“Swift Often Sings Of Alienation And Yearning. She Has An Unusual Number Of Songs About Being Left

“Swift often sings of alienation and yearning. She has an unusual number of songs about being left behind. Not by the culture—though I think she worries about that, too—but by someone she cared about who couldn’t countenance the immensity of her life. In her world, love is conditional and frequently temporary. (‘You could call me ‘babe’ for the weekend,” she sings on ‘’tis the damn season,’ a line I’ve always found profoundly sad.) On the chorus of ‘The Archer,’ she sings, “Who could ever leave me, darling? / But who could stay?” Toward the end of the song, she adds a more hopeful line: “You could stay.”As she sang that “you” on Saturday, she raised an arm and pointed directly to the audience. Swift has written many songs that describe her devotion as a punishment to be endured. ‘I love you, ain’t that the worst thing you ever heard?’ she bellows on ‘Cruel Summer.’ She believes that the force of her affection will push people away. But her fans have remained. They have buoyed her; in turn, she has given them everything.”

— The New Yorker on the Eras Tour (x)

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1 year ago

The vaults songs are amazing in the sense that they showcase so perfectly how back and forth their relationship was. They can be almost ruthless, because that was the feeling in the heat of the moment… and then things were good again. For all that she blames him, she also lays her part on it. They both suck at communicating back then.

By the time 1989 was as out they were on good terms, and while I think a big part of letting it be publicly known she was on good terms with him during 1989 initial promo was because the message and image she wanted to project, it was also because she never really saw him as the sole villain in the story… as charged as their story was the fact that they remain friendly nowadays? A true testament of how they really see each other. Theirs wasn’t a story of unforgivable mistakes but a sad story of really bad timing and not being ready for something so striking

1 year ago

I LOVE GOOD NEWS FINALLY SOME GOOD NEWS

New reading https://youtu.be/4hsmu79cQug?feature=shared

https://youtu.be/4hsmu79cQug?si=vE1WKG6KNaIgF4Pq

Thanks for sharing! This reading on TS and HS from last night is quite long and detailed (and interesting!). Here are the highlights that jumped out to me:

Something is coming to an end for Harry.

Something will bring them to a common playing field.

Someone is telling Harry to consider the relationship, and getting back together, maybe even Taylor herself.

There may be someone trying to steal this love and wish fulfillment from Taylor. Someone is being immature and trying to play games to keep them apart. Could be someone they both know.

Taylor doesn’t want to say too much to anyone else, but wants to spend some time together and see if a reconciliation would work. She wants to try again.

She maybe have felt like she couldn’t make him happy in the past, but his unhappiness wasn’t because of her or her fault. There was some disconnect or misunderstanding between them with this.

In the years since, she may have found herself and her worth.

Harry may have been holding back his true feeling for her, but that is no longer the case because he does want to reconcile as well.

Maybe some abandonment issues here. They may have needed time apart to heal.

She was unclear about where she stood with him, because she wasn’t getting what he was trying to say. She thought it was about her when it wasn’t.

Things didn’t go the way Harry thought they would or how he’d planned.

Both of them want to reveal a truth and they both feel guilty about the way things happened.

He may be changing his mind about someone new and looking back at Taylor.

He feels a lot for her. And he’s open to this reunion.

Third-party interference is the obstacle for this reunion.

They both see that they could do this with each other.

They feel at home with one another.

She’s going to confess that she left him before he could leave her, because she was afraid.

He is watching and using his intuition. She’s getting justice (could be something to do with whoever is trying to interfere).

They’ll run into each other. It will spark something new for them.

Reader predicts this will happen within the next 10 weeks or months, maybe much sooner.

They have a lot to talk about and a lot to communicate and express in order for this to work out; this may have been a challenge before but now they will be more genuine with each other.

If they get back together, and don’t let other people get in their way, they’ll do really well together.

They may do a duet or collaboration that would bring a lot of financial success.

They may end up having a family together.


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1 year ago

The way “I heard that you’ve been out and about with some other girl, you said what you heard is true but I can’t stop thinking about you, I said I’ve been there too a few times” makes the situation sound so sexy and fun and lighthearted and Is it Over Now is like “actually, I wanted to jump off a building!”

1 year ago
Backstage At The Capital Fm Jingle Bell Ball 8 December In London. (link) Capital Fm Article. In The
Backstage At The Capital Fm Jingle Bell Ball 8 December In London. (link) Capital Fm Article. In The
Backstage At The Capital Fm Jingle Bell Ball 8 December In London. (link) Capital Fm Article. In The
Backstage At The Capital Fm Jingle Bell Ball 8 December In London. (link) Capital Fm Article. In The
Backstage At The Capital Fm Jingle Bell Ball 8 December In London. (link) Capital Fm Article. In The
Backstage At The Capital Fm Jingle Bell Ball 8 December In London. (link) Capital Fm Article. In The
Backstage At The Capital Fm Jingle Bell Ball 8 December In London. (link) Capital Fm Article. In The
Backstage At The Capital Fm Jingle Bell Ball 8 December In London. (link) Capital Fm Article. In The
Backstage At The Capital Fm Jingle Bell Ball 8 December In London. (link) Capital Fm Article. In The
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Backstage At The Capital Fm Jingle Bell Ball 8 December In London. (link) Capital Fm Article. In The

Backstage at the Capital Fm Jingle Bell Ball 8 December in London. (link) Capital Fm article. In the interview before the show the band is asked Cats or Dogs, Harry says love the cats with a proud look to someone off screen.

You can see Taylor on the side during One Thing (0:51). She left before WMYB, Harry was looking for where she went throughout.

Backstage At The Capital Fm Jingle Bell Ball 8 December In London. (link) Capital Fm Article. In The
1 year ago

"the truth is i can't pretend it's platonic"/"i cannot be your friend"

"it's weird cause the guy that is about and i are friends and i don't talk about my relationships hut i do my friendships"/spending the day at caleb's party together/harry yelling across the restaurant that they're friends

taylor in 1989 promo: I'M SINGLE PRINGLE

every haylor stan in 2015 : NO YOU WEREN'T

1 year ago

One of my fave bits in Question…? Was how she called them a meteor strike. It was a before and after moment in their lives.

It’s a deep thing when a person does that to you, because life moves on, you move on and yet there are these moments when one little thing takes you back and you reminisce and you wonder..

I always find it interesting that after 1989 when songs were no longer about Harry there were songs that made me think of him so strongly even if they were about someone else… because the way she describe the spark or the heartbreak was one that had a taste of Harry and their story. I always thought that was just me being a Harrie but now… i guess some feelings hit you so strongly that they change you…and color how you see the world after.

And she said it all in Question a year ago. It ended up being one of her more telling songs… 10 years in the making

Meteor strike indeed

1 year ago

The way “I heard that you’ve been out and about with some other girl, you said what you heard is true but I can’t stop thinking about you, I said I’ve been there too a few times” makes the situation sound so sexy and fun and lighthearted and Is it Over Now is like “actually, I wanted to jump off a building!”

1 year ago

idk guys, maybe anne is a haylor 😌🤷

Idk Guys, Maybe Anne Is A Haylor 😌🤷
Idk Guys, Maybe Anne Is A Haylor 😌🤷
Idk Guys, Maybe Anne Is A Haylor 😌🤷
Idk Guys, Maybe Anne Is A Haylor 😌🤷
Idk Guys, Maybe Anne Is A Haylor 😌🤷
Idk Guys, Maybe Anne Is A Haylor 😌🤷
Idk Guys, Maybe Anne Is A Haylor 😌🤷
Idk Guys, Maybe Anne Is A Haylor 😌🤷
Idk Guys, Maybe Anne Is A Haylor 😌🤷

She has never wavered

1 year ago

i keep watching videos of people going to the eras tour, girls dressing up with their friends, trading friendship bracelets with strangers, crying to surprise songs, holding each other during their favorite set. singing, and dancing, and screaming, and crying and all of it just feels like pure happiness. there's something so special about the unapologetic way girls get to just purely be themselves at the eras tour and it makes my heart so warm inside.

and it's not a gender thing, but the way teenage girls have constantly seen their interests diminished and overlooked makes this sense of community so much more special.

for so long i felt like there was something wrong with being stereotypically girly. god forbid pink is your favorite color, or you listen to pop music, or you have a stan account and posters of a boyband on your bedroom wall. god forbid you're still strong, and smart, and interesting.

and maybe it's because i'm in my twenties now, and i'm finally figuring out who i am, because fuck, being a teenager sucks, but i can look at the girls crying from their nosebleeds seats at the eras tour, or the girls dancing in line for a harry styles concert, or the group of friends that yelled "hi barbie" to me from their pink dresses on the other side of the street, and feel like there is a part of current pop culture, of mainstream media, that is finally, finally, allowing girls to experience girlhood without shame.

we love taylor. we love each other. look at us and the cute bracelets we trade with strangers. look at our pink outfits to go watch barbie at the theatre and our feathery boas at harry concerts and our kindles full of romance books. look. it's all so pretty.

i spent all my money on concert tickets, i'm going to the eras tour next year. i already warned everyone i'll cry during long live.

i'm making bracelets. i have a pinterest board for my outfit. i'm sharing ideas, because everyone else is doing the same. i made a playlist of my favorite songs and named it after taylor swift. i found an old one direction poster and put it back up on my wall. i learned how to crochet, and the first thing i made was a flower. the yard is pink. it's my favorite color.

i did my makeup. i read my favorite sally rooney novel on the train, with my headphones in. i'm twenty and i'm thirteen, and i'm nine, when pink was still my favorite color. i'm all of those girls, and all of them are me.

it really is the girlhood no one can't take away. it was ours first. we're taking it back.

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