''To my fellow member of The Tortured Poets Department. Here are some tokens of my gratitude - to you, for your support from me, sincerely. I hope you'll welcome this album into your life (and vinyl collection!) with all my love, and tortured poetry… your friend, Taylor <3''
“she’s going to write a breakup song about you” is basic. “she’s going to not only sing the love songs she wrote about you to someone else but also change a lyric to specifically make it about her new partner” is smart. it’s possible. it’s terrifying.
I know this is pointing out the obvious but goodness gracious the contrast between Taylor at the ihearts last year (exhausted/devastated/sore/not wanting to be perceived at all) vs. this year (glowing/smiling/tan etc) is just a brilliant reminder that the worst parts of our lives will eventually pass and we will know joy again even if only softly at first. Our broken hearts will mend and we will meet new people that make us feel alive and show us what we wanted was never too much. there will be new memories and chapters and you won’t be just sad now until the end of time. turns out the pain really wouldn’t be forevermore
Imagine telling yourself at the start of this year that Taylor would have two different boyfriends come see her perform on the eras tour and neither of them would be Joe