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cowboy like me - taylor swift

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from sirens to vampires women have leaned into their sexuality and sensuality to comment on objectification and take agency over their sexuality forever. i dont really see why we’re suddenly scandalized?

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“my beloved eras tour” ok.

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wait so did taylor just never address vienna…? /gen

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just got back from the guts tour and let me tell you seeing a mom cry while watching her young daughter sing along to teenage dream was something else

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for almost all of taylor’s albums, the closing song is hopeful. even despite the trials and tribulations of reputation, taylor ends with an affirming “i stay.” the heartbreak on red is concluded with the pleasant “begin again,” and even the on and off relationship on 1989 ends with “i think i am finally clean.”

folklore doesn’t have that. folklore has hoax. (and the lakes, which i’d argue is equally devastating, but that’s not the point here.)

hoax is resigned to misery. hoax is i don’t want anyone else, i don’t even want to try, i’m going to stay here forever because i want you back. hoax says “i will make the work of my life loving you even if i never see you again.”

unlike all of taylor’s other albums, folklore expresses a deep inability to move on from the circumstances. there is no freeing song in folklore—it is a graveyard.

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When she transitions to So High School the bracelets and lights on the stage all turn red and yellow

one thing about taylor is that she is going to be a hopeless romantic (and we love her for it forever)

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WHAT DID THE FRENCH DO TO DESERVE THIS

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me pretending idc ab the new ttpd addition to the setlist

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Taylor Swift's album The Tortured Poets Department becomes the first album to hit 1 billion streams on Spotify in less one week!

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FUCK

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i love the…. almost horror aspects of this album. all the references to ghosts and death…. and sonically, the unexpected shrieking in WAOLOM and the banging and screaming during “old habits die screaming” and even the way the tension subtly builds across the sixteen tracks and by the end you’re so stressed and shaken it’s like! losing your sense of self and feeling like you’ve become a monster is horror. and i’m sooooo glad she leaned into it

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forgive me, peter, my lost fearless leader.

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i’m like 3% human and 97% taylor swift lyrics

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Only when your girlish glow, flickers just so, do they let you know: It's hell on earth to be heavenly. Them's the breaks, they don't come gently. Clara Bow - The Tortured Poets Department (2024)