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The Eras Tour

June 22, 2024 - London, England

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ARIA Awards 2012

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This.

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I bet these memories follow you around ⭑ EVERY 1989 SET COMBO › Blue & Blue

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It hits different ‘cause it’s you.

— Taylor Swift, Midnights

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I Bet You Think About Me ♡Requested by anon♡

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very off-topic but i just moved to a new city for a job and this is my first time post-graduation where there's no built-in social network/where i basically don't know anyone and i am. sitting in my apartment alone on a friday night feeling a little lonely and i was wondering if you have tips on building a life in a new place <3

oh anon i want to give you a hug! it’s so hard. my best advice is a few parts:

reach out to literally any connection you have in the city and try to make a plan. see if your friends have friends they can introduce you to where you live. ask a random acquaintance from college if they want to get a drink. eventually you will find someone you hit it off with.

immediately get involved with something that puts you in the same place at the same time consistently (a workout class, a run club, an art class, volunteering, intramural sports, etc). there will be people there who want to hang out with you.

see if there are facebook groups or group chats for young people/women in your neighborhood. they often host events or are full of people who want to make friends!

don’t say no to things. go to happy hour, meet that random friend, tag along with people even if you feel a little awkward.

get comfortable with doing stuff alone! i spent so much time in my apartment postgrad because i was scared to go places and do things by myself. and i shouldn’t have been! see a movie, go to a show, check out that cute store, go read at a coffee shop.

also, romanticize your own space. a friday night home can be lonely, but it can also be relaxing. cook a fun dinner! read your book in bed! take a bath! things will get better

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Shop | Raw Edge Gallery

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and i hope it’s SHITTY

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:p

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taylor swift: the eras tour march 17, 2023 – december 8, 2024

"and although we are all on our own in this big, scary life, somehow it doesn't feel that way when we're singing the same words as 80,000 other people wearing glittery face paint. we do it because life comes in waves, in phases, in brilliant flurries of magical moments, and all of these things come together to create...eras."

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From “if I can’t relate to you anymore than who am I related to” in Coney Island

To “so tell me, who is else is gonna know me?” Of ttpd

it ultimately comes down to “when all you wanted is to be wanted” when all is said and done! It’s suuuuuuuch a recurring theme across her discography, right from the start. She has such a deep longing to be known for who she really is, while simultaneously fearing being known for who she really is.

It’s “I want to wear his initial on a chain around my neck, not because he owns me, but ‘cause he really knows me” and “can you see right through me?” And “have I known you 20 seconds or 20 years?” And “I want your complications too” and “twenty questions, we tell the truth” and “give you the silence that only comes when two people understand each other” And “if you're ever tired of bеin' known for who you know, you know that you'll always know me” And “wonder about the only soul who can tell which smiles I’m faking” And “he feels like home” and “to you I can admit that I’m just too soft for all of it” and and and… I’m going to stop here but you could go all the way back to debut and find examples of it.

And when you go from the one person who really knows you to “you say, ‘I don’t understand,’ and I say, ‘I know you don’t,’” and “he don’t understand me,” and “he never even scratched the surface of me— none of them did” and on and on, well, that’s a punch in the gut. It’s what begets songs like Anti-Hero. It turns out your home really is only a place you’re just a guest in. So when you’ve spent most of your life yearning to be understood, and then the one person who you thought did not only doesn’t but actively resents who you are? Well, it makes the “who else is gonna know me?” Of it all even more desperate, if you think this is your last chance at finding someone who “gets” you when you feel like all evidence points otherwise. And leaves you susceptible to certain advances.

Idk, it’s fascinating to consider that as a person and as an artist, Taylor is both arguably the most famous and most publicly “known” artist of our current time, yet also struggles with being deeply misunderstood or fearing it. It’s one of the things that makes so much of her art so compelling.

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TAYLOR SWIFT Cornelia Street (Live From Paris)

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literary kinsey scale time

i’m just curious what mix of fiction and nonfiction the average tumblrina is consuming

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Hidden messages in 1989