the album is brutally honest, satirical, a bit cringe here and there, depressing and experimental at the same time, I would not side eye anyone for saying "I don't understand this" or "this isn't my cup of tea" or even "what the fuck is this" because it's obviously not a 1989 or midnights kind of album for everyone. I understand why she said she "had to put this out" but while she is at the peak of her career, she released an album that is not for beginners nor really for overall critics, it's knees deep into the taylor swift lore and probably the most herself an album has ever been, that does not mean it is a masterpiece but it makes it so insanely special
okay but round of applause for all these swiftie blogs that posts gifs or any taylor related things and everyone else on here in the tumblr community, yall are some hardworking bitches
I just want to say as someone who is half black, I think the racists lyric "We would pick a decade, We wished we could live in instead of this, I'd say the 1830s but without all the racists" in "I Hate It Here" on TTPD is fine. I've seen the things on twitter. I don't understand why theres backlash to it? Because the song is literally about nostalgia saying living in another decade would've been better, but you take it back because you know during that time it was largely racist and not a good time at all and yes there were good things about that era but it still would not be a good era even if there was no racism. Please, don't forget that nostalgia can be romanticised with people wishing they could live in the past or any other time instead of right now. I've have also wished I lived way back then as a kid but I knew how bad those time periods I wished I lived in were.
Lyric Parallels | You're Losing Me (From The Vault) & So Long, London
"My face was gray, but you wouldn't admit we ere sick" / And I'm just getting color back into my face"
— Fortnight Music Video Teaser
Also I want to put out there, maybe I'm going crazy but I've been relating to the color scheme of this music video with the lyric: "the ties were black, the lies were white"