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Thank you, “Word Repetition in Sunday in the Park with George, Presented as a Pie Chart.” The work you’ve put into the 16,000+ slices on this graph is, frankly, baffling and concerning.

Up next in Smug, Fake-Deep Diagrams About Musicals that Deliberately Present Data in the Most Confusing Way Possible,” we have:

“Intratexuality in Hamilton, Presented in the Style of a Conspiracy Theorist’s Corkboard”

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evermore by taylor swift (released december 11, 2020)

To try and put it more poetically, it feels like we were standing on the edge of the folklorian woods and had a choice: to turn and go back or to travel further into the forest of this music. We chose to wander deeper in.

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i went on this big walk, i was really sad and stressed out about a lot of things. i was in the back of a cab (listening to Higher by Rihanna). it's about that feeling of being too much. for someone. for everyone, for the world. and it's the most crushing feeling, the feeling of someone not wanting you. when i wrote it, i was feeling particularly kind of me against the world, i was feeling very isolated and lonely. you have to kind of learn to be your best mate, you gotta work it out because everyone else is probably gonna leave you at some point, but you'll always be there for yourself. that was a real lesson that i learned, to really take care of myself. you know that feeling when you walk into a room and you feel like you must have a giant body, giant feet and hands, cause everyone stares at you. "what's wrong with me?" i feel like that all the time. if someone ever makes you feel like you're a bit of a punishment to be around or that you are taking too much space, fuck 'em. cause you're awesome. a song about this very specific feeling of knowing you're gonna need to learn to be your best friend because everyone's gonna leave you at some point. it sounds terrible, but it's kinda true. if you can be alone in a room with yourself and have that be enough, you're in the right place. this song i wrote for myself. i wrote it about that bottomless pit feeling of being the biggest loser you know and how you feel like people don't wanna hang out with you. i guess it's about feeling like people don't like you very much. or feeling like you're a bit annoying, a bit of pain. and it's ok to feel like that sometimes. about feeling alone and feeling like you're always gonna be too much for everyone, and it's not true. you're not too much to everyone. this song is about being alone and learning how to be alone for the first time. some of the most precious time that i've had is that time after you stopped being with somebody who you've been for a long time. and it sucks a lot of the time. but inbetween the sucking it's a really precious moment. writing this song helped me celebrate being too much. it's a song about intense loneliness and being deserted by a lot of people that you love, which is very melodrama. that kind of loneliness is so transformative, it picks you up and it shows you parts of yourself that you didn't know existed. and it shows you how much you can be your company. what a precious thing that is. what you learn from being alone and heartbroken, you'll gain and you'll grow and you'll be so much stronger on the other side. if anyone says you're not perfect, fuck 'em. feeling like no one could ever love me for who i am, for all i am. i am such a big, intense, colorful, melodramatic fucking dreamer. feeling alone is so life-altering. it's the worst feeling. just to sit in your bedroom and feel the silence boucing off the walls and you just feel like "i could never be sadder than that". it's almost profound. what I think is incredible about that feeling is to get out of it you have to learn how to be OK to hang out by yourself, you have to learn how to respect yourself, how to love yourself. i thought for a long time, when i would meet people, i'd have to hide a part of myself, i'd have to conceal some of that bright colors, so i wouldn't scare people off. [...] i realised you gotta just be your own best friend.

Lorde

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All too well. the number one question I get asked a lot is; “how do you know what to write a song about? Where do you start?” And for me, I guess the easiest answer, the most simple answer is think about how many things do you want to say to someone who you have been too scared to say it to them because you’re scared of their reaction to what you would tell them? Over the course of the day we get hundreds, if not thousands things we wish we could say if we were brave enough or if we didn’t have to see the reaction, or hear the reaction or response to saying what we actually feel--about someone, about a situation. Writing a song is kinda like saying what I really wanted to say to the person--whatever you wanted to say the most and being able to push pause on the moment and not having to see that person’s response. It’s like putting a message in a bottle, whatever you wanted to say, whether it’s saying “I really love you” or “I am still really heartbroken” or “what you said really hurt me”, or “you make me happier than anyone in the world and I’ve told you before” or “you’re my best friend and I never want to lose you”. All those things. It’s like saying any of that, putting it in a bottle throwing it into the ocean, maybe they’ll see it, maybe they won’t. Maybe it’s a really cowardly way to love your life--but maybe it’s also the bravest way you can live your life. I haven’t really decided which one. This is a song, that was all the things I wanted to say to somebody but instead I just wrote this song because everything about this person i just couldn’t forget, you know, I just remembered it all too well. Good memories can leave even more of a mark or a scar on your heart as the bad times, and the bad memories, and the slamming doors, and the fights. I think you can have a lot of ghosts that you're carrying around with you. Sometimes you wish you could forget the good times even more than the bad times because you just keep replaying the things you remember all too well. I think for me when I sit down at the piano to write a song the main goal is just to say exactly what I’m feeling at the time that I’m feeling it so its like your trying to write in real time and what you end up with I guess is albums that are kind of like massive collections of journal entries  and I think the thing about a journal entry is when your writing it you think you must be the only person, the only person who’s ever felt that way and you feel completely alone in that moment and I guess what I’m tyring to say to you now is thank you for taking those collections of moments when I felt really, really alone and um memorising the words to them and singing them back to me when I’m in concerts so I really don’t feel alone anymore. a lot of times I write songs in order to cope or to forget someone and um the thing about trying to forget someone its just the most complicated thing you can try to do um so its hard to write how you feel about trying to forget someone when um you don’t even know how you feel half the time so how can you write about it I guess in case of this song I stopped trying to write how I felt I would just write down a story from beginning to end because I remembered it all too well. I’m trying to forget somebody, and chances are it’s because maybe I miss somebody that I shouldn’t miss, because they’re bad for me, and I know that I can’t pick up the phone and call them, so I write a song instead. The term trying to forget someone is so awful because you‘ll never forget someone if you’re TRYING to forget them. This was a song that I wrote when I was trying to forget someone but really all it did was remind me that I remembered it all too well. if I’m writing a song in the middle of the night, chances are it’s either because there’s something that I haven’t said to someone that I really need to, or the number one reason is that I’m trying to forget someone. And if you’ve ever tried to forget someone, it’s impossible to try to forget someone ‘cause it just happens over time. There’s nothing you can really do to make it better and when I tried to write this song, it was to forget someone and all I ended up doing was writing a song about how everything about him, I remembered it all too well.

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#10yearsof1D

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Britney: For The Record (2008)

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I had to draw a @heartstoppercomic fanart because this is, like, my favorite webcomic? It is a very moving, heartwarming story with great characters, great lgbtq+ and poc representation. I love everything about it. And I cried while I read some chapters because I’m weak and the feelings are stronk. Please read Heartstopper.

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And baby, I’m so terrified of if you ever walk away.

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Choreographing and rehearsing for Thriller

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Taylor Swift’s Albums 2006-2019

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Taylor Swift + Album Art 

My biggest goal moving forward is to make you proud. I’m so excited. I can’t wait to show you what I’m making next.

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It’s a sad, sad story when a will mother teach her daughther that she ought to hate a perfect stranger