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I’ve always said that the world is a different place for the heartbroken. It moves on a different axis, at a different speed. Time skips backwards and forwards fleetingly. The heartbroken might go through thousands of micro-emotions a day trying to figure out how to get through it without picking up the phone to hear that old familiar voice. In the land of heartbreak, moments of strength, independence, and devil-may-care rebellion are intricately woven together with grief, paralyzing vulnerability and hopelessness. Imagining your future might always take you on a detour back to the past. And this is all to say, that the next album I’ll be releasing is my version of Red.

Musically and lyrically, Red resembled a heartbroken person. It was all over the place, a fractured mosaic of feelings that somehow all fit together in the end. Happy, free, confused, lonely, devastated, euphoric, wild, and tortured by memories past. Like trying on pieces of a new life, I went into the studio and experimented with different sounds and collaborators. And I’m not sure if it was pouring my thoughts into this album, hearing thousands of your voices sing the lyrics back to me in passionate solidarity, or if it was simply time, but something was healed along the way.

Sometimes you need to talk it over (over and over and over) for it to ever really be… over. Like your friend who calls you in the middle of the night going on and on about their ex, I just couldn’t stop writing. This will be the first time you hear all 30 songs that were meant to go on Red. And hey, one of them is even ten minutes long.

Red (Taylor’s Version) will be out November 19.

https://taylor.lnk.to/RedTaylorsVersion

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forget gender, what is your true moral alignment?

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endless favorites ♡ parker (leverage)

“i think people are like locks: really complicated and frustrating, but you can’t force them. you have to take time and be fiddly. you learn to be patient, and just wait until you hear the… click.”

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please don't hand me the aux unless you want everyone in this car to know there's something wrong with me

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thehappygardens

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practicing bisexuality & being a cunt

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Mary Oliver, "The Fourth Sign of the Zodiac." Blue Horses

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grad school really is like: i am the smartest person in this seminar. i am the biggest imposter in the world and have no idea why i signed up to do this for half a decade. i love academia. i hate sending emails. grading papers is hell. writing papers is hell. i love writing. i hate writing. i am overcaffeinated. i am dropping out and moving off the grid. i hate theory. i have to write a book. i am going to get a tenure track position. i love sending emails. i haven’t slept in weeks. i am a genius in my field. i am going through a full mental breakdown. i love school.  i have no idea what epistemology is

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q: you’ve been open in your lyrics about depression and other struggles. how are you now? yg: i’m comfortable now and feeling good, but those sorts of negative emotions come and go. so it’s almost like cold weather. it may come back in a cycle over a year, year and a half. but when i hear people say that when they listen to my music, and feel comfort and are consoled by those lyrics that express these emotions, that makes me feel very good. it’s very encouraging. i think, for anybody, these emotions are not something that need to be hidden. they need to be discussed and expressed. whatever emotions that i may be feeling, i’m always ready to express them now, as i was before.

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*tries to get eight hours sleep in 3 hours*

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Spring flowers. Edited with my wilderness ps action.

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holds the door open for men to feminize them

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even puppies fall in love with him..

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@networkthirteen​ celebration: favourite song

Just like a folk song Our love will be passed on