im sure lots of people will listen to TTPD and discount it because she talks about matty in it (and ofc people have their valid issues with him, but im not gonna go into that), but the whole lead up to the album has been âweâre investigating,â and imo a lot of us took that as her saying âweâre investigating why my relationship endedâ whereas the album is actually about âweâre investigating this caricature of a girl who went through something life-changing, and she has apparently gone crazyâ and sheâs basically done a public autopsy of herself; something that the media/fans/public have done since the beginning, but this time around she was like âiâll do it to myself.â
hence, the album aesthetic feels so sterile too imo. sheâs trying to distance herself from the subject but!!!!!! she is the subject. and in conclusion, i think what sheâs really putting down is âthe summary of the investigation of this girl is that she went insane because of what happened to her, but itâs hopefully gonna be okayâ
sidenote: i think what we need to take away from the album is to⌠let her liveâŚ
âand sometimes it gets me when crossing your jet stream, we both did the best we could do underneath the same moon in different galaxiesâ is so fucking devastating bc not only does it allude to call it what you want, but also all of the references across her work implying that what they had was fate, sent to her by the universe, divine intervention. all the imagery of âstarry eyes sparkling up my darkest nightâ and âonce upon a time the planets and the fates and all the stars alignedâ and âheâs passing by rare as the glimmer of a comet in the skyâ come crashing down into the reality that they were always just outside of each otherâs orbit
The âI could see you as my new addiction, you can see me as a secret missionâ to âyou kept me like a secret but I kept you like an oathâ to âwhyâd you whisper in the dark just to leave me in the nightâ to âat least I had the decency to keep my nights out of sightâ to âI loved you in secretâ to âI donât want to keep secrets just to keep youâ to âplaying hide and seek and giving me your weekendsâ to âthat's the thing about illicit affairs and clandestine meetings and stolen stares, they show their truth one single time but they lie, and they lie, and they lie a million little timesâ pipeline đ
thinking about 20 year old taylor writing âmay these memories break our fallâ right after wrapping up the fearless tour and 22 year old taylor writing âare we only biding time 'til I lose your attention?â right before wrapping up the speak now tour
i'm so so excited for ttpd because its gonna be a fire album i can feel ittttt but im also so scared bc it being a breakup album in itself will definitely stir a lot of hate and i don't think anyone's ready for that...
people are calling what happened today in gaza âthe flour massacreâ
the flour massacre
these people just wanted to get food for their families, something as basic as flour, one of the things that the very core of humanity is built on, and israel used it as a trap to murder them in cold blood
evil is not enough of a word. there is not a word to describe what they are doing to palestine. they are bleeding her out, they are torturing her and crushing her and hoping that nothing is left to remember her by when they are done. how can anyone stand and watch what is being done with indifference? how can you watch this level of human suffering, this crime against life and feel nothing, do nothing
if I had a nickel for every time I have heard starlight playing in a Wendy's at 9pm I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot but it's weird that it's happened twice
Allow me to introduce you to the City of Folklore est. 2020, population 1,989.
I made this because one day (9/6/20 to be exact) I got a visual in my brain of this town where all the folklore stories were playing out down the road from each other. You had the swanky hotel, downtown bars, a childhood haunted house, the salt box house by the sea, cannons firing at the yacht, robbers to the east, clowns to the west, etc etc. I decided that when i finished it (which wasnât until July â23) I would gift it to Taylor if I could, partly as a thank you for her generosity and kindness to me during the early days of the pandemic ⌠but also bc I thought it might be cool for her to see how her music created all this imagery and was so inspirational.
I was fortunate enough to be able to give this to her dad for her (I folded it up and put it in a gallon ziploc) at the July 28th show at Leviâs and while I donât know if she ever got it - and got to be the one searching for Easter eggs for a change đ - I hope maybe she did. đ
(second but lighter pic of it with some pins still in it while i was quilting it⌠like the complete fool that I am, I didnât take a ton of pics of it when it was done).
Hello! Just wanted to say that I love seeing your textposts! You have such a beautiful personality
hi omg LOL thank you for saying that that's such a nice thing to say! most of the time it's literally just panicking and rambling but i'm also no longer as active here and spilling my life deets away