introduced a new group of people to the sound of the national but through slow drip and wrapped in taylorisms#and that they're getting a new audience of fans who aren't 40 year olds#cuz they're excellent but they're debilitatingly sad so you really do need to slowly wade in. you can't just dive into Boxer#you'll suffer so severely#i'm so happy for them and i'm happy for everyone discovering them and i hope you enjoy middle aged existential gloom!!#its a good time!!!!
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in-the--afterglow · 7 years
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@taylorswift @taylornation @anyone at this point. IT'S NOT FREAKING UNPRECIDENTED!?!?!?! SWIFTIES DO EXIST IN THE UK AS PROVEN BY TAYLOR HERSELF DOING 2 SECRET SESSION OVER HERE AND THE FACT THAT SHE SELLS OUT EVERYTIME SHE COMES OVER HERE?!?!?! I TRECKED AROUND LONDON YESTERDAY ONLY TO SEE THIS?? It pissed me off so much for 2 reasons. 1. it invalidates those of us that went out to find these things! But on the other hand I'm glad that people who couldn't get to London can now get involved but that makes me wonder what the prize is for this?? Cos it's obviously something that can be for multiple people or else this whole thing would be pointless and extremely unfair... I'M VERY UNSURE TBH :/. 2. The fact that they didn't think there was going to be a large number of UK swifties trying to do this ANNOYS ME SO DAMN MUCH!?! DO THEY THINK WE DON'T EXIST OR SOMETHING!?! REFER BACK TO MY EARLIER POINT THAT SHE SELLS OUT OVER HERE EVERY DAMN TIME!?! and I love all my US people on here I do and it's nothing to do with them personally im saying it to make a point, but I'M SICK TO DEATH OF INTERNATIONAL FANS BEING TREATED LIKE WE DON'T MATTER AS MUCH. COS WE DO. U.S FANS GET EVERYTHING AND WE GET MAYBE A QUARTER OF WHAT THEY DO AND THAT JUST IN THE UK ANYWHERE ELSE IT'S EVEN LESS. AND I'VE HAD ENOUGH. BECAUSE THIS IS PROOF THAT AS SOON AS SOMETHING HAPPENS WE COME OUT IN "UNPRECEDENTED AMOUNTS" WHICH WOULDN'T BE SO UNPRECENDENTED IF WE COULD BE INVOLVED IN MORE STUFF!?!?!?! FUNNY THAT... This also leads me to make a point about merch. IF WE DON'T GET A UK OR EUROPEAN BASED SITE BACK SOON I MIGHT SWING. My mum looked at the current site today to maybe get me some for christmas and was like I'm sorry em but there is no way I'm paying nearly £60/70 for 2 items plus minimum £18 shipping WHICH BTW DOESN'T INCLUDE CUSTOM FEES PEOPLE!!!! it makes me so mad? Why are we some how less entitled to something as simple as merch!?! So @taylornation it's about time whoever is in charge of this stuff gets off their butt and actually listens to us for once TO ACTUALLY DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS COS I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE THAT HAS HAD ENOUGH OF THE WAY INTERNATIONAL FANS ARE TREATED IN COMPARISON TO OTHER FANS. IT'S POINT BLANK UNFAIR. And I'm tired of us all screaming and shouting to be heard about stuff like this. I'm just sorry about having to rant like this tbh. So please if anyone sees this and agrees reblog this post and tag❤
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