#rep tour indy

[dreaminginsteadofsleeping42]

Oh to be happily shaking ass to Gorgeous at the rep tour once more.

#rep tour indy

[subconscious-parties]

entered a new dimension of 2014 this weekend (I went to a Taylor Swift concert)

had a rebirth in section 111 of lincoln financial field

ps: i miss ALL three of my subconscious party listeners deeply!

#rep was my fav era live #a little commotion for the i know places outfit?!? #you will hear from me in september #until then i will remain a mysterious internet girl #jk i am a chronic oversharer #anyways! #indie sleaze #2014 tumblr #2014 aesthetic #2012 #college #radio #taylor swift #the eras tour #eras tour

[spinning-beneath-the-stars]

Here are my predictions for The Tortured Poets Department (!!!!):

- A sister album (sorta) to Rep/Lover/folklore but darker, like falling out of love instead of falling in love

- LOTS of collabs - specifically I’m hoping Noah Kahan, Phoebe, and Lana

- Songs won’t be surprise songs on the Eras tour

- indie/folk vibes PLEASE

- she wrote this for the burnt out former gifted kids i’m telling y’all

*more to come later, class is startinf

#taylor swift #taylornation #ts11 #ts11 theories #the tortured poets department #tpd #grammys #the eras tour #ttpd

[whatiwillsay]

now that the shock of the relationship being over has passed it actually really isn’t shocking they broke up. they met when she decided she was going to hide away for awhile, then she did next to no press for rep, they probably had an off period during rep tour if the tea you got about a gf is real, her starting to wear black during lover spells out another off time, then the era is cut short and they’re forced to quarantine together and probably got back to how good things were when they first met hiding away. like of course that bland ass white man couldn’t handle it the moment she had to go out and be the top of the music industry. and the press she did for red tv and midnights is nothing compared to pre rep taylor.

in conclusion i still feel sad for taylor but honestly fuck joe it sounds like he’s the one that wanted that 1950s shit of a good wife who follows him around while he does his little indie projects and she idk bakes him bread, writes love songs for him, and gives him a grammy. i hope he never sees the cats again.. ok maybe that was too far but seriously fuck him if the narrative the media is telling is true

bro i am fucking so heavily with this take rn i am with you 100% fuck joe specifically for making taylor fucking swift hide her sparkle. like i said on the patreon last night i don’t think it was like abusive per se but it’s that tale as old as time- a toxic mediocre male taking an exceptional woman and dimming her light and honestly fuck him for that. and it looks like taylor is finally seeing that with how tree is absolutely eviscerating him and his flop career in these articles!!! i am leaning towards cheeky bitchy secret songs on thursday.

#anon of the day #it’s toever

[911-on-abc]

sarsi NEED to know about Country Music AU

tagging @exhuastedpigeon and @elgascreamslikehell too because you guys were also interested in this au! (read previous post about this AU here)

okay so here is where we are at: Eddie goes viral and he is inundated with offers from agents and managers but Bobby Nash's offer is a little different than the rest's because he is actually honest.*

He's not promising Eddie a cross-country tour or even a record deal. He doesn't say he will make him a 'star' which Eddie doesn't even want. Bobby tells Eddie he would like to fly him out to LA** to record a few demo tracks with him. He can't guarantee that he can get Eddie signed to any label, but he will get the demos in the right hands and that's more than anyone else can actually guarantee. 

When the school year ends, Eddie bundles Chris onto a plane with him and they head off to LA. 

Bobby takes him to his studio,*** the 118, and sets Eddie up with Hen and Chimney who help produce and engineer the tracks at the studio. Then, of course, he meets Buck. 

Buck is the latest up-and-coming country star. After a rocky beginning, Buck's debut album is at the top of the charts, but he feels threatened by Eddie's presence at the studio because he's afraid Bobby will replace him. 

It doesn't help that Eddie suggests a change to the song that Buck's working on that makes it sound so much better. It also doesn't help that he can't look away from Eddie's hands while he plays the guitar or gets his voice out of his head. Whatever. Eddie's good, sure, but he's not that good... lmao

ask me about my wips!

*Bobby's role in this fic is actually that of an A&R rep, not a manager. A&R reps scouts for a label and help develop artists, while managers/artists represent the artist and work on their behalf. Studio 118 is a part of Station 118 Records, formerly an imprint of a bigger label that bought itself out and is now indie. None of this will ever be discussed in the fic lmao, but it matters to me!!1!!!1! 

** Yeah yeah yeah Nashville is the country music capital of the world blah blah blah suspend your disbelief!!

***Studio time is actually fucking expensive!!! Most artists have to produce and record their demos on their own dime, so the fact that Bobby is letting him use his studio for free is super generous and reveals how invested he is in Eddie

#my post #my writing #wip #Eddie Diaz #Bobby Nash #Evan Buckley #ask #asks #Country Music AU

[thepalmofyourfreezinghand]

While we are at it, I have a very controversial take to share and I will share here because I believe this a safe place, so here we go…

I don’t think Taylor’s boyfriends needs to like her music. If the guy does like it, it would be cool, but I don’t think this should be a deal breaker like some of her fans likes to say. I mean, I’ve seen some takes about how Joe never appeared smiling or singing when he attended the Rep tour so he probably never liked/loved her in the first place, and I’m like… ok? If he loves her for her and she was happy, who cares if he likes her music or not? People have different tastes in things, her boyfriend needs to love Taylor the human being, not Taylor Swift the brand.

I agree with this!

Tbf, I think Joe mostly liked/likes Taylor’s music. We saw him bopping his head to Bad Blood and DBM during tour, for example, and, even beyond that, I think it’s difficult not to fall in love with a song that your very famous and talented girlfriend wrote for you, even if it’s not your genre.

Before CWF was released, somebody found a playlist made by Joe on Spotify and it was pretty much exclusively indie/alt music. We also know he likes old rock tracks. Overall… if I had to guess… he’s probably not the biggest fan of some of Taylor’s tracks pre-rep, and he probably really likes folklore and evermore.

The important thing is that the person you’re dating is supportive of your work/your hobbies, is respectful of it, compliments you, offers gentle critique and so on. If they’re not a fan it’s nbd, imo. The important thing is that they’re not offensive about it and they don’t make you feel any less because of it, the way JG did.

(This is always a safe space for unpopular opinions!).

#taylor swift #joe alwyn

[thisultraviolet]

Wishes for TS11 and the remaining re-recordings? Like sound/genre wise for TS11 and which features you want for the re-recordings, which songs you think can be improved, which you think there's a shot will be botched, etc.

I’m forever wanting the rock album even if it leans more to an indie rock almost Fleetwood Mac-esque style.

But if she really wanted to go crazy give me a full concept album musical Taylor. FULL theatre. She would absolutely DEVOUR a sad reprise in act two that just barely changes the lyrics but completely devastates you.

In terms of the re-records I’d love an acoustic cut on 1989 for a vault track, Debut as faithful as possible while just polishing up the production, and rep honestly I just want her to surprise me. Ideal features would be Conan Gray or Troye Sivan, Sabrina would be FUN but I’m not gonna die if it doesn’t happen.

If she did something with Hozier I’d die but also she’d be outsung on her own song so idk if we can handle that.

Nothing that I think needs crazy improvements beyond Debut’s production considering we know we’re not getting LWYMMD with tour production which was really my only wish.

And I think as long as there is SOME accent there for Debut I’ll be happy

#for TS11 #either way I want a huge live band or orchestra #ily Jack but put the synthesisers away just for a little bit #my post #ask #jake <3

[theredtours]

Taylor Swift’s masterpiece Eras Tour sets Lumen Field attendance record

By Michael Rietmulder | Seattle Times music writer

Concert review

Taylor Swift was just getting warmed up. With a little help from a sold-out Saturday night crowd at Lumen Field that came ready to scream every line, Earth’s biggest pop star had just ripped through “Cruel Summer” — a 4-year-old electro-pop banger that’s arguably the song of this summer — when she decided to have a little fun.

Without saying a word, Swift pointed to sections of the Seattle crowd, which she pegged at 72,000, who would erupt like audible geysers on their queen’s command. “This could go to my head,” Swift said playfully. “You just made me feel so powerful, you know what I mean?”

It was a winking setup for a booming “The Man” — a joyful stomp-and-romp rebuke of sexist double standards — that saw Swift bro-ing around a gargantuan office-themed stage, fist-bumping her battalion of business-suited dancers in jest, as her sequined jacket and boots glistened in the fading sunlight.

After Saturday night, Swift has every right to feel powerful. Although Lumen Field reps couldn’t confirm the final attendance figures Sunday morning, it was the largest concert crowd in the venue’s history, breaking a record previously held by U2’s 360 Tour, which drew more than 70,000 fans in 2011. According to Swift’s team, 72,171 fans were in the house Saturday.

From the opening segment of Swift’s Eras Tour, for which there was an almost unprecedented amount of anticipation, Swift came ready to shoot-to-kill-you-with-a-look, as the stadium exploded with the strike of every pose or lick of her bright red lips. The three-and-a-half-hour marathon was barely underway, and it was already clear fans were in store for a night of entertainment on the biggest, grandest scale.

At 33, Swift already has around 15 years of pop stardom under her belt. In that time, she’s developed a reputation for having one of the strongest work ethics and most meticulous eyes for detail in the biz, and her ambitious, career-spanning Eras Tour takes that to another level. It’s customary for artists with catalogs as deep as hers to draw from the different periods of their careers with any tour. But the breadth and depth of the ground Swift covered across her whopping, 40-some-song set — without a proper set break, no less — was truly impressive, both physically and artistically. (Of her 10 albums, only her 2006 debut was omitted.)

Rather than working through material chronologically, Swift and her band — who flanked the back line of the stage, which had a long catwalk jutting out to the middle of the stadium and a secondary, diamond-shaped stage in the middle — ping-ponged between older and newer stretches of her career, helping the pace of the show.

Breaking out the set into nine or so album-specific segments, each with their own imaginative stage designs and wardrobe changes, only magnified the multitudes of Swift, the country-singer-turned-certified-pop-juggernaut who prompts economic impact studies in every metropolis she visits. Shuffling through the various periods of her career often felt like visitations from the ghosts of Taylors past, from the teenager singing of high-school romance (“Fearless” and “Speak Now”) to the crossover pop star starting to realize her widescreen visions (“Red” and “1989”) and the snake-slaying superstar whose life played out in the tabloids (“Reputation”). 

The starkest, most potent juxtaposition came during the first half of the show, when Swift segued from the indie-folk underpinnings of “Folklore” to “Reputation,” with the buzzing synths and crunching trap drums of “Ready For It” making it clear we were out of the woods.

With a wealth of newer songs from a prolific four-album run she’d never before toured on (spanning 2019’s “Lover” to last fall’s “Midnights” LP), the star’s abbreviated throwback dives into her transitional “Speak Now” and “Fearless” eras felt particularly fan service-y.

It’s hard to fathom Swift getting more popular than she already was during her last Seattle date, when she brought her popcorn-ready Reputation Tour here in 2018. But kicking off a two-nighter at the same venue five years later, it seemed that for every millennial going “back to high school” with Swift on a gleeful pass through “You Belong With Me,” there was a 7-year-old singing along just as loudly to “Love Story,” the same 2008 seeds bearing yet another generation of Swifties.

One of Swift’s strengths as a performer is turning some of her less overtly stadium-ready songs into some of the biggest moments in her shows.

Sitting alone at a moss-covered piano, in keeping with the woodsy motif of her “Folklore” and “Evermore” albums, Swift eased in to a heart-leveling “Champagne Problems.” For a minute, there was a rare stillness in the air that the crowd seemed to breathe in, only to let loose in a triumphant choir, joining their leader loudest at the bridge. As the stadium erupted in an extended “Taylor” chant when the final note slipped away, even Swift seemed to well up a little on the big screen.

With each section of the show, the stage transformed into distinct mini universes, and for all the more explosive, fire-cannon-blasting moments, those woodsy “Folklore” and “Evermore” portions felt especially Northwest. When Swift later returned atop the mossy-roofed “’Folklore’ cabin,” she joked that the pandemic-conceived “fantasy world” was “in the middle of the woods — somewhere in Washington state, probably.”

Save for a pair of surprise acoustic songs (Saturday night it was “This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things” and “Everything Has Changed”), there isn’t a ton of variation in the set list from night to night on the Eras Tour. But with sibling rock trio HAIM joining the tour as one of the openers in Seattle, fans were treated to the debut of the country-rock-tinged “No Body, No Crime” with Swift accompanied by her three “besties” to kick off the “Evermore” portion of the night. Even though her country roots seem a lifetime away, the dark, brooding number is proof Swift can channel an outlaw spirit anytime she wants.

Having executed the most ambitious tour of her career as well as she did Saturday night, it’s fair to wonder if there’s anything left Swift can’t do.

#copied this so I can read it later in case the link dies #my show #ts #eras tour #article

[zot3-flopped]

To discuss the whirlwind of the last two years, I meet Tomlinson on a sunny yet gray day in London on a balcony at his management office. Welcomed by a warm handshake, he is all geared up for a full day of promotion. “Do you mind if I smoke?” he asks. “Go for it!” I reply. Tomlinson picks up his red lighter, which matches the design of his Stone Island t-shirt, and is all business. 

Lol, he never changes!

The album immediately switches it up and dives straight into “Written All Over Your Face,” an infectious indie floor-filler that we both agree is reminiscent of the first two Arctic Monkeys albums.

Yep. He's even admitting that he's ripping them off. That was obvious from Holiday.

Repping cheap beer in his photoshoot.

Faith In The Future showcases Tomlinson’s range like never before. Opening with the pounding drums of “The Greatest,” the song was penned with the intention of being the opener for his next tour.

“That was specifically written as a tour opener, not necessarily an album opener at the time,” he says. “Musically, it’s interesting. There’s probably not another song like that on the record. It starts the album with a statement of intent, which I think is important. There’s a certain ambitious level to that.”

"Musically, it's interesting." And yet he can't elaborate on how, can he? He doesn't mention a single instrument in the entire interview. Just shows off and calls it 'ambitious.'

That hangover aesthetic again.

I loved DMA’s last album THE GLOW, which Stuart Price produced. That has dance elements in it but was done in a really authentic way. It doesn’t feel remotely contrived or like a f**king made-for-radio pop-dance hybrid. That was really food for thought for me throughout the process.

This is 2022's version of 'too much urban music on the radio.' Okay, white man.

#louis tomlinson #louis tomlinson euphoria #faith in the future #louis tomlinson racism #faith in the future promo #he sounds so bitter about the 'made for radio' thing #louis tomlinson racist

[dreaminginsteadofsleeping42]

I saw Taylor four years ago today 🥺

#rep tour indy

[bisluthq]

Whenever I see a question/concern about Taylor getting cancelled, I have to ask…were you here in 2016??? The media was onboard and the hate was cruel and relentless. I had to stop reading some pop culture sources that I sometimes read for fun.

Well, yes - no one is saying she didn’t get cancelled. But like there were a whole host of factors that fed into that and it also, as a cultural moment, defined the impermanence and irrelevance of cancelation. Despite people making whole ass murals celebrating her death, despite celebs chiming in, despite the hit pieces, despite the mean Tweets… she was able to release a #1 album and set a record breaking tour. What 2016 teaches us is cancelation is silly and has absolutely no real world consequences.

She’s also in a very different place now to where she was then. She had just released one of the most annoying albums of all time and had relentlessly shoved it down everyone’s throats for two years. She’d been in multiple idiotic feuds. She said nothing about Trump and was being paraded as an alt right icon by the alt right. She had made headlines doing really annoying things like Swiftmas. And like… she hadn’t proven herself properly.

After Rep smashed the way it did, after she stopped being so fucking desperate for attention, after she did join the 21st Century politics wise, after she toned down on weird beefs (she still beefs but like her beefs now are generally sensible like Ginny and Georgia aside), and - because sexism - once she got a steady boyfriend her image obviously changed. Add to that her collab partners and their awards/indie cred.

She just isn’t in the same place as she was in 2016.

#nat talks tay’s marketing

[themotherofallthings]

I never post. Mostly because other people have said it better and in more succinct ways. I think I’ve come to the realization, that nothing has changed for Louis. Other than being able to make the music he finally wants to make and going on tour, it seems that he is still thwarted from radio play (never mind charting) and normal promotion.  

I’m almost a little embarrassed at myself for having had the hope. I wanted to have faith, cuz Louis told me to. And while I will always have faith in him, I have zero in the music industry. I don’t know what his team can do at this stage. It’s easy to point a finger at them and say “you’re not doing your job” but I doubt that is the case at all. And as for all the hope of a new label, BMG seems unable to get Louis’ music on major radio stations either. And with a strict no “pay to play” policy, that doesn’t look to be changing anytime soon.

BTM managed to get on dozens of playlists when the song first dropped but it garnered him very little in terms of bigger streaming #s. And has actually started to level out at around less than 200K streams a day. Which is nothing to sneeze at but for a guy with millions of sm followers, those #s aren’t translating to actual streams. The math as they say, is not mathing.

I’ve known for a long while now that being a Louis stan is hard. Not because of anything he’s done, but because everything around him is so messed up and fraught with bullshit. The industry just does not want him to be successful. BMG did not sign Louis so he could be shelved (at least I hope not). I assume they wanted him and his massive fanbase and their purchasing power, to make them money, so I doubt they signed up for whatever this is now.

I knew that Louis starting over in a new genre, writing the music he loves, would mean a sort of rebranding but even that hasn’t happened. Outside of a couple alt-music mag interviews, he & his team have done very little to build an indie rep with indie radio stations. Instead, he concentrated on fan meet and greets in obscure markets, that while great for the fans, did very little for him in terms of actual radio play. 

If all he wanted was to meet fans, he could’ve done that without the pretext of promo and wasting his time doing interviews with DJs from stations that were never gonna play his music. It all seems so pointless. Can no one on his team or BMG get him a Rolling Stone or Billboard interview? He should be a hot get coming off a successful world tour and yet nothing. 

So much of the frustration I have is based on my expectations and what I want for him and his career. When in reality, Louis is probably immensely happy and satisfied with how things are going right now. He seems to have made peace with it a long time ago and is actually ok with how things are going. And the only reason I struggle is because I haven’t come to terms with letting go of my expectations. 

I know that all his fans believe he deserves everything and all the success in the world. I just have to accept that it’s not the success I would want him to have or think he deserves to have. And that’s really a me problem. If he is happy, then I’m happy. He is a successful musician. A successful touring artist and I’m genuinely excited for new music. 

It’s time to let go of whatever expectations I had and just start enjoying being a Louis fan again. 

#Louis career rant

[the-gayest-tree-you-ever-did-see]

god, you know that feeling when you meet someone you haven’t seen in ages and you’re freaking out bc you want to tell them everything, but your brain goes completely blank- that’s literally me everytime i send you an ask!! brain overload, too much i want to tell you!!

firstly, your response made me cry so how dare you be so kind and thoughtful and sweet?? it’s literally so unfair that i can’t give you a giant hug. honestly, i fully believe that we are parallel people and that the sheer queer energy of us meeting would tear a hole in space and time and shit. that being said, the universe could stand to fall apart every now and then if it meant i get to hug you.

noooo, i used to dance to bangaru kodi petta in front of my family as a kid and you just unlocked a core cringe memory. why…. did i have no shame?? i agree there is something so wrong and so right about that song. what does it even mean? why does it exist? no one knows~~

also i just started an internship too?! (this furthers my suspicions that the multiverse is real..) but my boss didn’t show up for my first day and no one knew what to do with me so i just sat in a couch for six hours. i wish this was a lie. needless to say, i had a pretty shitty day lmao. how’s your internship been?

i’ve got weird thoughts about graduating high school. i just want to be a kid again and make mud pies and fairy grass food again (yes, i was one of those kids who played fairies lmao)

i haven’t watched ms. marvel, but i will soon- v excited to see some good south asian rep! god my memory of ninjago is so blurry, but i remember being obsessed with it and having a crush on one of them. i can’t remember which, but they’re all kinda cute in a plastic toy sort of way.

also i made you pani puri, bc i make the best pani puri and thats a fact, so here *insert pani puri emoji*

mWah! mWah! mWah!

- indi <3

(please indi is fine, Mrs.Indiphannon was my mother)

omg thats exactly it!!!!!!!! its like i go through the week waiting for sunday or something so i can call you up and give you the highlights of my week like you would not BELIEVE what alex said on tuesday to darion it was INSANE and twirling a phone cord >>>>

oh 🥺🥺 i think the universe might have to just take it if we met, i think it'd be worth it to destroy it for a little while. i want to hug you so badly<333333333333333333 one day im tearing down your door just you wait

stopppp, the mental image is making me LOSE my mind kdshfksjdfh, i used to dance to kevvu keka all the time for NO fucking reason. i was twerking before it became popular/cringe i was into it and i was never going to die. kevvu keka is still a great song but i cant listen to it without the Memories anymore. bangaru kodi petta is so???? like lyrically and musically it makes sense but when you listen to it it just? confuses you? its a song beyond comprehension

omg we are. The same people. hello god? i have a query? nooooo, im so sorry about that, that literally sucks, why did he not show up??? my friend you are the boss. i hope next time goes better!! did you get to do anything on your own or did they just make you sit with empty hands? either way that sucks shit :/ my internship has been good! we had an excursion to a stadium to learn about the tech used there and we got the vip tour so we got to see the team locker rooms and everything it was super cool! plus i got a lot closer with the other interns so we're a lot more comfortable now, and we took the marta there bc it was far away so it was just a bunch of us with company shirts on crowding the back of the bus and laughing at literally nothing. on the downside, we have a project we have to do for it and my team is Actually shit, they wont do anything unless i detail how and when and why they need to do it, plus one kid is a sophomore in college but hes literally the worst bc he has done Nothing so far. grrrr

omg i played fairies too!! from first grade to third grade i had everyone convinced that i was a fairy for real and pretended i had to go visit fairyland and i had a sister there (other than my real life sister) and everything and i would put my head on the seat in front of me on the bus with my friends and hide my face and say i was sending my soul to fairyland i was. hot ig idc, but then something Happened in third grade (trauma event LOL) (its actually kind of funny now but its a loooong story so) and then everyone in the grade hated me including people ive literally never met before?? so i kind of dropped it. SAD wish i could be a fairy forever. well at least i am gay. on the bright side, you can still make mud pies and fairy grass food as an adult!! you can also make REAL pies and REAL fairy grass food omg!!!! whats more magical than macerated blueberries in puff pastries?? i will make fairy food with you i promise

omg im excited on your behalf, its so good!! one of the title cards at one point is in telugu and when i say i screamed? i SCREAMED. ME i used to have a crush on each one at various points 😔 baby tree, they are legos. <///3 all of them are so worthy of crushing on though, maybe they should try not being good people. stfu and steal candy GODS. i do remember i had a crush for the longest time on jay, but that was very very closely followed by. ok dont make fun of me but. by pythor 😭 i guess i was into him in a bad boy sort of way we're never talking about this again

you DO make the best pani puri !!!!!!!!! this is so good thank you indi youre amazing *nom nom nom*

mwaH! mwaH! mwaH! mwaH! 🥰

(so Mrs. Indiphannon is who i have to get permission from to marry you? whats her number rq)

#ily indi #indiphannon #< until we get used to the new tag :] #asks #the tree speaks

[loverlexi]

Hi Taylor!

I’m messaging you on an attempt that you’ll maybe somehow see this. Mallory and I have been friends for YEARS, we became best friends in middle school because of you, we would talk about how much we loved you and your music. We made our moms play Debut and Fearless in the car on the way to school. We went to Target and bought the Speak Now CD after school together.

When you came to Indianapolis, (our hometown show) for the Speak Now Tour, we made it our goal to get to see you live. We were freshman and worked at our high school’s concession stand so we could raise money to buy tickets. That became our little tradition.

We skipped school and traveled to Indy for the Red Tour, and once we graduated, we drove from Ball State to the 1989 tour (where we saw you in the pit!) , and while we were starting our lives we made it to rep tour as well! Now we are married and have babies, but you have been a constant in our lives nonetheless! We had cocktails and had a little listening party to folklore and evermore, and while I was on my honeymoon midnights came out (but you can bet your ass I was FaceTiming Mallory that night so we could listen to the album) 😂 When eras tour tickets first came out Mal had just had a baby and I had just gotten pregnant, so we weren’t able to make it to the same show. She ended up going to Columbus and I went to Detroit. It felt wrong not to see the show together, but we made sure to FaceTime during the surprise songs!

So imagine our excitement when you announced some shows in Indianapolis! As you know with the Ticketmaster fiasco, we were waitlisted for the Indy shows. Our husbands and siblings even tried to get us tickets. We are heartbroken that you will be in our hometown for 3 nights and we won’t be there, especially since it’s commemorating all of your eras and it feels like our childhood. 🥲 I’m writing to you to see if there’s any way we could be there. I would buy resale tickets but they are INSANE and so many people have gotten scammed. I don’t care if it’s the last seat in the nosebleeds behind the stage, I would love to surprise Mal with tickets. It just feels like tradition.

We love love love you & always will 🫶🏼

Lexi

@taylorswift @taylornation

[thepalmofyourfreezinghand]

Hmm bear with me, for a second. I am just speculating and going only by songs and her public appearances.

But I think more than fame and money, Taylor was looking for approval as a serious artist since rep. What I mean is till Rep Tour/Lover she was stuck with her old formula and that meant being an A-Lister and maintaining that status quo. She was someone who is always out and about with other A-listers and in the most prominent of parties. She was everywhere and with people just as rich and famous. But doing that just wasn’t working anymore. Because she was praised by the art snobs only when she did lowkey stuff like acoustic performances, collaborations with Gary Lightbody or The Civil Wars. And these were the people whose criticisms really gained steam because they had art cred and people who gassed their opinions up.

Maybe it was old juvenile insecurities back then and that she had to be the most famous and most “accepted”. When she was accepted by mainstream celebs but saw scepticism from critics and makers and enjoyers of “cool indie records” she switched gears because Taylor is almost always running around to make people love her. And this is not speculation, she has said so many times that she does do stuff for validation.

She prides herself on being a songwriter and lyricist and that is what we love about her and being mainstream didn’t let her use “big words”. (Like come on swifties go gaga over words like matinee, machiavellian, and joked about needing dictionaries for evermore and folklore. I know there are many POCs in the fandom but it’s not like we don’t know English at all.) But my point is, Taylor wanted to be a cool indie record person now that she was as famous as one can be. No one can take away that from her - for better or for worse.

She now hangs out with HAIM sisters, is around boygenius, Stella McCartney, PWB - famously cool artists. In Paris she makes it a point to say “somewhere the culture is clever”, in The Lakes she wants to be where “the poets went to die”. But everyone doesn’t have to be a “cool” artist and this act on Taylor is so-

Because she doesn’t interact with her fans like these people, can’t price her tickets like them, can’t voice her political opinions and campaigned like a director for a glorified music video. She did a cameo in Amsterdam for some reason???

And maybe that’s why she liked Joe and the privacy- that somehow she was being cooler. She liked him because he had a normal grounded life but was still an artist, he had “honour” and was in cool indie films by choice.

But we are seeing her circling back to her old self with the re recordings now that the money is coming in and people love her again, Taylor just doesn’t feel authentic the way she felt since Rep. And I just want to enjoy her music but as a swiftie I really am not able to do that because of her mind games. And she knows she plays mind games with us, her joking about easter eggs, her saying she lurks and sees, leaving hints everywhere is to keep us hooked. Folklore, Evermore could have been a great pivotal turn, but they were just that because now she was “in” as a cool artist and even more famous.

Sigh. I hope this is just a phase - for me, I don’t like not liking Taylor. I would still go to war if someone said something about her, but she does need to be honest, she has been vague her entire career and for once I’d just like some honesty.

These are such interesting takes, anon! I don’t agree with all of this but I’m posting hoping more people will chime in with their thoughts :).

I will say that the re-recordings and Midnights wouldn’t have been half as respected/successful/well-regarded as they are now if they hadn’t been preceded by folkmore. I love those two albums as much as the next person, but I hate that it really took two “serious” albums for people to take her seriously. I have a friend who’s a big Phoebe fan and he never gave Taylor the time of the day until she released folklore. He loved that album and pointed out that seven sounds like a Joni track.

Imagine if she’d released Vigilante Shit or Bejeweled after Lover… c’mon.

Now, Taylor is also clearly a fan of indie cool music and old movies. She’s showed us that repeatedly. She’s much less “pop” in her personal life than she is in her music, imo. But, at the same time, I agree that for the longest time she maybe was a bit insecure about certain stuff (the fact that she made fun of the “adult” books Jake read and the “adult” music he listened to says it all…).

It’s very complex, but… she did folkmore because she threw all her formulas away and she wanted to bare her soul, BUT also because she wanted to be taken a bit more seriously. But I also think that in her personal life she’s more “indie and cool” than she lets on (except for the fact that she watches true crime, which I hate).

But it sucks because people weren’t taking her seriously, and she’s a SERIOUS songwriter, a literal genius! I’d go insane if people weren’t taking me seriously because of the themes I sing about even though my songwriting is godlike… I imagine that’s how Jane Austen must feel too, I’m her tomb, since so many people disregard her books as “romance novels” as if she isn’t one of the most innovative writers the world has ever witnessed.

Taylor wanted to sit with the cool kids because she is a cool kid, for what concerns her work and her talent, but they weren’t letting her.

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[pensandlakes-staywithtay]

10; Awards and Poetry

"What the actual hell", I exclaimed as I dropped both my phone and my jaw when you announced that you're releasing your 11th album... as you were receiving your THIRTEENTH Grammy! @taylorswift, you are sneaky... very sneaky. You had us all changing our pfps (at least on the former bird app) into black and white gearing towards Rep TV.

But noooooo. Miss ma'am had something nefarious planned. Oh Tay. To be a swiftie really is such a joy. My productivity is once again at a zero on a Monday yes, but I'm beaming with happiness!

I mean, a new album? THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT? Hello? My literal username is pensandlakes for a reason. If The Lakes is a prelude to the poetic masterpiece that this album is going to be, I think I am going to malfunction come April 19th. Also... April 19th! Finally! A release nearing my birthday! (ps: you should totally release an album for every month in the year -- cause we love celebrating album birthdays).

And 4 time Grammy AOTY winner? Taylor Alison Swift! You are a freaking legend! So proud of my little indie artist who I fell in love with in 2007!

Now you're probably on your way to Japan. We are going to be in the same timezone now. It's bittersweet. Due to circumstances, I am not going to be able to go to The Eras Tour -- not unless you add dates or shows in Asia. But I try not to think too much about that cause it just breaks my heart and I cannot afford and I cannot allow myself to bask in the ocean of despair right now cause I still have a big mountain to climb by the third week of February.

So yes, Tay. BIG CONGRATS! You deserve this and more!

Love you, forever and always!

<3