welp just found another misheard lyric that I didn't know until I actually read the lyrics today - I thought it was "in emperor's clothing" not "empath's clothing" lol it made sense in my head

oh this is hilarious because, while i did not mishear these lyrics, i thought the line about clothes/naked and alone in down bad was an emperor's clothing reference at first!!

Leaving the studio in NYC -> 2023

why are people like "i don't want to armchair diagnose taylor with depression" girl she is TELLING YOU please believe her

“In my defense, I have none/For digging up the grave another time/But it would've been fun/If you would've been the one” to “ killing time at the cemetery never quite buried”

a good parallel

Do you think she’s referencing hanging up her picture of kanye interrupting her in 2009 on her wall in nashville then that’s where she was when the song was released in the first verse in Cassandra?

if the wall is in any way literal, wouldn't it be a house she bought later, since she says it's a "new" house? but i also don't think we need to pinpoint the specifics, because the meaning of the verse is clear, whether it's a real wall or a metaphorical wall

i thought in so long london she was singing 'just how low did you think i'd go for a self implode' not ' before i'd self implode'. Like, i can't word out what i thought the wrong lyrics were saying but it made sense to me lol.

i get that, like it made sense to you intuitively, if not grammatically lmao

That's so funny you think she doesn't care about the clean versions because I feel like she does some of the best! Like at least she tries to actually input lyrics instead of just blocking it out. It's rare, but there are even some clean versions I prefer or at least love as much as the original.

i really just meant she went for the quickest/simplest rhyme that had the same rough meaning. BUT you're right that a lot of artists just bleep it out. and it's probably expecting way too much to re-record whole different lines for a clean version, prob more trouble than it's worth.

make some noice for hoax <3

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No none of the above this is for the wine enjoyers

this morning am also obsessed with “you and I go from one kiss to getting married” because one interpretation of it is a whirlwind romance, jumping in feet first consequences be damned (the “one glimpse” of it all), but another is just about how quickly the years go by. One day you’re kids caught up in the rush of new love, the next it’s a decade later and you have a whole life together. The years may be long but they also go by in the blink of an eye and there’s a whole lot of life that happens in between that feels like it flew by and slipped through your fingers (the “I gave you all that youth for free” of it all). It just says so much in such a simple phrase.

i know a lot of people have mentioned this, but i’m just obsessed with the way taylor refused to sanitize herself on this album. she’s telling you everything. she got off to gross men whilst already in another relationship. she fell for the most obvious lies because she wanted to believe them. she was mad at anyone who tried to warn her. yes, she’s still mad at you for clutching your pearls and watching her like a circus animal btw. she’s having his baby—no she’s not! she just likes trolling. she does really want babies, though. like a lot. she felt like she’d been abducted by aliens and found cosmic love, but in reality, she was manic. and then he fucking ghosted her! and he didn’t even measure up in any measure of a man!!!!! and now she’s devastated by him and his predecessor! she feels like a wondrous prophet one day and the desperate victim of a curse the next. btw he knows how to ball and she knows aristotle. and fuck kim k! also man sex with certain men kinda fucked her up, but at least the writing that came from it defined her legacy. the manuscript isn’t hers anymore. she hopes this insane ass manuscript won’t have to be hers, either! free her of these stories.

Comic cover inspired by Guilty as Sin? From the tortured poets department

Absolute banger

How i sleep knowing i'll get to drink coffee again tomorrow

down bad using the alien abduction metaphor to describe a love affair that is filled with stars as far as the eye can see and the possibilities of other worlds far away making you feel like you are no longer tethered to the cruel realities of our world juxtaposed with the blunt image of crying at the gym and saying "fuck it if i can't have him" is soooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Happy Friday have we talked about “you talked me under the table” as in she was drunk on his promises while he remained unaffected, like when you say that someone is drinking you under the table as in they hold their liquor so seemingly well that you can’t keep up with them you’re so inebriated while they seem completely unaffected????

"i thought that i was better safe than starry-eyed" has me on the floor

my misheard lyric was (in the smallest boy who ever lived) “once your queen had come you treated her like an ulcer and” which tbh made sense so I didn’t question it at all

ngl the term or word that surprised me most on this album was "also-ran"! i feel like it's not a very commonly used term!