Sweetheart is Carolina by Taylor Swift
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I don't think you're allowed to say Taylor is bad if you've never driven down a country road at night blasting Carolina through the speakers
Just saying
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drawing parallels between snowbaird and carolina by taylor swift
kind of long post ahead but today i was thinking about snow and lucy gray and i came to the realization that they’re so carolina by taylor swift coded
the entire song doesn’t specifically fit them but i feel like they draw a parallel to these lyrics. in this instance, lucy gray is the titular carolina and snow is the narrator (whose pov is established as unstable, especially in the novel).
the “places i will never-ever go” line can relate to district 12. in the original hunger games (at least in the film, i haven’t read the original trilogy books yet im sorry) film, when discussing d12 with seneca crane, snow offhandedly mentions having been to said district and his distaste for it.
”carolina stains on the dress she left, indelible scars, pivotal marks, blue as the life she fled” in this example, the “dress” is the scarf lucy gray leaves when she runs from snow, the “pivotal marks” is the snakebite he gets, and “blue as the life she fled” is a little more self-explanatory, but also snow was too self-serving (let’s not forget downright evil by the end of the film) and lucy gray would have been miserable had she chosen to stay with him.
“hide me like robes, down the back road” can be viewed as the pair’s attempt to run away.
”oh, carolina knows why for years they’ve said that i was guilty as sin and sleeping in a liar’s bed” and ”but the sleep comes fast, and i’ll meet no ghosts”. these lines can parallel snow’s complete and emphatic belief that no matter what, he is correct. he does not try to understand lucy gray’s point of view and (explicitly shown in the novel) immediately jumps to the conclusion that she is betraying him. lucy gray was arguably the person he was closest to for a period of time, and she erases herself from the narrative, meaning snow is the only person who can tell their story.
the final lyric that i’m dissecting for my snow and lucy gray agenda is “and there are things that only carolina will ever know”. again, carolina being my parallel to lucy gray here; it is mentioned that most records of lucy gray’s games are mostly stricken from the record. by the time of the original trilogy, nobody in district 12 seems to know her name. her story is all but forgotten by seemingly everyone but snow — which is exactly what he wanted.
…but her song lives on to haunt snow decades later.
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inject carolina into my veins
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taylor swift’s discography: moodboard edition
Carolina, Where the Crawdads Sing (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
"indelible scars, pivotal marks, blue as the life she fled."
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people ask me what my favorite song is and i always say, “carolina by taylor swift” .
“i really like how poetic it is,” i tell them.
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