You know, it's rather interesting to me that Taylor Swift's parasocial relationship with her fans is honestly more akin to a YouTuber than a writer's. When I scroll through her tag on tumblr/Twitter, it's far more regarding the connection to her personal life/relationship developments than the actual metaphors/fictional story she might be telling. Everything comes back to how her songs reflect back on her relationships with Joe/Matty/Travis/Jake/insert ex-boyfriend here. And what fascinates me about it is that even though she complains about it, she leans into that very perception because it strengthens the parasocial bond.

The marketing for TTPD so clearly being about Joe Alwyn and the songs to Matty Healy. The marketing/video for Red TV so CLEARLY being about Jake Gyllenhaal, with so many of the new lines in All Too Well specifically being digs at him (I'll get older but your lovers stay my age, casting an actor that looks like him for the video, specific lines in I Bet You Think About Me). The fact that songs like Getaway Car and Bejeweled and Gorgeous and London Boy and Lavender Haze being picked apart at time of release and long after for signs of relationships crumbling. The way she uses surprise songs in relation to her relationship development with Joe/Matty/Travis. The damn TTPD "stages of grief" playlists where she deliberately undid/changed the meanings of old songs just to keep her audience speculating on her love life.

It's not sexist to point out that her wielding her love life is a marketing tool and that the strongest connection to her audience isn't the strength of her writing/the composition of her music- it's her deliberate crafting of a connection between her music and her personal life, leaving the audience invested in her music as an extension of Taylor the Person/Girlfriend rather than Taylor the Artist.

and she WAS eventually thirty making coffee in her French press every morning, and that relationship ended similarly in some ways: with a back and forth that made her resort to looking back on her childhood like she once ate kid’s cereal after the breakup. except the first relationship was now part of her childhood, too, and the new one seemed to ultimately turn into a manuscript as well.

*includes photoshoots from both the original album and the re-record.

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the incandescent glow of your soul

this version is so pretty

I'll be your host this evening, my name is Taylor!

TAYLOR SWIFT I Bet You Think About Me (2021)

1989 (taylor's version)

Having thoughts about Taylor writing “Imagining your future might always take you on a detour back to the past” in the prologue for Red (Taylor’s Version).

melbourne n1

Taylor Swift lyrics + classical art

time has taken its sweet time erasing you // and you've got your demons and darling they all look like me

we are saying goodbye and welcoming her at the same time tomorrow💙

Tom listening to All Too Well 10 minutes version stitches up any wound that’s ever been scarred onto my heart <3 ON SUCH A HIGH VOLUME TOO? MR BLYTH. THE MAN YOU ARE.

more 1989tv wallpapers made by me :)