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a deeply underrated part of the gay taylor swift conspiracy theories is that if they're right and she really has spent over a decade sending subliminal messages based on minute details for people to decode then she's uuuuuh. I mean she's insane. she's jigsaw. she's the riddler. her dad bought her career because if she didn't have music to distract her she would have started building deathtraps.

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i have a feeling this new addition to the romantic collection is going to hit hard...

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in honor of the 6-year anniversary of lover, put your top 3 tracks in the tags

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Guys it’s BLUE glitter. This is obviously the third version of 1989 she’s releasing just for Travis

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I keep thinking Ruin the Friendship is about friends becoming lovers and risking that they could ruin the friendship (tm)

Everyone saying ruin the friendship will be about Blake…not only a basic boring take but it’s a track six and track sixes are almost always crazy upbeat songs.

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the life of a showgirl photoshoot!!!!!!!

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📸: Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott

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Nicki Minaj shares Taylor Swift's post of 'The Life of a Showgirl' on her Instagram stories!

(August 13, 2025)

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she's talking about this album sooo similarly to the way she was talking about 1989 – polished, laser-focused, thematic, upbeat, sparkling, complete. it only makes sense to return to max and shellback and to go all out with the accompanying artwork. another pop masterpiece is upon us

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call me corny, but getting to see taylor this smiley and happy in both her career and her relationship is making me all emotional. like idk about you guys, but it’s just really delightful to see her this unfiltered and comfortable in a public-facing space, especially knowing her past fears and trust issues surrounding interviews. i’m just ecstatic for her.

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TAYLOR SWIFT Photographed by Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott for ''The Life of a Showgirl''.

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i know that “don’t harass people for being weird, they might be autistic!” is a fairly popular take on here. but as a Certified Autist, i’d like to add that harassing allistic and/or neurotypical people for being weird is also bad, and should not be done

and before you come in with “yeah, you never know who is and isn’t autistic, and you shouldn’t force people to out themselves!” i want to say two things: one, i agree. and two, even if you could magically avoid ever harassing a single autistic person, it still wouldn’t be okay to go after NTs for being weird. they’re people, janice. they’re allowed to be really invested in naruto

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latenightseth That time Zoë Kravitz and Lisa Bonet lost their pet snake... at @taylorswift’s house

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Taylor for three election cycles in a row: I do not like republicans. Don’t vote for them. I’m voting democrat instead

Yall for some unknowable reason: omg is she saying she loves Trump??!

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Taylor’s releasing an album and her partner is out there freely singing her praises as an artist and a career woman and talking about how intentional he’s being about setting up his future family life for success I—

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is there anything more bitter than letting go of friends that you thought were your ride or die? coming to terms with the fact that you’re walking down different paths and you’ll be dismembered if you don’t let go of their hand. being true to yourself and your self-worth is something we’re never warned about. no one ever tells you that you’ll spend weeks pondering where it went wrong, what you did wrong, until you come to the somber realization that your time together on this earth just might be over. 

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played folklore on the drive today and god, in the 1 when she says "if my wishes came true it would have been you" the whole song, establishing that it was out of her control what lead to their demise. nothing could have stopped the inertia of their downward collapse but a wish. keeps the song lofty, reminiscent, just a day dream. but then in the reprise when she comes back with "rosé flowing with your chosen family, and it would have been sweet if it could have been me" the sharp turn wrecks me every time like.... no actually what happened wasn't up to chance and the whims of the world. the random fate of seeing someone at a bus stop. her lover actively collected an intimate family of their choosing, perhaps comprised of friends and lovers alike, but they didn't choose Taylor. the song is not in fact about wondering if the wind had blown differently would that have been enough to keep them together, as "if one thing had been different, would everything be different today" wonders. it's about wishing she had been chosen and wanting so badly to know, barely resisting the temptation to ask them, why she wasn't. if she had done one thing different, been just a little different, would she have been the chosen recipient of their love? absolutely lethal song.