#aight racetrack higgins stans come and gimmie serotonin

[willowistic22]

was lowkey waiting for someone to ask me about tswift songs i associate with race bcs i’ve got a lot but no one did :’) looks like i got to take matters to my own hands then. Let’s go !! 

ME! ‘I promise that you’ll never find another like me’ I feel like if asked what Race is like most people will say that he’s ‘one of a kind’ or like he’s ‘the best person they’ve ever met’. He cares and loves in his own very unique way. But also him being him in general is already just something to love (though he still have problems with that which I will get to with the other songs) There are other lyrics that I think correlates with his personality actually like ‘I know that I’m a handful baby, uh’. Before anyone goes out to on me I know turning him into a dumbass is a bit... ehh and this lyric plays it out like that too. But I don’t actually think his only personality is just that, aight? I got more songs on this list. 

Illicit Affairs. ‘Look at this godforsaken mess that you made me’ and ‘And you know damn well, for you I would ruin myself’. Race is easy to love and care bcs he has a big heart. But oh damn, sometimes he finds himself caring or loving a bit too much for the wrong ppl. He knows better not to offer everyone his big heart that easily but sometimes he can’t help it. He loves the idea of loving and being loved back. Unfortunately, there are many times where he finds himself not being loved back and it really messes him up yknow.

New Romantics. ‘Heartbreak is our national anthem, we sing it proudly’ and ‘we’re too busy dancing, to get knocked off our feet’. Now this one is because of KONY. The song basically goes on abt the simple things those newsies want in life which can be heartbreaking bcs it’s just so simple to get for most ppl but those kids see it as a luxury. Race is the first one to embrace their unfortunate situation as something ‘happy’ bcs he can see the bright side of things if he wants to. Oh and he cares for his friends like I said. He’d get them to dance around these small simple things about their lives till they feel alright again and untouchable. These heartbreaking things is sometimes the only thing he can hang onto when things are confusing like that time around KONY. And besides he can’t just let his friends sit around hurting and sulking like that. 

Enchanted. The whole song basically. Because he is in fact very charming. Knows the right words to get ppl to fall into his arms pretty easily. And basically ppl will say it’s ‘very enchanting to meet him’. He’s smooth with the way he talks and acts. He pulls the right strings on ppl and takes special pride to it that he is very likeable to people. And honestly? I dare to say he’s very much sweet. Proper and polite when you first meet him. Once he gets to know you better, he will play the right strings to cheer you up or to get you to fall helplessly in love with him all over again. 

Death By A Thousand Cuts. ‘My heart, my hips, my body, my love Trying to find a part of me that you didn't touch’ and also ‘Gave you too much but it wasn't enough. But I'll be all right, it's just a thousand cuts’ again reinforcing the idea that when Race loves he really loves and let people move his feelings so much that when it’s the wrong ppl he gets incredibly hurt. But that second lyric I focused on for this song implies that despite the hurt Race won’t show it. His ‘I’m fine’ answers definitely has a double meaning behind it most of the time but he doesn’t wanna burden his friends with his pain which is why that’s his go to answer. He’s got this mindset that he’s the one that’s suppose to cheer people up and not the other way around. He knows that mindset isn’t good and is trying to change it but he can’t help it. 

Mirrorball. This one is because of the vibe of the song when Race is at his lowest point but also a few lyrics I want to focus on. ‘I can change everything about me to fit in’ and also ‘I'm still on that tightrope I'm still trying everything to get you laughing at me’ Honestly I feel like as much as he is likeable is because he tries his absolute best to be, as in changing himself for the different ppl he first meets. I feel he has a long history of not many ppl liking him bcs he is himself and at one period in his life he changed his personality so many times just because he wants to belong. Trying to change his humor just to get ppl to simply laugh at him. He has now grown to learn that it’s not good for him to do so but still have a tough time dealing it because validation is one of his love languages. It serves a problem for Race’s big heart. He’s very open for love (like i mention before in the previous songs) that sometimes he stretches himself a million different ways to please everyone. It’s definitely why I associate him with enchanted. But really, him being him is already enchanting enough but he has bad past with just being ‘plain old race’ so he pleases others. 

Delicate. Now this one is when he finally comes to terms that he can’t and really shouldn’t please ppl. ‘He must like me for me’. One of the reasons why he loves the idea of loving and then being loved back is because of that one problem. He can still get ppl to easily like him by being smooth and pulling the right strings in them like I said before, but he’s learning now pleasing ppl isn’t always worth it. If it’s general like as an acquaintance or meeting someone for the first time or to sell papes, he’ll mostly be a pleaser but will try his best to hold back with that pleaser mentality when the new person gets closer to him to see if they do like him for him. He ofc still has a big heart that gets hurt easily but he is growing to learn to be careful with who he loves and puts his energy in. ME! is because he already has a unique personality that he should know better to love in itself while Delicate is a reminder that not everyone will love him for the way he is so he needs to be careful to not love too much. There are times where he accidentally slips away from his promise but most of the time he has learned to hold it. 

This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things. Basically the song is about betrayal. After learning that the other person does not care about him the same way he does, he takes some time to heal and then once he’s strong enough he won’t hesitate to cut them out of his life. ‘Here’s to my real friends’ He knows he has ppl that loves him just the way he is, even though it’s sometimes a tough pill for him to swallow. But he’ll get there. He’s slowly unlocking that resilience in him. Race knows it’s there somewhere, he just needs time to look for it. 

Most of these might not even make sense, and for that I apologize. It might even sound like I’m just repeating myself in 7896985 different ways but that’s fine, ig... I hope I got my point across. And I also would like to point out, when I say ‘love’ it doesn’t always mean romantically, aight? It means all sorts of love.