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#it was coney island but I don't know if i'll end up attaching it to the song
onmy1989shit · 11 months
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My top 13 Taylor songs and why
If you do look through all of this id love to know what you think!
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13. Welcome To New York
it's no surprise that I absolutely ADORE 1989 and WTNY is an amazing opening track for the album! I have always had an attachment to this song and it's a go to hype song you just can't not be happy listening to this song! also being bi I love the "you can love who you love boys and boys and girls and girls" line!!
12. illicit affairs
now don't attack me but folklore is not an album I love but for some reason illicit affairs has always had a soft spot in my heart since the album came out! I think this is one of the BEST showcases of her songwriting abilities it is like an elevated version of August and I love it! ive personally never been the other person in a relationship but Taylor does such a good job at detailing and walking you through a story of being another woman to someone you love! AND THE BRIDGE??? ICONIC!!!
11. Midnight Rain
I am a sucker for vocoder so i have been and still am obsessed with how the chorus is done on this album! there aren't many songs out there about being the one to do the breaking up with but Taylor has 2 and I love both this and back to december but this one just barely beat it out! I love her looking back on a love she may have regretted but in the end they both got what they wanted she got a big name and he got a family!
10. New Romantics
hey look another 1989 song! (and not the last) the production, the lyrics, the vocal effects, the adlibs, the vocals everything about this song is pure pop perfection! this song reminds me of Halsey's new Americana of how it's a song about just embracing everything about yourself and the people around you! and come on tell me "heartbreak is the national anthem and we sing it proudly" doesn't describe most swifties
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9. Christmases When You Were Mine
an underrated MASTERPIECE by Ms Taylor Alison Swift! i fully believe if this song was on an album and not just the Christmas ep it would get so much more love cause she deserves it!! im the kind of person that loves a good sad Christmas song (my fav being Christmas makes me cry by Kacey Musgraves) and this one never fails to make me cry! the song perfectly describes the feelings of the first Christmas away from your ex and how off the happiest time of year can be
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8. False God
now on the complete opposite spectrum of that we have one of the few times Taylor was feeling spicy! I love all of her songs like this dress, I think he knows, cruel summer are all bangers but this one is just another level! the way this song perfectly blends jazz, r&b, and pop into a soft sultry song about a love so good you worship it like a false god! I also think this song does such a good job of showing a rollercoaster relationship but in the end you're still there for each other! the line "I know heaven's a thing I go there when you touch me, honey hell is when I fight with you" is just perfect
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7. Our Song
our song is just THE country Taylor song! I don't really have anything deep to say about this one lol it's just a fun catchy song that if you don't like it there is something seriously wrong with you!
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6. Coney Island ft. The National
now I'll be honest I still don't completely understand what this song is about but ill say kinda what I believe it is! I've always thought of this song as being about the guy dies leaving coney island so this place holds a spot in the girls heart and the national plays the guy in his final moments and all he can think about is her in coney island before he left.
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5. All You Had To Do Was Stay
THE BEST TRACK 5 FIGHT ME!! also this isn't the last 1989 song on this list 💀 this song to me is a perfect showcase of her songwriting abilities and ability to make a catchy af pop song! this to me is one of those sad lyrics and happy production songs being about her taking to an ex that wants her back and saying you know all you had to do was stay and that she's the kind of person that once you leave you leave!
4. Love Story (Taylor's Version)
if this song is not in your top you're lying to yourself! i don't even know what to say about this song that hasn't been said a billion times! it's lyrics, the production, THE MUSIC VIDEO! everything is top tier when it comes to this song and it's popular for a reason! the Taylor's version is literally my most streamed song by any artist 💀
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3. New Years Day
this is a beautiful love song and a perfect closer for the reputation album! and her performance of this song on Jimmy Fallon is like ingrained in my head permanently! it is such a beautiful metaphor of I'll be here for the party and all the glam in your life but I'll still be there for the ugly and the clean up after aka new years day!
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2. How You Get The Girl
this song kinda reminds of her country style of writing cause it very much still follows the repeating chorus but the verses build on each other to keep telling this story of Taylor telling this guy exactly how to get her back! I think this song is an interesting contrast to ayhtdws where there she said once you leave you're gone so maybe whoever this song about is someone she'd be willing to take 2nd chance on if he did it right!
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1. Tied Together With A Smile
not to be emotional but this song got me through so much in middle school and high school cause I had to be the "therapy friend" the one who always had a smile on my face and this song helped remind me that yk it's ok to come undone let others know your problems! listening to it also makes me feel like someone understands what I'm going through and is like patting me on the back saying it's gonna be ok!
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I hope you enjoyed this thread I had fun going through and thinking about all my favorite Taylor songs!!
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mgs-crying-shark · 3 years
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WIP ~Sorry For Not Making You My Centerfold~
This is pretty unpolished and I know in future when I actually post it stuff will be moved around so it flows better. But I know that’s not going to happen for a bit because I have exams and work deadlines. I’ve hyped it up on twitter so much that it deserves to be posted, also thank you so much to the people who answered my questions on twitter, I’d tag you but I don’t know your tumblrs. Also I hate the way tumblr formats things, please ignore any formatting issues.
Anyways I hope you enjoy this WIP and comments are reblogs are always appreciated and I always read what you put in the tags, so thank you to those who have said nice things about past works. 
The breeze off the water brushes over your skin leaving goosebumps in its wake, the sky is grey and there is a thick fog that sticks in the air around you. It was a stark change from the warm salt air of Seychelles, the place you once considered home but it was fitting. You were once in paradise standing strong side by side with Snake in the warm sun, but he had drifted away like the warm tide and was replaced by the bone hurting chill of being alone in Alaska. You were left to wonder what had happened between the two of you, you had stood by him when the world was out for his blood and had promised to never leave, that you would stand by him until the end, until the Boss’s vision was complete. Then came the accident and Venom, god poor Venom he didn’t deserve to be put through that. You wondered if the real Snake, the one that you loved so dearly had saw your face before he fell into his coma. You had played your part in his scheme so well, so why did he abandon you. Does he know how you long to be held by him? Your heart ached to know if he missed you, missed the way you held him close when it was cold at night.
   A weathered film slipped from between the pages of the book you’d been skimming through. Upon picking it up you smile, a black and white film reel from a photo booth in the local mall. Six small photos, each one depicts you and snake. In all but one he’s smiling, his face is soft, there are no age lines, untouched by war. In the last photo, the one he’s not smiling in, your hand is grabbing his jaw, you’re holding it in place, so that you can kiss his cheek. He looks shocked, his face is flushed and warm. God you can still feel how his face burned your hand, you longed to make him flush that red again, to warm your hands with his body heat. The photos felt like yesterday, things were so simple there, you and Snake were inseparable. The two of you were often mistaken for siblings, but even back then you longed to mean more to him than that. You remember teasing him, the two of you had wondering around the mall that afternoon while waiting for the films to develop. You stopped outside the jewelry store and admired the rings shining in the glass cases, you saw Snake’s reflection in the glass he looked unimpressed, but it didn’t deter you. You had laughed and said that a ring from the arcade would be enough for you to be happy, as long as he was the one who gave it to you, as long as he was the one you could spend forever with.
   You would promise him forever shortly after the impromptu photo shoot, once you found out he had enlisted. You spent your last days together wrapped up in the youthful childishness of early summer, it was on your last night together that you had confessed to him. You were still riding the high of the day, which you had spent playing fair games under the blazing sun, it all happened so fast, like most things did when it came to Snake one minute you were wrapped up in the blankets on his bed watching as he packed his bag, the next you where in tears telling him how much he meant to you, that you wanted forever with him. The look on Snakes face was akin to shattered glass like you had broken him, and it chilled you to the bone.
    It was the same cold to the bone feeling you had now standing in Alaska wondering where Snake was. The spark that warmed your memories, the one captured in the film reel was gone now replaced with a longing for Snake and for the times when you stood tall beside him.
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      Snake longed to ask you if you missed him, to hold you close like he had done once. He was finally on top of the world, Zanzibar was complete, and he had everything he wanted in his field of vision. But there was just one thing missing… It was you, the warmth you gave off when you stood beside him, the way your hand felt in his. He wondered if you still cared about him, had he pushed you too far? He left you behind with his phantom to clean up the mess he had made, made you like to the only other person you trusted, Kazuhira, your best friend. Only for him to cut ties and run away without a word to you. He had led you to paradise, the warm Costa Rica sun on your skin, the Boss’s vision coming to life with your help. Only to leave you in the dark with cold seeping into your bones.
      Sitting at his desk Snake thumbed a photo that was yellowing, its edges crinkled from being held too hard. It depicted him but much younger, before war had taken its toll on him. You stood beside him your face alight with a smile, one that was always on your face when he was around, you were hanging off his arm, out of focus in the background were the lights of the fair booths and a Ferris wheel. He longed to go back there, to win you that damn ring from the shooting game, to tell you how much you meant to him. To see that smile light up the room you were in, to feel the warmth you radiated. He should reach out to you, tell you it was a mistake to push you away and run from his problems. Would it be too late? Are you too wise to trust him now? Are you too old to care for that juvenile past, to care for the man who sold the world?
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