#kanye snippet

[froggerland]

Has anyone done this yet. Please say no

[slumsaintt]

snippet of young thugs verse on river for kanye upcoming album. 😮‍💨

[rozemia]

ye snippet from his ig

[mauroaka333]

me and lil twin locked in aint worried bout nun💯💯

[clarabowmp3]

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[stillgotscars]

“kanye saved taylor from diddy and beyonce when he took the microphone from her at the vmas” the fact that anyone even believes this is just so mind-boggling to me. was kanye “saving” taylor when he organised a revenge porn mv which features a lifelike wax figure of her naked body without her consent? was he “saving” her when kim, his then-wife, orchestrated a snippet of an illegally recorded phone call between him and taylor to be leaked with the distinct intention of painting her as a liar, which led to #taylorswiftisoverparty trending on twitter worldwide? and during snakegate, was he “saving” her when he encouraged an entire arena (in nashville, of all places) to shout “fuck taylor swift” over and over again? that man has never, at any point in time, tried to “save” taylor. he’s sure done his best to torment and humiliate her since she was 19, though.

[eegrroegguorroe]

OFFICIAL REVIEW copy pasted from discord dms

idk its blatant wishful thinking but i wish everyone would shut up about it cause cocsa is such a nuanced topic and everyone trying to get their takes in on it w/r/t kanye of all people while also fucking meming about it incessantly its almost even more harrowing than the song itself

its difficult because theres really nothing left to be said either; i was saying to a friend "he shouldnt be left completely alone" cause isolation can just fuel that psychological feedback loop buttt when everyone in ur corner is yes men and nitrus dealers its not like theres really any supports for him. its just a tragedy. so i can understand the hypothesizing over his mortality especially now with that looping graphic of him falling from the building in the 2nd half of that music video but i feel like (notably, usually white) peoples obsession with his (a black person) mortality is just getting weird and perverse

i do feel it is like the most accomplished work of this era of his as low as the bar may be. i like it more than bully v1 in its entirety and it goes without saying i like it more than all the ww3/cuck(?) snippets just for the fact that {besides the fact its not him proselytizing about hitler or diddy} i dont think theres ever been this popular a work so laserfocused on cocsa and its effects since, i dont know, samuel r delanys dhalgren & hogg, neither of which anybodys really read anyway. but yeah discussing it rationally trying to grade it at all just goes against my moral code. i dont want to be the english teacher harshly grading a deeply confessional personal essay but then pulling the student aside the next time i see them and giving them a list of hotlines i already had printed out months ago

yeah its harrowing thats the word that keeps coming back to me like despite all phenomenological barriers i think if you jsut replaced the definition of the english word "harrowing" in the oxford w/ a synopsis of kanye's life up until now and then an embed of that music video every single organism in the universe would be like "i completely understand" it is so strange

[donnerpartyofone]

Instagram shows you these little snippets of Threads posts, which I refuse to join because I heard you can't delete your account, and also I just don't need extra Twitter in my life. But anyway they showed me one the other day that said something like, "Anyone who is going through it over Neil Gaiman should be reminded of the example of Ann Rule," and I thought oh god damn it, what did Ann Rule do? Is there like some child abuse thing I don't know about? So I scrounged around and I couldn't find any interesting controversies about her, so I opened Threads in a browser to look up the post, and it's this long multi-part thing that is just a description of the events of The Stranger Beside Me, to make the point "If Ann Rule didn't realize that Ted Bundy was a serial killer, then you shouldn't blame yourself for not realizing Neil Gaiman is a predator." Which to me was a good example of people being so deep in parasocial relationships that they don't even know that that's what it is anymore. Working side by side in a volunteer job for years with an actual person, is not in any way similar to reading pretentious pseudo-Shakespearean pulp writing by somebody, or consuming their press materials. That guy is not your friend. He's not even like your friend. He's not your coworker, neighbor, or acquaintance. You indirectly gave that guy money and you see him on your screens, that's like, the entire way that you know him, and he doesn't know you at all. There's really no need to drag Ann Rule into it, nor one of the most remarkable stories in the modern history of non-fiction writing. You can just say, "I don't know that guy, like at all, not even casually, and in fact it would be insane if I were able to guess intimate details of how he fucks."

(The Threads poster seemed like they were probably just trying to surprise the uninitiated follower with their knowledge of the very famous book The Stranger Beside Me, but my point stands.)

This message brought to you by someone who is extremely smug about never having gotten into Gaiman, or Grimes, or Kanye, or any of the other celebrities whose output people have had to rearrange their lives to avoid in recent years. Although my actual favorite band does seem to be teed up for a really grim expose and I'm kind of just hoping they lose enough traction in the public eye that I never have to deal with an unpleasant TV show about what assholes they probably are. The End.

PS Read The Stranger Beside Me, it's really good!

[willowwindss]

Debunking Karma/The "Lost" Album

I'm listing out this timeline with both personal and professional events as it paints a picture of when certain things happened in relation to what people believe the Karma album was about:

Early 2013 - Early 2014: Taylor is writing 1989 while on the Red Tour. According to @likeadevils timeline, Taylor appears to complete writing approximately March 2014. Which does make sense for an album released on 27 October 2014.

12 June 2014: The Red Tour concludes.

18 August 2014: Shake It Off is released as the first single from 1989. Taylor also announces the album and title on the same day. So there are just two months between the official end of the Red era and the beginning of the 1989 era. But the writing of the album stretched well over a year.

August 2014 onward: Taylor embarks on a massive global promotional campaign for 1989, which lasts until late 2015.

5 May 2015: The 1989 Tour begins.

7 October 2015: Taylor is photographed leaving a recording studio.

23 November 2015: Taylor is in New Zealand filming the music video for Out of the Woods. This is the final video she films for the era.

12 December 2015: The 1989 Tour ends.

== There's too many to link but see @likeadevils Rep timeline here for numerous late 2015 interviews where Taylor says she has no idea what comes next careerwise and has no immediate plan going forward. ==

11 February 2016: The fallout with Kanye over his song "Famous" begins.

23 February 2016: New Romantics is released as the final 1989 single with a tour montage music video. So depending on how you define era conclusions, the 1989 era ended either 12 December 2015 or 23 February 2016.

Mid April (15-16 and 22-24) 2016: Bleachella. Taylor dyes her hair platinum blonde and attends Coachella to see Calvin Harris perform.

19 April 2016: Vogue's 73 Questions video featuring Taylor saying "Karma is real" is released. It was filmed in February 2016 shortly before the 2016 Grammys.

28-29 April 2016: Taylor meets Joe Alwyn.

30 April 2016: Taylor attends a pre-Met Gala dinner with Idris Elba and Tom Hiddleston.

1 May 2016: Taylor attends the 2016 Met Gala.

1 June 2016: Taylor's rep confirms her relationship with Calvin Harris has ended.

16 June 2016: Taylor is photographed with Tom Hiddleston and "Hiddleswift" is wild (negative) tabloid fodder for the next three months. In a magazine interview, Kim Kardashian claims she has a recording of Taylor permitting Kanye's lyrics about her.

13 July 2016: Calvin Harris posts a series of tweets ranting at Taylor after her rep reveals she wrote This Is What You Came For.

17 July 2016: Kim Kardashian stages her "Snakegate" plot, posting snippets of Kanye's phone call with Taylor on Snapchat and posting about National Snake Day on Twitter, as the episode of Keeping Up referencing the feud airs on television. Taylor responds the next day with the "I would very much like to be excluded from this narrative" post.

2 September 2016: Taylor begins writing Gorgeous.

19 September 2016: Taylor posts a video saying she's excited to be going back to work because she hasn't been working. If you know the trajectory of her relationship with Joe, it's very obvious her blossoming relationship with him was inspiring her to write again.

14 October 2016: Taylor begins writing I Did Something Bad - the first song that speaks to the type of themes people believe Karma would address.

8 December 2016: Taylor's collaboration with Zayn, "I Don't Wanna Live Forever" is released.

July - Dec 2016: Taylor is essentially off social media but not entirely out of public view until approx December 2016 onward.

(time jump)

30 June 2019: Scooter Braun acquires Big Machine Records, and therefore ownership of Taylor's first six albums.

27 February 2020: In the music video for The Man, Taylor is seen standing next to a wall with the word "karma" graffitied on it twice.

November 2021: Taylor writes and records a song called "Karma" for the Midnights album. She announces the title in October 2022, giggling as she does so.

SO where are possible areas of writing or recording for a "secret" or "lost" album?

During 1989 tour: There's always space on tour to be writing, though she was barely seen going to recording studios. The themes people think Karma addresses hadn't happened in mid 2015. She was still friends with Kanye then ffs! This was actually a very positive time for her career and public image.

She still produced content for 1989 til late November 2015. It's not impossible, but making content for one album, while writing a new one AND touring is pretty intense (I realise she did this with Eras/TTPD/Re-records but...still, it's a lot and the Bejeweled music video hints suggest Speak Now/1989 TV were done or close to done before Eras anyway). Whatever the case, it's abundantly clear in late 2015, all Taylor wanted to do was STOP for a hot minute.

Feb - July 2016: She could've been writing in real time as the Calvin, Kanye, Tom, Joe of it all happened but....these are exactly the themes Reputation addresses anyway? She was also travelling internationally with Tom from June to August, paparazzi captured most of their movements. She was not in and out of recording studios as she usually is when an album is in the works. However in September 2016, when she began writing Reputation, there ARE reports of her being back in studios/back at work again.

Most people associate Karma with Bleachella Taylor, but why? She had only just released the final single from 1989 barely two months earlier, and had said didn't want to be working on music for a bit. Again, the themes people believe would be present on this album hadn't happened yet, or hadn't finished happening yet.

Some might say that because IDWLF was a surprise release and we didn't see her in recording studios in the lead-up that means she could've secretly record an album. But Jack Antonoff said the turnaround was very quick, Taylor recorded at his house and he had the track finalised within a week.

Just from a technical perspective, it would be quite confusing to have a singular song on a separate album called Karma and a totally different album with the same name. With one being released in 2022 and the other being produced in 2016 but not released until [insert date here]. For new fans or just anyone trying to catalogue her work, it'd be pretty complicated and odd.

It makes no sense to be working on a weirdly bitter/angry album sometime in early-mid 2016, stop making it, then start another album with the exact same themes a few months later in September. She would just put those earlier songs on Reputation...I think the Karma "lost album" theories come from a fundamental misunderstanding of when the main negative events of 2016 happened. Taylor taking a 9 month writing break (or longer, depending on how much writing she did/didn't do in 2015) from December 2015, going through some personal stuff from February to July 2016, meeting someone and beginning dating them in September 2016 then beginning to process and write about it all soon after makes perfect sense. Then she took more time away in early 2017 to focus on her relationship and get out of the public eye for a good while (but still continued writing for Reputation. Once again, the total writing process took around a year).

[kylieswift31]

Repeating history

"Time, doesn't it give some perspective"

"Now we're at the starting line, I did my time"

So much of the marketing that surrounded the release of the lover album centred around Taylor's old diaries that she had combed through to create four editions of the lover journal. These included the lover album, snippets of her own journal and blank pages to encourage others to try journalling for themselves as well. What stands out with these compared to the two reputation magazine variants is the fact that they all have the same front cover. As Taylor's first owned album this combination paired with her own personal memorabilia feels like a defiant statement about where her music originates from: Taylor's past, memories, emotions and experiences. This in combination with a few subtle comments she has made about retelling her story lead me to wonder if she was also rewriting it too.

I have theorised in the past that the Taylor Swift and lover album were supposed to be the first pairs, but all of the Benjamin Button references suggest that she has been going back in time to retell her story without all the limitations she faced while working with her previous label. Going back in time when everyone else assumed Taylor was moving forward has contributed towards blurring the lines between her past muses and would explain why some have picked up on a regression from the outspoken version of Taylor we had grown accustomed to.

TS12->TS1, TS11->TS2, TS10->TS3, TS9->TS4, TS8->TS5, TS7->TS6.

This will be more of a theoretical look at how TS 7-12 may have been intended to provide clarity and a reflection on the associated TS 1-6 eras. I'll also be following the chapters outlined in the 'all too well' short film which are very reminiscent of the plot of the Truman show that I was discussing in my previous post.

"Looking backward might be the only way to move forward"

All too well

Taylor Swift - The Anthology

The women behind the curtain

Although the anthology goes hand in hand with the tortured poets department, I'm inclined to view it as a seperate entity as many of these songs become overshadowed by the original album in the same way that debut gets overlooked because of how young Taylor was when she wrote it. 'The manuscript' paired with 'picture to burn' implies that the real version of Taylor was shielded behind Taylor™ from the very beginning a la the man behind the curtain in the Wizard of Oz story. Everything we've seen play out recently has felt like Taylor is returning to her teenage years where her career in the music industry first started. Whatever comes next (TSTV, rep TV or TS12 as the penultimate album) is likely going to be or precipitate what sets the dominoes cascading in a line. I get the feeling the swifties are on the mark with predicting a 'so high school' themed album is in the works, but the Travis Kelce romance seems to be the final boss level of distraction until this story Taylor's telling is complete.

The first crack in the glass

Fearless - TTPD

The poets departing from each other

There's an undeniable connection between the fairytale versus the heartbreaking reality Taylor has faced within these two albums. The 'fifteen' song and music video was also Taylor's first explicit example of being the narrator in her music too. On the surface this is a song about her best friend Abigail, but it also seems to be laced with truth about Taylor's experience entering the music industry. "You're going to be here for the next four years" correlates to the four albums she had left in her contract with BMR after fearless was released and implies that something changed as her popularity was taking off or after her contract had begun. "When all you wanted was to be wanted. Wish you could go back and tell yourself what you know now." Add in the Kanye incident in combination with the female rage seen throughout TTPD and it's reasonable to assume that this era created the first crack in the facade of Taylor™ (the Truman show X the delicate stage visuals on the eras tour). The two fifteen music video doors, two cages, two tornadoes, two TTPD desks and many more mirrored imagery imply that the "two graves, one gun" was punishment for more than just Taylor and that this was when Taylor™ became more of a long game plan.

Are you real?

Speak now - Midnights

Honesty versus holding back

"All they keep asking me is if I'm gonna be your bride. The only kinda girl they see is a one night or a wife". Taylor's use of the blurple colour combination throughout these eras and the eras tour feels significant. One represents the lavender haze and the other is the blue glitter she shares with the public. And the blue and purple mirrored cats on the karma website reflect this dichotomy between Taylor versus Taylor™ too. "Lost your balance on a tightrope". Speak now was Taylor's first entirely self written album in an attempt to prove her critics wrong, yet looking back on all the sleepless nights referenced throughout the midnights album the older version of Taylor seems to be ready ready to burn it all down. I want to create a dedicated post to go through this combination of albums in more detail soon as it feels like a large turning point in Taylor's music going forward.

The breaking point

Red - Evermore

The "good girl" persona

Looking back on the red era it's clear how much the media weaponised Taylor's reputation as a "good girl". Despite having some of her most vulnerable songs with 'all too well' (10 minute version) and 'Majorie', the red and evermore eras are some of Taylor's most reserved and secretive in terms of album imagery. Taylor talks about writing proficiently during her time in lockdown after folklore was released, but it feels like she's referring more to the red era and not just that current period of time. Other than the autumnal aesthetic, 'I bet you think about me' and 'cowboy like me' speak to the concealed rebelliousness that underpins these two albums.

The reeling

1989 - Folklore

Into the woods versus out of the city

Despite the city vibes of the original 1989 album and the cabin in the woods scene in the folklore album, both of these two eras contain a multitude of beach imagery. "I had a marvellous time ruining everything". In terms of the Truman show parallels this feels like the point where Taylor amped up her plans by revealing her involvement in the New Romantics by expanding her circle of friends and creating the bad blood music video (that is reminiscent of the squad working together in the hunger games catching fire). She then continued to draw attention to her female friendships and rumoured queerness with the fictional love triangle that implies that Betty is Taylor's muse. In terms of the 'cardigan' and 'willow' music videos continuing the same story, if you look at the story being told in reverse there's a purposeful separation of the twin flames that ties the 'all too well' short film together with the 'forget her/him' style of bearding introduced with the imagery seen in the 'blank space' music video.

The remembering

Reputation - Lover

Call it what you want

I don't want to downplay the enormity of Taylor's masters being sold against her will, but in terms of the many parallels I've found to the Truman show I can't help but wonder if the lost karma era and "are you ready for it?" reputation album were intentionally created so that BMR were forced to play their hand when the lover album was released. The rainbow outfits revealed at the beginning of the reputation era created a bait and switch that allowed her to soft launch by coming out to those who recognised the queer flagging in the lover music videos before pivoting back towards the reputation era aesthetic once more. Blurring the lines between the two eras disguised as a reaction to the masters sale emphasised the duality in the surface level versus underlying aesthetics as well as the intermingled love and pained themes within both albums.

Thirteen years gone

The eras tour - The eras tour 2.0

The story's not mine anymore, it's ____

And to circle back to the Truman show... the aesthetic change during the lover era feels like the point where Truman had 'failed' to escape over the bridge, appeared to be defeated before eventually escaping when everyone least expected it. Taylor has spent the last six years retelling her story in more detail so that the her fanbase (and the general public) can understand what she has experienced, which was again been replicated throughout the eras tour. It's the finality of the eras tour and the tortured poets department that makes me wonder if the end of the story Taylor is telling is drawing nearer. I wouldn't be surprised if Taylor Swift (Taylor's Version) ends up being the final piece of the puzzle that ties everything together so that Taylor can finally move forward without looping through the same story like it's Groundhog Day.

Picture this... you're Taylor's nemesis dreading the day that she gets up on the eras tour stage and reveals to the general public that she's gay. You keep tabs on the live streams over and over again with each new leg of the tour. TTPD eventually gets added to the setlist and then each night the stage floor opens up during the fortnight performance and you just sit there with a white knuckle grip on your phone waiting to see if it's Taylor's lover about to pop unannounced or if it's just Jan Malone yet again! Haha yeah, Karma really is a relaxing thought huh?

"I'm taking my time, taking my time

'cause you took everything from me"

Karma is a catalyst,

Kylie x

P.S. Just wanted to add that it was this interview that originally had me wondering if Taylor was making a statement through more than just her re-records.

‘Exile ends in 3,2’

The surprise release of the midnights 3am tracks lines up with TS3, just like the 2am TTPD release of the anthology lines up with TS2. It’s interesting that both of these albums were announced at award shows considering what happened in between TS2 and TS3. ✌🏼

[errrrkkk]

New Kanye Snippet

[filipendulousgirl]

It's been almost 8 years since Taylor released her 6th highly anticipated studio album. Through the feuds and thinkpieces and disappearing for over a year, relationships and situations, a complicated masterpiece was born. I want to reexamine Reputation, the fall that lead to it and the love that made it the beloved album it became.

Snippet from the script:

Look What You Made Me Do was the gargantuan lead single that broke YouTube and streaming records, and made international news but it was not well like by the general public.  

[add dramatic effect]

Many critics suggested that the song was a response to her feud with Kanye and Kim. And whereas I think this theory holds a lot of weight, I also think this song is about the public itself. We see from her latest album TTPD that Taylor can internalize the speculations and ideologies surrounding her. This was her first response to the people who always talk about her and judge her.

Taylor examines her abusive and toxic relationship to fame and the public. To the public she is both victim and villain; it just depends on the narrative they want to paint for that day. She has been so exploited and used, so over exposed that she has become like an abused predator. She lashes out and become volatile, makes enemies and seeks to destroy the people who have wronged her. And whereas some critics think that Taylor is gloating about this fact, I see it more as bravo. She is not happy about this person she has become. Especially after finding this love that is so different than anything she has ever experienced. She is anger because she feels like she has been forced to become this vengeful person and then all she got for it was being hated. The public has forced her to kill the innocence she has and then they vilified her for not still being that same girl.

check it out dropping soon on my channel: https://www.youtube.com/@winnirosa

[dwtdog]

ethan claims hasan is the reason trump won 💀 for months he’s been saying hasan told his audience not to vote like bro he filled out his ballot on stream and told people to vote and he said he was voting for kamala. like it’s insane. he’s been calling him a terrorist, accused him of being a sexual predator at one point, always calls him anti semitic, the list goes on and on. and meanwhile he’s buddies with a ton of trump guys like one of the nelk boys. hila posted an edit of kanye and his wife (fron when she was naked at the grammies) and photoshopped teddy fresh clothes onto her and days later kanye posted nazi merch and then hila had a meltdown like girl how are you calling hasan anti Semitic for being pro palestine essentially yet are playing doll dress up with kanye when he’s openly been a nazi for like 3 years. i can’t lol ethan and hila are fucking horrible i need hasan to get some peace from them

god ???? i’ve seen like snippets of all of this but all together is fucking nuts

[stillgotscars]

Hey!! I follow you :)

I was wondering if you could explain the billboard situation? I’m a little confused ab what’s going on

so, you know how billboard announced yesterday that taylor was the no. 2 pop artist of the 21st century? in the video they posted celebrating her various achievements, they thought it would be appropriate to include footage from the revenge porn music video that kanye released. they have since taken it down, but the fact that they even included a snippet from it in the first place is just beyond me.