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The best thing I’ve seen all year

I don’t know what Daniel Radcliffe is doing these days and this clip doesn’t help but here’s my thoughts on the matter:

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Hi, i'm coming back here for a very important reason I hope people understand and respect. I feel ashamed for talking about these things here but I wasn't so desperate and in need I wouldn't even mention it.

As most of you know, I live in Venezuela, a country that has been in crisis for a long time. And for the last 5 years, nothing has been easy. Almost 4 years ago, my family and I had to say goodbye to my father who moved out of the country to help us survive this mess, and it all has been in 'control'. But ever since the world has stopped everything for a very important reason (and you should stay home), my father hasn't been working so he can't send money or even pay his own bills, he is eating only twice a day so he can have food for more days. It's all been insane and I have kept my problems shut and pray everyday to get through this.

We only don't have my fathers financial help, we also have other problems here in my town, specifically in my community and street, we don't have water. And we have to pay someone who can bring water to our place and it's very expensive. Every thing is coming all together and it's very suffocating and stressing. I hate seeing my mom so tired desperate, it makes my heart ache.

Due to this pandemic alert, we can't go out and work, or try to make money cause nobody is actually working here. In this moment of need, I just need someone to tell me it's going to be okay, I know there are a lot of people who are in my position and honestly I pray everyday for everyone in this world, so that we can be safe, healthy and find ways to make it possible.

@taylorswift I know there are many many people doing this and you might not see this but I'm glad this can be a place where I can open my heart and try to calm myself. @taylornation

Thank you Taylor for helping other swifties, for doing your job by staying home and doing things for our beautiful people. You deserve heaven and all that's good in this world. I love you more than words. You are my star.

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“Not really [was it melancholy]. I was just so happy that my world felt opened up creatively. There was a point that I got to as a writer who only wrote very diaristic songs that I felt it was unsustainable for my future moving forward. It felt like too hot of a microscope, it felt a bit like I was just, why am I, if I’m writing about my life and all that it is–on my bad days I would feel like I was I was loading a cannon of clickbait, when that’s not what I want for my life. And I think that when I put out folklore, I felt like, ‘If I can do this, this thing where I get to create characters in this mythological American town or wherever I imagine them and I can reflect my own emotions onto what I think they might be feeling and I can create stories and characters and arcs and all this stuff but I don’t have to have it feel like when I put out an album I’m just like giving tabloids ammunition and stuff. […] And constantly kind of examining yourself in a way that feels like, I felt like there would be a point in my life where I could no longer really do that and still maintain a place of good mental health and emotional health and all that. So what I felt after we put out folklore was like, oh wow, people are into this too? This thing that feels really good for my life, and feels really good for my creativity, and feels really good to them too?’ Oh my god! I saw a lane for my future that was a real breakthrough moment of excitement and happiness. I kind of referred to writing these songs as flotation device, because obviously this year is hell on earth for everyone, and seeing what your fellow humans are going through–the long pond studio sessions was the first time that Jack, Aaron and I were in the same room. And I still haven’t been in the same room as Justin Vernon! Who has now collaborated on two albums, heavily, and we’ve talked but we’ve just never been in the same space together. It’s pretty wild!”

— Taylor to Zane Lowe on the creative pivot she took this year (via cages-boxes-hunters-foxes)

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“Dorothea” Is The Girl From “Illicit Affairs” And “‘Tis The Damn Season”

We have a cross-album song trilogy people! Let’s break this down.

“Illicit Affairs” stars a young girl engaging in an affair with an older lover. It’s a song where the girl is at her most broken vulnerable state. She remarks that she has taken “the road less traveled by” and that he went from romancing her in beautiful rooms to using her in “meetings in parking lots.” He’s also made her into such a dirty little secret that she has to “leave the perfume on the shelf that [she] picked out just for him.”

Now let’s head to “’Tis the Damn Season.” Very similar imagery shows up, linking the two songs. Dorothea has left their hometown to become a star (and also quite possibly to get out of this toxic situation). Yet, the temptation of the good days works like “a drug that only works the first few hundred times.” She affirms this drug has this hold on her still as she goes back to “the road less traveled by” from “illicit affairs” when she says in this song “the road not taken looks real good now, and it always leads to you and my hometown.”

She remarks that she parked her car “right between the Methodist and the school that used to be ours.” This, I believe, was the parking lot that the two of them had a history of meeting up at in “illicit affairs.” She follows this up by saying that “the holiday lingers like a bad perfume.” In “illicit affairs” the perfume was something that she initially wanted to use to attract him to her, win him over, only to realize that he truly wanted nothing meaningful with her. I think the holiday lingers like a “bad perfume” not because it’s off-putting, but because she knows wanting him that same way is bad. It’s a “bad perfume” because it was the one she used when she wanted him to want her so desperately. She doesn’t want to go back to the lows she experienced in “illicit affairs.”

Then we get to “Dorothea.” This song, I believe, is from the perspective of the man from “illicit affairs.” After she leaves him and becomes a star in LA, he finds himself missing what they had. He recalls their relationship with more fondness (probably because he was the one with all of the power), so he writes her a letter (this song). In “illicit affairs” it is established that they know each other very well as speak “a secret language” and “see colors” that they simply can’t share with anyone else. This is how he can write to her with confidence that “[she’ll] always know [him].” She too, knows how deeply he knows her when she says in “‘Tis the Damn Season” that she wonders about him, “the only soul [she’s] ever known who can tell which smiles [she’s] fakin’.”

He has kept up to date with her rise to fame. He sees her through a “tiny screen” (phone) as she’s “sellin’ dreams, sellin’ makeup and magazines” and hanging out with her “shiny new friends.” When she returns to her hometown in “’Tis The Damn Season” she accepts the phoniness of the lifestyle she leads now in L.A. with “those so-called friends who’ll write books about [her].”

Neither one of them have truly moved on from the draw they once had to each other when things were “good.” However, unlike the headspace she was in during “illicit affairs,” she has the perspective that their relationship will never be something with real romantic permanence. When Taylor Swift wrote “Babe,” a song about infidelity, Taylor strikes down her lover by saying, because of the cheating, that it would be the last time she would call him “babe.” In THIS song relating to infidelity, Dorothea uses that same affectionate term. He can “call [her] ‘babe’ for the weekend.” They’ll have a one-night stand, reigniting this affair, for one brief weekend and then she leaves.

He wants to rekindle the past with someone who shines so much brighter than him now. She wants to take the briefest run down memory lane to recapture what felt real, even though it never was, while she’s taking her vacation away from all that feels fake about her life in L.A.

We STAN a complex lyricist in this house! <3

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Queens supporting queens part 2

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“Dorothea” Is The Girl From “Illicit Affairs” And “‘Tis The Damn Season”

We have a cross-album song trilogy people! Let’s break this down.

“Illicit Affairs” stars a young girl engaging in an affair with an older lover. It’s a song where the girl is at her most broken vulnerable state. She remarks that she has taken “the road less traveled by” and that he went from romancing her in beautiful rooms to using her in “meetings in parking lots.” He’s also made her into such a dirty little secret that she has to “leave the perfume on the shelf that [she] picked out just for him.”

Now let’s head to “’Tis the Damn Season.” Very similar imagery shows up, linking the two songs. Dorothea has left their hometown to become a star (and also quite possibly to get out of this toxic situation). Yet, the temptation of the good days works like “a drug that only works the first few hundred times.” She affirms this drug has this hold on her still as she goes back to “the road less traveled by” from “illicit affairs” when she says in this song “the road not taken looks real good now, and it always leads to you and my hometown.”

She remarks that she parked her car “right between the Methodist and the school that used to be ours.” This, I believe, was the parking lot that the two of them had a history of meeting up at in “illicit affairs.” She follows this up by saying that “the holiday lingers like a bad perfume.” In “illicit affairs” the perfume was something that she initially wanted to use to attract him to her, win him over, only to realize that he truly wanted nothing meaningful with her. I think the holiday lingers like a “bad perfume” not because it’s off-putting, but because she knows wanting him that same way is bad. It’s a “bad perfume” because it was the one she used when she wanted him to want her so desperately. She doesn’t want to go back to the lows she experienced in “illicit affairs.”

Then we get to “Dorothea.” This song, I believe, is from the perspective of the man from “illicit affairs.” After she leaves him and becomes a star in LA, he finds himself missing what they had. He recalls their relationship with more fondness (probably because he was the one with all of the power), so he writes her a letter (this song). In “illicit affairs” it is established that they know each other very well as speak “a secret language” and “see colors” that they simply can’t share with anyone else. This is how he can write to her with confidence that “[she’ll] always know [him].” She too, knows how deeply he knows her when she says in “‘Tis the Damn Season” that she wonders about him, “the only soul [she’s] ever known who can tell which smiles [she’s] fakin’.”

He has kept up to date with her rise to fame. He sees her through a “tiny screen” (phone) as she’s “sellin’ dreams, sellin’ makeup and magazines” and hanging out with her “shiny new friends.” When she returns to her hometown in “’Tis The Damn Season” she accepts the phoniness of the lifestyle she leads now in L.A. with “those so-called friends who’ll write books about [her].”

Neither one of them have truly moved on from the draw they once had to each other when things were “good.” However, unlike the headspace she was in during “illicit affairs,” she has the perspective that their relationship will never be something with real romantic permanence. When Taylor Swift wrote “Babe,” a song about infidelity, Taylor strikes down her lover by saying, because of the cheating, that it would be the last time she would call him “babe.” In THIS song relating to infidelity, Dorothea uses that same affectionate term. He can “call [her] ‘babe’ for the weekend.” They’ll have a one-night stand, reigniting this affair, for one brief weekend and then she leaves.

He wants to rekindle the past with someone who shines so much brighter than him now. She wants to take the briefest run down memory lane to recapture what felt real, even though it never was, while she’s taking her vacation away from all that feels fake about her life in L.A.

We STAN a complex lyricist in this house! <3

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Queens supporting queens

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“Dorothea” Is The Girl From “Illicit Affairs” And “‘Tis The Damn Season”

We have a cross-album song trilogy people! Let’s break this down.

“Illicit Affairs” stars a young girl engaging in an affair with an older lover. It’s a song where the girl is at her most broken vulnerable state. She remarks that she has taken “the road less traveled by” and that he went from romancing her in beautiful rooms to using her in “meetings in parking lots.” He’s also made her into such a dirty little secret that she has to “leave the perfume on the shelf that [she] picked out just for him.”

Now let’s head to “’Tis the Damn Season.” Very similar imagery shows up, linking the two songs. Dorothea has left their hometown to become a star (and also quite possibly to get out of this toxic situation). Yet, the temptation of the good days works like “a drug that only works the first few hundred times.” She affirms this drug has this hold on her still as she goes back to “the road less traveled by” from “illicit affairs” when she says in this song “the road not taken looks real good now, and it always leads to you and my hometown.”

She remarks that she parked her car “right between the Methodist and the school that used to be ours.” This, I believe, was the parking lot that the two of them had a history of meeting up at in “illicit affairs.” She follows this up by saying that “the holiday lingers like a bad perfume.” In “illicit affairs” the perfume was something that she initially wanted to use to attract him to her, win him over, only to realize that he truly wanted nothing meaningful with her. I think the holiday lingers like a “bad perfume” not because it’s off-putting, but because she knows wanting him that same way is bad. It’s a “bad perfume” because it was the one she used when she wanted him to want her so desperately. She doesn’t want to go back to the lows she experienced in “illicit affairs.”

Then we get to “Dorothea.” This song, I believe, is from the perspective of the man from “illicit affairs.” After she leaves him and becomes a star in LA, he finds himself missing what they had. He recalls their relationship with more fondness (probably because he was the one with all of the power), so he writes her a letter (this song). In “illicit affairs” it is established that they know each other very well as speak “a secret language” and “see colors” that they simply can’t share with anyone else. This is how he can write to her with confidence that “[she’ll] always know [him].” She too, knows how deeply he knows her when she says in “‘Tis the Damn Season” that she wonders about him, “the only soul [she’s] ever known who can tell which smiles [she’s] fakin’.”

He has kept up to date with her rise to fame. He sees her through a “tiny screen” (phone) as she’s “sellin’ dreams, sellin’ makeup and magazines” and hanging out with her “shiny new friends.” When she returns to her hometown in “’Tis The Damn Season” she accepts the phoniness of the lifestyle she leads now in L.A. with “those so-called friends who’ll write books about [her].”

Neither one of them have truly moved on from the draw they once had to each other when things were “good.” However, unlike the headspace she was in during “illicit affairs,” she has the perspective that their relationship will never be something with real romantic permanence. When Taylor Swift wrote “Babe,” a song about infidelity, Taylor strikes down her lover by saying, because of the cheating, that it would be the last time she would call him “babe.” In THIS song relating to infidelity, Dorothea uses that same affectionate term. He can “call [her] ‘babe’ for the weekend.” They’ll have a one-night stand, reigniting this affair, for one brief weekend and then she leaves.

He wants to rekindle the past with someone who shines so much brighter than him now. She wants to take the briefest run down memory lane to recapture what felt real, even though it never was, while she’s taking her vacation away from all that feels fake about her life in L.A.

We STAN a complex lyricist in this house! <3

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MOOD

"i wasn't letting up until the day he died"

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taylor in seven saying "and just like a folk song our love will be passed on" and then coming onto gold rush and saying "my mind turned your life into folklore" and she expected me not to lose my mind. taylor i am unhinged. please.

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i could be completely off-base with this, but I very much think Taylor’s second love interest of color in a music video being an Asian American man in the middle of a pandemic that has increased racism and xenophobia against Asian people was a powerful choice and subtle statement, especially the shot of them coming face to face inches away from each other

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is this how she feels about fame? being in a cage of glass, at the view of everyone, to entertain them with music and beautiful outfits, not being able to escape it, to hide, to touch the person you love? to be with the person you love? being a prisoner? MA’AM

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Reputation and Folklore Easter Eggs In “Willow” Music Video!

First, a snake reference!

Then, we can’t forget, “Now I breathe flames each time I talk”

Her. MIND.

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Reputation and Folklore Easter Eggs In “Willow” Music Video!

First, a snake reference!

Then, we can’t forget, “Now I breathe flames each time I talk”

Her. MIND.

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i’m begging for you to take my hand, wreck my plans, that’s my man

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Insvisible string /cardigan

Begin again... kinda...

That seems like love story

the fishbowl says hello.

... ready for it?

They're burning all the witches

He was burning witches with her in disguise 😭

Both stepping into the daylight, together <3