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It’s been one year since we escaped the real world together and imagined ourselves someplace simpler. With tall tall trees and salt air. Where you’re allowed to wear lace nightgowns that make you look like a Victorian ghost every day & no one will side eye you cause no one is around. It’s just you and your imaginary cabin and the stories you make up to pass the time. To say thank you for all you have done to make this album what it was, I wanted to give you the original version of The Lakes. Happy 1 year anniversary to Rebekah, Betty, Inez, James, Augustine, and the lives we all created around them. Happy Anniversary, folklore. 🌿

https://taylor.lnk.to/thelakesoriginal

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I’ve always said that the world is a different place for the heartbroken. It moves on a different axis, at a different speed. Time skips backwards and forwards fleetingly. The heartbroken might go through thousands of micro-emotions a day trying to figure out how to get through it without picking up the phone to hear that old familiar voice. In the land of heartbreak, moments of strength, independence, and devil-may-care rebellion are intricately woven together with grief, paralyzing vulnerability and hopelessness. Imagining your future might always take you on a detour back to the past. And this is all to say, that the next album I’ll be releasing is my version of Red.

Musically and lyrically, Red resembled a heartbroken person. It was all over the place, a fractured mosaic of feelings that somehow all fit together in the end. Happy, free, confused, lonely, devastated, euphoric, wild, and tortured by memories past. Like trying on pieces of a new life, I went into the studio and experimented with different sounds and collaborators. And I’m not sure if it was pouring my thoughts into this album, hearing thousands of your voices sing the lyrics back to me in passionate solidarity, or if it was simply time, but something was healed along the way.

Sometimes you need to talk it over (over and over and over) for it to ever really be… over. Like your friend who calls you in the middle of the night going on and on about their ex, I just couldn’t stop writing. This will be the first time you hear all 30 songs that were meant to go on Red. And hey, one of them is even ten minutes long.

Red (Taylor’s Version) will be out November 19.

https://taylor.lnk.to/RedTaylorsVersion

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*Clover blooms in the fields/spring breaks loose/the time is near...* EVERMORE ALBUM VINYL IS OUT TODAY!! You can get it at your fav indie record store, Target, Walmart & Amazon ✨ and if you’re feeling even more generous, go ahead and stream it too! That would be cool!

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cannot stand the fact that there are people out there who i love that i don’t even say happy birthday to anymore! there are people living and exsist in this world who i knew better than anyone...and i don’t know how their pets are, i don’t know if they still argue with their father anymore. there are people who i love and will continue to love who live on without me. and maybe i’m a passing thought in their mind but do they know that i love them? that i loved them? that i miss the smell of their house? that i forgot what color their bedroom walls were. that i miss the sound of their mother working in her home office...do they know that my loves spreads endlessly? do they know?!!!!!!!

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being in your early twenties is like [grocery shopping alone] [having instant noodles for dinner] [remembering random details about that one friend you haven't spoken to in five years] [feeling overwhelming guilt for every purchase that isn't strictly "necessary"] [having midday naps] [finding out through facebook that the girl who was mean to you in high school has a husband and a baby] [falling a little in love with every stranger on public transport] [pretending you're not afraid of being alone] [wondering when you'll feel like a fully realized person] [listening to bands you liked in middle school] [blinking and it's suddenly december] [failing to imagine yourself ten years from now] [feeling like you're running out of time]

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I was at my cousin’s house for a family barbecue and she shushed us all bc her neighbor ‘The Captain’ was walking by with a dog, and he was just some skinny guy with a long ponytail and a captain’s hat walking an irish wolfhound so we all like ‘what’s the big deal’ but she told us to wait and then like ten minutes later he passed again on his way back to his house but he just…had a different dog. it was like a cocker spaniel. she said every day he leaves the house with the wolfhound and comes back with the tiny dog and she’s never seen them get returned either way. she can never find out where he walks to. shes been watching him for years. my family was freaking the fuck out one of my other cousins looked like he was about to have an aneurysm.  

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This is how wide I smile whenever someone mentions Taylor Swift!🙈💕

Happy POC selfie night to my fellow POC swifties!👩🏽❤

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Cottagecore: Touch

The slightly stiff fabric of your apron against your hands.

The breeze gently brushing your face, as if to say "pay attention, there's still more to see."

Cool river water, flowing gently around your ankles.

The familiar weight of a wooden spoon in your hand.

The plants in your garden reaching out and lightly clinging to your clothes as you pass, welcoming you.

Soft grass beneath bare feet.

That lovely warm feeling when you lay out in the sun for just a little while.

Burying your fingers in a ball of soft wool yarn.

The radiant heat of a bonfire on your face and hands.

Fuzzy socks, straight from the dryer after a long day's work.

The weight of your thick work jacket on your shoulders before you head out.

The smooth faces of the tomatoes you pick from the garden, the weight of them filling up the basket.

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The cool thing about reading is that when you read a short story or you read something that takes your mind and expands where your thoughts can go, that’s powerful.

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SCREAMING

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If Taylor can overcome the darkness… if she can get through all the hate, get past all the false stories, all the accusations, if she can drown out all the noise… look past all the lies… survive the storm… if Taylor can get through one of the hardest times of her life and still come out stronger, smarter, happier and wiser,

So can you.

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reputation really is that bitch™ okay especially lwymmd !!! i mean here lies taylor swift’s reputation? nils sjöberg? the dollar bill? et tu brute? i <3 TS tees? lifting up a motorcycle (BIG MACHINE) with her bare hands!? leading a bdsm cult!? the old taylor can’t come to the phone right now!? she gave ZERO fucks !!!

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the miss americana doc is basically what "the lucky one" warned us about

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locals say they hate taylor swift but their most listened to song of 2016 is this is what you came for

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Taylor’s reaction to Madison Square Garden singing her happy birthday ♡ 

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a mother (taylor swift) concerned that one of her children (cats) is missing

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Taylor Swift Performing Christmas Tree Farm during iHeart Radio’s Z100 Jingle Ball 2019 in New York City (December 13)