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tagged by: @whiskeyswifty 🥰 (it’s literally been many months since the initial post I’m soooo sorry I’m so late lmao)

currently reading: nothing as of right now 🫥 but desperately looking for recommendations!

currently watching: recently (more like a few months ago) I finished severance and I am thoroughly obsessed (I know I was about year late lmao) and the crown. binged the entire 5 seasons of the latter in a matter of weeks! (favorite was season 4.) I am also looking forward to Only Murders in the Building this week! (also this is a plug to say my fav show of all time is Sense8!)

favorite color: green too!! a dark, forest green to be precise

last song: co-op by bess atwell

last movie: the breakfast club

currently working on: a massive analysis post coming whenever I finish it 🤭

tagging: @iwanthermidnightz @sapphicscience @kaylor @fruitytaylor @chickawah23 @asteracaea @iwanttobelieve11 @myselfinthemirror

HES GONNA SAY ITS LOVE ! YOU NEVER CALLED IT WHAT IT WAS!!!!!!!!!

decorate my tree! 🎄💚

thank you @lettertoanoldpoet for tagging me in your tree—this is the cutest idea ever! any mutuals & followers, i’d love for you to leave a holiday message for me if you’d like 🩵 tagging some mutuals:

@perfectplaces @greenlight @safeandsound @drawing-hearts @queenoftherodeoo @lucydykeus @h-f-k @heaventouch @pr @whiskeyswifty @skiptownlikea @andisitover @westcoastsmoker @cartoonpeoplemp3 @lesbianhallieparker @gena-rowlands @godofsmallthings @1989tv @tolerateit @jonismitchell @kaylor @victoriaaaaaaaaa @farmlesbians 🫶🏼

(also if any mutuals have a tree, i’d love to leave you a message, so please send it my way!)

shuffle your on repeat playlist and list the first 10 songs (tagged by @murielswedding 😘)

feathered indians, tyler childers

me before you, bleachers

dancing in the dark, bruce springsteen

the boy is mine, ariana grande

cold war, cautious clay

my boy only breaks his favorite toys, taylor swift

the prophecy, taylor swift

i'm on fire, bruce springsteen

trigger, smash into pieces

hannah hunt, vampire weekend

god what a list of absolute jams. tagging @jonismitchell @littleoblivions @whiskeyswifty @pr if you wanna ❤️✌️

Tell me a Debut song that reminds you of someone and tag them.

Tell me a Fearless song that reminds you of someone and tag them.

Tell me a Speak Now song that reminds you of someone and tag them.

Tell me a Red song that reminds you of someone and tag them.

Tell me a 1989 song that reminds you of someone and tag them.

Tell me a reputation song that reminds you of someone and tag them.

Tell me a Lover song that reminds you of someone and tag them.

Tell me a folklore song that reminds you of someone and tag them.

Tell me an evermore song that reminds you of someone and tag them.

Tell me a Midnights song that reminds you of someone and tag them.

Debut - Tim McGraw @sapphicscience

Fearless - Bye Bye Baby @cages-boxes-hunters-foxes

Speak Now - Haunted @galesong

Red - The Lucky One @jonismitchell

1989 - Style @whiskeyswifty

Reputation - Call it what you want @ivyindreamland

Lover - Miss Americana and the heartbreak prince @tisthe

Folklore - Cardigan @maryoliveoil

Evermore - Right where you left me @pr

Midnights - High Infidelity @godofsmallthings

i was tagged by @whiskeyswifty to shuffle my on repeat playlist and list the first 10 songs, thanks bro

(once again i will ignore the shit i listen to in the gym)

Various storms and saints - Florence + the machine

Houdini - Dula Peep

Cosmic Love - Florence + the machine

Somethinggreater - parcels

Lacy - Olivia

Ship to wreck - florence + the machine

These are just places to me now - folamour

Modern girl - Bleachers

False god - tswift

The pretender - foo fighters (this is so random, i've heard this song once last week)

tagging @tolerateit @tinasnowangel @iamnotawomanimagod (no pressure brudi)

As promised/threatened/announced, I compiled some of my favorite and least favorite metaphors/images/turns of phrases/everything that kind of falls under this category on Midnights and explained why they work for me and why they don’t. Enjoy! (Bevor we begin: @whiskeyswifty put together some of her least favorite metaphors on the album here and there probably will be some doubling. Points were made!)

FAVORITE

“From sprinkler splashes to fireplace ashes.” – What a genius way to signify the passage of time! Not only does it have a strong sensual element (the feeling of water on your skin, the smell and sound of a crackling fireplace), it also implies a certain loss of virility and innocence through going from an image usually associated to childhood to the scorched, burned wood of a fireplace. LOVE.

“The rust that grew between telephones.” – A little gem on a song I really dislike otherwise. It fits the color scheme of the song (very obviously the writing exercise Taylor set herself with it: “write about things that are red that you associate with the relationship” – not a bad approach per se but often led to weird moments on Midnights) and immediately communicates a loss of contact in a very sad, destructive way.

“I’m a monster on the hill. Too big to hang out, slowly lurching towards your favorite city. Pierced through the heart but never killed.” – LISTEN! I absolutely love this line because the idea of her as this large, scary being is thought through and expanded upon in a way that is so effective in evoking a very specific mental image in your mind. I can clearly visualize  this creature on all fours crawling towards a skyline or something 1930s-monster-movie like that. I also like this because it goes into this slight horror element that pops up at certain points on the album but is never all that realized and tbh… I want gore!

“Did all the extra credit, then got graded on a curve. I think it’s time to teach some lessons!” – again: a very solidly thought out use of school imagery that is gleefully condescending.

“I'm the wind in our free-flowing sails, and the liquor in our cocktails.“ – Great line in a song I never listen to lol. It is, again, kind of sensual (speaks to the feeling of wind on your skin, makes you think of the sea; there is the slight burn of alcohol) and just makes you think of freedom and fun and life being easy going, which is exactly what she is describing here.

“High Infidelity” – one of her BEST titles and arguably my favorite “writing exercise” song concept because wheeew! I know she was happy when she came up with that and rightfully so! Genius wordplay.

“And maybe it's the past that's talking, screaming from the crypt, telling me to punish you for things you never did.” – kind of using this as a stand in for the entire song because I find the war metaphor to work very well as a whole (although I carry sliiight issue with it from a personal standpoint, given that it feels very clearly connected to WWI instead of just ~a war~ and it’s a peculiar choice). It’s a very tight sing imagery-wise because every lyric connects back to the main theme in a way that also makes it makes sense on an individual level. I picked this lyric specifically because it reminds me a favorite song where the singer describes his duties yelling at him from beneath the floor but he can’t hear because he is hanging out with his favorite person. I like personifications like that, and the suggestion that these influences are outside of ourselves, rather than inside.

“The tomb won’t close, stained glass windows in my mind.” – Putting this one directly behind The Great War because a) crypt parallel and b) Would’ve, Could’ve, Should’ve also works sooo well as a whole because the imagery is so tight and is utilized perfectly. One of her strongest work ever in that regard, because it adds a very specific layer to the story being told without ever outright saying it.

[the entire chorus of Karma] – it’s soooo fun and tongue in cheek and every single comparison she does works so well to me. “Karma’s on your scent like a bounty hunter” is so good as well. The song genuinely has some very good metaphorical work.

LEAST FAVORITE

“He was sunshine, I was midnight rain.” / “All of me changed like midnight.” – I think my main issue with this song is also the underlying issue I have with all of my least favorite imagery moments on the album: It feels like they were forcefully included to fit the theme of the song or album, without actually thinking about how they work by themselves. Midnight rain as a concept is so broad that the lyric describing it feel weak? I suppose it is meant to signify that she is dark and moody, but it ends up feeling a bit basic (as weather metaphors sometimes do). And the idea of “changed like midnight” just escapes me because, apart from the striking of the clock in a New Year’s Eve or Cinderella way, I feel like midnights are not commonly associated with change. I get where she is coming from, but it feels so so flat to me. However, this is also the lyric I am willing to give grace considering it might simply. Idk. Go over my head.

“But your eyes are flying saucers from another planet.” – Hands down my least favorite lyric on the entire album (and one of my least favorite lyrics of all time). Again: I get the idea, but the mental image this puts into my head is just incredibly goofy. Joe Alwyn with big ol’ round cartoon eyes. Was somebody scrambling for a lyric that matched the cosmic imagery of the song but already blew “starry eyes” and “eyes full of stars” on two different songs? Mh? “Flying saucers” as an object and a word combo simply are not romantic to me. Couldn’t we at least have used spaceship to signify that he feels out of this world? Idk man

“Draw the cat eye sharp enough to kill a man.” – Do I have to say anything about it? By itself it would be okay I guess but using internet speech from 2014 as an opening line to a song is. A choice. Also… I thought we didn’t dress for men (or women for that matter)? Why are u then thinking about him while doing your makeup, babygirl?

“You know how scared I am of elevators, never trust it if it rises fast.” – overdone! This is not a bad metaphor per se but it sure is a familiar one and IMMEDIATELY leaves your brain. Never use a metaphor/an image you have heard before, or whatever George Orwell said. (Great writing advice!)

“Spider boy, king of thieves, weave your little webs of opacity.” – Another one of those lines where you can feel the forced concept. I know somebody was super happy with “Spider boy” and then went looking for something that fit. “Weave your little webs of opacity” is SO clunky and heavy handed! I do like “my pennies made your crown” though.

“Sit quiet by my side in the shade, and not the kind that's thrown, I mean the kind under where a tree has grown.” – Bad. Very unsuccessful way of incorporating online lingo, and the “having to explain yourself” thing through the “I mean” is sooo… scrap it. I like the tree idea though, having grown something together, nurturing the relationship like a plant, etc.

“Freedom felt like summer then on the coast, but now the sun burns my heart, and the sand hurts my feelings.” – ok including this with a caveat: I think this actually is a good metaphor. Evocative, sensual, well thought out. However! I personally think “the sand hurts my feelings” sounds goofy and I think this line also would have worked had we stuck to the “real” nature impressions. Sun burning skin, sand getting into every crevice. Something like that. I think it would have communicated the idea equally well.

FINAL THOUGHTS: Having looked at a very specific part of the album like this, I wonder about the “writing exercise” thing she mentioned on the Graham Norton show. Multiple people have said that the concept album idea does not work for them, and I think I personally agree, but furthermore, Taylor developing entire songs about a word or a specific image appears to be pretty hit or miss, since we sometimes end up with these forced lyrics where you can just tell they needed that line and wondered how to make it fit with the rest of the song instead of having it come naturally. That said: as the good examples illustrate, Taylor is a capable writer and knows what she is doing.

iirc -

@ohgaylor

@whiskeyswifty

@9w1ft

@corneliastvendor

@chickawah23

@cursed-man-prayers

@alex-chaser

@daisyswift3

are some fantastic blogs with phenomenal analyses about various topics related to gaylorism, mainly song lyrics but also other things. i'm blanking since i'm very sleepy atm, but i remember these blogs (and more) wowing the hell out of me with their brilliant analysing skills and interpretations when i was a baby gaylor too. also they're really wonderful in general.

oh, and searching for posts via blogs kinda sucks. if you search "gaylor analysis" on tumblr though you'll find plenty of cool things. good luck and i love you goodnight zzz

Thank you so much for all the resources! I hope you had a good night sleep and I love you too, anon ❤️

Hey @socialcyanide check all this out! 😁

hiiiiiii it's me!!!!!!!!! please recommend:

Someone who would be great with *assisting* Tree Paine as Taylor’s publicist (let’s be real no one can be Tree Paine so you just get to help)

Someone who knows Taylor’s lyrics better than she does

Someone who is actually a real-life superhero (costume and everything.. but NO CAPES!!)

Someone who inspires you to be a better person 

Someone who would be Jack Antonoff’s BFF

Someone you wish lived closer

Someone that you would follow, wherever they stray

Someone who would be Aaron Dessner’s BFF

BLOG REC ANON!!!! I’m sorry I took so long this time these were challenging and I appreciate it

1. Honestly I really appreciate @bybdolan ‘s thoughts on album aesthetics and album thoughts in general so I think they would do a good job ‘assisting’ Tree Pain with the publicist side of things

2. For this one I’m gonna tag a bunch of people that analysis and think about lyrics in really clever ways that I spend too much time thinking about @mustlikemeforme @stickseasons @abbaswift @lipslikethegardensofbabylon @whiskeyswifty @yourorganicshoes

3. Superhero’s I’m gonna go for some people that make being on tumblr a nicer experience and arrange fun things for us @animalanon @mustlikemeforme @youweremycrown @thisselflovecamebacktome and you blog rec anon! Probably also more people I am just terrible at remembering!!!

4. @teardropsonsmyguitar inspires me to be a better person ❤️❤️

5. I think I should be Jack’s bff so I can ask him a zillion questions about producing music

6. I wish literally all my fave mutuals lived closer

7. For this question I’m gonna interpret the question as ‘follow’ whatever type of blog they end up having/whatever url they change to @inabloodsoakedgownn @mustlikemeforme (I have tagged you as so many on this one lol) @kimberly-wexler @greeneyesatme @blueandpurplepinkskies @socialistswift @annies-life @proudtobeaswiftie

8. For Aaron’s bff I’m pick @eclipsedsuns because hoax!!!

it’s me! hi! 👋😌 poll challenge

I had a fun idea that everyone is welcome to do as well! In the poll below, tell me why you followed my blog! I’d love to see what compelled ya to take interest in my lil corner of the internet. and the invite is open to anyone who wants to make the same poll for themselves! I love how unique we all are and how we curate our cute ‘n fun blogs ☺️

tagging to continue the challenge: @whiskeyswifty @yourorganicshoes @iwanttobelieve11 @iwanthermidnightz @sapphicscience @jamestaylorswift @asteracaea

shuffle your On Repeat playlist and list the first 10 songs that play, tag 10 people.

thanks for tagging me @godofsmallthings and @yuneu 🐇

i tag EVERYONE, if you are reading this, consider yourself TAGGED

......but officially all my lil discord friends are getting tagged @nicollekidman @whywouldiconfess @jonismitchell @littleoblivions @bitchpack @defined-by-love @realfckinlegacy @latinashepard @backbeneaththesun @femmetay @whiskeyswifty @kaylor @yourorganicshoes @sweetteaswift @andisitover @h-f-k @ivyindreamland @blewthecandleout @everythingeverywhereallatonce

can you suggest some blogs to follow?

of courseee, sorry for the delay on this 🩵 i def forgot people but these are some of my fav blogs:

@perfectplaces @queenoftherodeoo @benevolentblackhole @farmlesbians @lastparty @cruellesummer @afragileline @aaarondessner @tolerateit @lesbianhallieparker @heystephen @myselfinthemirror @honeybabymp3 @kaylor @stewy @shivroy @cartoonpeoplemp3 @xboygeniusx @godofsmallthings @whiskeyswifty @tayloralison @kneadingwater <3

maddy you ARE right with the fame fucking her up post and you should say it!!

thanks!!!! credit also goes to miss @whiskeyswifty for inspiring the addition because we should not forget this woman is dedicated to her vocation as an artiste. above everything else she is a songwriter!! she is where she wants to be!

@whiskeyswifty tags re folklore. Heavily agree with this sentiment

decorate my tree! 🎄

this is the cutest idea ever. i was tagged by my beloved @littleoblivions so to my followers/mutuals: leave a message (make it hot) if you want!! tagging some friends

@pr @whiskeyswifty @yuneu @oscar-piastri @kaylor @cruellesummer @colorsinautumn @theswizzle16 @iamnotawomanimagod @tolerateit @daenerys-targaryen and anyone who wants to leave a message!

I actually thought that was the back cover, specifically since it had the tracklisting, but I guess it would be unusual to put the title and tracklist both on the back cover especially with the title taking up so much space/importance. (Ps I agree about the font too lol reminds me of when gap tried to rebrand. That and I don’t like the white bg reminds me a Walmart generic brand packaging)

The tracklist being on the cover actually is a very 60s/70s thing to do - see "Another Side Of Bob Dylan", "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan", or "The Ring Of Fire: The Best Of Johnny Cash" - so I assume that might give us a hint what direction the album will go in. And yea, the font is. Not my favorite, but I am trying to look past that. I actually like Helvectica well enough (sorry, @whiskeyswifty), but the bolder it gets the less pretty it looks to me. I am circling through fonts myself right now to find a fitting one for the redesign I am working on (surprisingly tough when you don't know the sound of the album yet!) and there are sooo many more fun and pretty fonts to choose from. even if you want to stick to "very standard font that already was around in the 70s" you could look at Futura or ITC Avant Garde (!!!) or even a Serif! Or use Helevtica Neue for a sleeker look for all I care. And the white bg does also give me "Another Side of Bob Dylan" vibes, so I'll take it. It is intriguing to me that she chose a white bg for an album about nighttime! Much to think about.