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the thing is that this easter egg is so fucking obvious if you're even remotely familiar with anything taylor-related, but saying to a normal person "yeah no taylor swift is about to announce a new album and we know that because she just posted 12 pics of her wearing orange on instagram" makes you look. well. in need of medical attention to be honest

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Taylor tearing up as she recalls getting the call from her mother saying that she finally got her masters back (x)

(August 13, 2025)

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The Life of a Showgirl ★ Album Cover

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Taylor Swift describing the theme of 'The Life of a Showgirl' and the making of the album with Shellback and Max Martin:

''It's everything that was going on behind the curtain. My main goals were melodies that were so infectious that you're almost angry at it and lyrics that are just as vivid but crisp and focused and completely intentional. So its like, I feel like we actually came together in a beautiful way, the 3 of us, Shellback, Max and I. We had a conversation about how Max was like 'I loved folklore, I loved the storytelling on folklore. I don't want this to change just because we're making these infectious anthems, I dont want you to leave that behind' and I was like 'I couldn't even if I tried.' I'm married to that kind of writing. It was amazing that we were able to do this without doing too much overthinking. We were able to get in there, and it was just ideas flying and all of these ideas were like we've been waiting years to come back and do this project.''

(August 13, 2025 | Via New Heights)

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someone said taylor swift treats the grammys like an office christmas party and I've never seen a more accurate description.

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I go back to December all the time

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I love you doesn't count after goodbye.

RED (October 22, 2012) by Taylor Swift

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I am what I am cause you trained me...

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I know this is pointing out the obvious but goodness gracious the contrast between Taylor at the ihearts last year (exhausted/devastated/sore/not wanting to be perceived at all) vs. this year (glowing/smiling/tan etc) is just a brilliant reminder that the worst parts of our lives will eventually pass and we will know joy again even if only softly at first. Our broken hearts will mend and we will meet new people that make us feel alive and show us what we wanted was never too much. there will be new memories and chapters and you won’t be just sad now until the end of time. turns out the pain really wouldn’t be forevermore

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its just soooooo interesting to watch how, with every new project, her entire discography is recontextualized and seen in a new light not just by her fans but by HER too. different pieces of art are going to mean something different to you at different stages of your life, and its just really cool to see that is true for the artist herself as well. it doesnt discount what a song meant or what it was about when it was written: it can both transport you back to how you felt at the time AND give you clarity on how you ended up where you currently are and the challenges you were blind to then that seem obvious in hindsight. both can be, and are, true and completely valid. its just endlessly intriguing to watch her be in constant conversation with her younger selves, and by virtue of having grown up with her, doing so myself.

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the “i’m so in love that i might stop breathing” to “as she was leaving it felt like breathing” pipeline 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

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im sure lots of people will listen to TTPD and discount it because she talks about matty in it (and ofc people have their valid issues with him, but im not gonna go into that), but the whole lead up to the album has been “we’re investigating,” and imo a lot of us took that as her saying “we’re investigating why my relationship ended” whereas the album is actually about “we’re investigating this caricature of a girl who went through something life-changing, and she has apparently gone crazy” and she’s basically done a public autopsy of herself; something that the media/fans/public have done since the beginning, but this time around she was like “i’ll do it to myself.”

hence, the album aesthetic feels so sterile too imo. she’s trying to distance herself from the subject but!!!!!! she is the subject. and in conclusion, i think what she’s really putting down is “the summary of the investigation of this girl is that she went insane because of what happened to her, but it’s hopefully gonna be okay”

sidenote: i think what we need to take away from the album is to… let her live…

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the beauty of this album is that it really fully encapsulates what it’s like going from the devastating loss of a long term relationship, to the rebound you think is gonna fix it all, only to ultimately realize that you were using the latter to process your feelings about the former. the songs are so muddled, and the lyrics are relevant to both muses because her feelings were muddled and she had no idea where to put them or what to do with them. the rebound promised her everything she couldn’t get from the ex-love and she fell for it because she was so desperate to be really seen.

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‘and sometimes it gets me when crossing your jet stream, we both did the best we could do underneath the same moon in different galaxies’ is so fucking devastating bc not only does it allude to call it what you want, but also all of the references across her work implying that what they had was fate, sent to her by the universe, divine intervention. all the imagery of ‘starry eyes sparkling up my darkest night’ and ‘once upon a time the planets and the fates and all the stars aligned’ and ‘he’s passing by rare as the glimmer of a comet in the sky’ come crashing down into the reality that they were always just outside of each other’s orbit

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Taylor writing the prologue for TTPD