'tis the damn season // suburban legends

Boreas – John William Waterhouse // Maidens Picking Flowers by a Stream (Study) – John William Waterhouse // Hurricane Drunk – Florence + the Machine // Mother – Florence + the Machine  

April 16, 2023: After Matty sings the lyric "I'm never gonna love again" during 'Happiness', he adds an enthusiastic "Yeah, you will!" while performing in Sydney, Australia. (source)

anyway, don’t be a stranger.

harry styles / adampvrrish / holly warburton / mitski / sally rooney / slugspoon / anne carson / frank ocean / rainesford stauffer / taylor swift

when hozier wrote "heaven is not fit to house a love like you and I" and "the only heaven I'll be sent to is when I'm alone with you"

um. is this anything

fall out boy lyrics + cars

thriller | infinity on high

of all the gin joints in all the world | from under the cork tree

tell that mick he just made my list of things to do today | take this to your grave

this ain’t a scene | infinity on high

she’s my winona | folié a deux

XO | from under the cork tree

bang the doldrums | infinity on high

america’s suitehearts | folié à deux

i love when taylor writes about towns in her songs !! because usually the towns can be metaphors for something bigger... a life / an experience/ a person/.. oftentimes it feels like a stand in for taylor herself, where instead of saying “i” she says “my town” … etc. maybe i’ll elaborate with better logic in a longer post later but yeah . just contemplating on:

“my town was a wasteland” “it always leads to you and my hometown” “our whole town came and our mamas cried” “when my world wakes up today, you’ll be in another town” “this is a big world, that was a small town” “left a small town never looked back” “i’m shining like fireworks over your sad empty town” “we shouldn’t be in this town” “let’s get out of this town” “i’ll be there if you’re the toast of the town” “the only thing we share is this small town” “staring out the window like i’m not your favorite town” “maybe i stormed out of every single room in this town” “you were my town, now i’m in exile” “the loudest woman this town has ever seen” “you’re a flashback in a film reel on the one screen in my town” “the coastal town we wandered round had never seen a love as pure as it” “you got shiny friends since you left town” “the ladies lunching have their stories about when you passed through town” “i didn’t choose this town, i dream of getting out” “karma’s gonna track you down step by step from town to town” “you don’t live in my part of town” “rip the band aid off and skip town” etc. etc. etc.

you're just a boy (and i'm kinda the man) // you're losing me

Queen Alexandra When Princess of Wales – Richard Lauchert // Queen Alexandra When Princess of Wales – Franz Xaver Winterhalter // champagne problems – Taylor Swift // Foolish One – Taylor Swift

Cruel Summer, Lover // Say Don't Go, 1989 (Taylor's Version)

remember lookin' at this room? we loved it, 'cause of the light. now i just sit in the dark and wonder if it's time x every corner in this house is haunted

some boygenius and Phoebe Bridgers lyrical parallels that make me go insane

letter to an old poet / cool about it

chinese satellite / Emily I'm Sorry

Smoke Signals / Emily I'm Sorry

Everyone said that confirmation they broke up because she sang maroon. Please. Not even. Also, It's KKs bday through the weekend imo. So, I'm ready for more surprises. Lol.

“I see you everyday now.” Sang with the biggest smile on her face.

But people will interpret songs however they want. Just as I interpret Maroon as a song about “us” in the first verse and “them” in the second and in general it is an “us vs. them” narrative. External Circumstance.

See also the Great War, False God, peace, hoax, and long story short for similar narrative.

fiona apple / anne carson / julien baker / andrea gibson