"When Reputation arrived in 2017, the media was neck-deep in an exhausting thinkpiece war about what Taylor Swift meant to pop culture – and Twitter was aflame debating whether she was a saint or a snake. Realizing she could no longer choose to be excluded from these narratives, Swift did the next best thing: She owned them."
when taylor swift said "and the only way back to my dignity was to turn into a shrouded mystery" and when she said "but if he's a ghost then i can be a phantom" and when she said "nobody physically saw me for a year" and when she said "i wake in the night, i pace like a ghost" and when she said "you know i didn't want to have to haunt you but what a ghostly scene" and when she said "help i'm still at the restaurant, still sitting in a corner i haunt" and when she said "when she stood, she stood with a desolate knowingness" and when she said "i knew you'd haunt all of my 'what-ifs'" and when she said "i guess sometimes we all get some kind of haunted"
KNEW I WAS A ROB-BER FIRST TIME THAT HE SAW ME, STEALIN HEARTS AND RUNNING OFF AND NEVER SAYING SO-RRY! BUT IF IM A THEIF THEN HE CAN JOIN THE HEIST AND WE’LL MOVE TO AN ISLAND AND AND AND HE CAN BE MY JAILOR! BURTON TO THIS TAYLOR! EVERY LOVE IVE KNOWN IN COMPARISON IS A FAILURE! I FORGET THEIR NAMES NOW IM SO VERY TAME NOW NEVET BE THE SAME NOW NOW
I loved you in secret // lights down low, no one has to know // I said, 'no one has to know what we do’ // what would you do if they never found us out? what would you do if we never made a sound? // no one knows about the words that we whisper // the words that you whispered for just us to know // I’m laughing with my lover, makin' forts under covers // privacy sign on the door and on my page and on the whole world. romance is not dead if you keep it just yours // the greatest of luxuries is your secrets // late in the night, the city's asleep, your love is a secret I'm hoping, dreaming, dying to keep