When the clock struck twelve on October 21st… we all met ourselves!
Midnights is nominated for SIX Grammy’s and it’s exactly what she deserves!
🕰️ Album Of The Year (Midnights)
🕰️ Record Of The Year (Anti-Hero)
🕰️ Song of The Year (Anti-Hero)
🕰️ Best Pop Solo Performance (Anti-Hero)
🕰️ Best Pop Duo/Group Performance (Karma Feat Ice Spice)
🕰️ Best Pop Vocal Album (Midnights)
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bejeweled and anti-hero existing on the same album is a great lesson on the duality of self love — we can simultaneously be our biggest fans and own worst critics. confidence ebbs and flows; it’s not always there but when it is it SHIMMERRRSS
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i just realize that I misunderstood the line, "I'll stare directly at the sun but never in the mirror". i thought she meant she can't look at the mirror because she hates how she looks. no. she meant she can't look at herself because she's brighter than the sun (because she's a Super Star~~)
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1. anti-hero, taylor swift / 2, 19. “taylor swift’s ‘sexy baby’ lyric is more than a ‘30 rock’ reference,” sophia june for nylon magazine / 3, 4, 12, 22. taylor swift ages 14-16, photographed by andrew orth / 5, 23. dominique swain age 15, photographed for lolita (1997) / 6, 17. “the fetishization of girlhood,” m.c. easton / 7. lolita (1962), dir. stanley kubrick / 8. 22 (mv), taylor swift / 9. anti-hero (mv), taylor swift / 10, 14, 18. nothing new, taylor swift ft. phoebe bridgers / 11. “2008’s country lolita: taylor swift,” gavin edwards for rolling stone / 13, 21. lolita (1997), dir. adrian lyne / 15. okcupid dating chart: age preferences by gender / 16. all too well (ten minute version), taylor swift / 20. university of pittsburgh 2021-2022 undergraduate catalog / 23. would’ve, could’ve, should’ve, taylor swift
apologies for this ridiculously long megathread, but i found a ton of these photographs of taylor from when before she was famous, around ages 14-16, and ooh boy, did they get me thinking…
sometimes i wonder if she just really lucked out with the mostly desexualized “innocent girl-next-door” persona becoming her brand throughout her early career, because it looks like things could have gone in a very different direction for her in another universe.
like you can literally see taylor being de-aged between her debut and fearless era as her public image cemented…the posing, the makeup, the hair, the clothing…it’s all very deliberate and sinister.
and now, all these years later, no one knows better than taylor herself that the most desirable thing a woman can be is not a woman, but a girl…a sexy baby, if you must.
her heart-shaped sunglasses, nothing new, the ten minute version of all too well, would’ve could’ve should’ve…she knows all about society’s sickness, its simultaneous fetishization and destruction of girlhood. she knows because she’s lived through it.
we don’t often categorize her or think of her as one, but she was a child star, and she barely escaped its curse. just barely. but unlike so many other child stars, unlike dolores haze, she survived with her voice and her pen, and she can see it all now, it was wrong.
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this is a collection of music written in the middle of the night, a journey through terrors and sweet dreams. the floors we pace and the demons we face. for all of us who have tossed and turned and decided to keep the lanterns lit and go searching. hoping that just maybe, when the clock strikes twelve... we'll meet ourselves. (inspo)
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