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whiskeyswifty · 3 months

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another one of my favorite things about now that we don't talk is how it starts in the lower register. this subdued, shaky, whisper almost. perhaps it's because she knows they can't hear her anymore, so she's just mumbling to herself because what's the point of getting worked up again. or maybe she's a little embarrassed that she still cares, bitterly musing to herself because she can't help it but can't bear to have anyone know she still cares about them. and there's another part of me that makes me curious as to whether it's a remnant of the way she was even in the relationship. we know they pretended it was less than it was from later verses, downplayed it and diminished her perhaps in the process. maybe they never really heard her in the first place, never valued or listened to her even when they did talk, dismissed her feelings or made her feel meek so she silencing herself out of fear of upsetting the precarious relationship. and what it means that progressively as the song goes on, she grows louder, bolder, her voice sturdy and insistent. even though it's over, they will hear her, goddamnit, and she will say what she wants to say. and in the case of the outro, what she perhaps always wanted to say. even if she's not sure of any of it, even if she's just releasing all that pent up bitterness and anger and resentment for everything and the state of things between them, its her turn to be heard! as if the whole song could be an exercise in catharsis, saying even if we don't talk, for once you will listen!!!!

#now that we don't talk the song that you are #every time it comes on shuffle i'm like FUCK MEEEE THIS SONG #it's so packed with emotion layered so deliciously like a cake #every bite is rich!!!#and i always love when she breaks pop song structure #those are some of her most interesting songs historically i'd say #GET MESSY!!#taylor swift #my silly little essays

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calumsash · 2 years

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fic moodboard concept in honor of @jbhmalumm birthday: the childhood best friends to lovers to exes to strangers to stuck in a storm together to lovers again malum au we all deserve

after not hearing from Calum for the past year, the last thing he expects is to see him at his front door, asking him if he could give him a ride to his parents' winter cabin, the same one he confessed his love to in a hushed voice when they were young and naive, the same cabin he broke Michael's heart in last november.

he'd love to say he declined, but he never could say no to him, not to Calum, not ever.

so that's how they find themselves stuck there together, a sudden storm preventing michael from coming back to his own place, a small apartment he could never call home cause that's only ever been a person, not a place. home was Calum, still is.

old habits are hard to break and over the course of the week they start to act like they used to, not only as the couple they were for five years, but also the best friends they were for twenty.

conversations are made, confessions are slipped out, a chance to start back again, and this time not making the mistake of letting go.

(Calum's cat, Lloyd, also joins the trip.)

#happy birthday to taylor! already went sappy in our dms but here i am again saying ily and how much im grateful for you today and everyday!#thought I'd go with something angsty but obviously with a happy ending. just the right amount of sad and happy.#they're soft..... they needed to break up at the time but they found each other again. that's what true love is #they're the right person. it was just the wrong time at the end. but now it's the right time. this time they'll get it right.#they make hot chocolate and have snowball fights when the storm calms down and they cuddle by the fire with lloyd in their lap #lloyd is calum's cat he adopted when he 16 and he always liked michael the best #i think after they broke up and calum tried to pack all of michael's shirts he had lloyd got pissed and claimed at least three of those #i love dogs but i think we deserve some kitty rights in fics don't you think #ok i know this whole thing sounds angsty as fuck but i think fics about people with such long history hits different!!!!!!#and in my head it gets very happy and fluffy and sweet!!!!!! ok trust me!!!!!!#again this is for taylor so i hope you like this darling and im sorry i couldn't write this but we shall live with the concept for now <3 #taylor #malum #5sos moodboard

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whiskeyswifty · 11 months

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there's quite literally no way to explain how tame impala had a vice grip on anyone in their twenties in the 2010s like that shit was crazy. nothing was cooler than tame impala in the 2010s. it's insane to listen to currents and be like HOW did this funky little dude from down under have every single remotely music-literate millennial across the country at his feet?? haters loved him, critics loved him like?? rihanna covering their song on anti because kendrick and SZA showed it to her?? but also i mean so true turn that shit up i'm on a rooftop in bushwick in 2015 lets goooooo.

#1989s impact on pop mainstream music in 2014 can be equated to currents' impact on indie-pop music in 2015 in this essay i will #jay z at that grizzly bear concert in like 2010 or whatever like saying indie music will change rap and hiphop forever #LIKE I MEAAAAANNNN we all laughed and tbh i'd say it converged genres more than influenced one into another but STILL #don't you love when i make niche posts for like 2 people ever #and they're probably not even online rn #anyway sorry for the non taylor content just having a tame impala moment

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torchickentacos · 8 months

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AG Watchthrough Episode 2: Ruin With a View, AG002.

Business first. The poll on the last watchthrough has fourteen hours left as of me typing this but it seems unanimous enough (92.9% pro-explosion) that I am adding an explosion counter. To retroactively do so, I must inform you all that AG001: Get the Show on the Road! had a total of 3 explosions (counting hypothetical explosions that were shown on screen and animated in but did not actually happen). Updated explosion counter is at three going forwards, which is half as many as I thought the episode had. No worries, it'll go up very soon. For the amount Birch spoke about Pikachu exploding, I recalled more frames about explosions. I might have missed a couple of frames too, I skipped around to look.

Onto AG002: Ruin with a View! Long post. We talk about Ash as a mentor, the really shitty bunk beds I had in a dorm room at jesus camp, inconsistencies/questions I have about petalburg gym, Team Magma, and other things.

The episode opens in a way we will soon grow very accustomed to: With Ash jollily (?) marching forth and May complaining about it. Sometimes it will be the other way around. One person is ahead of the group, the other complains about it. Side note, the narrator calls May an 'aspiring' pokemon trainer. Two things there. One, she is technically already a trainer. She has a pokemon. Two, she does not particularly aspire towards being a trainer, but it's far too early for semantics. Moving on.

We're headed to Oldale town! May and Ash are already arguing on the second day of knowing each other. Ash thinks May is walking too slow. May points out that she'd HAD A BIKE... and Ash slows down, unable to argue with that. (Well, he's able to argue about anything in AG, but chooses to not pick a fight with the random girl he's supposed to be friends with now. Smart choice).

Anyways, May asks about Pikachu being out in the ball and Ash explains. This sets up something that WORKED about AG (when they remembered it): the group dynamic. Borderline nonexistent but VERY FUN WHEN IT WAS EXISTENT. Ash and May specifically have a mentor/mentee relationship for a while that I've always liked. It was a nice change of pace that set Ash as a more mature version of himself. He's abrasive and cocky but he does have genuine skill and experience to back it up now, and May is unsure of herself and... well, incompetent as a trainer as of right now. Ash has a real opportunity to shine here.

Does pokeani TAKE that opportunity...? Not really BUT it's there and we do see glimpses of it, like with Ash patiently explaining that May can use her pokedex to learn more about her new Torchic.

Anyways, they keep walking, May tries and fails to catch an Azurill. She sees it and throws the pokeball immediately. Rather hilariously to me at least, Ash just watches her make the same mistake he did, standing behind her like this.

The Azurill gets away, May forgets all of Torchic's attacks, Ash makes this weird face, and Torchic hits its head on a tree just like May did a single episode before.

Torchic then uses ember!...Which hits Azurill's family, a Marill and an Azumarill. Hey, didn't someone else start their journey by trying and failing to catch a pokemon rather pathetically and then angering other pokemon? Contest/Pallet solidarity isn't relevant yet (do take note I never claimed to be an unbiased narrator here), but Ash and May solidarity IS relevant and beloved. May and Ash are really similar, with May being outwardly a bit softer and, well, nicer usually (though Early AG Girlboss May™ is, if we recall from Ag001, a bit snide which does dwindle off). But we're going to start seeing a lot of similarities, which I don't think are a bad thing at all! I quite like it actually, especially in early episodes since it so nicely mirrors the last brand-new trainer we saw, which was Ash himself at the start of OS. This is Ash's first time not being the underdog, the new guy.

He (usually) takes this role rather well, and is happy to explain to May that Torchic, now-knocked-out-via-Azumarill's-watergun, can be healed at a pokemon center.

Also, explosion count goes up as Pikachu thunderbolts the water types. We're at four now, counting last episode.

Anyways, we find a bunch of rocks that I guess are just chilling in the middle of route 101? Normal Hoenn things, honestly. It'll get weirder, this is perfectly normal and fine. Just wait for the Claydol episode. Or the Gulpin episode. Or WWWWW and the Wynaut wall/rope/slide. Sigh. They're like tiny aqua legos or something. Or Monkeys in a barrel, I guess, which the slide was a reference to. ANYWAYS moving on, that is a discussion for AG113. So. Rocks.

We meet Professor Aldan and his WEIRD LITTLE PONYTAIL and he explains that these are "the Ruins of Oldale". (Not Oldale Ruins, I guess?)

He is researching the ruins and points out the pokemon center for Ash and May. I like this random ass little palm tree.

Look. There he is again below. It took all day for them to cross that single hill, by the way. It is nighttime now. It was a single hill they were on, overlooking Oldale.

Nurse Joy heals Torchic up, and Ash calls Professor Oak! May interrupts this call and gets all up in his personal space, which she tends to do to people on occasion, to which Ash makes this face, which looks like an Aang expression to me. I swear Aang has made this exact face before.

We learn that May has a brother (who "never misses one of your [Oak's] radio lectures!"). Amusingly, Oak seems slightly offput by May's enthusiasm, to which I ask, has Oak not met Ash??? Anyways, we switch over to Team Rocket, who is... here???? Wherever 'here' is???

They're talking to Giovanni, they ask for money, they get no money. BUT Giovanni tells them that if they set a TR branch office in Hoenn, then they can talk money. This, of course, is nothing but a carrot dangle because Giovanni wants them to stop fucking calling him for money. Also, he wants to learn about some MYSTERIOUS NEW TEAMS called Team Aqua and Team Magma.

Don't get your hopes up for that. Yes, TA and TM were in pokeani. Yes, there's a reason nobody remembers this outside of maybe, like, Diane and Butler. ANYWAYS. Oldale's trainer rooms are nicer than when I stayed at (redacted) university for Jesus Camp. You know what? Side tangent. This warrants a side tangent.

This college's dorm rooms had bunk beds that were two regular beds stacked and held together by a single thin wooden peg. Look at this. I had top bunk. I could have died. Also when I was there the elevator broke while people were in it and two girls passed out from the heat. This was in July. We weren't allowed to wear revealing (read: cool and summer safe) clothes. It was a weird two weeks in my life. We had a Jesus Rave. Twice. They played old town road. I have video proof of this.

Back on topic. Again. WAIT NEVERMIND- BACK OFF TOPIC, WHY ARE THERE JUST GUYS IN ROBES IN THE MAIN LOBBY?

Stripey shirt on the left is talking to their friends about Petalburg Gym (May is notably not thrilled about this). Ash is like YO GYM BATTLES! I DO THOSE.

WAIT I JUST FUCKING NOTICED @soulsilversprings tagging you here because of a convo we had. They say NEW GYM LEADER which I guess is what bulbapedia used to assume Pokeani Norman was also from Johto? I still like native-to-Hoenn May but ...there's that, I guess.

But actually, that doesn't make sense, because later we find out that May was 'never allowed to watch any of her father's gym matches' and it's made out to sound like Norman was always busy with the gym as May was growing up in a few offhand lines I'll get to??? So either he was already a gym leader and transferred, OR this line is bullshit and Norman's BEEN the gym leader and stripey shirt and co. are full of tauros shit /lh. Will update with any new information.

We are almost halfway done with the episode.

Interestingly to me at least, May IMMEDIATELY yanks Ash away and we don't learn who the new gym leader is, at her own insistence. Young Taylor certainly didn't imprint on May's direct-and-then-forgotten-by-the-writers avoidance of her father. /sarcastic joke, you can laugh at this LMAO. Moving on again but this does come up again and I'll discuss whatever feels relevant then.

We see Prof. Aldan again! Then we switch to Wobbuffet digging a hole! Then we switch back to Ash staring at a picture of the rocks on the wall! Enthralling, truly. Anyways, Aldan just... lets the random kids into his research base in the pokemon center. He talks about a stone chamber that is "a sort of bridge or portal between our world and the ancient pokemon world", that is so unstable that any attempted entries cause it to begin crumbling. Sounds safe.

May is oddly fascinated by the idea of ancient pokemon. Being a gym leader's daughter (spoilers.) did nothing for her, but hearing about an ancient pokemon in a hole in the ground? Now THAT'S interesting, I guess. And she's in luck, because Aldan shows them that he has the right way to enter the stone chamber!!! He met these children today and is inviting them to his unstable hole in the ground. Hoenn's gonna Hoenn, once again. At least there's no king of pokelantis to possess you in this specific hole in the ground. Don't worry about it <3.

Turns out there's 4 keys needed to enter, though, which he doesn't have. We then see team Magma grunts lining up outside the window, and they turn out the lights to the center, and break down the door and they kidnap Prof. Aldan in front of the kids. Nurse Joy interrupts and is also captured.

Side note that tells me I know way too much about AG but we all knew that: May's hair is animated uniquely here. It flips at the end a lot more, almost curling upwards. Maybe it's just really humid in southern Hoenn.

Anyways they LITERALLY FUCKING THROW MAY and I assume Ash and Nurse Joy too (but we only see May landing???) into a spare room and lock the door. Joy says with the power out, all the pokemon being treated there are in danger WHICH SEEMS LIKE AN OVERSIGHT TO ME but oh no, torchic is being treated there! But there IS reserve power that they can turn on once they escape the room.

Does anyone remember those room escape flash games??? I really liked those as a kid.

Pikachu points out an air vent, Ash says "That's grea-" but the sound engineers done fucked up and Ash is hilariously cut off by the WHO'S THAT POKEMON??? section. Which, note, still has Brock and Misty's voices in it.

It's Crobat. 👍

Team Rocket time. Insert 'posting hole on main' joke. They're in a hole. Get it?

Sigh.

TR picks a fight with Team Magma, who's heading out with Aldan. They get scared off back into their hole. We switch back to Ash and co.

Ash is crawling in the air vent! I guess he fully intended to leave May in the room, because he's suprised when she's crawling right behind him. Again, let's revel in May having a decision that she was able to make, or an order that she was able to defy. We'll run out of those soon enough. She asks, quote, "Why should I miss out on the adventure?". I really do love this characterization of her and wish it had stayed a biiiiiit more consistent, even if I do really like later AG May. But we eventually get someone who pushes her to be annoyed and fiery later, yay rivals, so that's good. Her character needs it to balance out the sweet/dumb/inexperienced aspects. They get a key for the door and switch the power back on and retrieve Nurse Joy.

They then rush off to help Prof. Aldan, who is being bothered by TM (Team Magma) to open the stone chamber. He says they need the keys. TM has the keys, conveniently. For some reason.

They put the keys in the holes, it opens, they go in. This is... a normal ancient chamber. Animation budget running a little low already, huh? /lh.

I think I hear Lisa Ortiz voice one of the magma grunts. I'm getting a migraine, let's speed this up a bit. Not much even happens past here anyways. TM leaves, TR shows up and blast off, explosion counter goes to 5, the sun comes up, they enter the chamber hole and find some Relicanth, and they get Torchic back from the center, and we head to Petalburg City.

What an oddly disjointed but enjoyable episode.

End of episode metrics:

Explosion count: 5.

Height ranking: Ash is arguably like four pixels taller. Ash>>May. Switched from episode 1 already.

#i love ag because it makes me question things like. do hypothetical explosions count as explosions.#the answer is yes. also ramble in tags as per usual #taylor watches pokemon #ag watchthrough #scheduled post #taylor's tag #May #Ash #I don't say enough about them to put this in the actual character tags #but i might want to reference this later #so. that works #I might just do that moving forward???? again unless i actually say something relevant or interesting. we'll see #like i am archiving here and not going for visibility. i have you guys for that. look at my posts boy.#if i wanted visibility i wouldn't be talking about AG on tumblr in the year of our lord 2023 LMFAO #if i wanted visibility i'd be on tiktok or something #that place scares me #someone asked me what type of tiktok star pokeani characters would be #and ONE i think tumblr ate that ask #and TWO I do not have and never have owned a tiktok #that being said i think that gary films like. a day in the life of an oak lab researcher #and posts pokemon in their natural habitat content #may is a travel influencer girlie but in a fun down to earth way #drew's only app on his phone is apple podcasts or something. he does not have a tiktok #OKAY NVM I WILL MAKE MY OWN POST ON THIS i have more to say abt this than i thought i did

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bybdolan · 2 years

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AMY! https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/taylor-swift-the-bob-dylan-of-our-age-pmlg5m7hl

You are the third person to send me this link but I finally managed to dodge the paywall to the article in order to make a nuanced statement, and that statement is: Mhh.. idk?

If you have been around for a while you have probably been witness to me arguing why I tend to disagree with statements such as "Taylor Swift is the new Bob Dylan/Bruce Springsteen!" (Spoiler: It is because I personally find a lot of the impulses Bob and Bruce use to create art vastly different to the impulses Taylor uses - Taylor's art is tied to her life and her experiences in a way that many, though not all, of Bruce' and Bob's songs are not) and generally speaking I tend to find most of the comparisons sort of lame because they kind of revolve around the "both of these people are great songwriters who were the voice of a generation!", which is true but doesn't capture what makes these artists special. That said, I do think the article makes some interesting points in regards to how both Bob and Taylor came out of a scene that highly valued authenticity and were punished for breaching out of it, and I also agree that Taylor's influence on the future generations of songwriters likens her to Dylan, as does her tendency for self-mythologization (although her n Bob's public personas are radically different) (+ Bob is much more intertextual in general). I also think both are excellent in transporting you into the scene of a song and making you envision the setting and characters. However, I personally can't simply look past the vast difference in subject matter and style that these artists have. "All Too Well (10 Minute Version)" is a great song, as is "The Times They Are A-Changing", but they obviously deal with very different things. And sure, perhaps it is unfair to pidgeon-hole Bob Dylan as a protest singer (a comparison to "Tangled Up In Blue" for example would make much more sense), but it IS a significant part of his oeuvre and part of what made him "the voice of a generation". The same can be said for Taylor, who captures the anxiety of the social media generation incredibly well, but writing songs about brewing revolutions and the constant threat of nuclear annihilation is a lil different than writing songs about how tough it is to preserve your sense of self in times of Instagram & Co. Not that one is per se more deeper or worthwhile than the other, it's just different. (I do wonder why we never see the comparisons between Dylan and certain HipHop artists, who genuinely follow into Protest Song footsteps.)

And, to simply be biased for a second here: I consider Bob a better and more versatile writer than Taylor and because I specifically hold his more Protest Song-adjacent songs close to my heart for how well they manage to capture broad anxieties within society/young people in particular, the comparison will always slightly rub me the wrong way. But as I am not a music journalist writing for a major publication... That's okay.

#like sorry that i don't agree with saying 'the person who wrote you need to calm down is this generation's person who #wrote the times they are a-changing #i also think bob could out-write taylor in a love song battle any day #misogynist moment i guess #but this also is very personal #if anybody starts 'but taylor writing about her experiences as a woman is inherently political!' again........#yes that absolutely is true but i'd argue 'mad woman' is much more rooted in taylor swift's specific personal narrative than #'a hard rain's a-gonna fall' is in bob's

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theloveinc · 2 years

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ur post abt the roommate. wow the audacity of white ppl never fails to amaze me. they rlly only perceive the world through their lens and think if someone hasn’t established themselves in their community they’re a nobody. u had to find out abt kanye west due to a white woman prevalent in ur community? what does that say abt u more than anything? it’s so funny how they rlly think poc success relies on whether they’re relevant enough to white ppl. it makes me understand now why a lot of them will be obsessed with and hype up artists like tyler the creator, since 90% of his audience are white. i experienced this first hand at one of his concerts earlier this year.

It def changes the narrative a lot, but I'm also white and I was really shocked, too. I knew it was possible, but I never really thought someone would be so blatant (and intentional, too) in their cultural deafness and blindness about a topic that's not only easy to understand but also... important?

Like... idek know what to say. The fact that there are (white) people out there who have never had to challenge their worldview, even with different styles of art and music... to the point where distinct history, at the very least, isn't even remotely important? Or considered at all?

Not only does it touch upon what you say about it reflecting poorly on them (which, BIG FACTS) but also... you wonder how that's something to even defend or take pride in. It's pure stupidity... and overall just hard to watch, someone having the nerve to so wrongly but confidently have opinions about a topic they never even bothered to learn about.

And exactly as you say about TTC, too. We were just talking in one of my education classes, about how culture can be alienated at the exact same time society starts to accept it. Like, who is truly benefitting from making something mainstream? Not that this is inherently/automatically bad, per se, but when art, music, food, etc, becomes popular at the expense of the people who made it and who it was made FOR... what's really going on? Definitely nothing mutually beneficial, that's for sure... and ESPECIALLY not if this version is the only thing shared, valued, and understood of the culture.

Like Kanye West at the VMAs vs. the impact of his entire discography, for example.

(though it's funny, I said to my roommate, "haven't you heard about stuff like this in passing?" and she deadass said "no."

What. The. Fuck.)

But yeah. People will really value one famous white lady who makes nothing but mediocre love songs about her own life over popular and meaningful expressions of black experience... and then say they aren't racist.

It is depressing. Lol. But thank you for this! I agree + appreciate the insight SO much.

#some ppl don't realize im white so i just had to put that out there in case if changes how comfortable u are with me #but i agree with everything ur saying #and i'd love to be like. oh its not that white relevance determines poc popular but that white ppl dont realize theres anything else...#but idek if i believe that #my roommate seemed pretty confident in her answers #i really had to explain to a full on adult that all music is valuable because it offers different things to different people.#and even i was stunned like... i feel like people and parents always says try to understand that everyone has had a different experience #growing up #and it's often clear now that im an adult bc. obvs we have different backgrounds #so for her to just. throw away the significance of rap. and even just. refuse to acknowledge how it sits in society #i was shocked #that she could so easily disregard something so important #and the fight was huge too #not screaming but arguing abt a lot of stuff #and her telling me taylor swift was a better song writer than kanye bc xyz #how can anyone say that??????????? even if u like her... u just cant act like that or like his music isn't smart and important and iconic #esp since like...#ugh you already know im sure. i just need to walk it off LOL #or move out lol #after i left she started the fight again and i had to walk away all over and now she's probably even more mad #but no im not gonna say taylor swift is good even if i haven't listened to a full album #and that doesn't mean i know nothing about the subject #oh well #good night to u anon ily #sorry if this was a stupid response #caitie answers #popcul

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eviltwin76 · 2 years

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what kind of music does Taylor like?

hmmmmmm he'll go for anything chill and relaxed with extra points for being synthy in a retro way... or with disco influences. ELO is one of his favorites, abba and strfkr also come to mind. basically anything you can imagine yourself exploring space to.. or straight up being ON star trek.

he'd also willingly listen to vaporwave and lo-fi on occasion. he probably thought vaporwave was cringe as a teen but rel finally got him to give it an honest shot. he'd also listen to a lot of video game soundtracks, such as spore and portal

#LV #taylor #asker #however if anyone has hcs for him enjoying music that doesnt fit this description those are probably true. this descrip is not exhaustive #everyone listens to a lot of different kinds of music #this is just his Core kind of #only kinds i'd say he actively dislikes are like.. modern country; noise/drill/house;#probably christmas music; and like top 40 overplayed pop songs u cant get away from #i also think he might very much love some jpop. i dont know much about it though

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wavesoutbeingtossed · 9 months

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Is this a good time to admit that this is the first time I've listened to the More Lana version of "Snow on the Beach" and I was expecting to be indifferent to it and I kinda dig it?

I love how the strings are more prominent and I'm such a sucker for the harmonies/change in melody on the Lana bits.

And I'm not even a Lana fan

#snow on the beach #midnights #I will say that I do think I'd love the More Lana version if there were no Lana but Taylor sang the Lana bits #if that makes sense #like the parts I like about the More Lana version is the change in melodies on her voice and I'd love to hear Taylor play with that #the way she has with a lot of the acoustic songs on tour #Taylor swift

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