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"But Daddy I Love Him" isn't about a love story, it's about the speaker's conflict with onlookers. However the speaker does believe that she's in the middle of a great romance that is going to end in joy and a wedding and the vindication of her commitment to her lover. But while the speaker believes this, the author does not. The song is situated in perhaps the most turbulent part of the album, and is followed a few songs later by "I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)".

These two songs are linked lyrically, by a sort of western small town setting populated by the same "Sarahs and Hannahs in their Sunday best" who are "shak[ing] their heads saying 'God help her'". (From "But Daddy I Love Him": ' how the West was won'; 'Sarahs and Hannahs in their Sunday best/Clutching their pearls'; 'Tendrils tucked into a woven braid'; 'Soon enough the elders had convened/ Down at the city hall'. From "I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)": 'Like a freight train through a small town/The jokes that he told across the bar'; 'They shake their heads saying, "God, help her"...But your good Lord doesn't need to lift a finger'; 'On a six-lane Texas highway/His hand so calloused from his pistol'.) "I Can Fix Him" is a continuation of the same story, but the speaker's tone has shifted from the wild, almost petulant, exuberance of "But Daddy I Love Him" to defiant, almost spiteful, edge of "I Can Fix Him". And in the end her romantic hopes which are still cherished in "But Daddy I Love Him" come crashing abruptly down with turn to 'Whoa, maybe I can't' right at the end of "I Can Fix Him".

So while "But Daddy I Love Him" can be taken on its own as a song with a (maybe naive) optimism and joyful romantic hopefulness, in the context of the broader work of art (the album) it is included with the foreknowledge of the turn in "I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)".

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Fictional Horse Tournament

Group Haley & Linus - Round 3

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You: "Would you still love me if I was a worm?"

Me:

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Thank you to @sleepnoises for making the original poll & for giving us the idea to to this :)

Sorry if we couldn’t get your favorite on here, we were limited to only 12 options (11 if you don’t include the “other” option).

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There's 5 things a Christian loves to see in a story: unconditional love, self-sacrifice, and of course, the 3 r's, redemption, reconciliation, and resurrection.

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Cannot stop thinking about Anne magill paintings. Maybe my new favorite painter. She just captures this ..,,,,,, dreamy feeling...,,, a certain tenderness..... a fleeting moment of contentedness..... like nothing else I’ve seen

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People complaining that TTPD isn't appropriate for young kids- Besties, her music hasn't been something you should indiscriminately let kids listen to in a while.

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You caged me and then you called me crazy I am what I am 'cause you trained me

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thinking about when I told my students that not everyone was a complex character, some people were just bumming their way through the hallways of life

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there’s a lot of return imagery in The Alchemy, it’s a song about a triumphant comeback. but I don’t think it’s an adequate interpretation of the song to chalk all that up to her relationship with her fans or her public, even if the titular alchemy is the Manuscript-esque justification of her pain by its transformation into art. when we look at the bridge, “wheres the trophy? he just comes running over to me”, there is clearly a romantic love interest, the return to whom isn’t merely an old habit. so how do we reconcile the return and the romance together? I think I figured it out.

alchemy is turning base metals to gold—a magical transformation Taylor has written about many times before. deep blue, but you painted me golden. I once believed love would be black and white, but it’s golden like daylight. in the middle of the loss of her life, Taylor stops looking for the alchemical turn. I felt aglow like this never before and never since. I may never open up the way I did for you. I’m so afraid I sealed my fate, no sign of soulmates. there is nothing to redeem the catastrophe, no link on the invisible string that can provide an explanation for what happened.

and then she circles you on a map. and suddenly, what happens every few lifetimes is happening again, and she’s back. I haven’t come around in so long. but I’m coming back so strong. someone is offering her his heart. no more benchwarmers who don’t know how to play the game and sit on the sidelines while she does all the work. from now on, her partner is aiming to win just as much as she is. what was hopelessly blue is turning, inexorably, to gold, all over again. and that’s terrifying. there’s a part of her that wants to resist, wants to flee. but: honestly, who are we to fight the alchemy?

the return in the song is the return of the tiniest bit of faith—of faith in love. and if Taylor Swift believes in romance again? you really can call the amateurs and cut ‘em from the team. nobody does it like her.

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Absolutely love the six cent batty off the wall hyper specific philosophical ponderings of original 60’s Star Trek. There’s no consistency. Kirk will need to get off a planet and will be like “Perhaps man was not meant for paradise. Perhaps he is bored and stunted there, and his true destiny is to scrabble bloody-knuckled through the stars to the beat of drums” and next episode he will need to stop an intergalactic incident occurring on his ship so he will say “Can’t you see!! Peace is the state all people of reason should strive for!! We are less than ourselves when we are not at peace can’t you see it!!” And then next episode it’s like “if people went back in time on another world is it ethical to interact with the past natives or do present directives hold true in the past more than past directives would in the present?” And I’m just sitting there like cheers mate you got me with that made up philosophical quandary as no legitimate line of reason could be used to solve it. J’adore

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So what random movie star do we think Taylor Swift is gonna get to star in her next music video? I'm gonna guess Sir Patrick Stewart.

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Actually "Florida!!!" is about Burn Notice so jot that down.

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Taylor in Lavender Haze and the Bejeweled music video: Who says I even want to get married? I don't care about that.

Taylor, slamming down Tortured Poets Department: I LIED. At dinner, you take my ring off my middle finger/And put it on the one people put wedding rings on I died on the altar waitin' for the proof And, no, you can't come to the wedding Wearing imaginary rings You and I go from one kiss to getting married Talkin' rings and talkin' cradles Whether I'm gonna be your wife or/Gonna smash up your bike, I haven't decided yet Are you gonna marry, kiss, or kill me? (Kill me)/It's just a game, but really (Really)/I'm bettin' on all three (All three) for us two

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Nevermind. Of course she is.

Do you think she's insane enough to put "I Can Do it With a Broken Heart" on the set list? Will she call us out to our faces?

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Do you think she's insane enough to put "I Can Do it With a Broken Heart" on the set list? Will she call us out to our faces?