okay, idk if i'm gonna be able to explain this in the exact way that i mean but…i'm going to try.
on one hand i LOVE knowing when songs were written simply because i like seeing the progression of how an album was created, it explains context for other songs or helps make sense of why some songs make the album and others don't. i like knowing it from the musicality side.
on the other hand i hate it because…well…i hate how the general swiftie fandom has handled her break up with joe. i'm already seeing people trying to use the timeline of when this song was written as a way to further villainize joe and it's annoying because
1) relationships of any kind ebb and flow. things could be going great for so long, you get into a fight and are upset and then a week later everything's fine. we don't know the ins and outs of their relationship (nor should we) and these are also the same people who like..just decided after they broke up that actually, taylor and joe were never happy and he wasn't a good partner and didn't support her and blah blah blah ignoring all the good that we knew to be true, which really is stupid because don't know what really went on behind closed doors
2) we're only learning fractured pieces of one side of this relationship, you know what i mean? in general, i think that taylor has always been really good (sometimes too good) about taking blame for the part that she plays in a relationship ending, which i think she's done in this situation. we don't know anything from joe's side, and from what we've heard from taylor, i think it really just sounds like two people who loved each other for a long time, who grew and changed (as people do) and unfortunately, that resulted in them not being on the same page and ending a long term relationship. it also just kind of goes into some swifties general mindset of taking a detail and twisting and spinning it so that it fits their narrative no matter what
idk i'm just…tired of all the anti-joe stuff coming back out when it's not like knowing WHEN this song was written changes what we knew it to be about??? if that makes sense??? i love that taylor has always shared a lot of personal stuff with us and has been honest about her songs and her song writing process, but sometimes i hate it because certain fans who are very loud, like to focus more on WHAT happened than the art itself, which is what i think we should be focusing on