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CHALLENGERS (2024, dir. Luca Guadagnino) is a film that doesn't root for any of its three main characters and isn't concerned about who gets to win in the end. it's written and shot like a long tennis rally that doesn't let up; nobody is willing to drop the ball, but everybody's anticipating the moment it finally happens. it's obsessed with the back-and-forth while simultaneously desperate for a release, and good god does every character get to have theirs in the end.

#challengers #movies

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challengers (2024) dir. luca guadagnino / robertszombie / challengers cast and director explain that intense ending: 'everyone's right and everyone's wrong', sydney bucksbaum

#challengers #movies #challengers spoilers

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my favs pics of 'the eras tour' ♡

#taylor swift #people

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my favs pics of 'the eras tour' ♡

#taylor swift #people

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fortnight - taylor swift (feat. post malone)

#taylor swift #music

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Clean (2014) // The Bolter (2024)

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TAYLOR SWIFT 'Fortnight' music video behind the scenes

#taylor swift #people

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"It’s about how horrible being famous is.” (taylor before playing "the lucky one" in arlington, texas)

clara bow - the last great american dynasty - nothing new - the profecy - the lucky one

#taylor swift #music

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So true

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Taylor calls herself crazy all throughout TTPD, but maybe I’m just as insane because I actually think she’s quite normal? Because if I ended a once happy 8 year relationship because the love was gone and we were both no longer in love to then get with a situation-ship who has been pinning for you for years only for them to abandon you when they finally got you, I’d commit full arson.

#Taylor swift #music

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TAYLOR SWIFT Lyric parallels in The Tortured Poets Department!

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Realizing that Taylor wrote and rewrote her meeting and falling in love with Joe over and over on each album because she was desperately clinging to the hope that the magic and golden love would come back, but over the years it never did.

#taylor swift #music

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Something that stood out to me a lot from this album is the intentional de-personalization of extremely personal feelings and stories. She seems to have decided for this project that in order to be free to be completely honest in her art (which tbf she always has been but never as much as this album), she needs to visualize herself, and thus her stories, as a third party, an external entity on which she's conducting a post-mortem examination. Her 2016 self and the hate train she suffered after Snakegate is reimagined as Cassandra, a character from Greek mythology who had visions in her dreams but no one believed her and instead she was punished. Her anxiety of holding her lover's career back is instead described as The Albatross, this girl who everyone has been warned to stay away from bc she causes problems. Her sweet, innocent childhood self is depicted as a robin, a fesity little bird full of life, dreams, and potential who has yet no clue of the cruelty of the world.

Consequently, the characters in her life are, too, bestowed upon fictional characters from stories that have been told before and/or are familiar in some way to the listener (aIMee the girl from this allegorical high school which is actually Kim Kardashian, Peter the boy who never grew up and stayed forever in Neverland who actually is Joe, both Taylor's and Joe's separate future lovers imagined as Chloe or Sam or Sophia or Marcus, her real life therapist referred to as The Professor etc). By using the representation of well-known characters from widely popular stories and myths with names and all, she creates an even deeper line of emotional connection with the listener. Then, the 4th wall is delightfully broken in Clara Bow, where she refers to Clara Bow and Stevie Nicks as the inherent precedents to Taylor Swift. But what's even more brilliant about this is that in this way, she is making Taylor Swift into a character in and of itself. She is actually attempting to externalize Taylor Swift from Taylor the real-life woman. By narrating her stories through tangible entities presented as completely external to herself, she is inhibited by the safety of this fictional/allegorical lense through which she's allowing her stories to be consumed, and as a result, she has unlimited freedom to be more personal than she has ever been in her art before.

#taylor swift #music

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#taylor swift #music

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#taylor swift #music #about me

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we really went from “i’m fastening myself to you with a stitch” to “so long, london / stitches undone”

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