#Taylor Swift music makes me feel things

[fightingxdragonsxwithxyou]

My day so far

Wake up with headache

Mind blowing* orgasm

Food

Ugly cry with big emotions for 2hrs

Play Taylor Swift music

Sit in sadness and feel all feels

Feel a little better

Chocolate

Start period

Say “oooohkay, yeah, that checks out”

Dance to more Taylor Swift

*dramatic effect, mediocre at best

[blueskittlesart]

deeply refreshing to see someone critical of Swift who also like, genuinely likes her. Like i'm neutral to positive on her, but the online discourse has been absolutely rancid. flipping between "Taylor Swift has never done anything wrong ever and she's a fucking genius" and "Taylor Swift is the worst lyricist of all time and also a bad person" is exhausting, so thank you for like. nuance or something lmao

not to make it serious for a sec but i genuinely think that being able to like things that are bad is really important. like I think that it's an important skill to be able to look at something and see what you personally enjoy about it and then take a step back and acknowledge that objectively it's flawed. and to also be able to acknowledge that liking something isn't necessarily an identity or a moral stance. and i think that fandom space in general could really benefit from more people taking the time to learn how to do that. it's okay to like things that are bad

[maidstew]

i love when people preface whatever bad thing they’re saying about the mentors by apologizing. like no you don’t understand i know they’re all terrible people. insult them all you want. they deserve it.

[thedreadvampy]

I GENUINELY wish I understood the appeal of Taylor Swift I really really do. many of my friends do. but it's just. I don't think a single one of her songs has ever landed above 'ok' or 'nostalgically cheesy' for me and every time I think that I feel so incredibly like I'm trying to be snobby but I'm not? it's not about not liking pop or not liking the cool thing I love pop I love cheese I just also like music that has some...I guess energy and danceability or specific and meaningful rage and I have found nothing to hook into in anything she's made. Antihero nearly works for me. Blank Space works conceptually but not in practise. but other than that the last thing she made that did anything for me even as a throwaway pop song was. god it actually might be We Are Never Ever Ever Getting Back Together or 22 which at least are catchy but I can't say ever made it to my playlists.

I want to get it, I genuinely do. I have listened to most of her releases at least once because I keep thinking if I try hard enough something will open up for me but nah however hard I try it's just extremely mid. like yes that certainly is music. I can immediately recognise it as Taylor Swift, it's not like it's utterly generic, but it absolutely just registers to me as background music. I want so much to understand what it is about her that makes her the biggest person in music for like 15 years now.

(I could say the same about Beyoncé who if anything lands worse for me. Break My Soul owns, but other than that I have landed everything I've heard of hers since like 2008 firmly in the Do Not Relisten pile it just lands like a ton of loose sand for me. and this is not mentioning the actual crime against music that was Jolene bc I don't think that worked for most people tbf. and again it's not that I don't like pop or r&b or rap cause that's like. between those genres about a third of the music I listen to. but her work is just so unengaging to me personally and I don't know why and I wish I got it)

[w3ath3r-0f-sw34t3rz]

ok i know that bridges aren't something to be taken lightly amongst the swifties and that people don't typically think of vigilante shit as a musical marvel (hurts to say but i suppose it's true) but that mf bridge is SO underrated. i know it's short and nothing crazy but UGGGHHGGHHGF.

anyways here's my nbd top 13 bridges list

come at me (please don't i will cry)

[iluvbabycows]

being a girl is getting a lil high and turning on music that you can cry sing to while thinking about your ex who did you so wrong even though you’re literally the happiest you’ve ever been and don’t miss him at all at all at allllll!!!!!

[mazzystar24]

There is something oddly satisfying by queueing innocent and look what you made me do right after eachother

[phantaloon]

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[courfeyrec]

for the record, i really really dislike all of the drug imagery on the album. you can write whatever you like about yourself, but potentially outing someone else's problems with drug/alcohol addiction? at the very least starting rumours that someone might have struggled with such problems? that's not on.

eta: revealing someone's mental health struggles and putting them on blast for them is also very much not on at all.

(and i don't like him, but some fans regarding a drugs mention as a nod to a song being about a certain person, whether it is or not, is also shitty. i'm not enjoying the existence of that discourse.)

[silent-partner-412]

i watched a video about what it means to be “basic” or “unique” regarding consumption and it was a good video and it had me thinking about my relationship with media and it’s popularity. cuz i gotta be honest, popularity is almost necessary for a story or game to have longevity for me cuz the community becomes a HUGE aspect of it for me.

to illustrate this: 13 sentinels aegis rim. this was a phenomenal game i played this august. i liked basically everything about it; it was absolutely engrossing. it had all the pieces in place to become a big hyperfixation for me, and it didn’t. and i gotta be honest, it’s cuz there was nobody to talk about it to!! the game didn’t sell well at launch, and even though it’s doing a bit better now, it’s also been years, and most people that were super into it have moved on. posting about it felt like shouting into a void, you go into the tags here or the subreddit for it and there ARE fans, but not a lot of them. i found a handful of videos about the game on youtube and i enjoyed them, i tried to find fan art and fanfiction, but it just wasn’t enough. within days i moved on, and i kinda feel sad about that.

compare that to stardew valley, which i’m still posting about to the point where i feel like i should be exhausted by this point. but i’m not! this game is massive, it has sold millions of copies and has dedicated communities all over the internet. there is a copious amount of activity and love for this game that in turn becomes all kinds of fan creations and discussions, meaning i can be invested in basically just this game for weeks and not even have to play the game itself. and honestly? i vastly prefer this type of relationship to a game or piece of media, i just have more fun with it. i can say the same with most things with big passionate fanbases; as aggravating as i can find fanbases for games like fire emblem or xenoblade there is always activity within those fanbases which is way more sustainable for my attention.

this is why i find it funny that being into popular or “basic” things is mocked, cuz honestly i like being into popular things more than niche things. it doesn’t necessarily make popular things better than niche things, but there’s a certain aspect of community to it that feels nice, and you just don’t get that as much with more niche stuff.

[theamazingannie]

I’m a sucker for musical parallels and referencing an old song in a new song but I feel like this TTPD lead up is not just a “this is how I used to feel and now I’m using those themes to show how I feel now” and more of a “those feelings were never real and actually those love songs that were so beautiful before are actually about a bad relationship and full of red flags” cuz it’s honestly ruining my feelings on those old songs. Like Taylor’s whole thing is letting us interrupt the songs and apply them to our own lives and now it’s like even she is encouraging us to only see them through the lens of her most recent breakup and it really sucks tbh

[ambriel-angstwitch]

Haunted through the lens of Morgwen

This song often makes me think of them especially with how dramatic the music is while I do enjoy sweet early season Morgwen this is very much when they’re relationship starts falling apart specifically like in The Eye of the Phoenix

You and I walk a fragile line. I have known it all this time But I never thought I'd live to see it break

Ever since Morgana came back from being captured she’s been on edge and Gwen is trying to be there for her in the best way she knows how, but she feels she’s not doing it right

It's getting dark and it's all too quiet And I can't trust anything now

Morgana lacks the trust in people she had before she met Morgouse

And it's coming over you like it's all a big mistake. Oh, I'm holding my breath. Won't lose you again

Gwen having grown confused with Morgana’s actions hid behind the screen. But she realizes that was a mistake when she learns the secret of Morgana’s magic. She’s holding her breathe for both fear of being discovered and from the shock of the information. But she doesn’t want to lose Morgana again or admit that maybe this isn’t the Morgana she used to love

Something's made your eyes go cold

But Morgana has changed, her eyes are colder no longer filled with the same kindness.

Come on, come on, don't leave me like this. I thought I had you figured out.

Gwen thought she understood Morgana after all her years working for her but the reveal of Magic changes things.

Something's gone terribly wrong. You're all I wanted

Magic has been equated with evil so Morgana having magic means something went wrong. All Gwen wanted was for her to be returned to them

Can't breathe whenever you're gone.

Gwen couldn’t live her normal life without Morgana there.

Can’t turn back now, I'm haunted

She can’t unsee what she saw or unlearn what she learned

Stood there and watched you walk away From everything we had

Gwen sees Morgana turn against Camelot

But I still mean every word I said to you

But Morgana promised that no harm would come to her if she chose to be on her side. And she meant it. She wanted Gwen to have a place in her kingdom (The Coming of Arthur)

He will try to take away my pain And he just might make me smile But the whole time I'm wishing he was you instead

Gwen ends up with Arthur. She thinks this marriage will make her happy.

Won't see you again

This is more of a hope then a true statement Gwen doesn’t want to have to face her past lover. Maybe she won’t have to face the fact that they’re in opposite sides if they don’t see each other.

You're not gone, you can't be gone, no

Morgana refuses to admit that she’s lost Gwen so she tries to get her back in the Dark Tower. If she can’t get her back through normal persuasion she’ll use magic

Something's gone terribly wrong Won't finish what you started

Despite all the magic used to control Gwen still manages to take part in freeing herself refusing to be a puppet

You and I walk a fragile line I have known it all this time Never ever thought I'd see it break. Never thought I'd see it

I know I already covered this line but now that we’ve gone through the whole story and song it has a new meaning. Season 1 Morgana and Gwen would have never thought that their relationship would break but now it has, it’s broken, there’s no going back to what they were. No more sweet gifts and actions. They have become enemies.

[squishied]

i really have met the most incredible person. no one has ever made me feel this way. to feel so cared about and loved and listened to, every single day… for somebody to go out of their way, every single day, just for you, just because they care, just because they want you to feel better… to have so much faith in me, endlessly… i feel so lucky. i feel so honoured that i got to have him. anyone would be so, SO lucky to have him… but i got him. he chose me.

[immaterial-girl]

ill stare. directly. at the sun. but never. in the mirror

[elliedafish]

Apparently this whole time I thought Taylor was singing window when she's actually saying wind.

[asthelightsgoxdown]

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