#is it over now? (taylor's version) (from the vault)

[taylornation]

The *search* was worth the pain, because we got a long list of 1989 (Taylor's Version) Vault Tracks!!!!! 😮‍💨🔓🩵

[inthat-lavenderhaze]

Taylor posting handwritten lyrics, just like she did in 2014 😭💙

[thecoldcoffeecup]

and if they call me a sl*t, you know it might be worth it for once

[angeblancrose]

The 1989 TV vault is the mother of Midnights-

[thataintmymerlot]

is it over now?

taylor swift

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[wildfloweronwheels]

If everything had to be tightly controlled and kept inside on the original, with 'Clean' packaged then as a perfect 'tie it all in a bow it's fine now', Taylor's version of this generation-defining pop album is messier and somehow as a result, infinitely more. Maybe it's the fact that the Vault literally starts with a song called "Slut!", the most jaw-dropping title she's ever had, a slick summer hit just waiting to explode.

Or maybe it's that this time she's not keeping it all in for the sake of steering the narrative away from her love life, because back then she knew the woman took all the heat. Now, she's letting her anger, hurt and passion fly free as it should when directed at a muse who wouldn't say I love you, strung her along, made her feel as though the answer to getting his attention was to 'jump off a tall something', the implications of which made me shaky. And then he got to be above the fray when it ended while filling the void with sex and other things. It turns out 'Is It Over Now' might actually be the 'Question' she was looking for an answer to on Midnights... the answer by the way is; Taylor, you were better off without that boy. Thank god for the men who make friendship bracelets these days, huh?

But at the end of the day, the ultimate hero in every version of the story we see unfolding right now is Taylor. It always has been.

Wrote a piece about 1889 (Taylor’s Version) that I’m really really proud of 🥹

[moonybeam3]

“When you lost control red blood white snow”

She’s never beating the vehicular manslaughter allegations

[taylornation]

Has anyone else seen her profile and her smile on unsuspecting billboards? 👀🩵 Probably a sign we’re still not over streaming 1989 (Taylor's Version) on YouTube Music. 🤭

[inthat-lavenderhaze]

Me trying to read the 1989 tv tracklist:

[alainaxwrites]

I noticed something today when listening to Is It Over Now? And I NEED to talk about it. Anyways,

“You search in every maiden’s bed for something greater,”

“You search in every model’s bed for something greater,”

I don’t know how intentional this was, but it’s the Madonna-Whore dichotomy.

She’s ultimately saying in these verses that he’s insatiable. He has fame and every woman at his feet so he feels that he can always climb the ladder for a “better” woman. He refuses to look back and recognize the treasure he has lost because he’s in constant pursuit of the perfect, most ideal woman.

I think that the change in wording contradicts that exact mindset by basically saying, “you can bounce between good girls and bad girls all you want, it’s not getting you anywhere.”

The Madonna-Whore dichotomy is essentially men’s perception that women are pure, good and nurturing or they are promiscuous, a slut, etc. but never both, or neither of those things.

He will never find the perfect woman. He wants a good girl, a soft and quiet girl who won’t speak up. A Madonna. But he cannot view her as sexy enough to satiate his need for the perfect woman, so he leaves her the Whore. She’s fun and seductive, but he soon sees her as trashy and ‘used up.’ And so he finds another Madonna, who he views as a more innocent, ‘suitable’ match. Then the cycle repeats.

Not only is he oscillating between literal maidens and models, he’s oscillating between the only two types of women he perceives, never mind that women are complex humans with complex emotions and personalities.

It’s a trap.

He has trapped himself in this mindset of pursuing greater things when he is just bouncing back and forth between a bunch of women; he can’t sit with it for a second to realize it, to try to understand women outside of his very narrow perception of them as a man.

He’s also trapped her as a result of this, thus the entire song begging the question: Is It Over Now?

As I’m writing this I’m wondering if this also has anything to do with the similarity between the opening of this song and Dear Reader. Because if it feels like a trap, you’re already in one.

[angeblancrose]

Swifties looking back at 2023: Is It Over Now?

Taylor: It's been a long time coming, but-

* TIME magazine pics drop *

[foreveryournameonmylipss]

Is it over now? makes me feel exactly the way i felt listening to 1989 the first time ten years ago, the same sensations, the same imagery that comes to my mind, an ordinary night out in new york city, the cold wind on your skin, all the people living their own different but connected lives...

[quotesthatiliked]

"You dream of my mouth before it called you a lying traitor

You search in every model's bed for somethin' greater, baby"

-Taylor Swift,Is it over Now?[From the vault 1989(Taylor's version)]

[happyfreeconfusedaandlonely]

i can see you (taylor's version)

[shyjusticewarrior]

Wonderland: "You searched the world for something else to make you feel like what we had."

Is It Over Now?: "You search in every model's bed for something greater, baby."