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I noticed something today when listening to Is It Over Now? And I NEED to talk about it. Anyways,

“You search in every maiden’s bed for something greater,”

“You search in every model’s bed for something greater,”

I don’t know how intentional this was, but it’s the Madonna-Whore dichotomy.

She’s ultimately saying in these verses that he’s insatiable. He has fame and every woman at his feet so he feels that he can always climb the ladder for a “better” woman. He refuses to look back and recognize the treasure he has lost because he’s in constant pursuit of the perfect, most ideal woman.

I think that the change in wording contradicts that exact mindset by basically saying, “you can bounce between good girls and bad girls all you want, it’s not getting you anywhere.”

The Madonna-Whore dichotomy is essentially men’s perception that women are pure, good and nurturing or they are promiscuous, a slut, etc. but never both, or neither of those things.

He will never find the perfect woman. He wants a good girl, a soft and quiet girl who won’t speak up. A Madonna. But he cannot view her as sexy enough to satiate his need for the perfect woman, so he leaves her the Whore. She’s fun and seductive, but he soon sees her as trashy and ‘used up.’ And so he finds another Madonna, who he views as a more innocent, ‘suitable’ match. Then the cycle repeats.

Not only is he oscillating between literal maidens and models, he’s oscillating between the only two types of women he perceives, never mind that women are complex humans with complex emotions and personalities.

It’s a trap.

He has trapped himself in this mindset of pursuing greater things when he is just bouncing back and forth between a bunch of women; he can’t sit with it for a second to realize it, to try to understand women outside of his very narrow perception of them as a man.

He’s also trapped her as a result of this, thus the entire song begging the question: Is It Over Now?

As I’m writing this I’m wondering if this also has anything to do with the similarity between the opening of this song and Dear Reader. Because if it feels like a trap, you’re already in one.

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I’ve been going through some things recently that have drawn me to Mad Woman by Taylor Swift. This might be like super obvious but I guess I just never viewed the lyrics in this way.

Every time you call me crazy,

I get more crazy,

What about that?

Upon further life experience I’ve realized that she’s not saying that SHE gets more crazy. She’s saying that every time they call her crazy, she gets even crazier to them in the narrative they’ve created. Like you simply just can’t win. If someone calls you crazy, you’ve become a crazy person in their mind. I think that’s really super powerful and maybe it was more obvious but I really think it’s one of those good nuggets of a lyric that everyone kind of brushes over lol

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Grace Gown by Vivienne Westwood

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TAYLOR SWIFT for Vanity Fair magazine (2015)

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this picture still confuses me

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@taylorswift please adopt me

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au in which the library of alexandria didn’t burn down

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This is quite possibly my favourite picture on the Internet to ever exist

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Hi I’m auditioning for my chemical romance and I’ll be singing “we are never ever getting back together” by Taylor swift

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Taylor Swift + Fall Out Boy

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God I love yik yak

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I still wonder what happened after this

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patrick & taylor singing together is my favorite thing in the world (✿ ♥‿♥)

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someone: [flirts with me]

me: they are probably just being nice, they probably do this with everyone

someone: [asks me on a date]

me: it’s not a date, it’s just a friend get together thing, probably.

someone: [confesses their love for me]

me: they are probably just being sarcastic