A Question to the Stars – Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach // Part of the Milky Way – Étienne Léopold Trouvelot // The Great Comet of 1843 – Charles Piazzi Smyth // Call It What You Want – Taylor Swift // loml – Taylor Swift // The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived – Taylor Swift
Happy Friday have we talked about “you talked me under the table” as in she was drunk on his promises while he remained unaffected, like when you say that someone is drinking you under the table as in they hold their liquor so seemingly well that you can’t keep up with them you’re so inebriated while they seem completely unaffected????
Getaway Car / august / The Other Side of the Door mashup lyrics (Melbourne Night 2)
Aaaand their possible connection to The Tortured Poets Department
I’m going to do this for each of the mashups she performed at the 2024 shows, because I firmly believe that she chose the songs for a reason and arranged the lyrics / switched between songs carefully to craft entirely new stories. A lot of the themes those songs hinted at have since been explored in detail on the new album. This mashup, which discusses the concept of cheating from three different perspectives, is perhaps the best example. She switches POVs between the cheater in the getaway car, the other woman realizing she never had her lover in the first place, and the woman who had to leave after being cheated on but still misses her ex.
Taylor switches to the chorus of august
back to Getaway Car
and onto the outro of The Other Side of the Door
She wants to leave her relationship, and this man is the perfect getaway car/‘reason’ for her to do so. Of course she would leave. She quickly realizes that the new relationship is doomed as well. They never had a shot. He was never hers. The entire relationship seemed to only last a single month and was over when the summer ended. At the end of the mashup, she assumes the position of the woman who was cheated on. Was she worth this mess? I need you.
this morning am also obsessed with “you and I go from one kiss to getting married” because one interpretation of it is a whirlwind romance, jumping in feet first consequences be damned (the “one glimpse” of it all), but another is just about how quickly the years go by. One day you’re kids caught up in the rush of new love, the next it’s a decade later and you have a whole life together. The years may be long but they also go by in the blink of an eye and there’s a whole lot of life that happens in between that feels like it flew by and slipped through your fingers (the “I gave you all that youth for free” of it all). It just says so much in such a simple phrase.
Great Fire in a City During the Night – Franz Edmund Weirotter // Prairie on Fire – Charles Deas // South London Forever – Florence + the Machine // loml – Taylor Swift