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Look what I've found at the college library! A Britney-based introductory book from 2003 🤓☝🏻

Vintage, love it.

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If Britney were a teacher...

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by mattxiv on instagram

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been thinking A LOT about this one.

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halsey: “The Great Impersonator” A Confessional Concept Album by Halsey.

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happy release day!

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ANDY SAMBERG! (b. August 18th, 1978) in • sp.

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taylor: hope its nice where you are

also taylor: hope its shitty in the black dog

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the black dog is such classic taylor songwriting - starting with a small detail/memory (seeing her ex visit a bar) and then it spirals into a wider recollection of the relationship. the flip from 'magic fabric of our dreaming' to 'tragic fabric of our dreaming' because those dreams are now ruined. the disconnect between being so far apart that she's stalking his location, to once showering together while she was shaking. the switch in the last chorus to him being a black dog, leaving with his tail between his legs. i am simply OBSESSED

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The fact that the chorus of The Black Dog has both "I just don't understand how you don't miss me in The Black Dog" (a public place, one where you can get drunk and lose all of your inhibitions) and "I just don't understand how you don't miss me in the shower" (a private place where you are at your most vulnerable)

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I'm still very much Processing but at the moment I'm stuck on "Clara Bow" and the way that song reminds me so much of "The Lucky Ones" and "Nothing New," but from a very zoomed-out lens.

"Nothing New" was a very individual and personal song, a young woman looking at the industry she was part of and realizing how it views her, and feeling the fear of the day when it discards her.

"The Lucky Ones" is that same young woman a few years later, looking beyond how this issue affects herself, at those who've come before her and faced the same issues she's facing, and how they dealt with it and what she's learned from them.

"Clara Bow" is zooming way out to look both backwards and forwards at this problem that's beyond a single woman or a generation or a period of time, something that's industry-wide and society-wide. It's not just women who came before Taylor, it's not just Taylor. It's all the women who will come after Taylor too, because it's how society and the industry views and treats women in general.

The song describes the way the entertainment industry compares women to each other ("you look like Clara Bow, you look like Stevie Nicks, you look like Taylor Swift"), packages and labels them like products, uses them up and then discards them after all of that takes its toll, only to do the same thing with the next pretty girl in line. And how it does it by promising each girl that they're different, they're special, they're comparable to those who've come before but they have something those who came before didn't have that will make them stand out and survive the way others didn't ("you're the real thing").

Just the stark look at the way women are objectified, reduced to body parts ("hair and lips") and pit against one another as a form of flattery ("you have edge; she never did"), the way society is willing to kill women slowly in order to render them a beautiful consumable ("all your life you'd be picked like a rose") is gut-wrenching to listen to.

Also just...this album is 100% poetry because poetry is the art of less is more, of saying so much with so little, and it's genuinely harder to try and put everything she's evoking with each line into words than it is to simply listen and feel and understand it, because it's all there, so succinctly and beautifully and painfully. No amount of explanation is going to say as much as "did you know all your life you'd be picked like a rose."

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How I imagine Gaga at the Met Gala

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Britney Spears at the Met Gala 2024 (a concept)

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这首还有点old taylor的感觉

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this

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JOKER (2019) // JOKER: FOLIE À DEUX (2024)

I'll tell you what's changed. I'm not alone anymore.