#— red tv !

[hope-ur-ok]

this was a mashup for me actually

[littleoldme-posts]

Can we, as a society, start talking about how absolutely beautiful Begin Again is? I know for a fact that it was popular in the fandom back in 2012 (og Red release) and even has a mv, but I just feel like I don’t hear enough fans talk about it in recent years.

I get that she’s over a decade old, but she’s absolutely held up over the years and I honestly think it’s one of Taylor’s most personal songs. Like it’s actually restored my faith in the world and love multiple times throughout my life and I just feel like she doesn’t get the credit she deserves. Words really can’t describe how beautiful this song is.

[joytri]

the incandescent glow of your soul

[khruschevshoe]

You know, it's rather interesting to me that Taylor Swift's parasocial relationship with her fans is honestly more akin to a YouTuber than a writer's. When I scroll through her tag on tumblr/Twitter, it's far more regarding the connection to her personal life/relationship developments than the actual metaphors/fictional story she might be telling. Everything comes back to how her songs reflect back on her relationships with Joe/Matty/Travis/Jake/insert ex-boyfriend here. And what fascinates me about it is that even though she complains about it, she leans into that very perception because it strengthens the parasocial bond.

The marketing for TTPD so clearly being about Joe Alwyn and the songs to Matty Healy. The marketing/video for Red TV so CLEARLY being about Jake Gyllenhaal, with so many of the new lines in All Too Well specifically being digs at him (I'll get older but your lovers stay my age, casting an actor that looks like him for the video, specific lines in I Bet You Think About Me). The fact that songs like Getaway Car and Bejeweled and Gorgeous and London Boy and Lavender Haze being picked apart at time of release and long after for signs of relationships crumbling. The way she uses surprise songs in relation to her relationship development with Joe/Matty/Travis. The damn TTPD "stages of grief" playlists where she deliberately undid/changed the meanings of old songs just to keep her audience speculating on her love life.

It's not sexist to point out that her wielding her love life is a marketing tool and that the strongest connection to her audience isn't the strength of her writing/the composition of her music- it's her deliberate crafting of a connection between her music and her personal life, leaving the audience invested in her music as an extension of Taylor the Person/Girlfriend rather than Taylor the Artist.

[sadbeautifulttragic]

I'll be your host this evening, my name is Taylor!

[ilostyou]

i think the red vault gave context to and completed the album in a way we couldn't have guessed before but the 1989 vault gave context to and rounded out what led to and inspired the album in a way we. couldn't have guessed

[kingofmyborrowedheart]

Having thoughts about Taylor writing “Imagining your future might always take you on a detour back to the past” in the prologue for Red (Taylor’s Version).

[sylvies-casey]

TAYLOR SWIFT I Bet You Think About Me (2021)

[lovergilmore]

1989 (taylor's version)

[themoon-andtosaturn]

melbourne n1

[hope-ur-ok]

I feel like I can safely say that no one expected her to play Paris a second time

[ourstolenlullabiess]

Taylor Swift lyrics + classical art

[dontblamethewitches]

time has taken its sweet time erasing you // and you've got your demons and darling they all look like me

[hits-differently]

[eirlysswiftie]

we are saying goodbye and welcoming her at the same time tomorrow💙

[torturedcoveydepartment]

Tom listening to All Too Well 10 minutes version stitches up any wound that’s ever been scarred onto my heart <3 ON SUCH A HIGH VOLUME TOO? MR BLYTH. THE MAN YOU ARE.