#song: she's american

[tayfabe75]

A Robber in The City is The 1

A video highlighting the lyrical and visual connections between Taylor Swift and The 1975's song 'Robbers'.

[uldren-sov]

You used to be so sweet | Now you're a firecracker on a crowded street Couldn't look away even if I wanted | Try to walk away but I come back to the start

(Was very lucky once again to comm the bestie @aevari tysm!!!) a NON-meme of these two??? it's more likely than you think it had to happen eventually have to keep everything in balance: a happy past with a not-so-happy present :)

✮Starring✮ Seven Lawless from @infamous-if and my OC, Camy Rose

[kaori04]

Does anybody else wishes that one time Jaskier would just loose it and go apeshit instead of doing his usual coping mechanism joke

[fireworkss-exe]

HEY VENEER!

[nanoa1foryou]

Every time I watch an American react to Eurovision for the first time, they something along the lines of "US shouldn't compete because we'd just bring Beyoncé and win".

So, realistically speaking...

Reblog. Please.

Also, please share if you're from the US or not.

[crumblinggothicarchitecture]

Taylor Swift: The Lyric Thief- Evermore Edition.

Do y'all know about this?

Swift's lyric "How's one to know/ I'd meet you where the spirit meets the bone" ("Ivy" 2020).

Great, interesting lyric from Swift's own mind, right? WRONG.

Originally, it came from a poem called "Compassion" written by Miller Williams in 1997.

Here is the poem:

Have compassion for everyone you meet, even if they don’t want it. What seems conceit, bad manners, or cynicism is always a sign of things no ears have heard, no eyes have seen. You do not know what wars are going on down there where the spirit meets the bone. (Williams, 1997)

It's later used as an album title "Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone" that Miller William's daughter, Lucinda Williams, published in 2014.

She also used the line, that her father ORGINALLY wrote, in a song tribute to him called "Compassion" on that same 2014 album.

Can we please stop pretending Swift is a genius? When, in fact, all of her most "intelligent" and "powerful" lyrics are lines outright taken from other works in literary, and musical, canon.

She's just a derivative fraud who wants all of her fans to think she's the one coming up with all these ideas.

She stole the line from a woman who used it as a tribute to her dying Father- the original author- who is now passed.

Not only did Swift rip the line out of a tribute album written to the original writer- but she also put the line in a dumb song that romanticizes cheating. She writes, "dare to sit a watch what we'll become/ and drink my husband's wine" ("Ivy" 2020). Clearly, the whole song is about a woman who is cheating on her husband.

The original intention of the line itself is about having compassion for other people, while taking care to have humility and resist the allure of cynicism. It's a poem about caring for your fellow man- and resisting despair in life. Arguably, it is also a poem about mental health issues and respecting those who may struggle. Swift twists the line to describe meeting a clandestine hookup and cheating on her husband.

Not only did she yank the line right out of someone else’s work, with no credit given to the original intention of the line or the original author- but she also made it about such a selfish, sick, thing to do- cheating on a spouse.

The original intention of the line was so kind and empathetic. She ruined it with her endorsement of cavalier attitudes towards moral corruption :(

[unknownbarley]

𝒉𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒘𝒂𝒚 𝒕𝒐 𝒏𝒐𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒆 𝒓𝒐𝒅𝒆 𝒊𝒕

october 13, 2022 - texas

[mysterycitrus]

Do you have a link anywhere to your fic playlists? Or do you prefer to keep them private?

i have all my playlists downloaded on my phone but if ur interested this is the (abridged) playlist for persephone—

part one;;

edge of seventeen by stevie nicks (eyes on him, all alone on the edge of seventeen)

american teenager by ethel cain (the neighbour’s brother came home in a box, but he wanted to go so maybe it was his fault)

doomed by moses sumney (if lovelessness is godlessness, will you cast me to the wayside?)

part two;;

night shift by lucy dacus (don’t hold your breath, forget that you ever saw me at my best)

who is she ? by i monster (a haunting face, is she a lost embrace?)

pick it up (and try again) by fodé (holding on through thick and thin, we get stronger with it)

part three;;

halloween by novo amor (i miss my friends that i pretend i don’t need)

weary by solange (but you know that a king is only a man, with flesh and bones, he bleeds just like you do)

i’m your man by mitski (you believe me like a god, i’ll destroy you like i am)

[httpiastri]

ok but popstar! reader being seem wearing a bracelet with Paul's name while people are spreading rumors about them 👀👀

AAAAA!!!!!! omg?? stop thats so????????!!!! and i imagine fans in the paddock seeing her there and going "oh hi! would you like a paul bracelet??" and her accepting it all sweetly bcs she's seen them all over social media and always wanted a bracelet!! and then she doesn't take it off like ever.... 😭

[bigwizardhat]

i love the southern/american gothic aesthetic but you guys gotta stop tagging every single post as #ethel cain. she’s not gonna fuck you

[tayfabe75]

"Was there a girl who told you that you've got bad teeth?" "No, I mean, I think it's just picking up on all of the things that like… good teeth have a lot of currency in America. That's just one of the things that we… No, I think that... I mean, I think I was just having fun with that song. That song is just a fun song about kind of little observations about the dynamics between, you know, a young British boy and a young American girl."

March 16, 2016: Matty clarifies a lyric from 'She's American'. (source)

[eraserheadadult]

mitsuki seeing aya go up on stage and be horrible at singing and thinking wow shes the coolest girl in the world.... wtf gay ass

[coastaltowned]

ttpd honestly has some of taylor's best metaphorical work ever and i'm not seeing enough people point it out - she's always been good at running a metaphor throughout an entire song but she truly perfected her craft here. the alien abduction metaphor in down bad obviously, but also the romeo-and-juliet in a small town of but daddy i love, the wild west saloon of i can fix him (no really i can), obviously the high school in so high school is just an amazing use of extended metaphor but so is the high school small town of thank you aimee, the witchy mythical metaphors of the prophecy, the way she uses the house in cassandra, and of course the peter pan of peter... she has literally never been more on top of her english major game than she is this album

[fornpt1]

with his ultraviolence

[talyayet474]

Jennifer López

[lopsidedtreetrunks]

America is a horsegirl

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