Imagine, one night in bed Alex notices that Henry has a hole in his earlobe and idk it’s just a really enlightening moment for him and he asks Henry all about it and Henry, that sweet sweet babe that he is, presents him his ear with an earring the next day
hey! maybe there’s a reason why two songs from different albums sound similar! maybe the newer one is a callback to the older one! maybe it’s not lazy production!
Mean, Hunter and Willow have both had people in their lives telling them they’re nothing, it’s a song that suits both of them very well
Literally, Taylor needs to remake the Mean music video with the Hexsquad overcoming their bullies but ESPECIALLY these two omggg
When Blondie said “all you are is mean, and a liar and pathetic and alone in life” she was looking directly at Belos and Boscha. She had an eye on each of them.
dancing with our hands tied and hits different are indeed fragments of the same story. but so are wonderland and cowboy like me. and here comes the part where i confess that dwoht (for me!) can be both a love song and a sad/breakup song, just like clm. but hold on, before anyone kills me... let me try to explain (i’ll separate each song by colours to make the parallels more clear).
here’s how dwoht also works as a breakup song. first of all: I COULD’VE spent forever with your hands in my pockets. You said there was nothing in the world that could stop it, I had a bad feeling → And you asked me to dance but I said, “Dancing is a dangerous game”. Oh, I thought this is gonna be one of those things → They say that if it’s right, you know. Nothing has ever felt so wrong → We found Wonderland, you and I got lost in it. And we pretended it could last forever. like when you had a bad feeling something was going to happen and “you should’ve seen it coming” (I should’ve slept with one eye open at night) but you kept dancing and refused to see it. hoping it’d work out eventually. AND THEN comes the bridge. which in dwoht it’s like, i would do ALL these things and get burnt in my own house even if it catches us inside. i would stick with you and hug you no matter what IF! i could just dance with you again. it doesn’t say “if that means we can keep dancing” or something like that. it’s a could that almost sounds like a shouting prayer. but if that still feels unclear, go back to the start where the lyrics literally say “could have”.
dwoht is about the fear of something ruining the love you have (or had), which are common fears that appear in the beginning of a relationship, but they also do at the end of it. therebefore, it’s still a song about the fear of this love being ruined by x or not being strong enough to face the mess around it (which was the mess that you wanted! → you made a mess of me) and so that motivates them to keep trying, keep dancing. because they just can’t help falling in love with each other. like gravity keeping you with me. but what happens when they no longer want that mess...? only time can confirm or deny these fears, that are seen quite a lot thoughout her most vulnerable songs. in these 4, they are also very loud. until they conclude with: In the good in the world, you once believed in me. And I felt you and I held you for a while → Now you hang from my lips like the Gardens of Babylon → You held on tight to me ‘cause nothing’s as it seems → Oh, and you held me close. How was I to know that? → Is that your key in the door? Is it okay? Is it you? Why the wound is still bleedin'? You were the one that I loved → I reached for you, but you were gone. I knew I had to go back home → With your boots beneath my bed, forever is the sweetest con. And I’m never gonna love again → I loved you in spite of deep fears that the world would divide us and I’d kiss you as the lights went out, swaying as the room burned down. I’d hold you as the water rushes in... If I could dance with you again.
*this is completely inspired by kathryn’s analysis which fucked me up and it took me forever because i’m not very good at it. so if you’ve read all of this, thank you. if it still doesn’t make any sense though, please be nice to me. i tried <3
Next chapter of a study in reformation probably won’t be up till sometime in August (aka the month of salt air and rust on the door) because past me was dumb enough to sign up for an exam in July on top of working full-time, BUT I’ve created a monstrous playlist which you can listen to here for good vibes :) enjoy!!! I’ll see you guys very soon in the next chapter 💕💕
Feel free to let me know as well if you have a specific song in mind 🥰
OMG did I read that right? you like Taylor too! I love seeing more Tay75 fans out there especially on here because I've seen some 75fans here who just hate her😔
Anyway this is so nice to know and oh look we have some box anon lore here!
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omg yes!!! I have been a swiftie for 10+ years now!!! (not one of those ones I swear, I do have a brain <3)
I have 2 taylor themed tattoos, so I am very committed to her music at this point!! Her art is such a catharsis for me, and not to be a cheesy mother fucker, but her music truly is the only thing that kept me going for a good 2 years lol
I love learning more box anon lore omg!!! I must know your fav album!?!
Ok but do you ever think abt how many secret inside jokes and references are probably in taylors songs like say she writes "we went down harder than the titanic" and we're all like nice metaphor but little do we know there was actually a very dramatic titanic related incident in that relationship, and ONLY taylor and the guy would understand. Wild
does anybody know where i might be able to buy a book(let) with all of taylor's songs in them? like a book of poems but with taylor's songs? i tried looking on etsy but couldn't really find anything