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WerE YOU SENT BY SOMEONE--

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The lyrics “come one, come all/It’s happening again” are very “The masquerade revelers/Drunk as they watch my shattered edges glisten” and “And your secrets end up splashed on the news front page” coded.

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Public speaking is actually really easy if you don't respect a single soul in that room. I've had an incredibly easy time delivering speeches when I hated everybody I saw and they all thought I did amazing because my disdain was read as confidence. I don't have any tips for you I'm just telling you a fact

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AND WHOS GONNA HOLD YOU LIKE ME?????

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were you sent by someone who wanted me dead? did you sleep with a gun underneath our bed? were you writing a book? were you a sleeper-cell spy? in fifty years will all this be declassified? and you'll confess why you did it… and i'll say good riddance ’cause it wasn't sexy once it wasn't forbidden…. I WOULD’VE DIED FOR YOUR SINS INSTEAD I JUST DIED INSIDE!!!!!!!!! AND YOU DESERVE PRISON BUT YOU WON’T GET TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU’LL SLIDE INTO INBOXES AND SLIP THROUGH THE BARS YOU CRASHED MY PARTY IN YOUR RENTAL CAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU SAID NORMAL GIRLS WERE BORING BUT YOU WERE GONE BY THE MORNING!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU KICKED OUT THE STAGE LIGHTS BUT YOU’RE STILL PERFORMING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!…………. and in the plain sight you hid……. and you are what you did…… and i’ll forget you but i’ll never forgive…. the smallest man who ever lived.

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I think Matty Healy is awful but I’m still proud of Taylor putting “but daddy I love him” on the record.

There are songs on the album about her realising he love bombed her and manipulated her. Realising she fell for all of it, she was never going to fix him, and he was never going to be her saviour. She is scathing towards him, but also towards herself for falling for it. She could have left it at that and maybe copped less criticism. Instead she acknowledges the backlash and the defiance she felt in that moment.

It makes me feel the same way her putting Ours on Speak Now does. Grateful that she is open to sharing her stories even when the muse isn’t deserving of the words she wrote, even when releasing it fans the fires of the “I told you so” crowd.

And much like Ours is not a defence of Mayer, BDILH is not an acquittal of Healy. The phrasing she uses is not “he’s a good man they just don’t know him like I do”, it’s “I’m not coming to my senses” “I’d rather burn my whole life down”. The message of the song is not her trying to convince you he’s a good person (he’s not), it’s about a woman stumbling through a crisis and her desperate need to be able to make her own decisions, and that includes her own mistakes - which she seems to be acknowledging Matty was.

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unrelated to anything but was listening to the alchemy and obsessing over her use of touchdown as both a sports metaphor and to describe landing from her spaceship-hospital-microwave adventure

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respectfully this whole verse absolutely ruined me

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“Don’t Take the Money is a phrase I say in my head all the time. It has nothing to do with actual money. It means to follow the light. Don’t ignore a gut feeling. “Don’t take the money.” I repeat it to myself when I’m trying to stay on track.” - Jack Antonoff

BLEACHERS - DON’T TAKE THE MONEY (2017) TAYLOR SWIFT - YOU’RE ON YOUR OWN KID (2022)

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TAYVIS NATIOOONN

i didn’t expect to see that today oh my gosh /pos

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genuinely the way taylor clearly falls hard and fast and hopelessly in love every single time is very endearing. writing "this happens once every few lifetimes" and "no one's ever had me, not like you" on the same album that covers the breakdown of two relationships that were also seemingly destined and life changing and unmatched by anyone else is exactly what makes her so good at writing about relationships. if a songwriter doesn't feel everything with their whole chest and throw their whole being into it then I don't want it

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hello! my name is blaire and i am a huge swiftie from aotearoa, new zealand! you can also find me over at @freshpickle!

i am curating this blog as a database of stuff because i teach a high school english course completely centered around taylor swift! in fairness, it's more realistically a taylor swift course that meets the english curriculum!

feel free to send me any questions about the course or please let me know if you have ideas for activities and things we can study!

since you've made it this far, i also want to share with you my baby, this is our course google site where I've curated a comprehensive database for EVERYTHING taylor swift!

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anyone else have that one friend that just hates taylor swift for no reason? like girl, what did she do to you. the worst bit is she says 'some of her musics okay (22, shake it off) but she's just annoying and all her stuff sounds the same and she only writes about her ex's, i'm sure she's lovely in person though' GIRL WHAT?? i could deal with it if she said 'oh her music just isn't my taste' sure because there's popular artists whose talent i can APPRECIATE and am not really into but like COME ON get a grip

and to say 'she's annoying and only writes about her ex's'?? you're the reason she wrote shake it off, blank space and slut so don't EVEN talk to me