#then i like yntcd and me! but i don't listen to them AS often

[daenerys-targaryen]

what's your ranking of lover 👀

[lcndonboysstuff]

i’m a big fan of taylor’s music even if i’ve cooled on it post midnights. i’m most excited for the rep section because that’s my favourite album of hers. it’s just for the ttpd section i genuinely won’t know what’s going on. idk if i should listen to it more before i go to make it more enjoyable..?

You can maybe just "listen" to the songs of ttpd, just don't look at the lyrics cause they're atrocious imo.

Also, I like rep too! Gorgeous was the song through which I came to know about Taylor lmao. Prior to that, I did hear about her but never really listened. Then, I read about that Kanye fiasco and felt real bad for her. Love the song Delicate and the meaning behind it! After that she again fizzled out of my playlists😂 until Evermore and Willow. I loved Willow and listened it on loop lmao. Then I started loving Exile and still quite often say, "I think I've seen this film before"😅😂

This is becoming lengthy, but oh boy, since I've started, let's finish.

I always used to find TS pretentious and since people loved her, I was like, maybe it's a me thing. Then I listened to "Folkmore" and started warming towards her for some reason, and listened to Lover, 1989. Then Midnights announcement came and once again, I thought midnights was pretentious af, and told myself that it was a me thing. Didn't listen to any of the songs from that one until Instagram reels forced me to honestly.

Ttpd I only listened to Fortnight, So Long London (love the production of SLL but not the lyrics or sentiment behind it). And I tried listening to the Anthology but.... fell asleep😶🤐.

yeah actually i think i’ll just listen to the ones in the set.

same i liked rep and then heard me! and yntcd during lover era but i didn’t actively listen. i became a bigger fan after folklore and evermore those are definitely two of her best.

i liked midnights initially then as time when on i realised i don’t think it’s a high quality album. i still find it enjoyable though.

did not like ttpd at all. sometimes i wonder if i still liked her as a person would i have convinced myself that i liked it? i’m not sure.

lol at the falling asleep part. there’s definitely some ok songs on there i just have no desire to revisit them after my first listen. i will say i’m a fan of “who’s afraid of little old me” and “florida”though.

[mimiatmidnight]

aren't YOU a swiftie

Wait what I thought you loved Taylor :(

Yes I am a Taylor stan. Yes I am Swiftiephobic. We exist ❤

Lmao no but seriously, I have been listening to Taylor's music since I was eight years old, and have been actively following her career as a stan since I was fourteen. Her writing moves me in a way that nobody else's does. It reaches inside my chest and takes hold of the part of my soul that remains yet to be discovered by any other living being. Her catalogue of music has been my most constant and familiar companion throughout my entire lifetime. I would not be the person I am today without her.

And she is deeply, deeply flawed.

As @coolgirltactics commented on here, Taylor has thankfully made some steps toward change that are a welcome start. But while I'm glad she's gotten past her "not like other girls" phase, and her "politics? aw shucks I'm just a lil girl, what do I know 🥺" phase, there remain so, SO many areas of needed development.

She seems happy to associate herself as an ally for the queer community, which is nice, but her advocacy does not go much deeper than some worthwhile petitions and generous donations. Which again, are good, but yet . . . but yet. Also her, uh, enthusiasm for queer support often veers into some serious Cringe™ territory (we do not speak of YNTCD), but ya know, I suppose cringey is not the worst thing a person could be. I'm glad she is proud to be an ally. (Now if only we could somehow exterminate Kaylors from the planet, all things would be at peace).

Her resistance to acknowledging the feminist movement beyond its direct affects on her own life is deeply concerning. Feminism does not exist to help wealthy white women wrestle power from wealthy white men. She has been the target of some truly heinous misogyny throughout her life and career, and she is right to confront and combat that. And I guess I should be thankful she's grown past her whole "if we girls just work as hard as the boys we can get everything they have" thing. But her relatively recent girlbossification would ring a lot more sincere if she bothered to pick up a pen for, say, paid family leave, reproductive rights, or any acknowledgement that Black women and other WOC exist inside her understanding of feminism and how their intersecting identities might differ their experience from hers.

And then yeah blah blah I know she's a kyapitalist kween with like five houses and sells eight versions of her new album and whatever, I don't care. I stan a literal former princess. Cognitive dissonance cannot reach me. If the socialist revolution is coming, it's not here yet, so until then I will continue buying Taylor's albums and concert tickets and then I will vote for legislation to tax her out the ass and that is the end of that. Marxists do not @ me.

TL;DR: I love Taylor. She and her music are important to me. I'm very happy to see that she has made some key changes to the way she engages with politics. Namely, that she has begun to engage with politics at all. But there are core concerns I have with what and how she chooses to advocate that I find severely lacking, and waiting for a 32-year-old woman to mature into a meaningful public advocate is just not something I can bring myself to do with any semblance of self-respect.

Like I said ages ago in regards to Meghan, I am at peace with both criticizing these women for their respective faults and admiring them for their respective strengths. I don't look at anyone with blind admiration, and neither should you. You'll see things a lot more clearly that way.

[at2amswift]

So Lover. Where do I start? When I first heard ME! and YNTCD I thought Lover was going to be a happy, cheerful album, but boy was I wrong. First of all the photoshoots, the diary entries, the CD - it's all so pretty. Now when I listened to Lover for the first time, many different emotions awoke inside me.

1. 'I forgot that you existed' is a song, I can relate to and I just want to scream it in the face of all the people in my life that betrayed me and turned their backs on me: I forgot that you existed and I don't feel bad!!

2. 'the man' there have been moments in my life were I was excluded from things just because - you guess it - I'm a female.

3. 'the archer' and 'DBATC' now these two song, along with 'clean', are probably the songs that make me feel the most emotions. Struggling with body dysmorphia and depression for a long time hasn't always been easy. Actually every day is like hell, also having experienced betrayal and bullying first hand it just feels good to have songs that perfectly describe how I feel.

4. 'paper rings' when I listen to this song I have a special person in mind.

5. 'soon you'll get better' I added this song as the last one because it's a song that I probably won't listen too often. Not because it's bad, but rather because it makes me cry very hard. When I was 9 I lost a good friend due to cancer. When I was 12 I lost my grandpa due to cancer. Although he wasn't my biological grandfather I still loved and trusted him a lot. Losing both of them caused me immense pain and misery. I experienced loose, pain and heartbreak at a very young age and it changed me. It changed me a lot. So this song just awakes all the memories and all the pain.

Taylor I know you probably won't read this but in case you do I just wanna say thank you. Thank you for creating such a beautiful masterpiece. Thank you for being an amazing person. Thank you for saving my life so many times. Thank you, thank you, thank you. @taylorswift thank you for everything.